The Morning Plum: No, Obama didn’t admit he `forgot’ about recession

[jaxx]

Posted at 08:31 AM ET, 05/11/2012
The Morning Plum: No, Obama didn’t admit he `forgot’ about recession
By Greg Sargent

The Romney campaign and some on the right are having a grand old time blasting Obama for supposedly saying late yesterday that he ”forgot” about the recession. Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul claims Obama has “now admitted that he’s forgotten about the recession.”

<..> Here’s Obama’s actual quote, courtesy of Buzzfeed’s video:
It was a house of cards, and it collapsed in the most destructive worst crisis that we’ve seen since the great depression. And sometimes people forget the magnitude of it , you know? And you saw some of that I think in the video that was shown. Sometimes I forget. In the last six months of 2008, while we were campaigning, nearly three million of our neighbors lost their jobs. Eight hundred thousand lost their jobs in the month that I took office. And it was tough. But the American people proved they were tougher.

The Romney campaign’s response:
It’s not surprising that a president who forgot to create jobs, forgot to cut the debt, and forgot to change Washington has now admitted that he’s forgotten about the recession. In fact, it seems that the President has forgotten that he’s been in office for the last three-and-a-half years. In November, the American people won’t forget.

What Obama actually said, of course, is that sometimes he forgets about the magnitude of the crisis that hit before he took office and continued into the early months of his term. The irony here is really rich: It’s actually the Romney campaign that is heavily invested in getting voters to forget the magnitude of the crisis Obama inherited.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum..._blog.html

The Romney video:
Forgetting the Recession?

Obama's latest ad:
Reverse - Obama for America 2012 Television Ad

As Greg Sargent says, Romney is hoping for an amnesia campaign.

[janedrake]

Romney's campaign takes dishonesty to a psychotic level.

[NJMaverick]

NOTHING that man says can be believed or even considered sort of the truth.

[KonaKane]

Typical word-jacking dishonesty from the School Bully. He has taken several really bad hits this week and it's a desperate, stupid stunt.

[sandnsea]

For people looking for a reason, this will be good enough. I don't know how people maintain the energy to fight them.