At
last week's DNC (as much as conservatives may hate to admit it), the
most effective case for the re-election of Barak Obama was made by Bill
Clinton. (I didn't say, "the most truthful case.") To
paraphrase the former president: everything was great while I was
president in the nineties; George Bush and the Republicans screwed it up
in the 2000s. Now that things are slowly getting better, Romney wants
to take us back to the bad old days of George Bush.
Many Americans buy this narrative, and I think it explains why despite poor recent economic numbers, Barack Obama remains ahead in the polls. Most Americans continue to hold George Bush responsible for the economic disaster which came at the end of his administration, and most Americans look to the nineties as the golden age of recent economic history. The question is whether President Obama believes this account of things.
The current president likes to say in his speeches something to the effect that things have been going wrong for decades. In an interview, he stated, "We didn't create the condition. We haven't solved it fully yet because it was three decades in the making." In his acceptance speech, the president said, "The truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over the decades."
Many Americans buy this narrative, and I think it explains why despite poor recent economic numbers, Barack Obama remains ahead in the polls. Most Americans continue to hold George Bush responsible for the economic disaster which came at the end of his administration, and most Americans look to the nineties as the golden age of recent economic history. The question is whether President Obama believes this account of things.
The current president likes to say in his speeches something to the effect that things have been going wrong for decades. In an interview, he stated, "We didn't create the condition. We haven't solved it fully yet because it was three decades in the making." In his acceptance speech, the president said, "The truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over the decades."
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