Orwell wrote:
In spite of? Look at the numbers over time. There is a clear change in direction. Obama's economic policies slowed, stopped, and then began to reverse the catastrophic economic freefall that GWB's policies created.
To soon to say.
And the policies you detest originated as early as the LBJ administration.
LBJ got us into a ten year war which killed 60,000 of our people. Bush's wars never had that large a butcher's bill.
ruveyn