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2008-09-26 Home Front: Politix

This is the election you wouldn't want to win

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Posted by tipper 2008-09-26 01:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Typical Euro pessimism.

Every crisis also represents opportunity. Or so an American thinks. Much as I detest Obama's methods and his policies, even he would view all this as being more 'half-full' than the author of the article.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-26 05:53|| 2008-09-26 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, serves us right for having an election every four years come hell or high water. We should just appoint a President for Life like more civilized countries do.

Posted by SteveS 2008-09-26 08:45|| 2008-09-26 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 No SteveS, the more "civilized" countries are run by an unelected bureaucracy (see EU) the "president" is a mere stage prop for photo ops.

Posted by AlanC 2008-09-26 09:51|| 2008-09-26 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with the author. A severe recession is baked into the economy now, and the deflation of housing and financial assets will strap consumers for the next 5 to 10 years.

There will be opportunities for individuals, but the overall economy has a lot of excess to work out.

Posted by DoDo 2008-09-26 15:23|| 2008-09-26 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 After that gonna have to go ask my cat how to fly a helicopter.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-09-26 17:45|| 2008-09-26 17:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm in the market for a house in the Bay Area, CA and the prices haven't really come down at all. Not anywhere you'd want to live anyway. They are still 400K-600K for what is >200K here in Cinti.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-26 18:11|| 2008-09-26 18:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Then Cincy has gone up a lot or you might want to double check the neighborhood in the BA.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-26 18:13|| 2008-09-26 18:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Previous periods of apparently existential crisis in the US have certainly produced one-term disasters: James Buchanan in 1857, Herbert Hoover in 1929, Jimmy Carter in 1977 spring unpleasantly to mind. But the genius of America is that apocalyptic challenges have also, in time, produced the men to match them: Abraham Lincoln in 1861, Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, Ronald Reagan in 1981.

So much for the Euro view of our history. Would agree with the assertion about Carter. Buchannan reflected the times. The three Presidents that are considered men to match the times; Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan were outstanding communicators with the people. Lincoln, during his term, was not much liked by many within his own party. Hoover had a lot of the ideas that Roosevelt later implemented. Many would disagree with the direction Roosevelt took the country towards socialism. Interestingly, Hoover also tried to deal with immigration from south of our border. In 1929, President Hoover authorized the Mexican Repatriation program. To combat rampant unemployment, the burden on municipal aid services, and remove people seen as usurpers of American jobs, the program was largely a forced migration of an estimated 500,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico. Some of the 500,000 people that were "voluntarily repatriated" were Mexican-Americans. Warren G. Harding ought to be added to the list of one term incompetents. His administration could be characterized by corruption and incompetence. He is listed as dying of a heart attack but it was rumored his wife poisoned him because of his skirt chasing and "affairs of state."

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-26 18:50|| 2008-09-26 18:50|| Front Page Top

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