The Democrat establishment beckoned, and former President Obama appeared.
After months of desperate entreaties, highlighted by a summer New York magazine cover story titled "Barack Obama, Where Are You?," Obama returned on Friday with a longwinded speech at the University of Illinois.
Obama tried to rewrite history, claiming that his administration "Returned the economy to healthy growth and initiated the longest streak of job creation on record," "Covered another 20 million Americans with health insurance," and "Cut our deficits by more than half, partly by making sure that people like me, who have been given such amazing opportunities by this country, pay our fair share of taxes to help folks coming up behind me."
Reality check: Obama presided over the slowest economic recovery in American history, with the unemployment rate not falling back below 8 percent for good until his second term.
Obama doubled the size of the national debt over his time in office.
When the economic wheels finally began turning in Obama's second term, with a major assist from the unprecedented money printing by the Federal Reserve, Obama was fortunate to pick the low-hanging fruit; it's a lot easier to go from 8 percent to 5 percent unemployment as Obama did in his second term prior to Trump's election than it is to go from 5 percent to 4 percent unemployment as President Trump has done.
They've also kept more money in the private economy where it can stimulate communities and Main Streets, not bureaucratic budgets in Washington as Obama and his followers desire.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/10/obama_comes_out_of_retirement_with_same_tired_message_138026.html
After months of desperate entreaties, highlighted by a summer New York magazine cover story titled "Barack Obama, Where Are You?," Obama returned on Friday with a longwinded speech at the University of Illinois.
Obama tried to rewrite history, claiming that his administration "Returned the economy to healthy growth and initiated the longest streak of job creation on record," "Covered another 20 million Americans with health insurance," and "Cut our deficits by more than half, partly by making sure that people like me, who have been given such amazing opportunities by this country, pay our fair share of taxes to help folks coming up behind me."
Reality check: Obama presided over the slowest economic recovery in American history, with the unemployment rate not falling back below 8 percent for good until his second term.
Obama doubled the size of the national debt over his time in office.
When the economic wheels finally began turning in Obama's second term, with a major assist from the unprecedented money printing by the Federal Reserve, Obama was fortunate to pick the low-hanging fruit; it's a lot easier to go from 8 percent to 5 percent unemployment as Obama did in his second term prior to Trump's election than it is to go from 5 percent to 4 percent unemployment as President Trump has done.
They've also kept more money in the private economy where it can stimulate communities and Main Streets, not bureaucratic budgets in Washington as Obama and his followers desire.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/10/obama_comes_out_of_retirement_with_same_tired_message_138026.html
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