I've Often Wondered This...

How much power does the President actually have over the economy?

And for that matter, anything else...it seems to me the world has a way of shaping the man as much as the man (or woman) shapes the world. You know? I mean Bush ran on the idea of leaving foreign entanglements to themselves and the notion of compassionate conservatism. Instead, he becomes one of the worlds most divisive characters (with heavy competition too - Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Putin) and becomes entangled with international matters just as heartily as Lyndon Johnson. Explain that.