Campaign 2012 – Adjust Expectations

(From the latest Economist.) The rallying cry for 2012 may not be catchy or easy to chant, but it actually makes good sense.  However, it should read:  "We did as well as could be expected considering the historically precarious economic circumstances, unprecedented and unrelenting Republican obstructionism, and the pathologically dysfunctional condition of our political system!!"   —Jeff Weintraub