If Obama Has Done a Good Job, What Would Constitute a Bad Job?

[mikegriffith1]

Compare Booooosh's unemployment numbers to Obama's, then get back to me.

The trajectory was quite obvious when Bush left office. You can pretend that Obama caused this, but that's nothing more than simplistic partisanship. In other words, a lie.

So, the first 7 years of Bush's presidency doesn't count. Got it.

A very good point. Democrats act like Bush was the first president to have a recession occur on his watch.

Furthermore, Bush repeatedly warned about the danger of federal overexposure on sub-prime loans (well over $1 trillion) and tried to get Congress to reform Freddie and Fannie, but every time such reform was proposed the Democrats played the race card and claimed Republicans were trying to keep poor people from owning homes (and several Democrats claimed Freddie and Fannie were doing just fine). Passing that reform in 2005, when Bush first proposed it, would have greatly lessened the impact of the financial crisis.

Democrats also keep ignoring the fact that Reagan faced a recession that was every bit as severe as the one Obama faced, yet by Reagan's fourth year the economy was roaring and unemployment had dropped to 7.4% and was on a steady decline.

 

[jillian]

Consider Obama's record:


So if this record is supposed to be a "good" record, what exactly would a president have to do to compile a bad record?

be george bush.

but nice distortions.

 

[Mac1958]

So, the first 7 years of Bush's presidency doesn't count. Got it.

Ugh. Straw man arguments give me gas.

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What Straw man? You're bitching about the unemployment trajectory while Bush was in office. I assume you're talking about the last year....The first 7 don't count?

Did I say "the first 7 years of Bush's presidency don't count"? No.

THAT straw man.

Obtuse people ALSO give me gas.

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[francoHFW]

So, the first 7 years of Bush's presidency doesn't count. Got it.

Ugh. Straw man arguments give me gas.

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What Straw man? You're bitching about the unemployment trajectory while Bush was in office. I assume you're talking about the last year....The first 7 don't count?

Yup, great cronyism and corruption housing bubble, way to double the national debt, great stupidest wars EVER. Non Foxbots and historians call him the worst president ever, much like today's Pub dominated and obstructed congress for the last 2 years and 8 months.
Pub dupes!!

 

[Clementine]

Consider Obama's record:

* 2 years in a row of declining GDP growth (we're now down to just 2% GDP growth in 2012).
* More than 3 years in a row with unemployment above, at, or just below 8%. (Like Obama, Reagan faced a very severe recession early in his presidency, but by this same point in Reagan's presidency, unemployment had dropped to 7.4%, and by his last month in office, it was 5.4%. Does anyone here really believe that if Obama is reelected unemployment will be at 5.4% by January 2016?)
* The worst job-creation record in over 70 years, with a net decrease of only 200,000 in the number of jobless people since January 2009 (and this figure does not include the millions of people who have simply stopped looking for work).
* More debt in 45 months than Bush added in 8 years (Obama has added $5.5 trillion in 45 months; Bush added $5.1 trillion in 8 years).
* A trillion-dollar deficit for 3 years in a row.
* 15% reduction in the dollar's value.
* A drop in median family income of over $4,000 on average.
* A record number of people living below the poverty line.
* A huge increase in food stamp recipients (several leading Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, are on record as believing that food stamps stimulate economic growth).
* Price of gas doubled.
* Cancellation of the perfectly sane Keystone XL pipeline (which would have created thousands of good-paying jobs, many of them union jobs).
* A nearly 50% reduction in the number of oil-leasing drilling leases on federal lands.
* Tens of billions of dollars wasted on "green" companies that have gone bankrupt.
* An auto bailout that cost taxpayers at least $12 billion--i.e., $12 billion that we won't be getting back. (If those automakers had gone through a normal structured bankruptcy, they would have emerged in much better condition for the long term and taxpayers would not have been stuck for $12 billion.)
* Hundreds of bank failures since January 2009--over 100 banks have failed in 2012 alone (odd that this has not been in the news much, hey?).

So if this record is supposed to be a "good" record, what exactly would a president have to do to compile a bad record?

It could be worse. We could all be jobless, homeless and the entire country could be on fire. Don't you feel lucky now?

 

[francoHFW]

Romney wants to do it again...arrgghh!