Ted Cruz uses George W. Bush to accuse Barack Obama of being Jimmy Carter

[babylonsister]

Honestly, the title grabbed me!

Ted Cruz uses George W. Bush to accuse Barack Obama of being Jimmy Carter
By Philip Bump April 29



If you didn't catch it, Cruz employed a nifty little bit of rhetorical spin there. What he's actually comparing isn't Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. It's Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.

Let's look at the first number: that 3.3 percent. Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts the average at 3.2 percent since 1947. Close enough. The annual data look like this.

We've highlighted the two periods Cruz mentioned. They're five-year periods, really, but we assume he means the change from 1978 to 1979, the change from 1979 to 1980, 1980 to 1981 and 1981 to 1982. So it's four bars on the right in each block of years.

Do you see what Cruz did? Let's walk through it.

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[jaysunb]

1. I wonder what's suppose to be the stigma of being like

President Carter ? He is one of the most decent men to ever hold the office.

[babylonsister]

2. Another case of 'they got nothing'! It's all

deflection at this point, imo. Made me laugh anyway.

[Cha]

3. cruz is a sick **** what ever he's doing.