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meow2u3

(24,764 posts) Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:07 PM Oct 2012

Big Dog puts blame for high unemployment where it belongs: right on the repukes (x-post from LBN)

PARMA, Ohio (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton says Republicans have tried to keep the nation's unemployment rate high for political gain.

Campaigning in Ohio for President Barack Obama, Clinton says the GOP was "crushed" when the jobless rate fell to 7.8 percent last month. He says Republicans nearly managed to keep it above 8 percent "all the way to the election. But they failed."

http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-gop-tried-keep-jobless-rate-high-185305526--election.html