lol he must bear a large part of the responsibility for things that happen as a result of Bush-era policies?

Which gets back to the purpose of this thread.

Both Reagan and Obama accomplished larg scale policy changes. Reagan and his supporters want him to be held accountable for his record, but Obama and Obama supporters don't want him to be accountable for his.

It's completely valid to point out the difficult economy they inherited. But it isn't valid to promote and pass policies designed to repair this, then insist you can't be accountable for the result.

The result is clear: one set of policies resulted in a vastly different outcome than the other.

Yes, the more Keynesian approach worked better. The public employee austerity via Obama's actions and inactions has kept unemployment at least 1.5-2 points higher than it needs to be. This is the recovery conservatives say they want. So why are they upset that keeping taxes low and cutting government jobs isn't causing skyrocketing growth?

Oh right, "regulatory uncertainty," the most meaningless term ever invented. The future is always uncertain. That's how democracies work. In before "democracy is costing us GDP growth, so we need to restrain it."

"regulatory uncertainty,", so true.
All the intellectualism in the world doesn't change a simple fact, people who need something, purchase it. And business flocks to any market that has buyers. Regulation does not stop buyers from buying. Business adds whatever costs are or may be incurred to the price they charge, everything else is bluster.

And before that concept gets trashed, a majority of the population doesn't read politics on a daily basis, and doesn't choose to read the arcane pontifications of economy prognosticators. They want, so they buy.................but because they have over bought for the last decade or so, they are now low on spendable cash/credit.

ITT thread I learned that buyers purchase the same amount of things regardless of price.

We already went over this just a few posts ago. (I feel like Teddy in Momento!) GDP spending for government at all levels throughout Reagan's two terms is lower than Obama's is at any point in his first term.

The only "Keynesian approach" is Obama's.

Nice spin, as though some uncertainty is the same as complete uncertainty. Of course there are differences in degree or no one would invest in anything. Here, listen to how a mega-mugal casino owner and prominent Democrat Steve Wynn puts it: