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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on November 08, 2012, 01:55:01 PM
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Triumphant Obama Faces New Foe in ‘Second-Term Curse’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/triumphant-obama-faces-new-foe-in-second-term-curse.html
It is almost a truism that second terms are less successful than first terms, especially domestically. Franklin Delano Roosevelt lost his hold on Congress with his 1937 plan to pack the Supreme Court. Ronald Reagan faced the 1986 Iran-contra scandal. Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid that fate in 1974.
Second-term presidents are also lame ducks, parrying ambitious would-be successors in the opposition and in their own party. Dwight Eisenhower often complained of the recently enacted 22nd Amendment, limiting presidents to two terms. But earlier presidents faced the same problem, because tradition back to George Washington had established the same term limit, until Roosevelt ran for his third term.
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Obama's biggest problem is that he can no longer blame Bush. It got him reelected but now there is now where to turn no one to put blame on. He will have to face his critics and with the lame duck factor the MSM will be relentless. They might lean left but when there is blood in the water they go for the kill.
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Obama's biggest problem is that he can no longer blame Bush. It got him reelected but now there is now where to turn no one to put blame on. He will have to face his critics and with the lame duck factor the MSM will be relentless. They might lean left but when there is blood in the water they go for the kill.
It'll always be someone else's fault. And the once MSM will remain in his pocket, parroting his every statement.
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Obama's biggest problem is that he can no longer blame Bush. It got him reelected but now there is now where to turn no one to put blame on. He will have to face his critics and with the lame duck factor the MSM will be relentless. They might lean left but when there is blood in the water they go for the kill.
Haven't you gotten the memo ?. Things are way worse than they thought. Four yrs was simply not enough time to undo the damage of the Bush era.
Until Bush came along almost 20 yrs later every thing was Reagan's fault. Bush isthe new poster boy for Liberal excuses for their failures
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We're going to need an exorcism after the Obama second term curse.
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The MSM will have a severe case of "If only Stalin knew!" and blame everybody White in both parties for anything that goes wrong.