Now that the Republicans and the ever-helpful mainstream media have settled on their meme for Democratic National Convention week - the old "are you better off now than you were four years ago?" standby - it might behoove us to look back six months to a comment Romney made while on the Laura Ingraham radio program, which certainly seemed to imply that Romney himself thinks things are better today than they were in January 2009.
In answer to her question of how he expected to counter the Obama team's assertion that things were better now when he himself had made similar statements, Romney responded:
Of course the economy's getting better. The economy always gets better after a recession.
The comment comes at around the 5:20 mark.
I sure hope the Obama campaign will be using this quote in its own ads. It's quite a little gold nugget.
And when someone asks you is the country better off under Obama than under Bush, you need remember only one statistic:
800,000 jobs lost in Bush's last month in office vs. 4,500,000 jobs created in last two-and-a-half years under Obama.
Damn right, the country is better off under Obama than under Bush.