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The Obama Collapse Accelerates
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 20, 2011 04:44am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Thursday, August 18, 2011 07:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Now that President Obama's political collapse has reached the Jimmy Carter zone, Mickey Kaus asks: Do the Truman analogies come before or after the Call for the Wise Men?
Good question!
We have two relatively recent examples: Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
In Bush's case, the Truman analogies preceded the Call for the Wise Men--new experts who can fix the administration's problems. (For Bush, this call never really went out, unless you count James Baker's return to the White House in the summer of 1992).
In Clinton's case, he went Wise Men first (David Gergen!) and then used a variation of the Truman strategy (Clinton argued that the GOP Congress wasn't "do nothing," they were crazy and might do something to you). President Obama, like former President Bush, seems to be skipping the Wisemen and going right to the Truman, at least for the time being. |
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