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people always forecast things like this a little on the optimistic side, otherwise they'd probably make the markets panic. I know UK growth figures have been a tad on the high side the past few years.
ok, I buy the fact that the original graph is too short-term to conlclude anything useful from. I also buy the fact that a long term best-fit has a similar slope to the "optimistic" forecasts of the Bush administration. BUT the forecasts are still optimistic, I think.
to be fair there's probably not that much a president could have done anyway, given the world economic situation
(btw I personally don't like Bush's policies at all, I'm just trying to be objective here)
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