No they weren't. These numbers are from the CBO budget projections from 2009 to 2019.
2009 1.1 trillion
2010 703 billion
2011 498 billion
2012 264 billion
2013 257 billion
2014 250 billion
2015 234 billion
2016 272 billion
2017 234 billion
2018 188 billion
2019 235 billion
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/fil...07-outlook.pdf
2009 was supposed to be an exceptional and scary year with a deficit over a trillion dollars. Obama has taken something exceptional and scary and made it dull and routine.