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14 year high?

Wow.

Bush has finally let the unemployment rate get almost as bad as it was under Clinton...

When Clinton _started_ his Presidency.

I'm guessing you're too young to remember the whole "It's The Economy, Stupid" theme behind Clinton's first-term campaign.

Yup. See, e.g., page 6 of http://www.policepay.net/pdf/usecon.pdf. Unemployment had a local maximum in 1992 and then went down every year until 2000.