"Obama promised Unemployment would be 8%"

[rufus dog]

Newt and the other rightie whackies are saying this. When did Obama promise 8%?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. And in what timeline?

[soccermomforobama]

2. here ya go. . .

In a June 9 article, the Los Angeles Times reported that "an early target" of gauging the impact of the stimulus has been "missed," adding that the current unemployment "figure is higher than Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein had said it would be even if the stimulus package had not been adopted." As the Times reported, in a January 9 report, Romer and Bernstein had predicted "that with the stimulus spending, the U.S. unemployment rate this year would not exceed 8%. It now stands at 9.4%." However, at no point did the article report that during a June 8 press briefing, Bernstein responded to a question about the initial projection by saying: "hen we made our initial estimates, that was before we had fourth-quarter results on GDP, which we later found out was contracting on an annual rate of 6 percent, far worse than we expected at that time."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200906090019

[rufus dog]

5. thanks n/t

[vaberella]

13. But that's not Obama. n/t

[blueclown]

3. The White House's projections were that unemployment would be around 8% at this time. n/t

[Thrill]

4. Only 4% of the stimulus has been spent. And those idiots

are saying it won't work. Again only 4% of it has been spent

[NC_Nurse]

6. Projections aren't promises.

[uponit7771]

7. The lies they tell to frame a debates are endless, they lie and the MsM repeats the lies

[HopeOverFear]

8. Did you see him smack down Newt's criticism of citizen of the world?

by showing Reagan saying the same thing?

GOP: "Curses, foiled again!" :rofl:

[AtomicKitten]

9. Promised? No, he projected that figure. Crystal ball and all. n/t

[Cha]

10. Bottom Line..newtie and the newts

lie. End of story.

[high density]

11. Repukes know all about bad job growth projections

See 2001 tax cut campaign. They promised millions of jobs from the tax cuts and zero materialized.

[Canuckistanian]

12. A prediction is hardly a "promise"

ANY politician who makes a "promise" about the unemployment rate during a major financial crisis should have their head examined.

[Abq_Sarah]

15. As should any politician

Who predicts an economic recovery if only we spend trillions of dollars we don't have.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. The GOP is still unemployed

in any meaningful capacity.

[Buzz Clik]

16. How the hell can we criticize Gingrich for inventing a broken promise by Obama? Damn.

[Honeycombe8]

17. Did you miss the seance and the crystal ball event?

I'll try to find that link for you.

:hippie: