New RNC Ad Goes After Obama on the Economy

[David Gill]

Run time: 01:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNiy7Dt6zPo   Posted on YouTube: July 11, 2011 By YouTube Member: rnc Views on YouTube: 307   Posted on DU: July 13, 2011 By DU Member: David Gill Views on DU: 1226

 
Never mind that a good chunk of the money added to the debt was the Bush tax cut extension Repubicans insisted on, or that the stimulus created about 2 million jobs...

[AlbertCat]

1. So, what have the Repug lead Congress done to create jobs?

I'm waiting....

[bif]

3. The Party of NO hasn't done squat.

[OHdem10]

2. Crossroads Group (KRove) has made big buys to attack Obama

and some Democrats especially in the Senate.

Watch for these ads. Outside group will say anything.

[emulatorloo]

6. Coming soon - July and august. Spectacular lie ads, no doubt shown over and over for free

On the pundit shows.

[GreenStormCloud]

4. Sorry, but we don't get to invent our own facts. They are what they are.

"Never mind that the unemployment rate has dropped since Obama took office..."

January 2009 stats from a January 2009 article: http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/09/news/economy/jobs_december/

Unemployment rate in January of 2009 was 7.2% It is now 9.2%.

Yes, the Republicans are going to beat Obama over the head with it, just the way they did Jimmy Carter and his misery index.

[David Gill]

5. You're right- my mistake

I got mixed up on the x-axis of the graph, and was actually looking at October 2009. Sorry!

[RBInMaine]

7. UNEMPLOYMENT WAS ON ITS WAY UP WHEN OBAMA TOOK OFFICE. HELLO!!!

It was at 7.2 on its way UP and losing 700,000 jobs a month. It CONTINUED this spiral for several months, BIGTIME. I believe we reached 10%. Now we are growing the economy again, just not fast enough. So let's get real.

[GreenStormCloud]

9. I am real. The OP corrected his error of fact before you posted.

In his original post he said: "Never mind that the unemployment rate has dropped since Obama took office..."

The unemployment rate has not dropped from 7.2% That is a simple fact.

Yes it was on the way up. But that was not the original statement of the OP.

In post #5 the OP poster gracefully accepted my correction of his "facts" and corrected his post.

If unemployment stays as high as it is then Obama will likely be a one-term President. Don't forget that only nine months ago we got our asses handed to us in the mid-term elections. In addition to losing the House and almost losing the Senate we saw several state legislatures flip from blue to red.

[FarLeftFist]

11. It was at 10.2% at one time.

I love how the "Small govt" crowd is practically begging for govt intervention in the free-market. God forbid anyone blames the record-profit-holding corporations for failing to hire in the private sector. Isn't this what they want, the govt to butt out? Or do they really want govt intervention?

[jeremyfive]

8. Manipulation of the Facts

The Republicans are expert at blaming their failures on the other party.

[FarLeftFist]

10. Apparently they thought Obama was a magic messiah

Yes, the truly deranged believe you can stop a massive oncoming train by placing one man on the tracks. What a bunch of disaster capitalists. Only the brain-dead will still fall for their propaganda. Basically they are saying "Why can't you fix the economy as fast as we broke it?!"