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Excuse Me? Stock Market Is Down So Barack Obama Should “Resign?”
Just today I was talking by phone with some folks about how polarized, negative and toxic our political scene is — coupled by a bad barrage of economic news which included the big Dow plunge today. And then a TMV reader send me THIS LINK with a commentator suggesting that since the stock market is down Barack Obama might think about resigning.
Did I miss something?
Were people from the same quarters suggesting George Bush resign during the government melt-down?
Were there suggestions throughout history that other Presidents who faced sharp economic downturns, big defeats resign?
Not every politician is like a Richard Nixon who left due to Watergate or a Sarah Palin who left her Governor’s job after a….whatever.
There is a chance to toss our politicians out of office and that’s on election day.
I myself have been critical of Barack Obama including in THIS COLUMN.
But I have also noted in another column how the conventional wisdom often shifts quickly. It’s hard to believe it can shift again dramatically in Obama’s favor but the CW does change quickly in unforeseen ways.
But resigning? Did I miss something when George Bush was President? Or has yet another political assumption been shattered in our increasingly strident, mega-partisan political culture: that a President is allowed to complete his term and it’s not suggested that when there are bumps in the road he quit.
8 Responses to “Excuse Me? Stock Market Is Down So Barack Obama Should “Resign?””
Well, after the 2006 elections, Donald Rumsfeld did resign.
There’s no need for Obama to have had to resign after the big 2010 repudiation in the polls, nor for his angering many of his own party with the budget deal.
Yes, there are bloggers who say silly things.
I’ve seen worse.
“I’ve seen worse.”
Oh god you’ve read that McArdle excretion too?
Actually the comments are the best part of that column, those people really do live in an alternate universe.
I notice that not the writer of that article that Joe linked to or any of the comments made any mention of the problems in the private sector that have contributed to this problem. Ignorance, paranoia and hatred pretty much seems to dominate it all.
Were people from the same quarters suggesting George Bush resign during the government melt-down?
Nope, it was different bunch of loonies back then. Only the parties have changed.
Joe here in small-town Texas it was only about a month after the 2008 election that I saw bumper stickers exclaiming “Impeach Obama!”
Same trucks later sported the “Texas should secede” after our esteemed Governor made the suggestion that we really didn’t need the rest of the states or the federal government’s help or attention. (But I should remember he’s got the creator of the universe on his side.)
So, this one doesn’t surprise me at all.
He has Pecos River water, too, at least for now. Secede, and New Mexico (viewed as an annex of the Lone Star State, it seems a lot) will say, “Pecos be dammed! The Rio Grande, too!” and likely do it.