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Which presidential candidate will be better at ending the housing recession?

I don't care about political parties or ideological issues. Simply, which president will be better at ending the housing recession? I'm a working artist whose income primarily comes from creating wall-sized still-life paintings in new constructions. For example, I just completed a work in a home whose main interior colors were black and white. I custom painted a sepia toned, 1800s-looking Western bar theme for the wall that the owners really seemed to like. There are only 10 or so people in the country who do this. But with the housing recession, my sales are down due to lack of opportunities. I've had to take a part-time job teaching at the local junior college. (Besides, my wife, a successful attorney who likely will vote Republican, has been getting on my case about my idle time, but I post that stuff in the Marriage forum here.) Which presidential candidate would be better for a mid-career working artist like myself? I don't use federal grants, so don't need help there.

Public Comments

1. Maybe Obama will promise everyone a house payed for by the United States tax payers next.
2. The one who can persuade Alan Greenspan to come back.
3. NOT mccain's plans...so i guess by default, either obama or hillary!
4. Neither. Government does not belong in private enterprise. I anyone tries a "fix" he will only make things work. Since you paint, get a job painting siding. People may not be buying new houses but they will have to keep up the ones they are now living in.
5. How about you diversify as an artist. Show some creativeness and don't look for the Government to bail you out.
6. There is no housing recession. There are problems with people getting loans the never should have and institutions making loans that were marginal at best. 94% of the US housing market is just fine. The free market is correcting itself and weeding out the bad stuff, just as it should. The last thing a free market needs is a politician...from either party..mucking around and making things worse and not allowing the market to cleanse itself. That government is best that governs least. I am upset that more and more people thing government is the big teat.
7. You occupy a niche that probably won't do well in a recessive economy. No President will have a great effect on the housing market. The housing market does what it does all on its own. I'd suggest you figure out something else to paint to supplement what will probably be a declining income.
8. Clinton Plain and Simple Offers the best proposals for solving Americas problems . Clinton 08
9. Clinton, when her husband was in office we didn't have a recession and our gas prices were around $1.27.
10. NONE........GET READY FOR A LONG HARD RIDE AKA A REAL RECESSION.......MAYBE U HAVE ALREADY FELT SOME OF THE EFFECTS.........GAS PRICE, INCREASE FOOD PRICES (WHEAT, MILK ETC., LIGHT BILL HAS GONE UP) OR HAVE YOUR SPENDING OR CONSUMPTION DECREASED DRASTICALLY FROM LAST YEAR........
11. None of them. It'll be their economic advisers who tackle that. They'll just pick A B or C.
12. Mike Huckabee!