he always likes to say since the great depression, there s one. liz, how is this such a big step in the right direction? i m not seeing it. think about it this way, three years ago we would have killed 8.2, three years ago 8.2 looked great. did we perhaps set our expectations too high, getting back to five innly four years, a long way to go, think of it this way, we ve got 8 million jobs in the great recession and restore 4.4 million. now, are we done? absolutely not. we have a long way to go and i think that s what the president is saying, he s saying, yes, this has been hard, this has been long, this has been tough, but we re moving in the right direction, if we stop now, we could go backwards and the last thing that anybody wants to do is go backwards. mike: it s like saying, i m drowning, i m 30 feet underwater and now i m only 28 feet underwater and i m doing great now. we re still drowning, folks, that s what i don t get. isn t this why you re better off than four years isn
getting there, never mind. he has to sell the optmistic side of and is it a hard sell. yes, it is a hard sell and i think he s doing the best he can. i appreciate both of you being here. liz and elli. the comments on the obama tax and later we are going to have fun. hank williams junior is here for the ride. stay with us. , we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] if you had a dollar for every dollar
and liz chatterton, president of a democratic direct mail strategic consulting firm. great to have you here. and we re stuck at 8.2%, we were supposed to be at 5.6% according to the projections of the president and yet, he says we re stepping in the right direction. help me see it. i don t know if it s a step in the right certainly not a plunge off the cliff, right? look, at some point you have to say if your house is on fire and obama comes over with a hose and helps you put out the fire, are you happy he put out the fire or angry that he didn t mow your lawn, we re not getting better as quickly as we like, don t forget, he saved us from the cliff. he s got to be worth something, ohio and how is he saving us if more people are unemployed and we re stuck at the high unemployment number longest stretch for the great depression.
and liz chatterton. democratic direct mail and strategic consultant firm. we are stuck at 8.2 percent. we were supposed to be at 5.2 percent yet he said we are stepping in the right direction. help me see it i don t know if it is a step it is not a plunge off of the cliff. at some point you have to say if your house is on fire and obama comes and helps you put out the fire are you happy he put out the fire or angry he didn t mow your lawn. everything is not getting better as quickly as we would like. but he saved us from the cliff. that is worth system. i working hard at how he is saving us if more poem are unemployed. we are stuck at a high unemployment number and since the great depression. and there is one. and liz, how is this a big
and liz chatterton. democratic direct mail and strategic consultant firm. we are stuck at 8.2 percent. we were supposed to be at 5.2 percent yet he said we are stepping in the right direction. help me see it i don t know if it is a step it is not a plunge off of the cliff. at some point you have to say if your house is on fire and obama comes and helps you put out the fire are you happy he put out the fire or angry he didn t mow your lawn. everything is not getting better as quickly as we would like. but he saved us from the cliff. that is worth system. i working hard at how he is saving us if more poem are unemployed. we are stuck at a high unemployment number and since the great depression. and there is one.