AdamT
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The number is about bad math, not jobs. Obama's dismal performance at the debate needed something to counter and divert. So, a new unemployment figure. This takes the talking point of 43 months of over 8% unemployment off the table.
It seems to me like someone in the Obama group has a basket of these tidbits that are reserved and trotted out whenever necessary. Thus we get Zimmerman, a months old case which had already been resolved, the muslim video, a months old very poor video which has had no impact for months suddenly being touted as the cause of massive anti American riots and direct invasions of our sovereign ground in the mid east, just in time to divert from the real cause. Mitts taxes, a non story. The list goes on. Now conveniently when Obama needs another diversion, new unemployment numbers, which will be revised upward after the damage is done.
It is going to be interesting to see what is on the table for the necessary diversion after the Biden - Ryan debates.
Rigth, this is standard conservative fair; if reality doesn't mesh with your precooked world view then reality must be wrong. Thus we see that temperatures aren't really rising, the polls aren't really what the polls are, and the employment numbers aren't really the employment numbers. Of course this only happens when things don't go your way. If it had been a bad report it would have gone unchallenged and it would have been used to condemn Obama. :roll:
For future reference, the numbers from last month were revised upward significantly. Remember that, because Republicans only comment on revisions when they move down -- thus concluding that they ONLY move down.