"To the first counterfactual, I think people overestimate the differences between Obama’s presidency and the hypothetical presidencies of the likely alternatives. President Hillary Clinton would likely have run an administration almost identical to Obama’s. Her priorities would largely have been the same. Her staff would largely have been the same. The advice she would be getting would largely be the same. There would be differences on the margins, of course, but the major legislative initiatives and economic trends of the past few years have been significantly driven by events. Obama’s biggest “war of choice” was health-care reform, and there’s little doubt that Clinton would have sought to capture that territory, too.
It’s more interesting to consider the difference between Obama and a President McCain or Romney. TARP — and the auto bailout — began under the Bush administration, and the financial system was in incredibly fragile shape in early 2009. I find it doubtful that either McCain or Romney would have pursued radically different financial-rescue strategies."
Pour l'analyse de Klein:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/has-obama-done-a-good-job-well-compared-to-what/2011/08/25/gIQAPDEd8P_blog.html?hpid=z2
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