COMPASSION: Obama’s Acceptance Speech Didn’t Mention Unemployed.
Related: The Awful, Awful August Jobs Report. With an updated version of that graphic comparing Obama’s promises with what he delivered. “If the labor force participation rate was the same as when Obama took office in January 2009, the unemployment rate would be 11.2%. If the participation rate had just stayed the same as last month, the unemployment rate would be 8.4%.”
And this graphic is, if anything, even worse:
Also: Rotten Jobs Report Ends A Bad Week For Obama. “We can surmise that Obama’s lackluster performance last night was due in part to an early look at a jobs report that not even his most dogged media shills can spin.”