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Video: Axelrod dodges the “better off four years ago” question
HotAir ^ | 09/02/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 09/02/2012 8:18:59 AM PDT by nhwingut

Want a preview of the presidential debates? Then spend two and a half minutes with this clip from today’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and David Axelrod.

Wallace asks Axelrod the quadrennial question: are voters better off now than four years ago? When the man running Team Obama tries to run away from the question by talking about the tough environment Barack Obama inherited, Wallace lays out the comparison on economic statistics between January 2009 and today, and asks Axelrod again: are voters better off now than four years ago? Answer: Er ….

Video Here

Here are the stats Wallace uses:

Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now
Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now
Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now
National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $15.9 trillion now

Expect Mitt Romney to memorize these statistics, and perhaps toss in the civilian participation rate, which was at 65.7% in January 2009 and in June 2009 at the start of the “recovery,” but fell to a 30-year low of 63.6% in April and is at 63.7% now. That’s actually the best measure of the Reagan Metric. If this question doesn’t come from the moderators at the debates, you can bet your bottom dollar that Romney will ask it himself — and that Obama’s (non-)answer will be just as effective, and just as revealing, as Axelrod’s today.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: axelrod; economy; obama; romney
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1 posted on 09/02/2012 8:19:10 AM PDT by nhwingut
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To: nhwingut

That is telling. It is usually so easy for the Obama regime to look Americans in the eye and lie. They can’t even lie on that one because it is so obvious.


2 posted on 09/02/2012 8:28:28 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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3 posted on 09/02/2012 8:29:15 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: nhwingut

Something that oddly hasn’t made any news is the GAO report on the partial audit of the fed. Looks to me like some $16 Trillion dollars went to a handful of banks between December of 07 and July of 2010.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/60553686/GAO-Fed-Investigation#outer_page_144


4 posted on 09/02/2012 8:29:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: nhwingut

Obama, Axelrod and the rest of their Crony Lefties are financially way better off having sucked away billions of our tax dollars.


5 posted on 09/02/2012 8:30:07 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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To: cripplecreek
I am not a Ron Paul fan, but I agreed with his comments about just washing away our debt to the Fed.

It is freaking imaginary money anyway. They "create it" by adding numbers in a computer and then "loan it" to their crony politicians and make interest on that?????

Wipe it out and tell them to pound sand!

6 posted on 09/02/2012 8:32:56 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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To: nhwingut

If you can’t convince them with logic, dazzle them with bullshit - author unknown.


7 posted on 09/02/2012 8:33:34 AM PDT by shove_it (purge pandering progressive parasites)
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To: nhwingut

I wish Wallace would have asked Axelrod why the President’s budgets over the last 3 years didn’t garner a single vote..even in his own party? Why should we think budgetary items of Obama will be any different in the future?


8 posted on 09/02/2012 8:36:02 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: nhwingut

Axlerod makes oil look dry.


9 posted on 09/02/2012 8:37:11 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
I am not a Ron Paul fan, but I agreed with his comments about just washing away our debt to the Fed.

I feel the same way.

From what I can tell from the report is than $16 trillion in loans were paid out at 0% interest and I'm struggling to see where it was ever paid back. As far as I can see, its debt simply dumped on us.
10 posted on 09/02/2012 8:37:59 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: nhwingut

Romney already used the $4k difference in income yesterday in Ohio.


11 posted on 09/02/2012 8:40:45 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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12 posted on 09/02/2012 8:45:16 AM PDT by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: nhwingut

I think Romney and his ad men need to keep repeating those stats (and the number of people forced to dip into their 401k’s to pay for basic living expenses, the labor force participation rate, the foreclosure rate, etc.) and emphasizing Obama’s failures for the low-information people out there until it sinks in...


13 posted on 09/02/2012 9:04:51 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I think this is something related to “fractional reserve” banking. I think some Freepers have greater knowledge than I do about that. But the idea of the fractional reserve is that money is created via bookkeeping entries, and then the money disappears as it’s paid back. However, the interest paid is money which does not disappear.

I’m sure my understanding is unclear, but, that’s what I’ve heard, that money is created out of thin air in the form of loans. And the money is there just because the banks and the federal reserve system all agree that these bookkeeping entries represent real money.


14 posted on 09/02/2012 9:07:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I know we're invoking Godwin's Law over this, but doesn't Axelrod--if he shaves his moustache to the toothbrush style--would look at lot like one Adolf Hitler?

Anyway, I really don't believe anything Axelrod says nowadays anyway....

15 posted on 09/02/2012 9:10:10 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
money is created out of thin air in the form of loans. And the money is there just because the banks and the federal reserve system all agree that these bookkeeping entries represent real money.

Sounds like they're loaning out IOUs with the promise that the American people will pay it off.
16 posted on 09/02/2012 9:12:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: nhwingut

Unemployment without the massaged numbers is more like 12%. The U-6 at 16-17% and after this month it will be higher.
We just saw several more companies post WARN notices this week...


17 posted on 09/02/2012 9:14:34 AM PDT by Shady (The Tea Party is the Party of the American People, Working and creating wealth in SPITE of OBAMA!)
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To: nhwingut

On an open discussion site the “Are you better off” question was posed. Every single lefty who responded did so in the affirmative. All but one right-winger said no. When I asked lefties why they said that they were better off each told me that they were making more money now than they were four years ago - either through wages or through investments. No other consideration was mentioned.

No matter how I demonstrated the mathematical impossibility of their claims they stuck to their collective stories.

It’s amazing how much misery these people are willing to accept in order to perpetuate their political stronghold. It’s also revealing how much misery they are willing to inflict in pursuit of that agenda.


18 posted on 09/02/2012 9:22:34 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Democrats not having a good day on Sunday TV shows. Not that it really matters, because no one with any brains or common sense watches this Obamabot media trash!!!! The DNC Freak show next week will be a major bust!!!


19 posted on 09/02/2012 9:24:00 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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Hey how about 12 years ago before exporting jobs became big time. This was from the White House then. Maybe it was off and maybe it wasn’t. Bring back MADE IN USA is the answer.


THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SINCE 1969 AND MORE THAN 20 MILLION NEW JOBS. In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected President, the American economy was barely creating jobs, wages were stagnant, and the unemployment rate was 7.5 percent. His bold, three-part economic strategy focused on three objectives: fiscal discipline, investing in education, health care, science and technology, and opening foreign markets. Today’s jobs release provides more evidence that this strategy is working:

The Unemployment Rate Was 4.2 Percent in 1999 — the Lowest Since 1969. The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in December bringing the average unemployment rate for 1999 to 4.2 percent — the lowest since 1969. The unemployment rate has fallen for seven years in a row. It has remained below 5 percent for 30 months in a row. For women the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent — the lowest since 1953.


20 posted on 09/02/2012 9:37:58 AM PDT by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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