Now THIS is comedy! Obama says economic recovery 'painfully slow,' blames Republicans

[The Rabbi]

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It sucks for defenders of obama when you use truth and fact.

Unfortunately they wouldn't recognize either of those things if they hit them.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

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It sucks for defenders of obama when you use truth and fact.

Unfortunately they wouldn't recognize either of those things if they hit them.

 

[code1211]

Bush says he inherited recession - Aug. 7, 2002

Bush blaming Clinton for recession

The difference is that Bush was quoting the numbers from the Commerce department AND was doing so after 3 straight quarters of growth.

Note that last part? There were 3 quarters of decline in the GDP and then three quarters of growth. Bush was only citing the Department of Commerce figures to correct the mistaken impression that the economy was going great until he took office and then went into the dumper upon his election.

The finally revised data shows that the economy was already in recession when he took office and his policies brought it back into a growth mode despite 9/11 and the financial scandals that were committed during the Clinton years and prosecuted during the Bush years.

Bush's programs worked.

how are the Big 0's programs doing so far?

 

[edthecynic]

In 2002 the unemployment rate was 5.78. That is compared with the almost TEN PERCENT we have NOW!!!!!!!

Bush was not BLAMING, he was TOUTING SUCCESS! He was saying despite all these things, the economy was going great guns!!!!!!!

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

 

[edthecynic]

Bush says he inherited recession - Aug. 7, 2002

Bush blaming Clinton for recession

The difference is that Bush was quoting the numbers from the Commerce department AND was doing so after 3 straight quarters of growth.

Note that last part? There were 3 quarters of decline in the GDP and then three quarters of growth. Bush was only citing the Department of Commerce figures to correct the mistaken impression that the economy was going great until he took office and then went into the dumper upon his election.

The finally revised data shows that the economy was already in recession when he took office and his policies brought it back into a growth mode despite 9/11 and the financial scandals that were committed during the Clinton years and prosecuted during the Bush years.

Bush's programs worked.

how are the Big 0's programs doing so far?

CON$ervative REVISIONIST data you mean.

The actual group that sets the dates of the beginning and end of recessions, the NBER, gives March 2001 as the beginning of the BUSH recession. Only CON$ervative revisionists give a different date.

Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research

July 17, 2003

This report is also available as a PDF file.
CAMBRIDGE July 17 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in November 2001. The trough marks the end of the recession that began in March 2001 and the beginning of an expansion. The recession lasted 8 months, which is slightly less than average for recessions since World War II.

 

[The Rabbi]

In 2002 the unemployment rate was 5.78. That is compared with the almost TEN PERCENT we have NOW!!!!!!!

Bush was not BLAMING, he was TOUTING SUCCESS! He was saying despite all these things, the economy was going great guns!!!!!!!

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

Average UE rate under Clinton: 5.20
Average UE rate under Bush: 5.45

Edtheshmuck, can you ever be honest? Comparing the very best year of Clinton to the very worst year under Bush?
And what has Obama's average been so far?

 

[fyrenza]

... blah, blah, blah ...

I wonder what he'll do after Nov when the GOP gives the Dums the drubbing of a lifetime and he has to work with Speaker Boehner?

I fully expect him to get on-camera and cry to us about how Boehner is trying to BONE him!!!

 

[edthecynic]

In 2002 the unemployment rate was 5.78. That is compared with the almost TEN PERCENT we have NOW!!!!!!!

Bush was not BLAMING, he was TOUTING SUCCESS! He was saying despite all these things, the economy was going great guns!!!!!!!

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

Average UE rate under Clinton: 5.20
Average UE rate under Bush: 5.45

Edtheshmuck, can you ever be honest? Comparing the very best year of Clinton to the very worst year under Bush?
And what has Obama's average been so far?

It was the CON$ervative poster teabagsamuri who picked 2002, not me, as you well know and it was not Bush's worst year.

GHW Bush passed a UE rate of 7.40% in Dec of 1992 to Clinton,
who passed a UE rate of 3.90% in Dec of 2000 to GW Bush,
who passed a UE rate of 7.40% in Dec of 2008 to Obama.

 

[The Rabbi]

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

Average UE rate under Clinton: 5.20
Average UE rate under Bush: 5.45

Edtheshmuck, can you ever be honest? Comparing the very best year of Clinton to the very worst year under Bush?
And what has Obama's average been so far?

It was the CON$ervative poster teabagsamuri who picked 2002, not me, as you well know and it was not Bush's worst year.

GHW Bush passed a UE rate of 7.40% in Dec of 1992 to Clinton,
who passed a UE rate of 3.90% in Dec of 2000 to GW Bush,
who passed a UE rate of 7.40% in Dec of 2008 to Obama.

That is a typically gross distortion coming from a typically gross poster.
Try being honest for a change and look at the complete record. Clinton left Bush a recession and 9/11.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Bush says he inherited recession - Aug. 7, 2002

Bush blaming Clinton for recession

Try reading what you link to once in a great while

"When I took office, our economy was beginning a recession," Bush said in a speech at a Mississippi high school. "Then our economy was hit by terrorists. Then our economy was hit by corporate scandals. But I'm certain of this: We won't let fear undermine our economy and we're not going to let fraud undermine it either."

 

[teapartysamurai]

Bush says he inherited recession - Aug. 7, 2002

Bush blaming Clinton for recession

The difference is that Bush was quoting the numbers from the Commerce department AND was doing so after 3 straight quarters of growth.

Note that last part? There were 3 quarters of decline in the GDP and then three quarters of growth. Bush was only citing the Department of Commerce figures to correct the mistaken impression that the economy was going great until he took office and then went into the dumper upon his election.

The finally revised data shows that the economy was already in recession when he took office and his policies brought it back into a growth mode despite 9/11 and the financial scandals that were committed during the Clinton years and prosecuted during the Bush years.

Bush's programs worked.

how are the Big 0's programs doing so far?

They suck big time!

 

[teapartysamurai]

In 2002 the unemployment rate was 5.78. That is compared with the almost TEN PERCENT we have NOW!!!!!!!

Bush was not BLAMING, he was TOUTING SUCCESS! He was saying despite all these things, the economy was going great guns!!!!!!!

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, what part of 9/11 did you miss genius?????????



And then how about where it is now??????



Only a LIBERAL would be so obtuse as to think that was an attack point given the FACTS.

But then, if you hadn't, you wouldn't be a liberal!

 

[teapartysamurai]

Bush says he inherited recession - Aug. 7, 2002

Bush blaming Clinton for recession

The difference is that Bush was quoting the numbers from the Commerce department AND was doing so after 3 straight quarters of growth.

Note that last part? There were 3 quarters of decline in the GDP and then three quarters of growth. Bush was only citing the Department of Commerce figures to correct the mistaken impression that the economy was going great until he took office and then went into the dumper upon his election.

The finally revised data shows that the economy was already in recession when he took office and his policies brought it back into a growth mode despite 9/11 and the financial scandals that were committed during the Clinton years and prosecuted during the Bush years.

Bush's programs worked.

how are the Big 0's programs doing so far?

CON$ervative REVISIONIST data you mean.

The actual group that sets the dates of the beginning and end of recessions, the NBER, gives March 2001 as the beginning of the BUSH recession. Only CON$ervative revisionists give a different date.

Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research

July 17, 2003

This report is also available as a PDF file.
CAMBRIDGE July 17 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in November 2001. The trough marks the end of the recession that began in March 2001 and the beginning of an expansion. The recession lasted 8 months, which is slightly less than average for recessions since World War II.

Oh gee a liberal think tank tells you what you want to hear.

Goody!

 

[teapartysamurai]

In 2002 the unemployment rate was 5.78. That is compared with the almost TEN PERCENT we have NOW!!!!!!!

Bush was not BLAMING, he was TOUTING SUCCESS! He was saying despite all these things, the economy was going great guns!!!!!!!

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

Average UE rate under Clinton: 5.20
Average UE rate under Bush: 5.45

Edtheshmuck, can you ever be honest? Comparing the very best year of Clinton to the very worst year under Bush?
And what has Obama's average been so far?

Shhh! Ed is trying his hardest NOT to discuss Obama!

 

[teapartysamurai]

Only a CON$ervative would call increasing UE from Clinton's "recession" rate of 3.97% for the whole year of 2000 to Bush's 5.78% a "SUCCESS" worth BRAGGING about.

The United States Unemployment Rate By Year

Average UE rate under Clinton: 5.20
Average UE rate under Bush: 5.45

Edtheshmuck, can you ever be honest? Comparing the very best year of Clinton to the very worst year under Bush?
And what has Obama's average been so far?

It was the CON$ervative poster teabagsamuri who picked 2002, not me, as you well know and it was not Bush's worst year.

GHW Bush passed a UE rate of 7.40% in Dec of 1992 to Clinton,
who passed a UE rate of 3.90% in Dec of 2000 to GW Bush,
who passed a UE rate of 7.40% in Dec of 2008 to Obama.

Oh get this, he's blaming ME for HIS dishonesty!

I picked 2002, BECAUSE it correlates with where OBAMA IS NOW IN HIS PRESIDENCY, DUH!!!!!!!!!

I notice you can't talk about WHERE OBAMA IS RIGHT NOW IN THIS PRESIDENCY.

It was not me that brought up the recession that Bush began with, it was Truthmatters.

Get over yourself!

 

[mudwhistle]

Obama: GOP holding recovery hostage | Video | Reuters.com

This is EVEN FUNNIER.

Isn't this what Democrats claimed about Reagan in 1982??????

That Reagan made a deal to keep the Iranian hostages in Iran until AFTER the election?????? They never found evidence for that. Liberals don't need evidence for their claims. They just lie and it's "true," because they want it to be true.

So now Republicans are holding "middle class tax cuts" hostage???

HOW CAN MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS EXIST OBAMA??????? You said the tax cuts were ONLY FOR THE RICH!!!!!!!

Just like Austin Goolsbee's admission yesterday that the Summer of Recovery was just a slogan. Everything these folks do is just a slogan meant to get your vote. And how can anyone trust anything they say. We've already been lied to so much that nobody trusts their asses.

The main reason the economy sucks is because of fear....fear of what these nimrods will do next year....fear of crazy legislation....fear of losing our freedoms....yes and fear of higher taxes.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Obama: GOP holding recovery hostage | Video | Reuters.com

This is EVEN FUNNIER.

Isn't this what Democrats claimed about Reagan in 1982??????

That Reagan made a deal to keep the Iranian hostages in Iran until AFTER the election?????? They never found evidence for that. Liberals don't need evidence for their claims. They just lie and it's "true," because they want it to be true.

So now Republicans are holding "middle class tax cuts" hostage???

HOW CAN MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS EXIST OBAMA??????? You said the tax cuts were ONLY FOR THE RICH!!!!!!!

Just like Austin Goolsbee's admission yesterday that the Summer of Recovery was just a slogan. Everything these folks do is just a slogan meant to get your vote. And how can anyone trust anything they say. We've already been lied to so much that nobody trusts their asses.

The main reason the economy sucks is because of fear....fear of what these nimrods will do next year....fear of crazy legislation....fear of losing our freedoms....yes and fear of higher taxes.

Can you blame any of them, given what this administration has already done?

If I owned a business I would be scared to death too!

 

[code1211]

Bush says he inherited recession - Aug. 7, 2002

Bush blaming Clinton for recession

Try reading what you link to once in a great while

"When I took office, our economy was beginning a recession," Bush said in a speech at a Mississippi high school. "Then our economy was hit by terrorists. Then our economy was hit by corporate scandals. But I'm certain of this: We won't let fear undermine our economy and we're not going to let fraud undermine it either."

Seems pretty long on what "We" can do and very short on who was to blame.

Does anyone else see a variation from the the approach of the Big 0? The Big 0 cannot say anything without sighting the enemy who must be attacked and from whom he is protecting us.

The Big 0 doesn't indicate that "We" can do anything. Only that he in his enlightened and splendorouse brilliance will protect us from all that is bad. Part of what is bad, apparently, is keeping the money that we earn.