Originally Posted by
Mina
Yes. This special pleading works that way, too. Obama, for example, presided over pretty much across-the-board improvement in America. Real incomes and real GDP per capita rose, poverty and unemployment fell, we had great stock market returns, violent crime rates fell, incarceration rates fell, the share of Americans covered by health insurance rose, deficits fell, consumer debt levels fell, and on and on.
So, of course "that doesn't count." Obama's across-the-board improvement must be ignored, because he inherited such a mess at the end of the global financial meltdown that there was nowhere to go but up.
And you see that again and again. Clinton gave us even more dramatic improvement, but that doesn't count because something something dotcom bubble. The Carter years saw truly epic job creation, but that doesn't count, since it was just the women's lib movement moving women into the workforce. The Kennedy/Johnson years saw one of the greatest gains in prosperity ever, but that doesn't count, since it was just that Vietnam-ramp-up deficit spending. And how can you count Truman's great economic growth when he got a similar boost from WWII and Korea? FDR has to be ruled out, too, because he inherited an economy at rock bottom, even more so thank Obama, so there was nowhere to go but up.
So, again, there's a simple choice: if you want good results, vote Democrat. If you instead want think-tank-honed excuses for why the real world doesn't count, the Republicans have got you covered.
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