Not Partying Like It's 1984
Timing is everything in politics, and Barack Obama doesn't seem to have much of it these days.
I won't recount the misery of today's Rose Garden press availability/funeral dirge. Jennifer Rubin, blogging at Washingtonpost.com, nailed the sad spectacle of Mr. Hope as Debbie Downer.
This much seems obvious: Ronald Reagan rode the wave on an economic upswing in 1984; Obama may be looking a months more of such bad numbers -- and a repeat of these Prozac pressers.
I'll leave you with the following magazine cover, pasted down below -- Time Magazine, six weeks before the second Reagan landslide.
My question: how long before the same cover can run again?
Answer:
(a) sometime between now and November 2012;
(b) second term of the Obama Administration;
(c) first or second term of the Republican who defeats Obama 16 months from now?
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Jan '11
Re: Not Partying Like It's 1984
Is TIME still in print to post such a cover?
Aug '10
Re: Not Partying Like It's 1984
Wow, is TIME still neck and neck with Newsweek ? We need new symbols of newsmagazine journalism. How about LIFE ? They have several publications in the corporate realm, perhaps Shooting UK ? They could do woodcocks, raptor hunting, and unlikely recovery.
Jul '10
Re: Not Partying Like It's 1984
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that the article behind that cover portrayed it as a bad thing?
Dec '10
Re: Not Partying Like It's 1984
Not that TIME would ever run that, now, but it would have to be the first term of a Republican successor as, otherwise, there would be no second.
Apr '11
Re: Not Partying Like It's 1984
I looked at a Time yesterday in a Doctor's office. I was surprised at how thin it was - forty pages at most. I'm wat Flownover, find a new publication to measure against. Times best years are far behind it.
Dec '10
Re: Not Partying Like It's 1984
Bill - Mark Steyn's answer would be "d) Never again". And he'd have some devilishly delicious commentary to add to it as well.