Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama

Declining home values, increasing taxes, lost jobs, unpopular war, sky-rocketing gas prices. For some strange reason, I feel like I'm going to have my own "Ground Hog Day" experience. I hope I'm wrong, but I can't help but think that we (the American People) are in for a rough few years. I'm older and when I look around I feel like I'm looking at a 70's rerun. It's definitely a thriller, but probably more like a horror film for some.
The 70's made people want change from the establishment. We turned to a plain spoken man from Plaines, Ga., Jimmy Carter. New and Improved foreign policy, go green to get off oil, human rights, etc. That's when the disaster really started. Carters' foreign policy gave us Islamic fundamentalism for the 1st time and in our faces. Home prices sunk, gas prices soared, jobs left America in droves, intrest rates went to over 20%, America seemed doomed. The only difference between then and now are the intrest rates and I fear that it's just a matter of time.
After that fiasco the "American People" really wanted change and we got Ron Reagan, Reagan dems., and the Reagan Revolution.
I don't know why, but I have a feeling that a Barack Obama presidency will do for the Republican party what Carters' did. Put them back in power for a long time.