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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (45361)	8/30/2010 11:59:41 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Still, rightly or wrongly, I (like many Americans), tend to want to hold my American Presidents 'responsible' for what they achieve, or fail to achieve, during their terms in office. There is something to that, but almost any president in Clinton's position, would have had lower deficits than almost any president in Bush II's position. (At least if your only counting people who would have had a serious shot at one of the major parties nominations. But maybe even outside of that. Put a serious deficit hawk in the whitehouse and he still has to deal with the political, and economic realities. Almost always presidents get too much credit or blame for economic, and to a lesser extent fiscal developments during their tenure.