“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Joseph Goebbels

Bush has “the worst economic record since Hoover.” - John Kerry

This campaign will focus on “the losses that working people have suffered” under the Bush administration. - Barak Obama

REALITY: Today’s unemployment rate is actually lower than it was during the first Clinton administration. It is only high in comparison with very recent years, because it bottomed out in 2000 at a low which had not been surpassed since the Nixon administration.

Are the Repubs THAT simple?

Nick, you nailed it.

What else can be said, except that millions of Mexicans ‘vote with their feet’ to confirm that truth daily.

Why is it that “the poor suffer”, while illegals find and get jobs?

Should we teach the poor Spanish, or is it something else that’s missing?

Nick “nailed it”?
The unemployment rate was over 7% during Bush Sr’s reign. It went down to 4% during Clinton, and now has climbed steadily under W.
On top of that, the inflation rate has exploded. It almost three times what it was in 1999.
Yeah, the Repubs are great for the economy. In China.

Kerry’s line was quite apt during the 2004 campaign. More jobs had been lost than created for almost the entirety of the first Bush term, a first since Hoover.

If Republicans want to campaign on the message, “The economy is doing great!” you can have at it.

Clark (post #5)

“Great?” no, not at all. Better? yes. NOT a train wreak? Seems to be… and everybody know except you and Obama:

“So you can make an argument that the economy has survived its period of maximum danger. On Intrade, the Web site where contracts tied to real world events are bought and sold, traders now think there is only a 29 percent chance the economy will shrink for two straight quarters this year. In mid-April, they put the odds at 70 percent. Edward Lazear, an economic adviser to President Bush, gave an upbeat interview to The Wall Street Journal last week in which he suggested a recession was now unlikely.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/business/14leonhardt.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=business&adxnnlx=1210781188-/dDuqFl47ym+AcCReVwVHA

Yes, even the NYT says things were never that bad… no recession, and now getting better. Too bad for you and other liberals that need to talk down the economy to get their guy elected.

And just yesterday your boy Obama told us all that this current “crisis” reminded him of the Great Depression.

What a tool.

The sign pictured above is about as phony as the empty “Made in USA” boxes staged as a backdrop when Bush visited St. Louis. I have a feeling Karl Rove’s predecessor came in on Monday….

Funny…no phone number for interested applicants.
The party’s reputation preceeds itself.

Garrison - The reason there’s no phone number is because it’s in front of the building. That, and so people like you won’t bother them with pointless calls so you can write it down on your unemployment report as a “job search.” But hey, since you are obviously in need of a job, and too lazy to look it up on any of the dozen websites that offer a phone directory, here it is: 573-334-7723. And the good news is, even if you don’t get a job, they have an outlet store, so at least you can get some new threads. Bon voyage, loser!

Nick….I called the number. The job has already been filled. Funny how those things happen. Well, I guess that satisfies my unemployment job search. Thanks for your help.
And those phony “Made in America” boxes staged for Bush weren’t actually empty…They contained good Missouri air.

The Real SIGN of OUR times— the truth we need Change!

Vice President names like Charlie Rose, Micheal Bloomberg, or Ted Turner come to mind. But they would not likely run. So you have another knowledgeable person in Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

I started a Draft Claire for Governor in which we had over 75 team captains statewide in 2003. She instead became a US Senator two years later. Claire McCaskill was a prosecutor in Kansas City, a single mom while serving as state representative for 3 terms and then a State Auditor. Her knowledge of local, state, and Federal levels of governments and how they work is extremely important. There has likely never been a vice presidential candidate which such a record of service.

She has become known as a center of the road legislator fighting for anti ear mark legislation and an accountability office for expenditures on the war. What she is most noticed for is that she has a pulse of the people that comes naturally and speaks out for the people when something is not in their best interest concerning government or important issues. Yes two inspiring candidates who bring out the best in people on the ticket sound real good.

Steven L. Reed
1441 South Estate Ave.
Springfield MO