"When he took over, the country was in very very difficult straits.
We were in the one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times,
close to a depression. The fiscal system was collapsing. Wall Street was
in chaos, we had 800,000 jobs lost in that first month of the Obama
administration and unemployment peaked a few months later at 10 percent.
So we were in real trouble. The auto industry was collapsing, the
housing was start[ing] to collapse and we were in very difficult
straits. And I saw over the next several years, stabilization come back
in the financial community, housing is now starting to pick up after
four years, it's starting to pick up. Consumer confidence is rising."
"So I think generally we've come out of the dive and we’re starting
to gain altitude. It doesn't mean we are problem solved, there are lots
of problems still out there. The unemployment rate is too high. People
are still hurting in housing. But I see that we are starting to rise up.
I also saw the President get us out of one war, start to get us out of a
second war and did not get us into any new wars. And finally, I think
that the actions he's taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism
have been very, very solid. And so I think we ought to keep on the
track that we are on."
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