Barack Obama must really miss the hopier, changier days of 2008, when the nation collectively celebrated his election to the White House and the full economic impact of the financial crisis had yet to rear its ugly head. On a trip to the U.K. earlier this year, the President accidentally signed the guest book at Westminster Abbey "24 May 2008." And who could blame him? With the unemployment rate still hovering around 9% and the economic recovery moving at a snail's pace, he can't be the only American who has imagined what it would be like to turn the clock back three years.