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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (55378)	9/7/2012 12:07:50 AM
From: joseffy	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

The Debbie Disaster DNC Chair faces rebuke over platform mess, repeated falsehoods BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff September 6, 2012 freebeacon.com Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is scheduled to take the stage at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, in between Mary J. Blige and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and amid widespread criticism of her job performance. It has been a tough week for Wasserman Schultz. She told an audience in North Carolina that Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, had told her Republican policies were “dangerous” for Israel—a claim that the ambassador called an untruth in a sharply worded statement. *Then she said the reporter who broke the story, Washington Examiner* columnist Philip Klein, had “ deliberately” misquoted her—a claim proven false by Klein’s audio recording of her remarks.** Wasserman Schultz told Washington Free Beacon senior writer Adam Kredo that she had no intention of apologizing to Klein for impugning his character. Wasserman Schultz was also involved in the negotiations that led initially to the words “God” and “Jerusalem” being removed from the Democratic Party platform—a decision later reversed after presidential intercession and amid widespread boos and catcalls from Democratic Party delegates. Wasserman Schultz is one of the Democratic Party’s least successful surrogates. Politico’s Glenn Thrush reported in a recent e-book that the White House is frequently at odds with Wasserman Schultz. Thrush also reported that internal polling shows audiences do not respond well at all to Wasserman Schultz’s numerous television appearances. Wasserman Schultz also canceled a scheduled appearance at the annual fundraising dinner for EMERGE USA, a Muslim activist group whose leader had a track record of defending radicalism; after the Free Beacon reported on the event, a spokesman for Wasserman Schultz said that there had been a “miscommunication” and the DNC chairwoman had never intended to attend the fundraiser. In 2011, Wasserman Schultz said in a television interview that the Republican Party wants “to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.” She later told Ben Smith that it was “the wrong analogy to use,” but that she did not “regret calling attention” to Republican efforts to require identification when casting a vote. When interviewed by reporters for the Media Research Center last spring, Wasserman Schultz denied ever using the comparison—despite video evidence to the contrary.

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (55378)	9/7/2012 10:45:47 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (55378)	9/7/2012 10:19:14 PM
From: greatplains_guy	Respond to of 71588

Jobless numbers don’t lie By Frank Quaratiello Friday, September 7, 2012 The party’s over — and now Democrats are waking up with a hangover. The Labor Department reported this morning that the U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 8.1 percent in August, but no amount of Bill Clinton’s arithmetic can hide the fact that since President Obama took office in January 2009, he has barely been able to move that number — except up. The nation’s jobless rate in February 2009 — Obama’s first full month in office — was 8.3 percent. That’s exactly where it was in July 2012. This morning’s report shows only 96,000 jobs were added nationwide in August - bad news for President Obama. This means the unemployment rate dipped only because many job seekers gave up looking for work - not the way the president wants that number to go down. Both the president and GOP rival Mitt Romney are in the Granite State today, and the new jobless rate will be the morning headline. So here’s a primer on today’s numbers game. The president probably won’t mention the rate itself today - 8.1 percent unemployment is nothing to brag about. Instead, he’ll tell folks in Portsmouth: “We need to create more jobs faster. We’re moving in the right direction, but we’ve still got a long way to go.” Eight percent unemployment is higher than any president wants, so the numbers we’re more likely to hear from the president are 4.5 million private-sector jobs created in four years, including 1.1 million in the bailed-out auto industry. We won’t hear $16 trillion national debt, but Obama may mention New Hampshire’s 5.4 percent unemployment mark. Mitt Romney is going to be talking a lot about the unemployment rate and the national debt over the next two months. If he’s going to have any chance, he’ll mention them at least once a day, starting today in Nashua. “An 8 percent or higher unemployment rate after four years is unacceptable. It’s time to fire the coach,” Romney will say. The Democrats are doing a great job defining Romney. Despite his overflowing campaign coffers, today Romney seems headed down the same road as other recent Bay State also-rans for the Oval Office. The unemployment rate may offer Romney his best chance. Under Obama, joblessness has never been below 8 percent, and it peaked at 10 percent in October 2009. According to Presidents Clinton and Obama, that’s George W. Bush’s fault. But it’s worth noting that in eight years, the jobless rate under Bush was never higher than 6.3 percent in June 2003 - until the financial meltdown of late 2008. And even then, it never rose above 8 percent on his watch. President Obama can say what he wants about Bush, but he’d kill to have that kind of unemployment rate two months before the election. Frank Quaratiello is the Herald’s business editor. -— frankq@bostonherald.com bostonherald.com