Obama: ‘A Few More Years’

If custom prevailed, shortly before Barack Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention, U.S. job watchers gave the White House the latest count of national employment. The President aimed everything he said at overcoming this central measure of his record. Obama spoke with forceful eloquence to a cheering house and took full advantage of a platform that has been critical to his electoral success. A keynote convention speech in 2004 introduced Obama as a force to be reckoned with. His 2008 acceptance of the party’s nomination pulsed with grand optimism and promise. Now, in 2012, he asked America for patience as the nation weathers a sixth year of hard times, four of them on his watch. “It will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades,” he said, calling for “the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one”/ New York Daily News . More here. (AP photo)

Question: Is the nation on the road to recovery under President Barack Obama?