Romney's "Summer of Bain" = Swift Boat 2.0 ?

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Obama has created about as many private-sector jobs as were created in the same amount of time in George W. Bush's first term in office -- not a great record, in other words, but definitely positive private-sector job creation. The thing is, the size of government ballooned during the early Bush years, while it's shrunk under Obama, so while Bush also had a lot of public-sector jobs to add to his numbers, public-sector job losses under Obama cancel out private-sector gains.
In other words, conservatives should like Obama, since he's created what are, from their point of view, "real" jobs, and destroyed lots of "fake" jobs.

[ajb]

The Bain-ers are almost nothing like the swift vote veterans for truth.  The Bain-ers are more like the birthers and Obama is planting the seeds of his own destruction by making himself the leader of this witch hunt.  Now for the next 4 months, Obama can be correctly portrayed as a lying, un-serious, and small person which shows he isn't much of a leader.

The Birthers also started out in the Democratic Party and they never gained the currency among conservatives that, say, the "9/11 Truthers" did among Democrats.

Anyway, "Bainers" is good, but "Bain Truthers" I think is more descriptive.

A handy list of some Republican congressmen who have either questioned whether Obama was born in the United States, or dealt sympathetically with those who claim he wasn't:

http://www.salon.com/2009/07/28/birther_enablers/

[ajb]

You used these charts as evidence that Obama made the recession worse, when in fact they show nothing of the sort.
I'm sorry you can't look past a minor semantic error.

I posted the charts (didn't say anything about them).  The first one juxtaposes this recession vs. the previous 10.  The second shows the beginning of it for timeline purposes (people like to pretend dates are different).  Sorry that they bother you.   

You're not disputing, then, that both charts show huge numbers of job losses in the latter part of George W. Bush's second term in office? And that the second chart, in particular, stops right at the beginning of Barack Obama's term, in early 2009, saying nothing about job losses during his presidency?

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While we're doing charts comparing recessions and recoveries, here's one comparing employment since the 2007 recession with employment since the 2001 recession:

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/studies/recession_perspective/