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Bill Sammon: Bush Must Tout Great Economy
Bill Sammon, White House correspondent for the Washington Times and author of "Strategery,” said President Bush must talk much more about the amazing U.S. economic growth because the message is not getting through to Americans. A recent Fox News Opinion poll on the economy revealed 72 percent of Americans believe the U.S. economy is in "fair or poor” condition, while 46 percent said their own personal economic situation was "good or excellent.” Sammon, appearing on Fox News Channel, said much of this is a classic case of style over substance. The Bush administration, he said, has focused on national security issues at the expense of launching a public relations campaign to tout the thriving U.S. economy. "When I covered the Clinton administration, you couldn’t go two days without the treasury secretary, the president or the vice president talking about how many jobs they created and how much prosperity they had,” Sammon said. "Now, some of that turned out to be a false prosperity with the dot-com bust, but the onus is on this administration to make the case that the economy is strong, and I’m not sure this president has done it as much as he could have.”
Story Continues Below The Fox poll indicated that rising gas prices have contributed to a general feeling among Americans that the U.S. economy is not strong, which flies in the face of other economic indicators. "It’s not just the stock market, which is hitting record highs,” Sammon said. "When you look at the unemployment numbers, it’s down to less than five percent, which is far lower than it’s been in the last few decades. You look at home ownership and you look at the GDP, which has been growing for several years. The economy is doing great. "I think the biggest point is that gas prices hit people on a daily basis,” Sammon continued. "It’s the kind of thing you think about when you’re filling up for $3 a gallon despite all of the other positive economic news.” Sammon also thinks the fact that we are at war "kind of clouds your thinking about the economy.”
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