Steve Benen: Mitt Romney: “The Obama Administration has not been able to deal with the number one issue the country was concerned about when he became president, the economy,” Romney said. “He did not cause the recession, but he made it worse.”
Greg Sargent explained that the “made it worse” argument has been repeatedly fact-checked, and repeatedly proven false, but it doesn’t stop Romney from “cheerfully repeating the bogus claim.”
….Let me make this easy for Romney and the reporters who cover his campaign. It’s a surprisingly straightforward exercise, consisting of two short questions:
1. When Obama took office, the economy was shrinking. Now it’s growing. In what way is that “worse”?
2. When Obama took office, the economy was hemorrhaging jobs. Now it’s gaining jobs. In what way is that “worse”?
As best as I can tell, there are basically only three explanations. Romney is either lying and hoping no one will notice; he doesn’t know what “worse” means; or he considers a healthier economy worse than a deep recession.
Which is it, Mitt?
Full post here
The Obama Diary 
A poll out this morning says that our president got the number right in the troop drawdown:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/obamas-drawdown-plan-about-right-poll-finds/2011/06/27/AGtCRpnH_blog.html
Can you hear me now?
Glad to see the public supports Obama in his tough decisions.
Also, NIKE profits through the roof, wall street markets reacting nicely!
Also, POTUS to raise money in Philadelphia Thursday!
I’m there! I’m IN THE HOUSE!! Hold me back!! I’m so excited!! Can’t wait. Well, unless I can transport thru time, I’ve gotta wait. But I AM SO EXCITED!!! 😀
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YAY!!
You’ll have to come back with a full report, isonprize. How exciting!
isonprize, I’m in Philly also. If I can just see the motorcade, I’d be happy. I was in Germantown last October and got to see him for the second time, but this time I actually got to watch him in action instead of standing on tippy-toes, bobbing and weaving….LOL! Good luck with the sighting. I have to work 😀
I can’t believe any one would vote for another liar after all the lies from George W. Bush. If your word means nothing then what do you have to stand on.
YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE SOME OF THE PEOPLE I HEAR IN MY CHURCH WHO THINK G.W. AND SARAH PALIN WALK ON WATER. THEY ARE SO OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRUTH. IT’S QUITE UNBELIEVABLE…LIKE THEY ARE LIVING ON THEIR OWN PLANET UNAWARE OF EVERYTHING AROUND THEM!
Uggh, that’s so scary and depressing Sue.
Tell you fellow congregants to read that commandment about bearing false witness against thy neighbor 😀
please spread this thing about Romney’s lies on the President on twitter and facebook and blogs
Fred i will try #Romneylies
I just spreaded It on Facebook
ok family its time to test our strength, # hashtag a topic ,let see if we can push back on a topic. topic suggestions
Hiya Tulips,
How about #RomneyLies with a link to Steve Benen’s article about the President making the economy worse? ie
More Romney lies: Economy now growing and gaining jobs – but he says President has made it worse. http://tiny.cc/33nw5 #RomneyLies
great minds think alike, let me see is it @redbird #RomneyLies then link of steven Benene
Ya’ll are going to make me learn how to twitter. But I’m kinda afraid that I might get addicted to it. I’ve already got too much to do.
Ha, I know the feeling isonprize!
Check Nortanger’s comments in the Twitter thread, lots of great tips there for getting started.
This link is good too – http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
or is that “how to tweet”?
If Romney can’t recognize the difference between a growing economy and a failing economy, then how can he be trusted with the economy as President? Ridiculous.
Maybe Mittens is relying too much on Fox for his information. This may have already been posted, but I just find this astonishing. This has to violate journalistic ethics. Unbelievable……….
ACTUAL NEWS HEADLINES vs FOX NEWS HEADLINES:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/actual-news-headlines-vs-fox-news-headlines
It’s just amazing how fox gets away with such bs
So Mitt lacks reading comprehension? Thought this Dude was CEO material, had business accumen. How do you explain the mental lapses and short circuits…..brain farts?
If lying represents corporate bona fides, it’s no wonder corporations have no aversion to dumping on America. A CEO’s motto is money first, the President’s motto is people first……..big fu#king difference Mitt.
Mitt is catering to the low information GOP primary voters because he knows they depend on Fox and rw blogs for information about everything! They spend very little time fact checking anything and tend to “go” with the politicians that show the most animus toward PBO. They thrive on emotion and seem to rarely embrace reality or rationality. IMO, this is why so many of them found themselves in a state of amazement and dismay at having voted for “destroyers of the middle class and the poor” in FL, MI, WI, IN, and other states that put right-wingers in charge of their state government.
Romney’s mouth always gets hi in trouble…it did four years ago, it will now. He has no core beliefs and principles and is swayed by whatever is the latest trash. The longer these people are in the public eye, the more they are seen, the faster they fall. George S. did a good job sith MB on GMA this morning I read. Maybe some of these journalists are becoming a little bit scared of what could possiblyt be running the country in two years!!!
Really, where do the Republicans find these candidates. Mitt Romeny has given chameleons a bad name, Michele Bachmann doesn’t know her history or basic government 101, and Tim Pawlenty just doesn’t make any sense at all. He is incoherent on how to handle Syria.
PAWLENTY’S INCOHERENCE ON SYRIA: RECALL OUR AMBASSADOR ‘BUT ALSO USE EVERY DIPLOMATIC CHANNEL’ TO PUSH CHANGE:
Perhaps Pawlenty would argue that recalling the U.S. ambassador to Syria is a diplomatic move. But at the same time, not having an ambassador in Syria means we aren’t using “every diplomatic” channel available. This is how White House spokesman Jay Carney recently explained it:
CARNEY: Having an ambassador in Syria has allowed us to be in Syria, basically in the presence of the government, to make our views known directly and not via long distance. So, yes, it has been useful to have our ambassador there, precisely because we can communicate directly what our positions and views are. And so I think that has been a useful avenue for us to pursue in terms of communicating our points of view.
Later when taking questions after the speech, Pawlenty said the U.S. should “try to effectuate change within Syria.” So to recap: Pawlenty wants to press “every diplomatic channel,” including using assets “within Syria,” to bring about change. Yet, he also wants to recall America’s number one point of contact that is currently in Syria.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/06/28/256267/pawlenty-syria-diplomacy/
He did the same thing on PBO’s embrace of The Arab Spring and his decision regarding Egypt by accusing PBO of “throwing Mubarak under the bus” by calling for Mubarak to step down. Evidently, Pawlenty was ignoring the facts that Mubarak had been Egypt’s leader for 30 years, was actively engaged in slaughtering his OWN citizens, and that America is a democracy. Why he would want to lead a country that is a democracy and deny democracy to others is puzzling, or it could mean that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and is willing to do/say anything if it makes PBO look bad. I think he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and that he will do/say anything about PBO that makes people clap for him. His overweening ambition to be POTUS takes second position to his supposed Christian values and principles and knowledge of the topics on which he expounds. Mr. Pawlenty, lying is NOT a Christian virtue. I’m so glad that PBO practices his Christianity more than he preaches it. Talk is cheap. Gandhi was right to like Christ but not his followers. It’s actions that truly show if what you say is important to you really is important to you. I guess Pawlenty has forgotten that Jesus warned Christians about making public displays of Christianity for their personal benefit. He’s not the only one who reads and studies the Bible.