Another favorite GOP talking point is that unemployment has been above 8% for 43 months; do the math and tell me the date 43 months ago. Then tell me how it can possibly be Obamas fault, particularly given that unemployment had gone up a full 2% over the preceding 5 months, and went up another full 2% over the next 7.

I just cannot see how Obama created a culture of entitlement before ever taking office, whether Social Security and Medicare in 1933 or 8% unemployment in March 2009 (and it was 7.8% in February, so close enough to 8% when he had only been on the job a month.) If it is a problem, it greatly predates him.

*shrugs* I am not your mother, but you tell me if you long for the good old days before Obama. It may take >4 years to get out of an 8 year deep hole.