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Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout
Politicians will be politicians. Shift the blame....take the credit.
We could probably find similar historic and present-day parallels in any government. My guess is that Claudius was blaming Caligula up until the day he left office.......and we're surprised to see Barack Obama do it? |
Certainly, it's a tactic that's been used since the dawn of politics and will be used well after we're gone.
I guess the main point of this thread is how everything keeps going around in a circle. Back then (and many times throughout history before even Reagan), people were worried about the collapse of the country, an 'inexperienced' new President who appeared to be destroying the economy rather than making it worse, mass protests, a country divided, etc., etc.
And yet, we can all look back and laugh at these people. The economy turned around, the cold war ended, and the country didn't collapse into chaos.
Reagan's economic recovery didn't even start to gain steam until some two years into his presidency and a lot of people were saying the same thing about him and his plan as people are saying about Obamas: it's not working, it's making things worse, we're losing confidence, we need to do something else.
I can just imagine the glee in the faces of the all the Democrats after Reagan's first year, with images of sweeping the Republicans from power and dominating the 1984 election, just as we're seeing the same hopefulness in some of the posters on this site.
Relax people. The Obama administration still has years ahead of it and the game can change quite dramatically. The jury is still certainly out on how successful of a president he'll be.