Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Should Obama Stop Defending the Recovery?

Michael Scherer, Time
Stanley Greenberg, the Democratic pollster who helped elect President Bill Clinton, South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Israel's Ehud Barak, says all of his clients have had the same, sometimes terrible, instinct: “They want to prove that their economic policies have worked.”In times of plenty, that gut feeling is right. The nation cheered the gangbusters growth under Ronald Reagan in 1984, and the mid-1990s Clinton economic boom. But when the economy is sour, politicians who litigate the past risk sounding tone-deaf to the troubles of the present. This is why...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/29/should_obama_stop_defending_the_recovery_258378.html

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