Iraq will be to blame for a loooooooong time.
It will be the equivalent scapegoat that Reagan's "trickle-down economics" was for the 1990s.
On the plus side, it's nice to see how beholden they are to various special interests this far ahead of the elections. Hillary's "personal friends" comment was noteworthy as well:
Clinton said that her relationship with the gay community is informed by her friendships with individual gays and is “very personal for me.â€
Undoubtedly.
;-)