Fact Check.org releases final numbers on Obama's presidency.

Courtesy of Fact Check.org: 

The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama was president is sometimes different from what politicians claimed. 

• The economy gained a net 11.5 million jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to below the historical norm. 
• Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 4.1 percent after inflation. The gain was 3.7 percent for just production and nonsupervisory employees. 
• After-tax corporate profits also set records, as did stock prices. The S&P 500 index rose 166 percent. 
• The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by 15 million. Premiums rose, but more slowly than before. 
• The federal debt owed to the public rose 128 percent. Deficits were rising as Obama departed. 
• Home prices rose 20 percent. But the home ownership rate hit the lowest point in half a century. 
• Illegal immigration declined: The Border Patrol caught 35 percent fewer people trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico. 
• Wind and solar power increased 369 percent. Coal production declined 38 percent. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel dropped 11 percent. 
• Production of handguns rose 192 percent, to a record level. 
• The murder rate dropped to the lowest on record in 2014, then rose and finished at about the same rate as when Obama took office.

 Overall those are pretty damn good numbers. 

Critics of the President can complain that the numbers could be better, and that opportunities were missed, but they have to be reminded that everything the President accomplished he did with the Republicans attempting to obstruct him every step of the way.

I can hardly wait to compare this to the final numbers on the Trump presidency.

I love this.

I know it really pisses Trump off every time we demonstrate that he is smaller or less than President Obama in anyway.

Which unfortunately for him is pretty much in every way.

But Twitter, Twitter is where Donald Trump feels the strongest and the most secure.

So much for that.

In his very first press briefing Trump press secretary, Sean "Baghdad Bob" Spicer, lies about inaugural crowd size and attacks the press.

H-o-l-y shit!

Courtesy of TPM: 

5:39 PM: After a delay of about an hour we appear to be moments away from what is expected to be a White House statement on the crowd size issue. 

5:40 PM: Spicer complaining about MLK bust and giving various excuses why the inaugural crowd was much bigger than anyone said. 

5:41 PM: Spicer claims crowd was the largest crowd ever to witness a presidential inauguration. 

5:43 PM: Spicer is basically in primal scream mode now. 

5:46 PM: Verbatim quote: "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. Period. Both in person and around the globe."

This lunatic literally used his very first interaction with reporters as the official press secretary to scream lies at them.

This was NOT the first time those floor coverings had been used, they were also used during Obama's 2013 inauguration.

There were NO magnetometers used.

And there were more metro rides during Obama's inauguration in 2013, than on the day of Trump's. (Also don't forget that a number of those rides on the 20th were actually protesters.) (Source.)

So THIS is how the Trump administration begins.

By the way Kellyanne Conway had this exchange with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press today:

"Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods," Chuck Todd tells Pres. Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway this morning. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Ao005dQ13r

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 22, 2017

Damn, this is going to be a long four years!

This is the "failed" America from which Donald Trump wants to rescue us.

Courtesy of Fact Check.org:

Since President Barack Obama first took office: 

• The U.S. trade deficit has shrunk by 24 percent; exports have grown faster than imports. 
• The number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally has gone down — by 3.4 percent according to one independent estimate and by 9 percent according to another. 
• The economy has added 9.7 million jobs. 
• The unemployment rate has dropped below the historical norm. 
• The buying power of the average worker’s weekly paycheck is up 4.2 percent. 
• Corporate profits are running 144 percent higher and stock prices have soared. 
• Federal debt has more than doubled, and annual deficits, after shrinking, are again on the rise. 
• The number of people lacking health insurance has gone down by nearly 15 million. 

Those are just some of the findings in our latest installment of Obama’s Numbers.

You know one of the attacks the conservatives and the Trump campaign keep using against Hillary Clinton is that she represents four more years of the Obama administration.

Personally I think that if we could get Hillary to promise that in writing that more than enough Americans would vote for her  in November for her to win the election in a landslide.