Do you honestly believe we would have had that rate of growth with a President McCain?
Sure. We hit 2%+ with this current regime. Any normal recovery has at least a couple quarters where growth jumps. With McCain, despite all his weaknesses, would not have a looming threat of massive tax increases, trillions in wasted spending, no Obamacare, and much better housing policies than what we had. We would not have soaring growth long term, but we would have had a normal recovery.
We are basically sitting in the bottom of a huge downturn in the current situation, and that is not something we have experienced until this adminstration jacked up spending and government interference in nearly every sector.