I listen to t"evil, conservative" talk radio and I have been laughing at how the hosts are way over estimating how bad Hilliary will be for the country. I laugh when I read liberal websites that talk about how bad Bush has been for the country. My wife was commenting the other day about how bad America will be if Hillary wins next year and I told her I didn't really think so. Sure, she can pass some bad laws, but the great thing about our country is that if she screws up too bad, the people will vote her out in 4 years. Even if she gets eight years in office, that is really not that much time to that much damage because all laws have to go through the two houses and, anything really controversial, will then have to plod through the court system. Our system of government is designed to make it hard to make radical changes. You can really only make incremental changes and no president has enough time in office to make enough incremental changes to add up to something really bad. (Now, because we don't have term limits on Senators and Representatives, they do have enough time to make enough changes to add up to something really bad.)
I seem like a lone wolf with this view, so I was pleased to read on the Freaknomics Blog that Stephen Dubner has analyzed the impact of the President in a very similar fashion as me. Great article with insightful analysis.
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