Every president is somehow the product of "luck"...with the possible exception of Washington...
Every president is in the right place at the right time...and the stars line up for them...
Elections are never about absolutes...its always a choice between THIS or THAT...
It helps to be male, tall, not fat or bald...likable and have a "winning smile"... As Carter's people used to say : The Grin with Win...
That will be Obama's advantage in 2012...
A Republican simply can not win...just being the ANTI-OBAMA candidate...
So far all Republicans are offering...as a cure for the BUSH DEPRESSION...is BUSH 2.0...!
This is not "Blaming Bush"...
It is just going back to Bush...
With BUSH 2.0 you get...more tax cuts for the rich...and tax cuts as a cure for everything...
Even though taxes are lower now than ever as a percent of GDP...and the rich are richer now than ever...
THAT WON'T WIN...