The damage to the economy is irreparable in the short term. America's in muck for the next 10 yrs at a conservative estimate.
Yes, Bush was a fuckup, but the fiscal policies of the US since the early 70's ensured the inevitable decline of the dollar (subsequently the whole economy)...the Fed stopping M3 reporting a few years ago was the "Dead End" sign. It will be a long hard road but we can come out clean on the other side so long as we don't have rapid deflation. We will be a stronger nation when we do come out of it too imho. (the average joe will remember the true value of a dollar, we'll see a massive decline in bullshit credit, and we will be living up to our true industrial potential) Why? because we'll have a shitload of resources and a weak currency. Cheap, cheap, cheap. It won't matter if we raise wages four years from now because the companies will probably be trading in EUROS.
That being said, I agree with pussyserver. In a time like this, charisma, eloquence, change, and youth should not be
underestimated. Besides, at least with Obama there's a CHANCE, a chance, he might do something different then the previous generation who has done nothing but...ahem...fuck it up for all of us.
I personally don't want to see this genealogy in the office: Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Clinton. <--Putting McCain in there would be no different.
Remember, People said FDR couldnt change anything in 1931
