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Originally posted by Alan Cottrill
Lately I have concluded that the president has all the power to recommend change, but very little power to effect change. so It really doesn't matter who the president is, because it is the slow churning of all branches of government that make change. The president is just the guy who takes the heat when ***** goes wrong. it seems like the primary way he takes the heat is when journalists, scrambling to fill the space between the commercials, blame the administration for what ever bad news they're reporting, be it the economy, job growth, the war on terror. "president bush's jobless recovery" "president bush's net job loss" Every time someone wants to discuss issues like these I always ask "how does the president directly affect (insert issue here)" and that's where the stammering and stuttering comes in. It's not like I know, but they don't know either so we might as well discuss who got cut from the apprentice last night because we both know about that.
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Don't sell yourself short, that is an excellent synopsis of the way it goes. I am a political junkie and have been for years yet your conclusion is right out of an article I just wrote. Very few Presidents get the opportunity to really affect change, even fewer take advantage.