What kind of alternate reality is Douglas Saunders in?    Under Obama we went from a national debt of $9 trillion to $20 trillion,  had an annual trade imbalance approaching $1 trillion, 46 million on welfare, a real unemployment rate of 10% to 15% if you count people whose unemployment has run out, part time workers, and those who were self employed in small businesses that closed.  Obamacare premiums and out of pocket have doubled and even tripled, small business going bankrupt are at an all time high, and the average take home pay is down $2,500 a year.   Obama inherited a relatively stable Iraq with a mixed Sunni-Shiite government where people had voted several times.  His military blunders now have ISIS in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and infiltrating Europe.  On his watch, 500,000 people have been slaughtered in the Middle East, and a million Muslim refugees, most of who are illiterate unemployable young men are destabilizing Europe.  And race relations are at their worse.