I pity you.
As for the claim that unemployment would not be higher than 8%, I distinctly remembering Biden saying it.
"As for the claim that unemployment would not be higher than 8%, I distinctly remembering Biden saying it."
Biden's advisors in fact came up with that claim:
"Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist and economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, wrote a report along with Christina Romer, the chairwoman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, in January 2009 predicting the less-than-8-percent unemployment rate...
The report was entitled The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.
...On page four of the 2009 Romer/Bernstein report a chart states that the unemployment rate nationwide with the $821-billion economic stimulus package would peak at 8 percent."