The first year's budget was passed before he took office.
Yes, that budget had a 480 billion dollar deficit with radical "emergency" spending passed later.
Once Obama entered office Obama took that "emergency" spending and built it into future budgets.
Extremely inaccurate, intentionally so, obviously. The 2009 increase of nearly $2T was on Dubya's watch, and is larger than any following so far. Debt increase by ~12% in 2010, and is expected to increase by ~ the same amount in 2011. That's not 40%.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm
The debt is a serious issue, but lying about it doesn't help.
Nor does the joke of a budget that House Repubs put forward, either.
GWB left office in Jan 2009.
The national debt was 10.6 trillion.
The structural deficit in the budget was 407 billion.
Right now it is 2011.
The national debt is at $14.6 trillion.
The structural deficit in the budget is $1.65 trillion.
Total expenditures in the 2009 budget were $3.1 trillion.
Total expenditures in the 2011 budget are $3.82 trillion.
Now, we have an increase in the structural deficit but that is somewhat irrelevant because some things are done off the books. That is why looking at increases in the national debt is the most telling and the simple
FACT of the matter is that it has gone up 40% since Obama entered office.
Hell, its almost doubled since the Democrats took control of capital hill in 2007.
Nice try though.