State Of The Union

[GonzoStyle]

The president influences consumers, and dumb ones at that. The economy is run by enterprise, and they're smart enough to realize that the president's effect on the economy is negligable unless it's to put up an impediment.

While that holds some truth, it's not completely accurate. Yes the dumb consumers are the most influenced but you have to take a look around, we live in the idiot majority. Most people have no personal standings or opinions of their own. They are uneducated, uncultured slobs for the most part. They take for the holy word most everything that some schumuck with a nice suit and fancy vocabulary tells them is the "truth". They base their opinions on polls and numbers. They base their opinions on looks, on falsehoods, on whatever. They grow accustomed to trends and a certain way of life and get rattled when something is not in its place. People do not love, trust, or have faith in Bush as they did in Clinton. Barring the blowjobs and bullshit wars. Just on a charismatic viewpoint, Bush does not exude the confidence clinton did and people will not spend as freely now or invest as hopefully. If clinton was still in office I do believe the econmy would be better, if the country trusts their president and loves him they will go out and die for him. The president is like a quarterback in that sense, if his team believes in him they will go out and do anything for him.