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Republican National Committee

"Sound Familiar?" +
  1:03 web video from Sept. 7, 2011.

[Music] Jay Carney: "The President feels that...we are at a moment when we need to take significant action...to create jobs."   [August 31, 2011  954 Days Into Obama's Presidency]

    TEXT: Sound Familiar?

Obama: "Creating jobs has to be our number one priority in 2010..."    [January 2010  Unemployment: 9.7%]

Obama: "We now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth..."    [December 2010  Unemployment: 9.4%]

Obama: "This is my administration's overriding focus..."    [November 2009  Unemployment: 9.9%]

Obama: "My singular focus..."    [August 2011  Unemployment: 9.1%]

Obama: "My singular focus over the next two years is jump-starting the economy..."    [December 2010  Unemployment: 9.4%]

Rep. Maxine Waters: "Our people are hurting..."

Obama: "...getting the unemployed back on the job..."

Rep. Maxine Waters (audio): "...unemployment is unconscionable..."

    TEXT: 31 Months of Unemployment Over 8%

News Announcer (G. Stephanopoulos): "Look at this.  Nine thousand people lined up at an L.A. jobs fair..."

    TEXT: 14 Million Still Unemployed

News Announcer: "Mounting concerns the nation's slipping back into recession..."

    TEXT: Zero Jobs

News Announcer: "Zero new jobs were added in the month of August..."

News Announcer: "Creating jobs is now the number one priority..."

    TEXT: Now It's a Priority?

News Announcer: "...because the President knows keeping his job may depend on it."

    TEXT: Same words.
    Same speeches.
    Same failed prolicies.
    [disclaimer]

Notes: The RNC released this video in advance of President Obama's jobs' speech scheduled for September 8.  According to the press release, "The web video documents the past two and a half years of President Obama claiming to ‘pivot,’ ‘focus’ and ‘prioritize’ jobs—all while unemployment stagnated and the economy deteriorated."
 
Further, the release states:

“We’ve heard this all before,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. “For the past two and a half years, President Obama has repeatedly promised to focus on jobs, but, instead, he has prioritized taxing, spending and regulating. The problem is that job creation was never a priority for this president. He spent the summer filling his campaign coffers, going on taxpayer-funded bus tours, playing golf and jetting off to Martha’s Vineyard at a time when 14 million Americans are out of work.

“Expect this president to talk about the same-old economic half-measures that he’s championed since taking office and to blame others for his lack of leadership. The country is yearning for leadership but all we’ve gotten is failed promises filled with misplaced priorities. With ZERO jobs created in the month of August, it’s time to change direction.”