Here’s a great case for why our system for evaluating Presidents is fundamentally flawed.

Consider: Presidents are remembered mostly for their crisis management, and the rest for the relative prosperity during their reign.

However, many of the existential crises we face today could have been nipped in the bud for very little pain ten and fifteen years ago. The particular president involved instead chose to let these problems fester into another administration rather than taking a modest hit during his own terms.

It’s sad because even as our country condemns the fire-fighters for the fire, we yearn for the happy days when the arsonists were in charge.