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DNC Spokesman: ‘Clearly We’re Better Off’ Than Four Years Ago

Sep. 3, 2012 11:53am Eddie Scarry

Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee Brad Woodhouse said on CNN’s Early Start this morning that “clearly” Americans are “better off” today than at the start of President Barack Obama’s term.

Broadcasting from Charlotte, N.C., where the Democratic National Convention kicks off today, CNN’s John Berman asked Woodhouse what many Democratic operatives were asked on yesterday’s talk shows: “Are we better off today than we were four years ago?”

“Absolutely,” Woodhouse said. “[Vice President] Joe Biden does it in a very short form. He talks about G.M. is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead. The truth is though is that the American people know. I mean, we were literally a plane that was heading — the trajectory was towards the ground when the president took over. He got the stick, he’s pulled us up out of that decline.”

Woodhouse continued, “We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. Lost 3.5 millions, Americans I know have not forgotten, we lost 3.5 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush administration. We gained 4.5 million jobs over the past two and a half years. So if you just put those side by side, clearly we’re better off. However, we have a long way to go.”

Woodhouse’s comments contradict what Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) said yesterday on CBS’ Face the Nation. When asked the same question, O’Malley said no, Americans were not better off. He went on, however, to say the question is irrelevant this election.

“The question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits, the series of desert wars charged for the first time to the national credit card,” he said. O’Malley amended his comment later on CNN today, echoing Woodhouse. “[The United States is] clearly better off as a country because we are now creating jobs rather than losing them,” O’Malley said.

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BODYBAG
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:38pm
Barry The Messiah’s Cult Of Personality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

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- TheObamanation
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:52pm
  Did they resurrect the choom gang ? I think they’ve moved on from the gateway drugs and are smoking crack now. 64 days until we have a president again. Buh bye obamanation ….. we can’t afford you anymore.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Just saw the GOV of MONTANA blaming the GOP from NEBRASKA for blocking the KEYSTONE PIPE LINE. HE claims that everyone from N. Dakota thru Montana and beyond were all set to go but it was
  REPUBLICANS in NEBRASKA who ‘stopped it’.
  Then he harped again on the old ” Mitch McConnell’s statement that his job is to make sure OBAMA is a one term President as if a dem wouldn’t say the same thing. It was not helped of course that Obama maybe met with Mitch once in 3.7 years and the PUBS were LOCKED OUT..LOCKED OUT
  of the Senate Conference Room(s). The DEMS try to say that PUBS purposefully tried to ruin Obama’s record so he’d be one-term. The fact that he rammed down a corrupt Health care piece of garbage ; that he ignored everyone, even his Cabinet; he loaned money to all his cronies and lost BILLIONS and nothing he’s done has worked…nope it was only the GOP, the Tsunami, the ATM machines. ANYONE have any word on the Nebraska pipline charge?
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Yes, each day closer to November is better than yesterday……..so he’s kinda correct.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:03pm
  The lyrics of this song say it all.
  “Only YOU can set you free”
  
  This fraudulent messianic cult needs to be removed ASAP
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:30pm
  Patty, the ONLY reason the pipeline was shut down was because Warren Buffet has some choo choo train interest that would conflict with the pipeline. I remember reading it someplace, maybe on Michelle Malkins site.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:25pm
  PATTY, I found out this info:
  Stunner. Warren Buffet’s Company a Big Winner in Obama’s Keystone Decision
  Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 5:47 AM
  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/stunner-warren-buffets-company-a-big-winner-in-obamas-keystone-decision/
  Warren Buffet’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC will benefit greatly by Barack Obama’s decision to nix the Keystone Pipeline from Canada.
  Bloomberg reported:
  Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
  With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.
  “Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A), said in an interview. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul.”
  The State Department denied TransCanada a permit on Jan. 18, saying there was not enough time to study the proposal by Feb. 21, a deadline Congress imposed on President Barack Obama. Calgary-based TransCanada has said it intends to re-apply with a route that avoids an environmentally sensitive region of Nebraska, something the Obama administration encouraged.
  
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- hidden_lion
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:03pm
  4 years ago unemployment was 7%…..
  Are we not still over 8.5% currently? thats what I thought. The world is ready to explode in violence, but we are better off? Liberals truly have diseased minds.
  
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- liberalescheisskopf
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 3:42am
  Patty: The GOP in Nebraska most certainly did not stop Keystone ( I live here). The only ones who did were the Greens (should burn one a day to help the planet) and the One, with his insane rules on energy.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Clearly! Just keep saying it and it will come true.
  
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COFemale
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:36pm
hey Obama administration you’ve been smoking to much CHOOM. You can’t let a public service worker go and then hire them in another location and call it a job gained. When you count jobs gained you can’t discount those laid off. If you gain 4 million jobs, but lost 7 million, that is not a gain – at least not the math I learned.

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- calebjim
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:01pm
  Based on what the Dems say, the country is better off than four years ago. I would love to know what items confirm this statement. Every policy has been a failure. His cabinet and surrounding persons re from Ivy League schools and have zero experience in basic living let alone government. I can hardly wait until Obama is out of office ad the country starts to heal. He is a cancer to the nation and we must find a cure. He will not mention Obama Care in the convention, just wait and see. If his mouth moves have doubt about what he has to say.
  
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COFemale
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:31pm
Yeah at the start of Obama Presidency I was full-time employed. Today I am lucky to get part-time teaching that runs semester to semester, with no guarantees. Yeah, I’ve blown through 20,000 of savings since March 31st 2010. Yeah I am better off. NOT

Whatever kool-aid these nitwits are drinking, they need to get away from their fantasy world. I AM NOT BETTER OFF, I AM WORSE.

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- cbrown
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:14pm
  It’s not Obama but the Republican Congress are to be blamed. The President wants to invest in teachers but Republican Congress have opposed his proposal.
  
  Feel so sorry for you and I hope things will be better for you soon.
  
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- nonliberal
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Are you kidding? The Dems had both houses of congress and could have passed anything they wanted. They chose to waste those 2 years shoving Obamacare down peoples throat that did not want it. The reason we know people didn’t want it is because a huge chunk of Dems were thrown out immediately after they passed it. If they would have used those 2 years creating jobs and restoring the economy, the republicans would not stand a chance in November.
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:33pm
  @nonliberal
  
  There was financial crisis that threw the economy into almost a depression. Thanks to the Fed policy, TARP, auto bailout, tax cuts, .. we did not have a depression. . We do not want government to do much but just enough to get us out of the ditch.
  
  My response was for @COFemale financial trouble as teacher after 2010. There is significant layoffs all over the country because of budget cuts incl my city. Obama proposed legislation to help States/Cities on teachers/firefighters/police but the Republican controlled Congress said no. .
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:37pm
  @cbbrown what about Frank-Dobbs (or whoever was on top).
  
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Sara72
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:31pm
If WE keep telling the people they are better off…. The sheep will believe it!

The ONLY people better off are the illegals, and those that surround our president !

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- bjorn-free
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:39pm
  ahem let’s not speak of those minor details to loudly …..lol….Ha……….! good one….. yep THEY are better off those paying for the bills are not….but we won’t axe them
  
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Smokepole
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:30pm
If anyone believes that they are better off than 4 years ago they are totally and completely delusional.
That means this person hasn’t bought; a gallon of gasoline, a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, mailed an envelope, shipped anything UPS, bought a tire, bought a quart of oil, paid an electric bill, paid a water bill, paid a natural gas bill, bought a dinner out, bought a candy bar, paid for tuition, bought a pair of pants, bought a shirt, bought a roll of toilet paper, hasn’t paid an insurance premium and on and on…….
Come on now, how completely foolish are you if you believe you are better of?

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- the58thstate
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:37pm
  this^
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:39pm
  Thanks painful but true.
  
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wianno94
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:27pm
Let’s see. My retirement saving are earning 75% less than they were four years ago. Gas is double. Food costs have increased 30%. Health insurance premiums up 20%. Utility costs higher. Hell yeah I’m better off. Give me more of this.

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- asybot12
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:40pm
  Please do not ask you might get what you wish for!
  
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sckimbershot
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:22pm
yes–i am so much better off. my wife and i are 61yrs old–neither of us are working. daughter–25 yrs. old–just informed her job is ending. son, 22 yrs old, recent college grad–no job. investments–down, sold my house worth 50k less than before obama. downsized house and living on equity. i can’t wait till nov. 7th–i hope this nightmare will be over.

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electrician8
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:18pm
Jobs gained my ****!!!! There are FEWER Americans working now then before he took office!! How the heck is that better? And of those working, they are averaging a much lower income. How the heck is that better? How about the cost of living? Its up too!
So basically, fewer workers that are making less, but spending more just to make it by. That is not better off!!!!! End rant.

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BHOHG2G
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:16pm
Of course “they” as in the present admin are better off. They have jobs. The question should have been… Are the American PEOPLE better off? HELL NO!!!!!

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:15pm
Nope, and neither are the employees I had to lay off……….just go golf you lazy Marxist, and let us get back to being Americans again…….by the way, I never knew one American ever….whose middle name was Hussein………….

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Individualism
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:15pm
in ways yes and in ways no.

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- calebjim
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:03pm
  Name one “way yes?”
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:12pm
  YES .Barry is much wealthier. Yes. Nancy P is much wealthier. Yes. Harry Reid is much wealthier. NO. The rest of the country is in a depression
  
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RealAmerican2
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:13pm
We’re better off than we were 4 years ago??? Did Mr. Woodhouse say this with a straight-face???

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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:28pm
  He forgot to mention that THEY were in charge of both houses in Congress, 2007 & 2008, when the recession started. I notice that these are the same tired Debbie Blabbermouth talking points and now they have even increased the 1st point from 750,000 to 800,000 & always increase the jobs created. I wish that Newt was interviewing these dopes because they continue to get away with their LIES.
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:11pm
What planet is he living on? My four kids and twelve grandkids can tell you they are not under this president. My extended family can tell you the same. Getting a degree hasn’t helped, there are no jobs. Everyone in my huge extended family are struggling and afraid for their kids future, and he says this with a straight face? Geeez, how do they live with themselves with lies lke that, and do they really think the American people believe it? Not even average democrats are that dumb.

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Mike Benton
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:10pm
GM is broke again, and the Seals not Obama got Bin Ladin.
And what about Obama’s promises? How did they pan out?

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:10pm
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Who’s better off today, than four years ago?
It’s sure not me, or anyone else I personally know.

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oxycontinxx
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:09pm
better off than four years ago…..??

woodhouse has cooked his brain sucking down all that liberal koolaid.

i guess these guys think if they say something loud enough, long enough………….a lot of folks will begin to believe the message. in other words, they re cocky enough to think people are stoopid.

NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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pissantno.10
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:09pm
but i forget the rest of us are just slaves for the libs all money is there money.

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BurntHills
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:09pm
Sunday he said we are NOT better off.
today he says we ARE better off.

he’s been BOOKERED.

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bikerr
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:08pm
This story reminds me of a liberal who was pulled over by the police. He was stopped for running a stop sign. Upon being asked for license and insurance proof,he admitted to only slowing down for the stop sign. The officer began hitting the driver and asked “do you want me to slow down or stop”?.-This is the mind set of liberals.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:07pm
I will only ask this: what are the Democrats doctors giving them to make them so delusional?

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- grimmster
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:38pm
  Snow, i was thinking the same thing,seems some doc. is handing out delusional pills by the truck loads…..Either that, or liberalism truelly is a mental disorder…..
  
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Z
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:06pm
Blah Blah Blah…”Blame Bush card” only worked the first year or two. Idiots. *sigh*

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rambosharley
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:04pm
Hey Brad aka DUMBA$$….You commie idiots had the house, senate and the whitehouse for 2 yrs, nobody could stop you idiots from anything….STOP BLAMING BUSH AND THE REPUBS. Get over it this economy is YOURS!

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Indeed, I had to show with facts from the Congress websites to a Progressive that indeed they did in fact have control for the first two years of Obamas reign. He looked at them, saw they were from the Democratic party as well and howled in anger.
  
  I love seeing a progressive melt down.
  
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- rambosharley
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Me too! lol
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:15pm
  Wow, what a psychopathic dillusional liar this clown is.
  
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pissantno.10
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:02pm
well you libs are stealing all you want got holder to protect you . the rest of us are losing evey day.

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lev8mysoul
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:00pm
Not from where I’m sitting

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floridareader
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:00pm
Of course he speaks for him self. All those involved in BHO’s project of “fundamentally transform the USA” are better of, because they have achieve quiet a bit of what they had in mind.
But they got the wrong country to mess up with. This is the United Stated of America, and here WE the People are in command. And they will learn it the hard way in November.

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