Seriously?  Clinton's Admin benefited from the dot.com bubble, which sober market observers at the time noted  had a large component of 'mirage' to it (Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffet).  That mirage began to implode in 1999, before GWBII was  even elected.

The celebrated Clintonian 'government surplus' (cute phrase) arose from Federal tax receipts removing more $$ from the economy than even the U.S. Congress could figure out how to spend.  Bush's 'sin' was to leave those monies *in the economy* with the people who earned it, rather than financing further expansion of a sclerotic bureaucracy.

Look at month-by-month BoL stats for the Bush presidency (go ahead - I dast ya!).  The record shows 'full employment' achieved for the great majority of his tenure (FE defined by economists as ~ 5.5% unemployed in U.S.)   That knocks the Devine Obama's record hollow (you can look it up).

Lastly, I don't miss Saddam Hussein much (and neither, I am sure, do his former neighbors or his people).