Bush created a recession
Everyone knows that the heart of a recession is consumer psychology; if you say recession enough, it happens. I believe it was the week of January 10 that it happened. An AP article came over a local newsfax to one of my coworkers that included a two-inch story about a number of American university economics programs who were releasing as much data as they could assemble in an effort to demonstrate that there was no recession. Even Greenspan thought we could go around it.
Middle of the week, Time magazine comes out. The cover story?
How to survive the recession.
If you say it enough, the people will believe you. Sure, you can't pronounce words without help, but if you're president, people believe you.
The American economy has hit its rough spot because of the
subliminable 
effect of the president yelling "Recession" when there just isn't cause.
You anti-bushies are all so messed up after having Clinton for a president that you don't know what a good politician is. Clinton was not really a leader; he was a greedy, selfish, incompetant warlord driven mostly by the desire to be a public figure.
Warlord? Ha! Let's see, he had to send troops to Somalia (gift from Poppy Bush), involve his administration in Haiti (gift from Poppy), involve his administration in the Balkans (which neither Reagan nor Poppy cared about) ... hey, it was a great trick on Poppy's part:
don't finish anything, and let everyone think the next guy screwed up. This as opposed to the warlord Poppy Bush who invaded Panama (to remove a dictator financed by the CIA, under
Director Poppy Bush), and Iraq (remove a dictator financed by the CIA, under
Director Poppy Bush). His generals
told CNN where the SEAL teams were landing in Somalia. He repatriated Haitians on whatever grounds while opening the border to Irish "war refugees" (a rider sponsored by Ted Kennedy, but the hypocrisy of signing it at that time just slays me) .... Clinton was the cleanup man.
Yeah, we loved Clinton for president. Who else in the world can be accused of conspiring against your rights by asking the nation's people to be kind to one another? Who else in the world can be so effective that the opposition has to spend forty million dollars committing felonies while investigating fellatio? Sure, he was a sideshow, but the economy did well, which is important to the people, and they laughed all the way home because of the GOP-inspired circus on the hill. Sure, we were worried that he was lagging down the legal system; I know how much he hated to appoint judges, and how desperately the GOP was begging him to get judges to the federal benches
In fact, the only thing I'm disappointed in Clinton about is that McCaffrey bit with the Drug War. Of course, that's right up his pattern to: The nation wanted a
Drug War. He gave us a General, who executed so badly that the Drug War will end soon. Sure, a lot of people have paid unjustly, but it's still the fault of the American people for believing superstition and demanding that their leaders persecute anyone they don't like. Embittered? Yes. Smart? Perhaps. But that Drug War move did the trick. It will be over soon, because General McCaffrey blew it out his ass. It's an ugly method of winning the War against the people, but it seems to have had its effect. I'm pretty sure he lost some sleep on that one, too, but it was a calculated effort that went badly in one sense--harshness--and perfectly in another: inspiring revulsion toward the war.
All in all, it wasn't a bad eight years. It would have been a little better if misogynist GOP leaders hadn't stonewalled the Health Plan because it was being devised by a woman; and it would have gone a little better if the GOP was interested in anything other than riding up front on the plane.
thanx,
Tiassa
