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No he wasn't as he took office in January of 2009 so you want to blame the entire year 2009 on Bush with a DEMOCRATIC Congress and a stimulus that was passed and signed in February 2009? Obama also signed the 2009 budget in March 2009
I posted the BEA.gov data and not one year did Obama ever have a 3% GDP growth and coming off a negative that is a disaster. I suggest better research vs. buying leftwing rhetoric, bea.gov will give you the data and it was 1.5% in 2016 and .6% first quarter 2016 and 3% second qtr. 2017, Trump's first full quarter in office
What you fail to understand is that the economic responsibility is based on budget years. The 2009 budget was Obama's, and it takes a year to impact the forward movement of established action. To say that a president can take over completely from day one is asinine. Many economists use a July to August date of the following year, if not the entire year. Just as year 2001, though when Obama was in office, is considered, by economic standards, to be the responsibility of the previous administration. Or, are you saying the Great Recession economic measurements of 2001 are on Obama?