We were arguing about Bush in regards to Obama (if you were actually reading the conversation chain) and yes the stats do speak for themselves considering the state Bush left the economy and global affairs at in comparison to the level at which they are now. Even contextualized against recession recoveries, America actually did fairly well in comparison to most western countries. Even ignoring that the Obama Presidency would have to significantly blunder far worse than it actually did considering how catastrophic the Bush Presidency actually was, contextualised stats or no contextual stats, many of the problems America faced were specifically due to the actions of the Bush Presidency.