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Biden: We 'Misread the Economy'
ABC News blogs ^ | 7-5-2009 | George Stephanopoulos

Posted on 07/05/2009 11:04:22 AM PDT by Danae

Big admission from Vice President Joe Biden today.

"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Biden told me during our exclusive "This Week" interview in Iraq.

Biden acknowledged administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year when they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at 8 percent as part of their effort to sell the stimulus package. The national unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.5 percent in June -- the worst in 26 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoeconomy; biden; blunders; disaster; economy; noshitsherlock; obama; vpbiden
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To: Danae

“The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy,”

You wouldn’t know the truth if it bit you on the butt.

Right now, you are misreading the ‘will’ and ‘intentions’ of the patriots of our country... We ‘intend’ to take our country back and we ‘will’ do that by whatever means necessary.


41 posted on 07/05/2009 11:41:05 AM PDT by Gator113 (I live in "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Imam Obama told me so.)
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To: Danae

Did anyone ask how many ways their stimulus, budgets, bills have hurt the economy?


42 posted on 07/05/2009 11:42:37 AM PDT by libbylu ( Palin begins from Wasilla not only a campaign, an Iditarod of a crusade)
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To: Danae

One of the best comments on that blog observes that when Bush ‘misread’ intelligence on Iraq, it turned quickly into ‘Bush lied.’ So I think it is now safe to begin to repeat the same talking point about this bunch of idiots.

OBAMA LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING...


43 posted on 07/05/2009 11:43:19 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: Danae
He's full of BS as usual.

If you accept that these Demtwerps are intentionally doing what they are doing to our society, then you understand this is just more manifestation of confusion per the Alinsky Rules.
44 posted on 07/05/2009 11:43:54 AM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: muawiyah

>Millions of people have become convinced that the Democrats are the equivalent of an invading army intent on destroying the nation.<

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Like the rats care — they know that they have the country by the b*lls and will continue squeezing them.


45 posted on 07/05/2009 11:45:12 AM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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To: GOPJ

They’re not misreading anything, they are misleading the country as part of their intentionional scheme to destroy this nation. People had better remember this time in our history and realize what the democrats are really all about.


46 posted on 07/05/2009 11:53:18 AM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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To: ozzymandus

>They might accidentially start letting little slivers of the truth out occasionally.<

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The MSM will just paraphrase Pilate — Truth? What is truth?


47 posted on 07/05/2009 11:56:13 AM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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To: Danae

Since Biden appears to have nailed the problem with the 0bama administration I now have an important question for him (actually many of the same design)...Have you misread the Iran threat like you misread the Economy, Have you misread the Terrorist threat, the issues of the American Medical Industry, the Banking problems ALL like you have misread the Economy?

Basically Biden admits they have been wrong from the start.


48 posted on 07/05/2009 12:02:55 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: hflynn
TAKE
49 posted on 07/05/2009 12:04:06 PM PDT by odin2008 (Everything in the universe is subject to change.)
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To: bill1952

You actually need to fix it thusly:

“The truth is, we have no idea what the hell we are doing.”


50 posted on 07/05/2009 12:17:46 PM PDT by bolobaby
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To: Canedawg

Fingertip to nose. I think you are right.


51 posted on 07/05/2009 12:18:38 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: djsherin
"People are blatantly ignorant of economics. You CANNOT consume your way to prosperity."

W. Churchill said (paraphrased) - trying to spend your way to prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle.

52 posted on 07/05/2009 12:23:09 PM PDT by uncommonsense
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To: erkyl

HAHA! That works for me. I think I have me a new bumper sticker!
OBAMA LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING!


53 posted on 07/05/2009 12:23:10 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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54 posted on 07/05/2009 12:24:43 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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55 posted on 07/05/2009 12:25:22 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: GOPJ
And...

Cap and trade.

56 posted on 07/05/2009 12:45:55 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: R0CK3T

“Misreading” sounds better than “We have been lying.”


57 posted on 07/05/2009 12:47:53 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Danae

Everybody else? Bullshit, Joe. I saw this a mile away. Stevie Wonder could see it. Only you fools in Washington could not see it.


58 posted on 07/05/2009 12:49:58 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: musicman

It isn’t all Bush’s fault, but he isn’t blameless either. Obama’s insanity (and I mean INSANITY) doesn’t vindicate Bush.


59 posted on 07/05/2009 12:53:09 PM PDT by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And the “quantitative easing” will ensure more malinvestments are made in the economy, further distorting any real recovery. GDP and unemployment statistics mean nothing without qualification.


60 posted on 07/05/2009 12:56:19 PM PDT by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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