During the O'Reilly-Stewart Rumble, Billy kept showing his sign "Bush is gone". He took with him 8,000,000 jobs, every penny my meager investment accounts had earned, every major auto manufacturer was on the verge of bankruptcy, the housing industry was in shambles, and banking institutions were crumbling while the CEOs and possibly a few select execs were stashing their loot in the Grand Caymans or wherever to keep it out of sight of the IRS. But he did leave us two bloody, expensive wars, with at least one whose primary purpose was to restore BPs Iraq oil field and provide revenue for favored government contractors. An the other to repay Osama bin Ladin for an attack against America. In a little less than four years Obama has overseen steady job growth, my investment accounts are at least restored and showing a little growth, the automobile industry is flourishing and the unbelievable has happened. A large part of the government loans have been repaid. Banking institutions are working in spite of the CEOs. The housing industry is improving. People who had been devastated by the lack of or cost of health care have a fighting chance. The price tag of settling the scored with bin Ladin has not been revealed to my knowledge but I suspect it was less than Bush invested in Afghanistan, and the loss of life was certainly less. And it was done in spite of the opposition of Republicans in Congress who are committed, as has already been pointed out, to the misery of the American citizenry. I cannot speak for anyone else. But I am better off today than I was four years ago. And it seems like the people around me are as well. And for three years I have had hope for better things to come.