Once the Obama Depression was underway, aggregate results for 2008 changed, but all things that happened in 2008 didn't all happen in the last quarter.
You have been deceived by propaganda.
The way to fight propaganda is the truth, and we have Obamasama "truthers" on this thread trying to tell us that an "annualized rate" is something that it is not.
The companies did not suddenly fail in September. They were in big trouble; forget the conspiracy theories, we had a GOP president and a GOP appointed Fed- ie Pualson and Bernake. Obama did not crash Wall Street...Wall Street crashed Wall Street.