for this country to devolve to it's present status. ALL the previous administrations prior to Bush share EQUALLY in not curing the same ills that were present.
Regarding how long it is going to take BHO to "dig us out"....I am back to specifics promised...not how well the overall is in or out of anything. He has much to deliver and it starts by measuring what he does in year one.

Who knows what is lurking...by comparison spring and summer of 2007...what housing problem? What financial melt down? The DOW at it's peak from a steady growth for the previous 4 years....etc....etc...back then the only groaning was the war in Iraq. Then low and behold the cookie crumbled,,,,,IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR....a cascade that was in developement for many years and prior administrations.

I expect him to do more the first year simply because he has to deliver something for all the rhetoric and sooner than later to maintain/establish credibility.
Year 2 and beyond, events and circumstances outside his control will begin to accumulate and eventually displace campaign promises as a priority.

All one has to do is go back and look at Presidential history when they were candidates and when they were in office. The track record is that little of what was ever promised was ever delivered...by the President or any of the other 544 elite lawmakers in Washington.

So year one is an important one....to some of us.

BTK