Washington Post

Obama’s pitch at the Democratic Convention: 

In detail; Obama is going to tell the American people how this country is better of now than when he took office. It should be a very short speech.

“America is better off today than they left us when they left,” Biden told a Labor Day campaign event in Detroit, referring to the state of the nation the Obama administration inherited from the Republican administration of former President George W. Bush.

If that is the premise of Obama’s speech; it should take him all of 2 minutes to deliver.

Has this guy and his advisers lived on another planet for 3.5 years or do they have blinders on as to what is reality and what is a fallacy?

Numbers are reality. The National debt clock on this date in 2008 was unconscionable number of $10,225,713,650,989.00. Today’s national debt is a staggering delirious amount totaling $15,975,496,400,000.00. To my calculation that is almost  in trillions, not billions, $ 6,000,000,000,000.00 more than when Obama took over as president. The total is going up so fast every day Albert Einstein couldn’t do the calculations.

The unemployment rate 2008 & 2012

Year   Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2008  5.0   4.9  5.1  5.0   5.4   5.6   5.8 6.1  6.1  6.5  6.8  7.3

2012  8.3   8.3   8.2 8.1   8.2   8.2    8.3  8.5 8.5  8.05    9.0

The way the unemployment rate is calculated is by the number of people that apply for unemployment benefits. It does not include the number of people that their benefits have ran out. Realistically; another 4-5% can be added to that number.

Foreclosure filings surpassed 3 million in 2008, setting a record that has Washington, D.C., policymakers calling for more aggressive efforts this year to aid troubled homeowners.

July 2012 Foreclosure

1 in every 686 housing units received a foreclosure filing in July 2012

Obama promised to end the war in Iraq which he did under duress but he sent to troops to Afghanistan instead of coming home.

How is the president going to defend cold hard facts? His speech shouldn’t be any longer than 2 minutes. If it does, listen carefully. He is going to be repeating the same things he said 4 years ago. He sounds like an old Victrola with the wooden needle that is stuck on the same song and can’t move forward.

Fact, figures and numbers do not lie; people do.