It has to be embarrassing for Bush that he’s going to be the first president since Herbert Hoover, who served 70 years ago, to preside over a net loss of jobs in America. The Bush-Hoover connection looked slightly worse for the incumbent when Bush started using Hoover-like language in his stump speech last month (Bush said “We’re turning the corner,” while Hoover was best known for saying “prosperity is just around the corner”).
This week, Dems discovered yet another connection between the two.
The Kerry camp — busy as bees in a newfangled attack mode, trying to dig up dirt on the Bush campaign — noticed that a descendant of Herbert Hoover, who presided over the Great Depression, works for President Bush.
Hoover’s great granddaughter Margaret Hoover, who sounded very nice when HOH contacted her, works for the Bush administration in the Office of Management and Budget. Democrats have pointed out that Bush is the second president in history, after Hoover, to preside over job losses during his first term.
“We always thought that there was a philosophical link between Hoover and Bush,” Kerry spokesman Joe Lockhart told [Roll Call]. “Now we know there is a genetic link too.”
Now, if only Americans knew who Herbert Hoover was, we’d have a fun talking point on our hands.