unfixed: "...someone please explain how bush stimulated the job market. low interest rates?"
Uh, no, 2,000,000 jobs were lost in the past 2-1/2 years. A few are dribbling back. Drops in unemployment rates include people no longer being counted as 'unemployed.'
Actual, meaningful job growth is not 288,000 jobs per month for one month, but a pattern of several hundred thousand new jobs per month. Bush's record is so stunningly bad that his supporters are looking under every rock for good news.
Here's the context as of February '04: