Curse of the second term  One upside for President Obama: It
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Maybe there's no such thing as a happy second-term presidency.
Let's talk this through. Discussing presidential history is much
more fun than discussing Also, I always enjoy having a chance to
mention Grover Cleveland.  "He was very unhappy," said Henry
Graff, Cleveland's biographer. "First, he got cancer of the
mouth." That was at the beginning of Cleveland's second term.
Because the nation was in an economic crisis, the president kept
his condition secret and had surgery on a yacht that was bobbing
off Long Island. Then it was time for the Depression of 1893.
See? We're already feeling that things could be worse.  Lately,
it really has seemed as if the Obama White House is incapable of
producing good news beyond the fact that the debt ceiling wasn't
smashed. Swooning websites, security snoops run amok -- there'd
be some comfort in believing that it's all historically
inevitable. "In alm