Obama Modeling Bush

I don't consider myself a particularly creative political mind. I like to hear about other people's opinions rather than create my own.

But I did have this mildly creative idea about the big health care bill. Maybe someone else has thought of it, I don't know.

Here it is:

Remember back-when to the Bush v. Kerry election? Remember how Bush is thought by some to have started the Iraq war when he did so as to guarantee a second term? I don't know enough to deny or support whether or not that was his motivation. Obama's team knows their electoral history, no doubt and perhaps took a lesson from Bush on this one, because I think it worked for him. Most of the big health care benefits in the new bill won't take place until around 2014 and a lot of the stimulus money from the various bills will kick in over the next couple of years. So here's the pitch: these "time release" policies all kick in just before the 2012 election or right after it, in the case of health care. Just like Bush, Obama-Team can play the card that beats out most, even if the current climate surrounding your office is poor: "Elect the office that is bringing us out of the recession, not some new administration that will have to catch up to what is going on and probably mess things up again." I don't think using catastrophic events for political gain is an ethical thing to do though, because it is at the expense of others.

Just an idea. But no doubt one the powers that be then and now have at least thought of.