Obama’s Run of Bad Luck
by John Hinderaker
Powerline
August 15, 2011
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/obamas-run-of-bad-luck.php
Poor Barack Obama! He keeps doing the right thing, but–like Jimmy Carter before him–he can’t seem to catch a break. That is the revisionist line that Obama fed to an audience in Iowa today, as reported by Byron York:
“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. [BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! WHAT A JOKE! This moron can't even tell a lie that would convince a two-year-old ... although, snorestar is certainly stupid enough to buy this stinky BS hook, line & sinker. 
B.]
Now, when was that, exactly? The unemployment rate stood at 7.6% when Obama was inaugurated. Six months later, in July 2009, it was 9.4%. It rose as high as 10.2% and stayed over 9% until the end of 2010:
{Embedded Chart - Unemployment Rate, Seasonally Adjusted, July 2009 - July 2011}
Then the rate did decline a bit, to as low as 8.9%. Apparently this is what Obama refers to as “getting the economy moving again.” Only the best unemployment rate of Obama’s presidency, so far, was still more than 1% higher than when he took office. And this was before the bad luck began!
“But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Obama listed three events overseas — the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises — which set the economy back. [Bad luck? BAD LUCK??? ROTFLMAO! You made your own "luck," B. Hussein, and it is way past time for you to man-up, ask Moochelle to give you back at least one of your shrivelled testicles, and admit that YOU are to blame for being the biggest screw-up to ever occupy The White House. Good grief ... you're such a pathetic pussy! B.]
Poor Barry! His “run of bad luck” has driven unemployment back up to 9.1%. Actually, though, a normal person looking at unemployment rates for the Obama administration as a whole would see a history of unrelieved futility. Obama has now had more than 2 1/2 years in office, and has achieved nothing on the economic front but decline.
Will blaming his failure on bad luck help Obama? I doubt it. Once again, he is following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter. Encyclopedia.com begins its entry on Carter with the words: “Jimmy Carter was an unlucky president.” Sure, that’s how I remember it too. [Wiping away the dripping sarcasm! B.] But the American people didn’t take any chances: they limited Carter’s “bad luck” to a single term. If the best Obama can say for himself is that he is jinxed, voters will do the same with him. [Jimmy Carter was "unlucky"? 
Nah, Jimmah was simply THE worst POTUS in history ... at least until B. Hussein Obama came along, that is. B.]
UPDATE: In a nice counterpoint, the New York Times explains that Rick Perry is just lucky.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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