Go ahead. What are those reasons? If you're referring to an increase in the debt, then would you say, based on the debt increasing even faster on Trump's watch, that Trump fucked up the economy even worse? Or is this a disposable principle, that only applies against Obama but then must be thrown away when the time comes to judge Trump?
It was no such thing. There were many slower economic recoveries even during the Obama era.
In fact, the US's recovery was unusually quick relative to how most other wealthy nations recovered from the Great Recession. We outpaced Japan, Germany, Italy, the UK, France, Spain, etc.
By 2012, most indicators had taken a turn for the better, and he'd mostly gotten us out of Iraq, so it's no wonder he was so successful in campaigning on more of the same. He inherited a nation in free-fall, economically, and neck-deep in a bloody quagmire in Iraq, and by 2012 had returned us to a relative state of normalcy. The American people wagered that things would get still better in his second term, and they wound up being right.
Incorrect. The budget deficit was lower in FY 2010 than FY 2009. FY 2010 ran from October 1, 2009 to October 1, 2010. The Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.
This is one of those times when I'm going to have to urge you to build your arguments around things that happened here in the real world, rather than in the dreamtime reality of Fox News.
