Academic  Study Scores Obama

As if he hasn’t had enough bad news, now the presdent faces a study finding him wanting from one of his key constituencies—academia. “Keith Hennessey, a Stanford University economist, went back over the past 10 presidents, charting the average jobless rates of their presidencies,” Donald Lambro ^[1] reported in The Washington Times..“Here’s what he found:

• “Lyndon Johnson, 4.2 percent;
• “Dwight Eisenhower, 4.9 percent;
• “Richard Nixon, 5.0 percent;
• “Bill Clinton, 5.2 percent;
• “George W. Bush, 5.3 percent;
• “John F. Kennedy, 6.0 percent;
• “George H.W. Bush, 6.3 percent;
• “Jimmy Carter, 6.5 percent;
• “Ronald Reagan, 7.5 percent; “
• “Gerald Ford, 7.8 percent; and
• “Barack Obama ^[2] in his first three years, 9.2 percent.”

Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia ^[3].

If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail mal.kline@academia.org ^[4].