Let's see - housing and mortgage crisis, national debt up to 10 trillion, falling stock market, shrinking job market, decreased tax revenues, huge debt owned by foreign interests, being the largest debtor nation in the world, increasing gasoline and oil prices, increased job outsourcing, huge trade deficit, dropping consumer confidence, dropping manufacturing output, dropping value of dollar. It is absolutely mind-boggling that Bush has the gall to call this economy "PROSPERITY."

Oh, I forgot. He gave huge tax cuts and rebates to the upper 1% of income earners. THAT's what he means by PROSPERITY.

I wonder if anyone would campaign on a "Let's look back to the good old Days and defeat"? What do you expect any politician to say? "I don't want change, everything is just fine the way it is". The last person to win using this tactic as Roosevelt when he ran for a third term, "Don't Change Horses is the Middle of the Stream". The last President to tell it like it was, when things were bad was, Carter with his misery index. You see how far that got him.