What's the meaning of "tie crisis to a policy"?

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"Obama sought to tie the current financial crisis to the policies of George Bush, supported by John McCain."

Is this sentence grammatically correct?
What does it mean? John McCain supported Obama's opinion to use the policies of George Bush to resolve the crisis?
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@Justin Xu,

Obama wants George Bush to take the blame for current problems. John McCain supported the Bush policies.

I see no problems in the grammar.

roger

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@Justin Xu,

"Obama sought to tie the current financial crisis to the policies of George Bush, supported by John McCain."

Maybe this will make it clearer, Justin.

"Obama sought to tie the current financial crisis to the policies of George Bush, which had been/which were supported by John McCain."

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@Justin Xu,

The grammatically correct sentence is saying that Obama is correlating Bush's policy with the crisis in a cause and effect manner.

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What's the meaning of "tie crisis to a policy"?

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