>Another term of Obama's policies sound pretty good to me, especially if we can flip the Senate and actually get some things done by Congress.
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>You mean like raise our national debt to 30 trillion dollars? I don't have children to worry about, but you do....

FWIW, both my kids are looking for ways to contribute their time to the Clinton campaign. They both consider Trump a threat to democracy.

As for the national debt, yeah, it would be nice to lower it, but it's not the most pressing issue by any means. And the deficit has gone down each year since 2009 (which was, of course, exceptional, because of the downturn that began in 2008).

Over the years, you've liked to blame Obama for high gas prices. I note that you have nothing to say about that now that they're low again.

Yes, the recovery has been slow. It would have been faster if the Republican-majority Congress had been willing to do the things governments normally do to get out of a recession, but instead they decided to cut government workers.

I also judge things other than the economy. I see a more diverse federal bench. I see increased equality for LGBT folks. I see a lot of people with health insurance who didn't have it before. (And yeah, it could better if Congress hadn't obstructed fixing the initial flaws in the program.)

And fwiw, your view that things are worse seems to be a minority position. This came out yesterday: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-gallup-president-obama-20160831-story.html

"In 2008, fewer than half of Americans said their life was good enough to be considered "thriving," according to Gallup. But that's changed: "The 55.4% who are thriving so far in 2016 is on pace to be the highest recorded in the nine years Gallup and Healthways have tracked it," according to the report.

Not only that, members of each ethnic or racial group in Gallup's study feel better about their lives."

Tamar