Did Barack Obama turn the economy around...or is the US economy strong enough to survive someone who was really unskilled at dealing with economic issues? Barack Obama oversaw the worst recovery from an economic downturn since FDR and the Great Depression! It could have been far worse however if the Democrats hadn't lost the midterms in 2010. Barry, Nancy and Harry had Cap & Trade legislation cued up as their next legislative objective...something that would have brought our already anemic economic recovery to a screeching halt. Then in Obama's second term the economy was driven by an energy boom that was created from the use of fracking...something that Barack Obama didn't support! Quite frankly...I find it hard to credit Obama with much of the recovery at all. After Larry Summers and Kristina Romer jumped ship I'm hard pressed to tell you what Obama's economic "strategy" was for the last six years he was in office. He really stopped trying to fix the economy because he didn't have any solutions.