> It's important to remember that neither Bush nor Obama are king of the U.S. government.

That is true. I was just using the names as shorthand for the governments they run.

> You, like me, probably fell for it.

Unfortunately that is true. Since then I started to pay more attention to how propaganda works in US.

> They did pull off a great trick though, assigning everything bad to Bush for six years.

Yes that was brilliant of them. It looks like it worked rather well.