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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-04 03:27 PM
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Inventing The "Clinton Recession"
Business Week Online
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/bw/20040213/bs_bw/b3871044

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"...But when economic history is rewritten -- with political consequences -- that's going too far. President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s Council of Economic Advisers, chaired by Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, is trying to get away with exactly such revisionist history"
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-04 03:39 PM
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1. I guess I'm naive. I figured he would be blamed for 9/11
and the recession but the Iraq War!
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-04 04:10 PM
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3. The blame barometer
At the first sign of recovery, they tribute Bush, but when it dips again, it's back to Clinton.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-04 03:41 PM
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2. Great story - that the media will ignore lest they hurt Bush credibility
:-)
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