You are forgetting that you live in a country where the press wants you to think that the current President is a bad guy.
For instance, you recall that under Reagan, there was a month in 1983 when almost 1 million new jobs opened up. And you think we're still waiting to see that under Bush. But we're not. That happened in January, 2003. Employment increased to 137,447,000 from 136,459,000 the month before. What, you didn't hear about that? The one million new jobs in a month during the Bush Administration? I can't imagine why that was never talked about in the media. It must have been an oversight.