Midknight Review -- new and revised: Which is more important, lies and trends or fixed rates and history?

In elections, jobless trend matters more than rate is the headline and with this bit of "news" commentary, we have the opinion that a trending employment rate is more important than the rate, itself. No president - it is argued - has lost a re-election bid when employment has trended up for two consecutive years. That is why this Administration is so bent on cooking the unemployment percentages in its favor.

Understand that for every tenth of a percent of "movement," 153,000 jobs are in view. Our unemployment rate has reportedly fallen .5% which should equal the net creation of 765,000 jobs. The actual hard numbers do not support this scenario. In fact, Gallup is reporting a flat-line employment rate with virtually no change at all.

News pundits fail to reveal that no president has been re-elected when unemployment is at 7.3% or higher or that the American labor force has mysteriously shrunk by 13 million since 2004. No one mentions that 2 million folks have quit looking for work and are, therefore, ignored in the monthly reporting.

In the end, all this "good news" is nothing more than smoke and mirrors for the sake of re-election.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Which is more important, lies and trends or fixed rates and history?

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