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September 10, 2012

Obama, Romney Campaign After Jobs Report 
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President Obama hit the campaign trail over the weekend after a new
round of job numbers underscored his challenge to overcome a struggling
economy in order to win re-election. The Labor Department reported
Friday the economy added 96,000 jobs last month, a lower number than had
been predicted. The official unemployment rate saw a slight dip to 8.1
percent, but only because less people reported they were actively
looking for work. Speaking in New Hampshire, Obama urged supporters to
back his call for tax cuts only for those making below $250,000.

President Obama: "Today, we learned that after losing around 800,000
jobs a month when I took office. Business once again added jobs for the
30 month in a row, a total of more than 4.6 million jobs. But that's not
good enough. When Congress gets back to town next week, you need to send
them a message, go ahead and give middle-class families and small
businesses the confidence of knowing that their taxes, your taxes, won't
go up next year. Everybody agrees we shouldn't raise taxes on the middle
class, let's go ahead and get that done, let's get it done now."

Campaigning in Virginia on Saturday, Republican nominee Mitt Romney
seized on the latest job figures to paint Obama as weak on the economy.

Mitt Romney: "This president has not fulfilled his promises and then he
went to the Democrat convention and spoke at great length and had a lot
of wonderful things to say but he didn't say what he'd do to help people
get jobs or come out of unemployment or get people who are poor back to
the middle class. He doesn't have a plan. He doesn't have any ideas.
We've got to make sure he doesn't have any more days in the White House
after January."

 

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