Reply #10: I remember everyone saying "why would anyone want this job" because the mess Bush left is so

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huge that digging out from it was going to be practically impossible. He left a situation where all options suck. President Obama said repeatedly that his options are generally between bad and worse. Yet people somehow imagined he would make it all better really quick.

The stock market crashed in '29. FDR didn't become President until March of 1933. The recession technically started in December 2007 but this was only acknowledged a year later in December 2008 after Obama had been elected but not inaugurated yet. The bottom fell out of financial system September 15, 2008. The largest job cuts began in January 2009. Bush didn't have to deal with the worst of the problem because he handed an economy headed straight off a cliff to Obama. Obama managed to stop another Great Depression which left us with a severe recession instead. Does he get credit? Very little.

I sometimes imagine what would have happened if FDR had to deal with a media and press like we have today during the Great Depression and World War II. The press hid the fact that he couldn't walk. There were tons of screw ups but things were treated so differently.

I think it's sad how quickly people turned on the President when he already had an opposition who never, even in a time of great crisis, tried to work honestly toward the best interests of the Country. Their own political self interest was more important. He has so many enemies between Faux, talk radio and the entire RW industry. Now people on the left are eager to join with them. It's sick.