[grey_whiskers]

You wrote:

"and the Pres inherited a recession, the Clinton stock bubble bursting, the investing scandal, 9/11 attack on the world financial center, the 9/11 demise of the airline industry, and a war. "

You are SO wrong.
He also inherited the markets' reaction to Gore trying to sue his way into the White House, SARS, the Malvo sniper attacks, the anthrax attacks, the collapse of the dot-com bubble, a world-wide economic slowdown (see France & Germany), big league financial scandals at Enron, Arthur
Anderson, Tyco, Global Crossing (to name a few), and had
to face the headwinds of mid-$40's per barrel oil and a
concerted effort by major US-based companies to send
large numbers of jobs to third-world countries.

[Paul Krugman should be forced to watch endless re-runs of
Kewwy campaign speeches, similar to the main character in
_A Clockwork Orange_]

[xzins]

I'm not SO wrong.

I'm INCOMPLETE. (which is different than wrong...especially since you added to your list some of the things I had on mine.)

Thanks for a more complete list. I'll definitely use the Gore thing in the future as well as the oil price extortion.