“I’ll show you the photos once I get them developed.”

It’s like steering a large ship. Any input to the controls take some time before they actually have any effect. So if you’re suddenly dropped at the helm, you’re pretty much at the mercy of whatever the last guy was doing for the immediate future. But that doesn’t mean you can’t attempt to get the ship back on course either, as whatever you do at some point will have an effect.

On another note, hard to blame Obama for 2008 in any case given he didn’t become president until 2009.