Romney mouthpiece Kerry Healey: Obama Bain ads attempt to distract from his failed jobs record

[Amerigo Vespucci]

On Chris Jansing's MSNBC show. She's dancing as fast as she can, just repeating the talking points. She said voters are being "lied to and manipulated with unfounded accusations." Like the SEC filings, Kerry honey?

[Curtland1015]

1. "Attempt to distract", eh?

Huh...

[malaise]

2. She was a disaster

She made it worse

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. No, they explain why we can't keep jobs in America n/t

[Raven]

4. From under what rock did they drag her? Another

incompetent Republican Governor of Massachusetts.

[rox63]

5. She was his Lt. Governor

Thank goodness she lost when she ran for Governor.

[lunatica]

6. And she's attempting to distract from having to answer about Bain

It isn't working.

[progree]

7. Obama's poor jobs record, I guess - official stats with comparison to G.W. Bush

Just in case you or your CONNEDservative goober friends and relatives are buying the poor jobs record meme.

{#} Job Loss and Creation - Payroll Jobs

Factoids:

# Under Obama there have been 28 straight months of private sector job growth, totaling 4.4 million jobs (thru June 2012 with May and June preliminary)

# The economy Bush handed to Obama was losing 760,000 jobs a month (the average of the last 3 months of the Bush presidency)

# 2.6 million payroll jobs have been created under Obama since June 2009 (that's when the recession ended according to the NBER (nber.org, the official arbiter of when the economic turning points occur), and only 5 months since Obama took office) (thru June 2012 with May and June preliminary) . Bush only created 1.1 million payroll jobs in his entire 8 year presidency

# 3.2 million private sector jobs were created under Obama since June 2009 (thru June 2012 with May and June preliminary) (contrast that to Bush destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs during his presidency)

# Bush's record: created 1.1 million payroll jobs - by creating 1.8 million government jobs and destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs. ( the actual numbers are, in thousands: 1,080, 1,753, 673 ). Yes, it is ironic that a supposed "small government conservative" ended up creating government jobs and destroying private sector jobs.

# The Clinton economy created 22.7 million payroll jobs of which 20.8 million were in the private sector

Official sources of information for the above:

# Payroll Jobs: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001 and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left
# Private Sector Payroll Employment: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left

This one compares all post-WWII presidents:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002921183

[progree]

8. Has she explained Mitt RobMe's 47th out of 50 states job creation record while he was governor? n/t

[rufus dog]

9. Some people suck at lying or pushing a point they don't feel is defensible.

She really sucked, didn't sound confident, came across as angry.

[flamingdem]

10. And Toure said he "needed a shower" after her rant!

bain 'splain fail

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. I kept waiting for him to suggest to her that she take a breath occasionally.

But I know that's SOP for republics in an interview: Once you've got an opening, start talking and don't stop for anything!

I think the hosts/moderators should be given access to an audio kill switch, with the interviewees made fully aware beforehand that it's there, and will be used if necessary.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. She immediately lurched into "righteous indignation" mode.

It was definitely sad to watch, you could smell the flop set right through the TV.

[siligut]

11. Obstructionist Republican congress, that explains the jobs problems

But no one said it, at least they didn't let her keep going on with her rant of a Romney ad.

[DevonRex]

13. Two words: Global Tech.

Romney REALLY shouldn't even mention jobs after that David Korn article.

[HughBeaumont]

14. Blame your 2010 RepubliGOV fire-a-thon for that, Kerry.

Public Sector job loss combined with RepubliCongress obstructionism are what's dragging those numbers down. That, and we're recovering from the most disastrous administration this nation's seen since Herbert Hoover's. This has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with Obama, Ms. Healey . . . NOTHING.