Try to remember this...Bush's budget was never PLANNED to spend more than $450 billion ANY year he was in office. For Bush's fiscal budget year 2009 (which wasn't signed into effect by Bush, but Obama), the fiscal budget called for about a $400 billion dollar deficit. It just so happened that revenue was about $600 billion under what was expected. Then Obama added another $400 billion to that budget giving us the $1.4 trillion deficit. Of course the dems want to blame that WHOLE debt on Bush. Obama on the other hand NEVER had a budget where he planned to spend less than a trillion dollars. EVER! Every year one & a half trillion dollars over budget. About 4 times more than Bushes WORST deficit year, EVERY year. Obama put us in more debt in 4 years than every president from George Washington to Bill Clinton combined. (and you could almost even add in Bush jrs first year in office in that calculation and Obama still spent more.)
People that vote for Democrats don't really do math. Democrats can throw any numbers out there and it won't matter. Just talk to Democrats sometime, their votes are very easily bought just by telling them a story with a lot of emotion.
That's why they relate to the little political cartoons I put up for them from time to time. It helps them to understand at their level.