“The Constitution does not allow 13 year olds to be President.  After last week, we can see why.” – Garrison Keillor

Trump advisor Miller says, “It’s not for me to speak what’s in the President’s mind.”  That’s because it’s empty.

52% of Americans in a recent poll would rather have President Obama back in the oval office.  In case you are yearning for the pre-Obama days, let’s take a look at conditions in 2007:

·        It was the start of the great recession (Dodd Frank reforms were enacted in 2010 to lessen the chance of its reoccurrence).

·        The U.S. housing bubble burst with home prices eventually dropping up to 30% with increasing numbers of foreclosures.

·        A worldwide credit crunch commenced.

·        The stock market began its decline reaching over 60%.

·        The U.S. sends 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.

·        Putin suspends the treaty which limited conventional weapons in Europe.

·        The former Chief of Staff for Vice President Dick Cheney was found guilty of lying to FBI agents and a grand jury.

·        7 U.S. attorneys testify that they received inappropriate calls from Republican lawmakers regarding corruption cases they were investigating.

·        The U.S. Embassy in Athens was attacked with rocket propelled grenades.

·        32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech Massacre (this was a real one) by a mentally ill South Korean-born gunman who legally obtained his firearms.

·        Unemployment began its rise to 10%, and US net worth eventually declined 22%.

·        The number of Americans without health insurance was 15.3%.  In 2016 the uninsured rate was 9.1%.  As a personal note, it was only because my state has a mandate requiring insurance companies to cover me, that my wife and I had health insurance in 2007.  Otherwise, we would have been rejected (as we eventually were immediately pre-Obamacare) for such things as “dry eyes.”  For the privilege of covering us with a $4,000 per person deductible policy, we paid in excess of $1800 per month.

I, for one, am not nostalgic for 2007.