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Jobs numbers give Obama a boost
Chicago Sun-Times, by Lynn Sweet
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Posted By:brianod1, 10/6/2012 11:24:30 AM
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| The monthly jobs report out Friday — unemployment down to 7.8 percent, the lowest of his presidency — was a shot of great news for President Barack Obama as Mitt Romney continues to slam him for the slow rate of economic recovery. Underscore this: There is a recovery. Job creation is one of the defining issues of the Obama-Romney contest, and the uptick — welcomed by the Obama team — hardly takes Obama’s record as a job creator off the Romney table. Both Romney and Obama stumped Friday in Virginia, a battleground state.
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Comments:
How one Obama-loving scribe views yesterday's job report.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pedro4, 10/6/2012 11:29:12 AM (No. 8914138)
Obama is now running ads in Michigan. I suspect that the internal polling is not looking good. I have yet to see an Obama yard sign in my town. A few Romney signs, but around here you get vandalized by the union goons if you put up a GOP sign or bumper sticker.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/6/2012 11:30:50 AM (No. 8914146)
We were told recently by the experts that it takes over 200,000 jobs per month to keep up with the US population and labor force growth. And - it would take many such months to solve the unemployment crisis in the US.
Some recovery, eh, Lynn?!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 10/6/2012 11:38:19 AM (No. 8914163)
Poor Lynn Sweet has the Obama beat for the Sun, and she takes it seriously. It's a rare critical thought that gets past Lynn's word processor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
janylou, 10/6/2012 11:40:45 AM (No. 8914166)
The question, do you believe your own eyes or Obozo's lying lips? I heard one talking head say that the margin of error of this was really high, but they don't report that with this. They just get Obozo the headlines he so desperately needs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Kurto, 10/6/2012 11:50:42 AM (No. 8914181)
Boost him right out of office. LIAR!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WimeTarmerFable, 10/6/2012 11:55:44 AM (No. 8914194)
Lynn, I'm afraid, has not been outside in a while...she really needs to go to a Workforce Center to see the sad faces looking at the job board...or prepping resumes in vain...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hooter, 10/6/2012 12:03:25 PM (No. 8914210)
The people who created the report are big Zero donors. Don't look behind the curtain as we force feed you propaganda.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rochow, 10/6/2012 12:07:07 PM (No. 8914221)
Lynn Saccharine, tell that to the unemployed, and those who have given up looking. Last Dec. Rush explained how this number would suddenly appear, magically pulled out of a hat! He stated it would be under 8%!!! We all know the lefty media, so what else is new?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
geoguy, 10/6/2012 12:41:00 PM (No. 8914289)
I heard somewhere that to get that big of a drop in unemployment would require the economy to be expanding at a 4% clip. Considering that it is the biggest drop in unemployment in one month in 29 years, I suspect 4% expansion is just about right.
Also, the article says that under Zippy's watch there has been 5 MM jobs created. SAY WHAT? Where are those jobs? OMG, these people are delusional.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
IfUAskMe, 10/6/2012 12:56:42 PM (No. 8914319)
If 7.8 is the same rate Obama inherited from Bush, how was it such a really bad, awful, evil Republican failure, and now it's an Obama triumph?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lalo, 10/6/2012 1:03:43 PM (No. 8914336)
I think it might be hard to cook these books - Romney is playing it as it lays, apparently - and I'm a little concerned. One could probably verify by checking the individual state stats. My state is still showing state unemployment as 9.2 (always higher than the national) and the national as 8.1. But then they're always slow to update....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 10/6/2012 1:11:19 PM (No. 8914359)
If we are in a long, anemic, tentative and excruciatingly slow recovery how exactly has Obama helped move that along, Lynn Sweet (known Obamaton)?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 10/6/2012 1:13:57 PM (No. 8914365)
If you are going to lie, tell a whopper. Lynn Sweet at least adheres to one principle.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone, 10/6/2012 1:14:05 PM (No. 8914366)
The numbers were moved by a lot of part-time jobs, most of them low paying that employers are using to get past the upcoming holiday season, then the numbers will go back up.
Obama could care less as they got the numbers down for him before the election, after that, if Obama is re-elected and the numbers go back up he will blame Romney, Bush, or anyone else he chooses. With 47% backing Obama after all this, it just shows that this is one dumbed down country.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
God of Irony, 10/6/2012 1:16:16 PM (No. 8914370)
Amazing how Lynn Sweet can type while holding pom-poms.
BTW when George Bush brought unemployment down people like Sweet complained that they were just burger flipping jobs but now they are excited about part time buger flipping jobs.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra, 10/6/2012 1:18:02 PM (No. 8914377)
Sweet Lynn. I suggest you go back to journalism school, or better, take a basic math course. Concentrate on fractions.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/6/2012 1:23:36 PM (No. 8914389)
Right after the november elections, the BLS will try to regain its integrity by doing upward adjustments to the unemployment rate.
Too late, BLS! You gave it up for the kenyan klown!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/6/2012 1:26:59 PM (No. 8914398)
Lynn darlin, you are full of it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lydwho, 10/6/2012 1:31:03 PM (No. 8914404)
Lynn, unlike most Americans, has a full time job just carrying the water for Obama. She also comes with his knee pads!!!
Art
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Cor-vet, 10/6/2012 2:06:40 PM (No. 8914452)
I've heard you're not supposed to read too much into a single months report!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
brianod1, 10/6/2012 2:14:52 PM (No. 8914461)
#20, that is priceless!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mollyb0122, 10/6/2012 2:16:44 PM (No. 8914462)
Lynn, really? C'mon now.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bobdog, 10/6/2012 2:22:38 PM (No. 8914470)
Jobs numbers give Obama a boost?
Why, of course it did, darlin'. And liberals are not supposed to believe in miracles...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 10/6/2012 2:29:06 PM (No. 8914476)
Lynn, you ignorant Fluke, maybe you should check your sources. From Rasmussen today:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/6/2012 3:18:28 PM (No. 8914540)
According to unskewedmedia.com, about two-thirds of these jobs are part-time!
Not enough to pay those gas prices in Calabasas, California, eh, Zero!?
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