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Romney for President

"Silence" +
  1:00 web video from May 6, 2012.

Scott Pelley, CBS News: “Tonight, new evidence the economic recovery is slowing.” 

Hampton Pearson, CNBC: "The unemployment rate 8.1 percent..."

Obama: "Over and over again, they'll tell you that America's down and out..."

Brian Sullivan, CNBC: "The unemployment rate did drop to 8.1 percent, but only, guys, because fewer people are in the workforce."

Obama: "And ask if you’re better off than you were before…"

Jared Bernstein, former Obama Advisor: "I’m just not seeing a ton of sunshine in here."

Christine Romans, CNN: "Transportation and warehousing is where we lost some jobs."

Brian Sullivan, CNBC: "That is a terrible number."

Obama: "The real question..."

Scott Pelley, CBS News: "...job creation numbers fall for the third straight month."

Obama: "It's not just about how we're doing today, but how we'll be doing tomorrow."

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TEXT: Today Millions Of Americans Are Suffering In Silence.

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TEXT: Job Growth Is Not Nearly Fast Enough To Recover The Losses From The Great Recession

TEXT: …More Than 340,000 Workers Dropped Out Of The Labor Force…

TEXT: More Than 5 Million Americans Have Been Unemployed For Six Months Or Longer

TEXT: This Is The Obama Economy.

Obama (audio only): "That’s why I’m running again for President of the United States."

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Notes: The campaign press release states...

Yesterday, President Obama launched his campaign by telling Americans not to ask if they are better off than they were four years ago, but how they’ll be tomorrow. This follows a jobs report that found more than 340,000 Americans dropping out of the labor force and an unemployment rate that remains unacceptably high.

The DNC, in a fact check, responded thusly...

Mitt Romney and his campaign want Americans to forget that President Obama took office in the midst of an economic crisis—a crisis caused by the failed policies that Mitt Romney would bring back if elected. But because of the President’s leadership, we’ve created over 4.2 million private sector jobs over the last 26 months.

It’s not surprising why Mitt Romney needs to resort to dishonest attacks on the President’s record—he can’t run on his own record in either the public or private sector. As a corporate buyout specialist, he profited handsomely by laying off workers and outsourcing American jobs. And during his time as governor, Massachusetts had the fourth worst job creation rate of any state in the nation and government jobs grew six times as fast as private sector jobs. Now he wants to bring back a familiar economic scheme: more budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy and letting Wall Street write its own rules—the same formula that benefited a few, but crashed our economy and punished the middle class.