Posted on 05/06/2019 12:46:36 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker both argued during Sunday interviews that former President Barack Obama deserves the credit for a good economy under President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Labor Department announced Wednesday that the unemployment rate had hit 3.6%, the lowest rate since 1969. The report did note that 490,000 people left the workforce, but the gain was due in part to an increase in hiring in professional and business services, along with construction and healthcare jobs. (RELATED: Jessie Jane: GDP Growth Shows The Trump Economy Is A Serious Problem For Democrats)
Despite those gains, the pair decided that the credit went to Obama, not Trump, for the dramatic gain in the nation’s economy, during interviews Sunday morning on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper.”
“You know what I’m thinking about? I’m thinking about when we were in that downturn and President Obama came into office and he had to deal with that with the Congress to try to, one, right the financial industry and, two, get us on the road to recovery,” Klobuchar asserted during the interview. “I remember that the Republicans were giving him grief when he took any credit for that. So I think that we have had policies in place starting with President Obama that have aided that recovery.”
Booker then added a similar statement in his interview: “First of all, I love that Trump is taking credit for a recovery that started under Obama.”
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If they’re talking about growth during the Obama economy, don’t they know it’s not credible unless they use the words “unexpectedly slower than anticipated” and “revised downward”? I can barely remember a report during Obama’s eight years that didn’t include those terms.
Yeah, because over 1,000 congressional and state legislative seats switched from Donkey to Elephant during 0bozo’s reign? Thank you.
When he wasn't doing that, he was telling coal miners, factory workers and others to retrain because those jobs weren't coming back.
For eight years, O said the economy was bad because of Bush. Now, after just two yr into the Trump economy, O and liberals say the current economy is good because of O. Ha ha ha.
Obiously Logic taught in Universities today is different than Logic taught in 1950. The ability to lie, deny, and miss the point, probably lowers stress, anxiety and the don’t have to take as many MEDS to face the real world.
And here I was thinking La La Land was just in California. Nope: it’s all dems.
He may deserve some credit for holding the economy back for eight years and when he left office the pressure was so great that the pent up economic demand created a huge boom. I thought it would happen 6 years ago.
The 8-year Great Recession started in the last year of the Bush administration after the Democrats were going on and on about how it was the worst economy in 20 years. Obama had no idea how to handle an economy so he got a 1.2 trillion dollar stimulus package that was so big he couldn’t fail. Everything Obama did had the effect of depressing the economy further. Like a really fat guy on a horse. Once he got off the horse it had to run like crazy.
I can think of other analogies like constipation but I don’t think I will elaborate on that one.
The “Magic Negro” couldn’t even spell the word economy! And he sure as hell “didn’t build that (the economy)!”
The best thing to do is to completely ignore this.
The people saying it know better, and it isn’t going to have any effect on voters in the next election.
It’s chaff.
Drunk on their own stupidity
It was Trump’s magic wand.
Right Baraq?
5.56mm
Trump would not have gotten the economic boost from reversing Obama’s policies, if not for Obama.
....only thing he’s good for is drawing flies. More flies around his mug than a fresh pile of cow s*it
Yet they took credit for the Clinton economy in the early 90’s, although it was on the upswing at the end of Pop Bush’s term? Then Gingrich came in with their Promise to America, and Clinton got all the credit. Democrats live by the double standard.
Economic ignorance and dictator urges are a poor combination.
But before the economy took off it was all Trumps fault.
It’s pretty easy to have job growth coming OUT of a recession. But after years of negligible GDP growth, once the occupant leaves office and job growth skyrockets, its hard to say the previous guy was anything but an impediment.
Yet the economy improved AFTER he left office. Hmmmm.....
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