I said I'll take reality. The economy had been crashing for a year prior to your March 2001 recession date(i.e. on Clintons time), and Bush had done nothing by then which could have shown in the Economy so soon.
Re: "He gave us the best any president could hope to and ought to be given full credit."
Sure, re: "To:khang8537 who wrote (489054) From: Dan B. Friday, Nov 7, 2003 1:55 PM Respond to of 489137 Re: "But if you're going to make the crude argument — as Gephardt basically does — that the president is automatically responsible for everything that happens economically during his time in office, well, then Clinton is responsible for the NASDAQ crash in the spring of 2000, the decline of manufacturing and industrial productivity in 2000, and the loss of some 200,000 manufacturing jobs before Bush took office." ---from your posted, just so the fools here get another chance to fail to counter the truth."
There, complete credit added...to bad things had to be so bad during his last days, eh? Someone elses fault you say? Quit trying to have it both ways, the case against Clinton here is bolstered by his 7 preceding years leading directly into the bad economy(NOT this recovering economy we see today).
Dan B. |