Hillary’s role model: Bush 41

WASHINGTON, DC: It’s Hillary Clinton, not Jeb Bush, who will take former President George H. W. Bush [the 41st president of the United States] as her role model. Her road to victory was blazed by Jeb’s dad in 1988.

It would help a great deal, of course, if events also flowed her way, as they did for Bush 41. In 1988, gross domestic product grew by 4.2 percent. There’s nothing like rapid growth to incline voters toward keeping the same crowd in power. Relations with the Soviet Union were warming. That helped Bush Sr. too.