Originally posted by EladarNor do I. Carter took the heat for much of the damage done to the economy by LBJ and Nixon, combined with circumstances beyond any president's control. That's why Bill Clinton made damn sure he fixed the economy in time for the 1996 election, and why President Obama will need to do the same this time around. Let's not provide any opening for another professional Hollywood actor to come along and win the presidency in 2012 and then jump credit for fixing the economy.
So no matter what Obama does, if it turns out to be a failure it is all GW's fault.
I can see this working for the next year or so, but in four years I don't think it will stick.
Originally posted by Andrew HamiltonHillary Clinton and her liberal/progressive cronies tried this and it didn't make it out the starting gate.
I think I particularly like the sound of this one
-it is a pity that this basic principle is very slowly, quietly and unofficially being abandoned in the UK.
Predict that infighting in the Democratic party will insure it does as well in the Obama Administration