"Pass this massive spending bill loaded with political favors passing as shovel-ready stimulus programs and unemployment will top out at 8%."
====================== If only literacy were a voting requirement Sounds like many voters do miss him; but VA,MASS,NJ,KY & tea party ... arent necessarly the same as whole USA. But in this election those states are probably a forcast of things to come.Perhaps Mr Emmanuel leaving early was also.LOL
Barak Obama is the 8th president I've lived under as an adult. As bad a GWB was, Carter was 10 times worse. I think deep down, Bush is a decent guy, he was just in over his head. I feel the same about Obama. Carter is the worse kind of person to have as president because he really does think he's superior. Not superior intellectually, but superior morally.
Bush inherited a fairly good economy and wrecked it with neglect (just like his old man, HW did). As bad as Carter was, Bush is not half the man he is. And I witnessed both, same as you.
include those receiving unemployment checks as government workers who just happen to stay at home and the unemployment number drops even further.