Name:   phil - Subject:   Drain The Swamp Date:   1/19/2017 4:53:07 PM (updated 1/19/2017 5:00:05 PM)

"I wish him well as an American as I assume you felt the same toward Obama."

Obama makes Carter look intelligent.  His policies has crippled the economy and the energy sector.  His takeover of healthcare with the "pass it to read it" and we lied to the "stupid American people to get it passed is a joke.  I find it funny that since the the Trump election, housing is up, energy is up, stock market is up - so your telling me that all that was the magical Obama policies of the last 30 days?

I may not agree with his positions but I don't want him to fail and drag us into a war or recession which Bush did. 

unemployment #s

2008 was 9.2%, Bush left office in JAN 2009 where it went to 14.2, as high as 16.7 in 2010 and just last year came back to 9.9 %.

https://www.poynter.org/2014/fact-checking-the-war-comparisons-between-obama-and-bush/272471/

"Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/06/02/economically-could-obama-be-americas-worst-president/#7b4ba2dd30f5

The recession ended four years ago, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.  So Obamanomics has had plenty of time to produce a solid recovery.  In fact, since the American historical record is the worse the recession, the stronger the recovery, Obama should have had an easy time producing a booming recovery by now.

Obama likes to tout that we are doing better now than at the worst of the recession.  But every recovery is better than the recession, by definition.  So that doesn’t mean much.

The right measure and comparison for Obama’s record is not to compare the recovery to the recession, but to compare Obama’s recovery with other recoveries from other recessions since the Great Depression.  By that measure, what is clear is that Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, worse than what every other President who has faced a recession has achieved since the Great Depression.

Obama’s economic performance has even been much worse than Bush’s.  Jeffrey H. Anderson, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, writes in Investors Business Daily on January 13, “Prior to Obama, the second term of President Bush featured the weakest gains in the gross domestic product in some time, with average annual (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth of just 1.9%, [according to the official stats at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)]”  

You can bitch about Obama but the country is in alot better shape than when Bush left office."

wow - just wow  you are delusional and need medication.