From Mitt Romney:
The grim economic news keeps coming. Just since March, 545,000 more Americans have joined the ranks of the jobless and the unemployment rate has climbed almost half a percentage point to 9.2 percent.
"Make no mistake: we are headed in the right direction," said President Obama a year ago.
Make no mistake? Obviously, mistakes were made, major ones. Obama's top White House political adviser, David Plouffe, is now trying to explain them away. "The average American," said Plouffe last week, "does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers."
Really? Try telling that to someone fruitlessly seeking a job month after month. Try telling that to one of the 20 million Americans who is either out of work, underemployed, or has simply stopped looking for a job. Try telling that to someone who fears not being able to pay the mortgage.
Barack Obama promised us the "Audacity of Hope." We're getting instead the Audacity of Indifference. We urgently need change in Washington. We urgently need a White House that will focus on creating jobs, not on spinning away its failures.
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