This is a graph from the New York Times, a huge Obama cheerleader.
On the surface, it appears that Obama's share of the deficit is minuscule.
The red portion may be fairly attributed to 8 years of the Bush administration.
The yellow portion "extension of Bush policies" appears to blame Bush, but who is extending the policies? Yes, that's right, the Obama administration.
The green portion is the stimulus bill (aka porkulus bill), but the graph suggests that's not Obama either, but it was Obama and the Dem congress that passed it.
The blue portion is blamed on the recession, which may be in part due to lower tax revenue, but who know what other inconvenient numbers they have thrown in there?
So the Obama portion of this graph is actually the sum of the yellow, green, and gray portions after only half a year in office, and that is assuming that the NY times haven't jiggled the numbers in other ways (which they have be caught doing in the past).
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