Wrong, dummy. Clinton was an incumbant with great ratings, which gave him a huge advantage. Has nothing to do with the other factors you have given.
Not nearly as much as Obama, for sure. Talking about lying and pandering! I mean, we need to track his statements' 20-day MA to understand what he (Obama) wants to say. That's the "change" he's proposing: today he'll amend what he said last week and tomorrow will give you half his statement two weeks ago, upside down.
Looks like we can get on with analyzing the friends of "the candidate who's middle name shall not be mentioned" because feet have been spotted sticking out from under the house.
One thing i agree with is that Bush will be hard to replace. He is truly one of a kind. (i hope!) George W. Bush, has a record on "defense" alright! And it includes the less than brilliant non-capture of Bin Laden, and the non-vanquishing of the Taliban from Afghanistan, and the non-transformation of Afganistan into a stable democracy. He did manage to successfully fly the Saudi Royal Family out of the US. I'll give him that. His "real record" on aggression is even more "amazing" than his record on "defense". No doubt the 15,000+ lads coming home maimed for life will be interested in your appraisal of Bush's "real record on defense."
You could be waiting a 100 years. After all, since we started out in 1789, we've only had 1, maybe 2 Presidents, the equal of your boy W. They're rare birds, very rare.
Saddam is out of commission, Iraq has now a real chance to finally get freedom and democracy and same for Afghanistan (I hope they don't blow it, excuse the pun) our friends love and respect us and our enemies fear us like never before, the homeland is safe and secure, AlQaeda is decimated and on the run, all thanks to our leadership in Washington and our heroic armed forces. All despite those liberal nattering nabobs of negativism who agreed first (when it was politically expedient) and turned around to stab GWB in the back when it suited their political ambitions. That's "Very Accomplished" to me. Some loose ends, sure, give it a bit more time, John will take cate of it, no problemo.
Bush addressed America's financial woes in lofty, technical terms. "And so I firmly believe that, you know, if there was a magic wand to wave, I'd be waving it, of course." He later explained: "I think that if there was a magic wand to say, 'OK, drop price,' I'd do that."
I saw that too Is it too much to ask that we have someone that represents us that can actually string a few words together to make a coherent sentence?
What color is the sky in your world? Our best friends hate us and our enemies hardly respect us after our abortion in Iraq.