I think one reason I may go insane is because of the glandular need of so many of this Nation's inhabitants to accrue this Nation's economic plight to a President. Madonne! Try constructing in your head the gigantic! gigantic! Excel spreadsheet of cells filled with the constant and variable, linked and unlinked data that determines any number of economic outcomes.

Think back to the 70s and stagflation, wage and price controls, double-digit inflation, unemployemnt approaching 9%, the bankruptcies of Penn Central and Grant's. Was all that Nixon's fault, or Ford's or Carter's? Then the 80s success? Inflation over 11% and unemployment between 5% and 10%. Was that Reagan's and Bush's doing? Hardly.