Well, it's down nonetheless.
And to think, that was done without fluffing numbers with a bunch of bogus public sector jobs in the first year of presidency:
Unemployment rate change within the first year of presidency below. And for everyone who likes to comment that Barry was given a pile of crap from Bush - here's one instance where that would have benefited him. Walking into near 10% unemployment and still failing to improve upon that is a monumental failure compared to coming in ~5% unemployment and still lowering that number.
Source of these charts: The Washington Poast. Can only imagine how much it stung to print these. I'll give them credit for not trying to spin the crap out of it for once though.