And if Kerry were president and this exact same set of economic circumstances had come about, the headline would be "Economy Continues to Pick up Steam from Confidence in New President."
I agree. But the one thing the LSM would fail to point out, is that the president, whoever it is at the time, never has a formal budget presented for 6-9 months in office. In other words, if sKerry were in office, there would have been nothing he'd have done that would have been legitimately attributable to him.