This is good news. No doubt, but your slam that personal hatred of Bush causes people not to see it, is not fact.
What causes people to doubt the "great economy" is what they see in their own personal life. Good paying jobs in the manufacturing sector (as the article stated) are down, which means that there are more people hired in the lower paying service sector. Most people who consider themselves in the middle class, whatever that really means, see their dollars constantly eroded due to the price of gasoline and everything else associated with increased fuel cost (remember everything you have came to you on a truck). The cost of health care has increased at much higher rates than the economy has , the cost of carrying health insurance has (for me) doubled since 2000. With health insurance prices going up up up, I understand now about 48,000,000 people do not have health insurance.What most people consider their main source of investment wealth, their home, is falling in value. Those with investment in the stock market have done pretty good lately, but if you compare the market with what we had in the 90's, it is pitiful. To top that off, every day we hear on the news about some CEO getting MILLIONS in bonuses.
The above mentioned things DO NOT instill confidence in the average thinking man, no matter what the economic news is.
I submit this news is a mixed bag. More low paying jobs filled, more rich people getting a lot richer, but wealth not coming down to the working stiff. TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS IS A HORRIBLE MYTH - IT JUST DOES NOT TRICKLE DOWN.
My personal distain for this president does not color my views on this at all.