From Dec. 2011br br "We understood it was bad, but we didn't know how bad"br br Obama asked by a local Seattle reporter Tuesday "what do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started your presidency?" Obama responds, "I wish I knew, and I wish everybody knew just how deep the crisis was." Really? What was the reason for the $787 billion economic stimulus? The economy was in such desperate shape we didn't even have time to read the bill.