Originally Posted by Rochard

I'm not sure if that is true or not.

What we had before was an utter fail. But no matter who came after Bush, it was going to be extremely difficult. You can't compare the past four years to any other presidential terms in modern times because we've never faced this before in modern times. Yeah, we had the dot com bubble and recessions, but never before in the past fifty years have we ever seen people loose houses in bulk like this.

Exactly half of the people on my street lost their houses. And suddenly we expect the new incoming president to flip a fucking switch and fix it? Like magic? This isn't a four or eight or ten year problem - This is a fifteen to twenty year problem.

Would have McCain done better?

Would Obama have done much better if he didn't have to deal the economy issues left behind by the past president?