but his conclusions based on only looking at Bush's term, 8 years, only tells about the statistics within and during that period. It does not show whether the results are any better or any worse than the previous 20 years or those since he left office. When the Bush years results are presented as a part of the trending prior to and post his term, then one can conclude the real effect.

Statistics are always interesting in that one can have any result they choose to portray by compartmentalizing data or the periods of the data. Same effect as presenting out of context verbiage to make a point....usually not the point of the person who generated original verbiage.

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