the ape speaks.....

O.K., I own it, I am a progressive, old school, pro union, butter not guns, support the downtrodden ect,ect.
This September I thought Obama had maybe a thirty percent chance of winning reelection. Maybe....
Numbers stacked against him, nine percent unemployment a hard hurdle to get over.
 I feel personally how the economy does during a presidential term is mostly about timing. This year the economy is going to run about 14 trillion, the budget of the US government is going to run around 3.7 trillion any tweaking the congress or the president does will have little effect. We are in a transitional period, manufacturing as first world employment is done. Hey we had a good run, from 1945 when any competition lay in ruins (and we got to rebuild at a hefty profit) till the late seventies when Japan figured out they could turn a wrench cheaper and just as well as us. Now it's China and their work force are starting to unionize and demand better wages and conditions so companies there are now shifting to Malaysia (who can turn a wrench cheaper and just as well as the Chinese) a pattern that will repeat itself anon until we run out of third world hell holes.

  Objectively Obama has done well. January 1st, 2008 the economy was shrinking at six percent, we were losing 400,000 thousand jobs a month, the financial, housing and car manufacturing industries were on the verge of collapse and Osama was thumbing his nose from his summer place in Pakistan.  Things are better the banks and auto industry has stabilized (housing going to take a generation, sorry) we are adding jobs and Osama sleeps with the fishes(literally) but to be honest things still suck. So if meat gravy is watery and your name is on the sign it doesn't make a difference if you made it or not you not goin to move pasta.
 Which brings me to what is happening now. I suspect that when the President is alone in the oval and reads the polls that have Gingrich ahead in South Carolina and within closing distance in New Hampshire, that for a moment he feels warm and fuzzy inside. Considering the fetid field Gingrich rose out of there could not be a more flawed and handicapped foil to beat Rommney over the head. All the Republicans had to do to win was pick someone who could put a coherent sentence together and not zip his dick up in his fly onstage and it was a easy walk into the endzone.
Go Newt Go.....