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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (381044)	9/4/2010 6:11:43 PM
From: MrLucky	Respond to of 793917

it's because they have gone from a "half-truth" to a "grain of truth".

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (381044)	9/4/2010 9:57:35 PM
From: skinowski	5 Recommendations Respond to of 793917

Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong — presidents become incompetent at doing the things they were always able to do in their sleep, and their aides follow suit. Remembering some of the not very proud periods during recent presidencies --- A point came when Nixon couldn't say or do anything right... anything he said just kept fueling the hatred of the crowd. Gerald Ford, an athletic man, for some reason kept falling and (everyone thought) bumping his head... and eventually he had a very public senior moment when in the middle of a TV debate he pronounced Communist Poland a free nation. Carter drifted off into malaise and at some point simply became an embarrassment. Even RR towards the end of the second term had a hard time keeping up. When he was unable to recall events during [the Nicaraguan contra] questioning, he was accused of lying and covering up. However, I could see that he actually didn't remember things, and I recall noticing that he seemed worried about that. About Bush Sr. - as Podhoretz describes, it seems that his luck became so bad that even the weather conspired to screw him up. Clinton.... fogedaboudit. As far as George W. -- I think that his low point came in late 2008, when he signed off on TARP. It hurt to hear him say that he "followed the advise of "experts"". That was a poor excuse. It showed that his grasp of economic matters was not deep. There are always "experts" - but he chose the wrong ones to listen to.