George W. Bush left Barack Obama the Great Recession—more than eight million jobs lost, half of them in the first 14 months of the Obama presidency. Nonetheless, since then,
we've gained 9.2 million jobs, which means that even if you include Great Recession job losses in President Obama's overall job growth figures, he's still created more jobs than George W. Bush in his first 5.5 years in office—5 million versus 3.8 million.
But as we all know, Bush went on to lose nearly 3 million jobs in his final 2.5 years in office. Meanwhile, under President Obama, the last six months have been the strongest six months of job creation during his entire presidency. In fact, they've been the strongest since 1998. Simply put: His last 2.5 years in office won't be the miserable failure that we saw from George W. Bush.
President Obama isn't perfect. But I'll take the Obama economy any day of the week over the wretched economic disaster created by Bush and the GOP.