it was more of a negative message than a positive message overall. let s look at what the president had to say. he took some time to make fun of the convention and republican policies. let s watch the president. it was a rerun. it could have been on nick at nite. we ve seen it before. you might as well have watched it on a black and white tv with some rabbit ears. those ideas don t work. they didn t work then. they won t work now. you know, let s talk about this better off worse off thing because i think the republicans caught the democrats flat footed the last couple of days and the media, too, doing our job. how come the democrats can t make a simple point? in 2009, we had a stock market going through the ground. 6500. losing wealth, disappearing. people were scared to death we were facing a great depression. we had an unemployment rate spiking past 10%. today, we re back.