President Obama is a socialist just like Richard Nixon was a socialist and Gerlad Ford was a socialist and ronald Reagan was a socialist.  It seems the good folks on the right have no idea what socialism is. 

As far as I can tell the slogan "Forward" must have been "stolen" from the Jewish Daily Forward (now a weekly magazine) because both teh campaign and the magazine use the same word.   Would the OP prefer we go backwards to the ruinous economic and social policies of "W"? or perhaps he prefers those of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover? no? maybe he liked the Panic of 1873 and the long depression brought to us by U.S. Grant and Co?  

Tenac

While things are not great they are far better than they were when we got to finally say goodbye George W and his anti-growth, full unemployment, steal from the poor and give to the rich policies. We have had slow but steady job growth, low inflation, and for you 1%ers excellent stock market returns. Just off the top of my head lets see bank failures are down, the TARP money has been repaid, GM and Chrysler are in the black and we are even making money with our investment in GM, US exports are up, US manufacturing is up, hard to complain about that, so lets just call success failure in the usual Republican doublespeak

Then you are a person who prefers war, debt and economic hard times. There is no accounting for taste. 

May 1, 2012 -- 3:15PM, TENAC wrote:

I, and likely a large majority of Americans would trade today for where we were 3.5 years ago.

It's not a "large" or a "majority" who would prefer to go back 3.5 years ago, those who were losing their livelihood at more than a million per month back then certainly wouldn't. 

I think the "large majority of Americans", excluding the 1%, would trade today for where we were before Bush2 took office.   Economy good/no endless war