A Rough Beginning For A Second Term, Yet To Start

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The second-term curse goes like this: A president (e.g., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and so on) wins reelection, but then his presidency implodes over the next four years — mired in scandals or disasters such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, Monica Lewinsky, the Iraqi insurgency, and Hurricane Katrina.

Apparently, like tragic Greek heroes, administrations grow arrogant after their reelection wins. They believe that they are invincible and that their public approval is permanent rather than fickle.

The result is that Nemesis zeroes in on their fatal conceit and with a boom corrects their hubris. Or is the problem in some instances simply that embarrassments and scandals, hushed up in fear that they might cost an administration an election, explode with a fury in the second term?

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Not so rough. Just par for the course for someone who the Republicans who predicted he would not survive to a second term—what other President has proven the conservative party so wrong, and so impotent.

@Liberal1 (Objectivity): #1: No story hear from BOHICAman 2; move on to more productive responses to Skook’s comments.