The next time Romney tries to blame Obama for disappointing job numbers, someone should remind him of what he said at a press conference in 2006 to reporters who were trying to hold him accountable for disappointing job creation numbers from his time as governor:
You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. I came in and the jobs had been just falling right off a cliff, I came in and they kept falling for 11 months. And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month.
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Ah, preaching to the reality-based American choir.
The question is, how many people who need to know that Romney said this will ever see the video, read this or other sites that post it, or believe he said it?
I just hope Obama grows a pair and uses some of this during the debates.