If You Said to Me, Name 25 Million People Who Would Maybe Be President… He Wouldn’t Have Been in That Category: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong’s Webjournal

Never yet has a grownup looked me in the eye and said, “George W. Bush is qualified to be President of the United States.” The most anyone has ever done is to say (around the time of the inauguration), “Look, Brad, he’ll be Queen Elizabeth; Colin Powell will be Tony Blair and Paul O’Neill will be Gordon Brown. There are lots of Head-of-State things that George W. Bush will do really well, and the government will be in good hands.” But I don’t think any grownup would say that or anything like that now.

You know, I think we elected Bush because back in 2000 nobody really thought it would make a difference. When he was elected I remember thinking how relatively peaceful the past 8 years had been and that, with any luck, we’d make it through another four years and nothing major would happen and we’d just vote Bush out of office and that would be that. Lesson learned. It does matter. It matters who we vote for. The only thing I can’t believe now is that anyone really gets worked up over his performance. Who was fooled into thinking he was a great statesman in the first place?

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