Prescott Bush is running for assistant dog catcher or something. Rikkk could probably give him a run for the money, though it is in Texas and they tend to vote for the bigger idiot.

Maybe Texans should take voting tips from Michigan and California so we can have the same booming economies they enjoy and rosy forecasts everyone has for them.

You can't handle the truth.

Can you, danni?

Stock market up -- when it reached it's peak under Bush you libs were tripping over yourselves to tell us that the stock market is no indication of the health of he economy. So what is your point about the stock market? Or is it time to play the "different rules apply for us" card?

unemployment down -- it's up from where he got it.

housing prices rising -- but far below their value from when he took office

wars shrinking -- would not be the case if he got his wish to stay in Iraq.

Pretending the housing bubble didn't burst before he took office and that the resulting unemployment was because of anything he did makes you look dishonest Goat,

I'm pretending nothing. I'm simply citing facts. Also, the economy has been on a roller coaster for years. That we are currently on one of the upswings doesn't mean it's been cured. It's just gives you libs a convenient time to crow.

it suddenly wanted us to stay there longer is ridiculous.

It's not ridiculous. It's true. Obama wanted to stay in Iraq but he was told by Iraqi leaders he couldn't. This has been proven a jillion times here. I think you and AU are the the only holdhouts who refuse to accept this fact. Why? How do you expect tobe creible when you refuse to accept a well documented historical fact?

President Obama's speech formally declaring that the last 43,000 U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year was designed to mask an unpleasant truth: The troops aren't being withdrawn because the U.S. wants them out. They're leaving because the Iraqi government refused to let them stay.

Obama campaigned on ending the war in Iraq but had instead spent the past few months trying to extend it. A 2008 security deal between Washington and Baghdad called for all American forces to leave Iraq by the end of the year, but the White House -- anxious about growing Iranian influence and Iraq's continuing political and security challenges -- publicly and privately tried to sell the Iraqis on a troop extension. As recently as last week, the White House was trying to persuade the Iraqis to allow 2,000-3,000 troops to stay beyond the end of the year.

and from the looks of things, it will continue to look better and better for the forseeable future even as you whiners hope for bad things to happen

Growth last quarter = 0.1. Quarter before that was negative.

Yep, things are looking really peachy, danni. What was it you said earlier today about people not being able to handle the truth?