FACT CHECK: Overreaching in State of Union speech

AP via Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2013

[Kaslin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that may be less onerous than he made it sound.

A look at some of the claims in his State of the Union speech, a glance at the Republican counterargument and how they fit with the facts:

OBAMA: "After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over 6 million new jobs."

THE FACTS: That's in the ballpark, as far as it goes. But Obama starts his count not when he took office, but from the point in his first term when job losses were the highest. In doing so, he ignores the 5 million or so jobs that were lost on his watch, up to that point.

Private sector jobs have grown by 6.1 million since February 2010. But since he became president, the gain is a more modest 1.9 million.

And when losses in public sector employment are added to the mix, his overall jobs record is a gain of 1.2 million.

[cld51860]

Does anybody really take this clown seriously anymore? He makes Hugo Chavez look sane.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

cld51860~:” Does anybody really take this clown seriously anymore? “

Unfortunatly ,.yes !
The same one’s who get their news ONLY on TV
You know : NBCCBSABCMSN (schooled by Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda )

[red-dawg]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

[Zero] starts his count not when he took office, but from the point in his first term when job losses were the highest. In doing so, he ignores the 5 million or so jobs that were lost on his watch, up to that point. Private sector jobs have grown by 6.1 million since February 2010. But since he became president, the gain is a more modest 1.9 million. And when losses in public sector employment are added to the mix, his overall jobs record is a gain of 1.2 million.

700K lost in the public sector?

[goodtomato]

What has shocked me, is this article is via AP (Associated Press). I, a glutton for punishment, watched this farce last night. I have watched the previous SOTU addresses from this windbag, and putting my biased opinion aside, it was flat in the response the crowd gave. Seems that the road ahead is gonna be real rough, and his crowd is starting to see it! Lock and load FRiends, it ain't gonna be pretty like the words the one tele-dispenses!