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Originally Posted by peter12
And we are actually seeing what are basically extensions of George Bush's economic policy. Obama is just going one step further.
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Pretty much. This pretty much indicates that there really wasn't/isn't any other plan in the collective playbooks. Obama or McCain, you would have seen these same things. The only possible difference was Obama was more capable of relaxing people and buoying confidence. However, I think Obama's honeymoon phase is pretty well over.
As for the comparative politics discussions, Peter12 and Ronald Pagan are right. There's way too small of a sample to compare Bush and Obama, and even so, comparative politics as a method of study isn't geared to such a small comparision. Typically, comparative politics studies the differences in nations (ie: Canadian v. American v. British politics), or the differences in policy between parties over a long period of time. So maybe its possible to plot the differences between Bush Sr./ Bush Jr./Reagan/Ford and Clinton/Obama/Carter.
I think Obama will be critiqued on how good of a replacement he was for Bush (seemingly an easy task), and more importantly, how fast he can bail America (and with that, the world) out of this current recession. For these benchmarks, its still very, very early in the game.