Is It Even Imaginable We Won't Get The Obvious Yet Pointless Response?
There are lots of little stories related to the Iraqi elections, but the big story is the nation is on its way to becoming a functioning democracy. President Obama called it an "important step forward." I hope he'll stop for a second and realize it's likely this important step was made possible because the advice he and many others gave a few years back was ignored.
PS We got the obvious yet pointless response in the first paragraph of comment #4.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:22 AM
7 Comments:
What's the old saying about victory having a thousand fathers and defeat being an orphan? Obama is happy to take credit for W.'s stubbornness.
Just as Reagan benefitted from Carter having removed the distraction of the Iranian hostages, Obama got lucky on this one. Good, let him focus on our first good empirical test of whether Keynes was right about stimulating (aka borrowing) your way out of a deep recession.
Unduly rosy scenario. Obama will be blamed for anything that goes wrong from here on out. By the right, because they are no longer on the hook and by the left for not having pulled out already.
I haven't seen Obama taking credit. Although he is lucky (in some ways) to have a calmer situation there, it does not answer the question whether this was really a wise endeavor in the first place or whether years of mismanagement were good. Furthermore, the success of the Iraq project as a whole is years in the future. We'll see. (And by the time it rolls around, if it does, I suspect Obama will have some things to take credit for.)
In the meantime, why don't you address your prediction that the economic woes were really exaggerated by the press and come the Inauguration all we would hear would be how things were going so much better, and that the press would give the credit to Obama. Seems the mess was real after all. (But that hasn't prevented Republicans from touting the same old fixes, anyway.)
"In the meantime, why don't you address your prediction that the economic woes were really exaggerated by the press and come the Inauguration all we would hear would be how things were going so much better, and that the press would give the credit to Obama."
Are you addressing me? Because I haven't a clue what you're referring to.
Help me out here. I referred above to "your prediction that the economic woes were really exaggerated by the press, and come the Inauguration all we would hear would be how things were going so much better, and the press would give the credit to Obama. . ." LAGuy asked me for the reference. I spent more than an hour combing old entries and comments, but I haven't located it yet. Is there a better way to do a search on this blog? Can you search both entries and comments?
I strongly recall someone (and I believe it was one of the guys) making the above comment on the comments page of one of the entries. Several other commenters agreed with him. It had to be post election and pre-Inauguration. I don't remember what the original post was that evoked the comment. Can anyone help with the link?
Wow, I was just checking down here before the page disappeared from the scroll, and I see this new message. (I doubt too many others will see your comment.)
Blogger has a search function. Perhaps you have to join to be able to use it, I don't know. (I've also never used it, so I don't know how well it works, either.)
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