Barack to the future

In the January 2009 issue of Harpers, an item appeared the readings section called Barack to the future.  It was an excerpt of a letter from a conservative right wing group dated today claiming the the world would be a much worse place now than it was in the first month of the Obama administration.

Read the original letter and see what you think.

Are we as bad off as the doomsayers claimed we would be when they published it on 22 October 2008?