Before and After

This may not be true
A couple of years before the election the Democrats were hoping that the war in Iraq would go badly, and the economy would worsen. Now the republicans are hoping that the economy will continue to be bad and the ware in Afghanistan will continue to go badly.

The George bush was severly critized for his handling of the bad weather in the south. Hurricanes Katrina. The same thing is going on in Haiti. Aide is slow to get into Haiti. There is no criticisms coming from the republicans. But it the republicans were in power there would be plenty of criticism from the democrats.