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hollowdweller

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19. If Obama was a white republican

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 10:12 AM

Oct 2014

Congress would be shouting about this from the house tops.

Instead being a black democrat even his own party will look for ways to pick it apart.

Oh and remember back in the 80's during the Reagan recession when they changed the way we counted unemployment changed to make it look better? Nobody really crowed about that like they do with the work force participation rate now. That's because they can't emotionally accept that a black guy is doing well as pres.

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Payroll employment increases by 248,000 in September; unemployment rate declines to 5.9% [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2014 OP

Its Obama's fault!!! DCBob Oct 2014 #1

ACORN cooked the books!!! JoePhilly Oct 2014 #3

Waiting for the faux news 'analysis' of this report. DCBob Oct 2014 #5

Fox business says wages didn't go up, so its really a bad report. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #6

thats lame. DCBob Oct 2014 #8

I was surprised that they included the 5.9 number in the title of the article. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #9

Gosh...maybe...just maybe, this "Trickle down" stuff actually works! BlueJazz Oct 2014 #2

Better than expected leftynyc Oct 2014 #4

July and August were also revised upwards. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #7

Right wing brains exploding everywhere leftynyc Oct 2014 #11

Even here on DU! eom. 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #27

Not unexpected leftynyc Oct 2014 #30

248,000 in Sept + 69,000 revised up in July and Aug. = 317,000 more jobs than in last month's report progree Oct 2014 #16

Obama and Joe ROCK!! That's what we've been saying all along! Liberal_Stalwart71 Oct 2014 #17

Participation rate dropped MannyGoldstein Oct 2014 #10

That does cause concern at some 'Net sites. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2014 #20

Stevenleser addressed that here ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #28

Employment to Population Ratio: same for last 4 months, up 0.4 percentage points from a year ago progree Oct 2014 #12

No Obama can't debate ... so he cooked the books !! srican69 Oct 2014 #13

the economy is improving Gothmog Oct 2014 #14

DU Democrats who consistently go after this president... Liberal_Stalwart71 Oct 2014 #15

They'e too busy parroting right wing memes that he's an "incompetent manager" alcibiades_mystery Oct 2014 #18

Exactly correct. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #21

+bazillion because the term "NSA" is spouted BumRushDaShow Oct 2014 #26

That and the Trade Agreement that isn't. eom. 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #29

But thankfully no more "chained CPI!!!1!11!!" that was never gonna happen. nt BumRushDaShow Oct 2014 #31

But thank ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #33

Ain't that the truth. nt BumRushDaShow Oct 2014 #35

If Obama was a white republican hollowdweller Oct 2014 #19

They search for anything and everything to counter good news. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #22

Amazing, isn't it? ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #32

McDonald's is now the #1 employer, with over 1 Billion employees!!! JoePhilly Oct 2014 #34

Wouldn't it be a good thing to get a bunch of people employed ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #36

Yup. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #37

But that's just the explanation ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #38

Uemployment's 11.8%, down from 13.1% last year. Thanks for the links. nt valerief Oct 2014 #23

Those socialist libruls are forcing everyone onto food stamps IronLionZion Oct 2014 #44

Thank you for posting BumRushDaShow Oct 2014 #24

I blame Obama. SpankMe Oct 2014 #25

Statistical noise. candelista Oct 2014 #39

October Surprise! yellowcanine Oct 2014 #40

LOL davidpdx Oct 2014 #41

500K more part-time jobs... quadrature Oct 2014 #42

That's another reason we need strong Unions! Today more than ever! nt wolfie001 Oct 2014 #43