The Bush-Cheney 8-years was a disaster. They started 2-wars and cut taxes. Then as the economy was crashing they slithered out of DC and handed off a mess to a rookie and idealists. IMHO the economy is better now than it was 4-years ago. Remember Lehman? WAMU? AIG? Fannie? Freddie? Merrill-Lynch? GM? Citi? BofA? Remember losing 750,000 jobs a month?
If the dems win another 4-years it serves the GOP right, I'm not done rubbing their noses in it yet.
Hmm, Bush took over a recession and had it turned around in about 18 months. There was that 9/11 thing you may have heard about. How many attacks were made on the US prior to Bush? How many after Bush took action after 9/11?
We had a brief recession. That happens in the economic cycle. All the companies you mention are still around, except Lehman. Fannie/Freddie are unfortunately still around. The Democrats' failure to rein them in has cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
UE for most of Bush's presidency was 5% or less. How has Obama done there?
As to the wars, Obama has lost Iraq after Bush won it for him. He supported the Afghan war and he is losing that. He wasted thousands of lives in a surge modeled after Bush's, but against the advice of his own generals.
Egypt is going over to radical Islamic thugs.
Iran is building nuclear weapons and Obama wants to talk. North Korea is building long range missiles and Obama wants to talk.
He is a disaster in domestic affairs. He is a disaster in foreign affairs. He is the worst president ever.