As a whole I agree with you. Having said that, on several occassions Bush had said that things aren't looking to good in the housing market, and Congress ignored him on the subject. Bush couldn't have legislated anything to change....it had to take Congress to get the ball rolling.What do you disagree with and why?
I put more of the blame on Congress and Senate than I do with any president. They are the ones that come up with this type of legislation. Usually by the money of lobbyists.
The president drives the bus though. And every single president is bought and paid for by the corporations long before he gets anywhere near the Oval Office. If you're planning to run for president you can't do it without massive corporate donations. The bottom line as far as the 2008 economy meltdown was that although a lot of the deregulation that made it possible happened before Bush took office a lot of the stuff that was crucial in causing it -- choosing to basically not regulate the mortgage industry, allowing securities firms to massively lever up their debt:assets ration, blocking the states from using existing laws that would have prevented a lot of the bad lending, etc. -- was due his administration's actions.