Before the year ends, make sure you catch these must watch YouTube videos of Barack Obama from 2011.

Obama Said Americans Are Not Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “Well I don’t think they are better off than they were four years ago. They’re not better off than they were before Lehman’s collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession that we’re going through.” (ABC News/Yahoo News’ Live Interview, 10/3/11)

But Then He Changed His Mind A Month Later. WCCO’s AMELIA SANTANIELLO: “One of the questions that I asked the president was if he felt that we were better off today than we were four years ago.” OBAMA: “Well, you know I think that we are better off now than we would have been if I hadn’t taken all the steps that we took.” (WCCO-CBS, 11/1/11)

Obama Admitted He Will Raise Taxes If He Is Reelected. OBAMA: “That is a reasonable proposition. So, when you hear folks saying ‘Well, the president shouldn’t want massive job killing tax increases when the economy is this weak.’ Nobody’s looking to raise taxes right now. We’re talking about potentially 2013 and the out years.” (President Barack Obama, Remarks At Press Conference, Washington, D.C., 7/11/11)

Obama Doesn’t Regret Making Loan to Solyndra. “Your White House has faced a lot of questions on Solyndra, the solar panel company you paid a visit to back in 2010. You really held it up then as a model for jobs and clean energy. Do you regret that?” OBAMA: “No, I don’t.” (ABC News, 10/3/11) 

Obama Can’t Answer Those Who Have Lost Faith In His Actions. KIRO REPORTER: “How do you reassure a hard core supporter who has lost faith in your words and sees no promise in your actions?” OBAMA: “Well, look, we’ve gone through a difficult time the last three years and I think that, uh, you know, for someone who’s out of a job right now, or has seen, uh, their house go underwater because of declining, uh, uh, home values, you know, it’s hard to sometimes feel optimistic.”  (KIRO, 12/13/11) 

And Admitted Washington Is Worse Under His Leadership. “When we spoke here end of 2008, hope and change. You know what I see in Washington still to this day? OBAMA: More of the same. BLITZER: “The same old same old. A lot of bickering, backstabbing…” OBAMA: “Maybe a little worse.” (CNN’s “The Situation Room,” 8/16/11) 

But Insists His Efforts Will Require More Than One Term. CBS’ STEVE KROFT: “Did you overpromise? Did you underestimate how difficult this was gonna be?” OBAMA: “I didn’t overpromise. And I didn’t underestimate how tough this was gonna be. I always believed that this was a long-term project. This wasn’t a short-term project. For individual Americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades — that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.” (CBS News Interview, 12/11/11)

Obama Admitted The Economy “Is Always My Responsibility.” CBS’ AMELIA SANTANIELLO: “At what point does the economy become your fault and not your predecessors?” OBAMA: “It’s always my responsibility.  I am less interested in allocating blame than just making sure we are taking every step we need to move the economy forward.” (CBS’ “The Early Show,” 11/2/11)

Obama Accused Americans Of Being Lazy. OBAMA: “But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America.” (President Barack Obama, Remarks At APEC CEO Business Summit, Honolulu, HI, 11/12/11)

Obama Rated Himself As The Fourth Best President In Modern History. OBAMA: “The issue here is not going to be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re going to keep on at it.” (CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” 12/9/11)

But Also Defined His Presidency As “Three Years Of Post-Recession Blues.”  “[W]hat I feel is what the American people feel, which is that we have now gone through not only two-and-a-half, three years of post recession blues where housing crashed.” (Interview With President Barack Obama, ABC News, 10/18/11)