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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (43679)6/8/2010 1:31:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
ANYONE who won the Presidency this last go-round was in for a world of hurt.

The massive string of disasters left behind by Bush (terrible deficits, two big wars... three if we could a world struggle against Islamicists, and the greatest financial disaster since the Great Depression) were guaranteed to mean that whomever was elected would the forced to spend MOST of his time and effort simply doing "pooper scooper duty".

(Like walking behind the elephants at a circus parade and scooping up the mess left behind....)

I, and several others, wrote many times on SI pre-election that the politically 'SMARTEST' thing for a partisan Democrat to do would probably be to hope for a Dem defeat --- elevating the senile McCain to the world's most difficult job, in the single most difficult time since the nineteen sixties at least.

Never-the-less, it is what it is.

(And, I actually think that things will turn out alright given a little time. The first two years for Clinton were ALSO marked by non-stop GOP opposition and vilification and opposition to his every policy initiative. And it took several years for the economy to begin producing jobs, and for the federal deficits top start coming down. I expect macro economic improvements to become widely acknowledged this time only by mid-2011 at the earliest.)
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