The article says:

the financial system, and the resulting recession left millions jobless for a an unusually long stretch. People desperately needed help in the form of unemployment insurance and food assistance.

He also inherited the compound interest from two trillion-dollar wars which were never paid for.

Often said, you can twist facts to reach any conclusion you are seeking.

Stating the obvious, that eight years of w w/darth's hand up his rear, is a piece of information the right gets all pissy about when you bring up the unbalanced tax cuts, the two unfunded wars, and a few other "big tag items" passed by his administration without funding just shouldn't be brought up.

The fact that this country, along with the whole industrialized world, were sliding into the shitter after Wall Street and the other cronies were unbridled by his idiot administration and those of the other puppet leaders, are not fair to bring into consideration when adding up the numbers.

Nope. The black guy in the White House should have been able to work miracles with the kicking and screaming Congress that worked against his every move.

Facts can back up whatever you want to prove. Just conveniently omit any information that makes the argument fit your view.