"That's Progress"

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Steve Benen ?@stevebenen
Video: Romney's '06 comments on jobs are practically an endorsement of Obama re-election
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(2006) Romney Says It Was "Silly" To Suggest Job Growth Turn Around The Day He Got Elected Governor

Transcript: "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 then we turned around and we're coming back and that's progress. 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. We've turned around and since the turnaround we've added 50,000 jobs. That's progress. And there will be some people who try and say, 'well Governor, net-net, you've only added a few thousand jobs since you've been in.' Yeah but I helped stop, I didn't do it alone, the economy is a big part of that, the private sector's what drives that -- up and down -- But we were in free fall for three years. And the last year that I happened to be here, and then we turned it around, as a state, private sector, government sector, turned it around. And now we're adding jobs. We wanna keep that going, to the extent we can. We're the, you know, we're one part of that equation, but not the whole equation. A lot of it is outside of our control, it's federal, it's international, it's private sector. But I'm very pleased that over the last a 2, 2 and a half, years we've seen pretty consistent job growth. 50,000 new jobs created . . .

(Romney Press Conference On Economic Stimulus Vetoes, 6/24/06; MA Archives, GO11 10 Tape No. 13)

Published on Jul 5, 2012 by americanbridge21st

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1. Beautiful! This would make a nice pro-Obama advertizement. No need to even say when Romney said it!

Just air the best thirty seconds, and then have Obama say he approves of this message! LOL

A clip from 0:18-0:48 would be absolutely perfect, imo.

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2. perfection

perfectly scripted for an ad.