W's legacy was Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina, but even you have to realize he had a lot of help from democrats in every one of those. Great Recession? Not really. Neither side had much of a role in that debacle. That was a whole lot of investment firms investing in junk mortgages and then the bottom fell out, dragging everything else down with it. Do you remember the dot com bubble bursting? It affected a bunch of other economic sectors than just the dot coms. Nowhere near as bad as the recession of 2008, but a recession nonetheless. Iraq was on track to actually be a success until Obama pulled out without insisting on a status of forces agreement, allowing a sizable force to remain and keep the country stable, allowing the country to realize peace and stability. I am hearing the false statistic that Obama inherited the loss of 800,000 jobs a month again. There were two months that had that kind of job loss between Nov. 2007 and Jan. 2009. Not every month, as democrats infer.