Not Only The Most, But Also The Worst -- June 18, 2016

The other day, the screenshot from a mainstream media outlet:

Now this screenshot from USA Today:

From the USA Today story that accompanied that photo:

Since 2009, Obama has issued 66 proclamations to fly the flag at half-staff, exceeding President George W. Bush's 58 and Bill Clinton's 50, according to a USA TODAY analysis of presidential proclamations.

66 vs 58 for George W. Bush, and President Obama still has 217 days left in office. Just trying to run out the clock.

But according to USA Today, it's really not as bad as it seems. A lot of President Obama's proclamations to fly the flag at half-staff were due to annual observances like Memorial Day.

Annual observances such as Memorial Day and Pearl Harbor day have contributed to that total, as have the deaths of notable public figures like Sen. Robert Byrd, Sen. Ted Kennedy, former first lady Nancy Reagan and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

I can't make this stuff up.

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His Economic Legacy Ain't So Hot Either

From Breitbart:

The Obama Administration is already under fire for producing an average real GDP growth of just 1.55 percent for their its 7 years in office.

That ranks the Obama presidency as the fourth from the bottom for the 43 Presidents of the United States, Obama’s performance ranks above only Herbert Hoover at -5.65 percent, Andrew Johnson at -0.70 percent and Theodore Roosevelt at 1.41 percent.

It turns out that the GDP under the Obama presidency was worse than reported

The Commerce Department is set this July to publish a stunning 2 percent downward revision of gross domestic product (GDP) during the Obama Administration term in office.

The Department’s Bureau of Economic Statistics (BEA) regularly makes small revisions to its published statistics as more information becomes available over time. But in a massively large adjustment, the BEA just revised downward — by $346 billion — the real (after-inflation) GDP for 50 states and the District of Columbia, covering the 11-year period from 2005 through the end of 2015.

So, is the revised number going to be 0.98 of 1.55% or something else. If it's 0.98 of 1.55% this isn't much of a story. 1.55% goes to 1.52. If on the other hand..... wow.