Kansas City Star - "Fact Check: Bill Clinton's 'jobs score' of parties claim rings true"

[TomCADem]

Here is a redstate newspaper, which grudgingly concludes that Bill Clinton's reference to the job score of Democrats and Republicans is true, though this "fact check" offers a lot of spin to try to minimize this fact.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/07/3801483/fact-check-bill-clintons-jobs.html

CLAIM: “For 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats, 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private sector jobs. So what’s the job score? Republicans, 24 million; Democrats, 42 (million).”

ANALYSIS: The claim is accurate, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here’s the breakdown: Kennedy-Johnson: 12.1 million jobs added; Nixon-Ford: 8.4 million jobs; Carter: 9 million jobs; Reagan-Bush: 16.1 million jobs; Clinton: 20.8 million jobs; Bush: 646,000 jobs lost; Obama: 332,000 jobs added through July of this year.

But note the recent performance. Of all presidents since John Kennedy, Barack Obama has had the second worst record for private sector job creation. George W. Bush’s was worse largely because of the 2008 economic collapse at the end of his second term.

And half of the jobs claimed for Democratic presidents actually came during Clinton’s own administration, in which Republicans controlled Congress.