I think I feel a LOT more certain about things with Obama at the helm. He has wrestled with really gruesome situations, of the kind GWB never faced when entering office, and has consistently used reason and dialogue to find ways through them. I disagree with some of his financial policy decisions, but they are surely not my call to make. At least they have not made things worse.

Under the Reagan-Bush Axis of Indifference, the financial and economic fundamentals of the country gradually collapsed--Glass Steagall being one of the major steps. Over the last eight years we went from surplus to heart-stopping deficit. To elect to blame Obama for trying to find a balanced way out of these conflicting catastrophic demands is really ridiculously partisan.

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