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"Whatever Obama does he plausibly can't do worse than Bush. I guess he could proclaim himself emperor and enslave everyone, mandate we all speak Esperanto or something like that, but otherwise, it's impossible to be unable improve on Bush."
I bet a lot of people said the same thing regarding Hoover and FDR. I know they said it about Ford and Carter. Unfortunately, the policies of FDR and Carter made things even worse than they were under Hoover and Ford.