Compare/contrast American Presidential elections

[Galen]

(03-21-2017, 03:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(03-21-2017, 02:42 AM)Galen Wrote:

(03-21-2017, 12:48 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-06-2016, 11:47 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: When all is said and done, I think that the Obama and Eisenhower Presidencies are going to look like good analogues. Both Presidents are chilly rationalists. Both respect legal precedents more than they trust legislation and the transitory will of the people in states. Both are practically scandal-free administrations. Both started with a troublesome war that both found their way out of. Neither did much to 'grow' the strength of their Parties in either House of Congress. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama won only one state that Eisenhower lost in either 1952 or 1956 (North Carolina); in 2012 he did not win any state that Dwight Eisenhower ever lost. This is amazing in view of the partisan identities of the two Presidents.

There aren't any of the Lost left and you despise the current crop of Nomads.  Ironically Trump may actually be the best the Boomers can produce.  God, knows that Clinton, Bush II and Obozo have pretty much been a complete loss.  You could argue Obozo either way since he sits right on the cusp.

OBAMA. There's nothing clownish about President Obama. I wanted to see an Idealist style but instead we got a mature Reactive, someone acting like a 60-something Lost. Maybe the best thing that his sort can do in a Crisis Era is to mitigate risk -- but that is a good thing. That is one form of good generalship.

Those three presidents are complete losses because they refuse to deal with the obvious fiscal issues of the federal government and accept that the American Empire is ending.  Expecting the usual idealisti Boomer who has sporadic contact with reality at best to do anything useful is an unreasonable expectation.

The jury is still out on Trump's presidency but I think the chickens are going to come home to roost during his watch.  Since the Fed just got done raising interest rates it looks like the deep state has decided to pop the bubble economy and blame it on Trump and the free market.  Peter Schiff makes some pretty good points about this in his conversation with Molyneux.