I am trying to respectfully argue that your "baseline" for comparison, in terms of economic improvement or decreasing unemployment, is wrong, and that talking heads on tv are cherry picking data to "prove" whatever talking point they are trying to push on their viewers at any given time.
People saying he is responsible for gas at $1.85 the day before he was inaugurated or persistently high unemployment and all of these jobs lost (how many were essentially illusory bubble jobs in construction - someone said something like 4% of unemployment rate is construction workers) are his fault, when he hadn't even been president for 1 minute yet.
His dilemma is no one gives him credit that it is not as bad as it could have been (second Great Depression with 25% unemployment). Plus Republicans more interested in obstructing government so economic recovery (which is already occurring) is held down till after next November, then when economic recovery becomes readily apparent to all, take credit for all the heavy lifting Obama has already done.
I believe economy has been producing 150,000 private sector jobs / month for last year, but those numbers are damped down by so many layoffs at state and local level because Republicans are blocking temporary aid to states. Plus, given growth in population, you need at least 200,000 jobs / month created to start having unemployment rate decline (some talking head on CNBC said that would probably occur next year, so unemployment rate would start down on a prolonged, gentle glidepath).
Of course, if the jobs deficit baseline is peak of economic and financial bubble in say August 2008, then off course Obama is a failure.
But careful analysis reveals a much different story... (if Obama doesn't get re-elected next November, people will try and spin story that his presidency was a failure, yet he was like George H. W. Bush, who did all of the heavy lifting (cutting spending and raising taxes) that set foundation for economic prosperity and budget surplus and jobs creation that Bill Clinton gets credit for.
People saying he is responsible for gas at $1.85 the day before he was inaugurated or persistently high unemployment and all of these jobs lost (how many were essentially illusory bubble jobs in construction - someone said something like 4% of unemployment rate is construction workers) are his fault, when he hadn't even been president for 1 minute yet.
His dilemma is no one gives him credit that it is not as bad as it could have been (second Great Depression with 25% unemployment). Plus Republicans more interested in obstructing government so economic recovery (which is already occurring) is held down till after next November, then when economic recovery becomes readily apparent to all, take credit for all the heavy lifting Obama has already done.
I believe economy has been producing 150,000 private sector jobs / month for last year, but those numbers are damped down by so many layoffs at state and local level because Republicans are blocking temporary aid to states. Plus, given growth in population, you need at least 200,000 jobs / month created to start having unemployment rate decline (some talking head on CNBC said that would probably occur next year, so unemployment rate would start down on a prolonged, gentle glidepath).
Of course, if the jobs deficit baseline is peak of economic and financial bubble in say August 2008, then off course Obama is a failure.
But careful analysis reveals a much different story... (if Obama doesn't get re-elected next November, people will try and spin story that his presidency was a failure, yet he was like George H. W. Bush, who did all of the heavy lifting (cutting spending and raising taxes) that set foundation for economic prosperity and budget surplus and jobs creation that Bill Clinton gets credit for.
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