bazmeistergen said:
This will be a little glib... I'm not going to defend Obama, but you ought to look at the rest of the world. It's failing catastophically. In this environment all would 'fail'. Individual Presidents make little difference. We all know that continued economic growth is unsustainable. You need a crash to keep the myth of growth going. Maybe the US is in a position of relative decline and thus the problem is not the fault of any one man/woman. Also, mass permafrost meltdown denial. And not just in the US. |
I agree with you. Modern Presidents have little control over the economy. Many of the "best" Presidents just had the good luck to win office during the up-cycle. The senior Bush, for example, had to deal with Reagan's tab.
An old man told me several days ago that Romney would fix the economy in 6 months. I just stared at him.








