Just the facts, please: Stock performance under Clinton, Bush, and Obama

According to most right-wing pundits, President Obama represents the demon seed of socialism. Just today, for example, Rep. Michele Bachmann said he's intentionally making Americans poorer.

But let's put aside all the hot air and just look at the facts. Based on this chart of stock market performance under Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, can you figure out which adminstration had the anti-growth record?

Stock Market By Presidency

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Mike Huckabee Wants Every American To Be ?Forced At Gun Point? To Learn From Radical Historian

Iowa played host to two right-wing rodeos last weekend, the Conservative Principles Conference and the Rediscover God in America conference. While many of the GOP 2012 presidential hopefuls graced both stages, only at Rediscover God in America did they offer Americans two revealing facts: “America should be governed by biblical law,” and that discredited historian [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/31/mike-huckabee-david-barton/

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Paul Miller, Foreign Policy
LIBYAMultilateralism Obama StyleAFGHANISTANHow to WinUNITED NATIONSSuprising Backbone The president made it clear in his speech that the U.S.-led war against Libya is primarily motivated to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. "We were faced with the prospect of violence on a horrific scale," he said. "To brush aside America's responsibility as a leader and - more profoundly - our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/31/rwanda_was_genocide_libya_is_a_civil_war_253026.html

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