When will it end?!

[Ronnie]

Dow hits bottom at about 4000, and a slow recovery has gone underway by 2012. It is at about 5000 by election day.

The economy is still dreadful compared to 2006/2007, but people give him credit for stabilizing the situation. He wins a landslide against an extremist and out of touch opponent.

Dude if the Dow is 5000 on election day 2012, he is going down in a landslide against whoever his opponent is. 

Not true.

If there is any hint of recovery from the situation he inherited, he will win and he will win big.

Let me try to understand what you are saying.

If there is an unemployment rate of 12% and the stock market plunges to 5,000 (it gives me the chills just thinking about this), Obama can just blame everything on Bush and win 2012 in a landslide?  Sorry, but Obama is going to eventually have to take responsibility.

[Ronnie]

Things are gonna get worse through 2009 and into 2010, but by the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012, the economy will start growing again, and Obama will win a landslide against some right-wing nut.

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal!"

[Ronnie]

Yes, Dave, but I hope Obama did not campaign to become president just so he would be able to blame Bush for his own mistakes.  There has to be some sort of limit to how many times he can make that excuse, no?