When Bill Clinton was running for President of the United States against George H.W. Bush, Mr. Clinton had a tendency to go off topic when answering questions in debates and interviews. Clinton battled a reputation as a policy wonk, and like many Democratic candidates of recent vintage, this reputation allowed Republicans to paint him into the same corner as one-term President Jimmy Carter. As the United States had recently been in a recession under the leadership of Mr. Bush, Clinton’s strategist James Carville used the phrase as an, ahem, gentle reminder that if Clinton was to win he would only do so by attacking Mr. Bush’s failed economic policies. If you’re just emerging from the rock you live under, President Clinton later became the 42nd President of the United States.