So when will Mitt Romney call and congratulate Obama?

[mnmoderatedem]

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney:

“I can’t precisely predict what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over period of four years by virtue of the policies we put in place, we will get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent and perhaps a little lower.”

so that's 6% or a little lower by the end of 2016.

Current unemployment rate in 2014 under Obama: 5.9%

Go ahead and make that call Mitt. We'll wait.

[kairos12]

1. That call, along with his dog, will stay strapped to Mitt's car roof.

[Cha]

12. Oooops.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. If he had won he would claim the reason unemployment was at 12% was because Obama left a mess.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Of course!

I've never seen supply side economics kick in until a democrat wins the office. That's just the nature of the beast.

[madokie]

3. Mitt isn't man enough to ever do that

Obama isn't man enough in his eyes for him to feel he needs to congratulate him. Mitt don't like black or brown people unless they are doing what he doesn't want to do himself and then its not that he likes them its he tolerates them only and only for the time needed to complete the task. Mitt is not a good person in any way, shape or form.

[Scarsdale]

4. "we"??

Does he think Anne will win the election for him, so therefore he says "we"? He had better keep that snooty, entitled witch off TV to even stand a chance. He is such a wimpy, self impirtant milquetoast.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. couldn't agree more. n/t

[Fred Sanders]

6. It is truly a mass conspiracy when the entire major media ignore the economic recovery of the

last 6 years so folks will not realize it was Obama who should get the credit.

Imagine if it were Mittens, the media would be fawning.

[malaise]

10. If the stock market even wobbles it willbe Obama's fault

but they will never give him credit for the recovery.

What's more there are people right here at DU who attack us when we give him credit for the recovery.

[Cha]

13. And, it's not as if we didn't already know it. Those who have been paying atttention since at

least 2000.

"Imagine if it were Mittens, the media would be fawning" They'd be fucking Fawning. Frothing mediawhore$$$$$ that they are.

Chucky Todd would be all gushing all over mittload.. but it would never happen. Chucky would be too busy trying to cover up mittstakes.

[napkinz]

17. if Romney were president, the media & GOP would be calling it MORNING IN AMERICA AGAIN!

[Cha]

19. I freaking Love that graphic, napkinz.. another classic from you!

I won't even go into how bad unemployment would be if mitt had somehow miraculously oozed in.

[napkinz]

18. ...

[Cha]

20. So sad and too bad about the brainwashed repubCons, napkinz. Voting against their best interests to

show just how thoroughly brainwashed they are.

[napkinz]

21. brainwashed ...

from watching FOX "News" and listening to Rush

[Cha]

24. Yeah! Inviting it into their homes and cars. smh

I have an ex husband who's a fox "news" "truther" I hear via my son. I knew it wasn't working out with us all those years ago!

But, he's the only one in the fam and he's not in my fam anymore.

[napkinz]

22. "voting against their best interests"...

[Cha]

23. President Johnson knew.. :( Sounds like that's what going on in Kentucky with

Alison Grimes.. running as far away from the President as possible.. but she's a "Clinton Dem".. the brainwashing is complete in Rand Paul/mitch the itch country.

[treestar]

25. LBJ had it right

I've seen that in action with many a relative.

[JaneyVee]

7. He wrote a book called No Apologies...So I doubt it.

[Cha]

14. "No Apologies".. Brawaaaaaa.. mitt would spend all his time Apologizing for his Lies.

[pinboy3niner]

8. That'll happen when Rafalca flies

Oh, wait...



Nevermind.

[Cha]

15. .. okay

"Nevermind"..

[Shrike47]

9. Don't you guys realize that 5.9 percent unemployment is a lie? Rush told me so.

He wouldn't fib, would he?

I am constantly impressed that, to right wing hate radio jocks, NOTHING that happens in this country is good. Armageddon is right around the corner. All the time.

[Cha]

16. The Hate jocks are jealous so they pronouce it's a lie and know the blithering idiots will suck it

[glowing]

26. The Unemployment number has been a "selective" view of what is really going on

in the economy (and most of us on DU know this)... But many people in the country don't, and having lower unemployment numbers means that these companies claiming the economy sucks and they have their pick of the litter when it comes to hiring anyone out there becomes a farce. By having these lower numbers, more people should be able to find a job and even perhaps begin getting a raise, have the company actually hire someone for a position that would allow you to have a life below 60 or 70 hrs a week and perhaps a vacation (we know that many companies eliminated positions and when they were doing well, never re-hired people back-- they just put the extra burdened work on the employees left behind who then had to do the work of 2 or 3 workers, at less pay, and be grateful they still had a job). So, the national psyche of having lower unemployment numbers does help workers and the country continue to add more jobs and jobs that will have more pay or benefits attached to them.

What would help foster even more growth, would be increasing min wage to a living wage (more like $15.00/ hr, which is more like $30,000/ yr; instead of this $10.10 crap, which is about $20,000/yr which isn't very "live-able" anywhere), making health care a guaranteed, single-payer system (which would take the cost of health care off of one's wages and decrease the over all costs by enrolling everyone in a single system that is processed by the gov't that only costs 3- 5% on overhead; not 20% for insurance companies who only take from the system and offer no actual benefits), and increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans so that there is more money brought back into the real economy and for the gov't to distribute into things like education, infrastructure, "green" energy, etc. It would also be really great if we could eventually bring down the hours in the work week so people had time to live their lives more fully. We have superseded productivity rates due to our technological advances. These advances should be enhancing our lives and making people more well off and well rounded, not the reverse.

[msanthrope]

27. I'm the 47th rec. Still waiting for your call, Mitt. nt