Obama should run against Bush

Fri., April 27, 2012

My advice to President Barack Obama is to follow the path of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who campaigned against Herbert Hoover in four elections, and won all four of them. Hoover was not that bad. He was not even responsible for the great crash of 1929, which occurred only seven months after his inauguration.

But Roosevelt simply ignored the Republican nominees, and few of us can name even one of them today.

By contrast, President George W. Bush enjoyed nearly eight relatively unchallenged years, but took us into a war that was unsupported by most of our allies and was financed with tax policies that lead to record long-term deficits and massive inflation.

Surely, Bush should qualify as a foil even superior to Hoover for President Obama’s 2012 campaign.

W. Robert Schwandt

Spokane Valley

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