I am certainly no fan of the Dems, but it's both fair and smart to do that. Fair because outcomes as complex as the economy and foreign policy are continuous--they are rarely isolated and in a vacuum. If they can frame the decisions they made as the best ones available to them (and to point out that Bush and the GOP had painted them into a corner) then... I can see how that's not dishonest. It's smart because, standing on their own accomplishments, the country has been in the shitter since they took over and it seems to be on the verge of getting a lot worse. Ed O.
