gigantikok: [quote author=RoysToy link=board=99;num=1072583634;start=0#10 date=12/29/03 at 13:30:49]Survived? What a joke. Even the more knowledgeable Republicans have to admit the decade of economic prosperity was unparalleled and this country had more world-wide respect than it has now. While paying off debts we are now making, generations to come will wishfully look back on the 90s, as the country's rich continue to get richer and the poor starve.[/quote]
The president may be a figure head, and may be in charge, but I cannot fathom crediting anyone President to a good or bad economy because there is so much of it that is out of his control. There are so many reasons the economy rises or falls, and it just isn't fair to pin it to one man. As jerkin said, Clinton was pretty much just riding the wave. Of course, a lot of Liberals are desperate to try and legitimize Clinton in some way even though in his 8 years in office, the man did shit. He did absolutely nothing. While he was busy chasing skirts, even Osama was truck bombing the twin towers(yes, it did happen during one of Clinton's terms) and who paid attention to that growing threat? Not Clinton, nah. Anyway, if you do want to credit anyone to the economy, I think you have to credit congress. Who was in control during the economic prosperity of the mid to late 90's? The Republicans. Who is in control of congress now? Democrats. Nuff said.
Oh, and by the way, I think Bush will get re elected because love him or hate him, he presents himself as a LEADER. People love leaders. All of the spineless democratic hopefuls are too busy arguing with each other to actually emerge as a real leader.
. But Bush would have to replace one of the "liberal" members of the court. It's more likely one of the "conservative" members will leave first.
