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<\/a>“It’s Bush’s fault! It’s Bush’s fault!”<\/p><\/div>\n
Of course, as Mark Twain once said – and it’s a cliche I almost regret to say – but there are three types of data; lies, damned lies, and statistics put out to defend Democrat economic policy.<\/p>\n
A graph will look very, very different, and depict very different things, depending on the two dimensions you select, as Philip Bump points out in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Obama looks best when you compare his job creation record with the day he took office – a graph which, by the way, has some liberals chortling, in that it makes Jimmy Carter look like a boss job creator:<\/p>\n Of course, Clinton is the champ – he’s the only two-term president since World War II that didn’t have a recession on his watch – thanks, of course, to Ronald Reagan and the Peace Dividend, as well as Newt Gingrich stifling the worst of Bill and especially Hillary’s agenda. \u00a0Clinton was a champ in spite of himself, and largely due to his opposition.<\/p>\n We also note that more jobs were created on Dubya’s watch in three years than in six and a half of Obama; remember, Dubya had the 9\/11 recession\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>the housing bubble in his eight years.<\/p>\n But isn’t comparing job growth versus a president’s first day in office a little artificial?<\/p>\n Sure. \u00a0Let’s compare presidents with their administration’s low points:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n