Stark Contrast As Obama And Romney Address July Jobs Report, Rising Unemployment Rate

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On Friday, both Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama addressed the July jobs reports which showed that employers added more jobs than expected but unemployment rose by one tenth of a point as more workers left the workforce. The stark contrast between the tones of their addresses was striking as a high-energy Romney addressed a fired-up crowd while Obama struck a somber note to a silent crowd.

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Romney addressed a cheering crowd in Nevada on Friday as he talked about how people in the Silver State were struggling under America's persistently sluggish economic recovery.

'These numbers are not just statistics,' said Romney. 'These are real people really suffering ' having hard times. 23 million Americans out of work or stopped looking for work or under employed. 23 million.'

Romney said that the 42 months is the 'longest time we've had unemployment above 8 percent in American history.'

'This is an extraordinary record of failure,' said Romney.

Romney went on to address his five-point plan which began with a path to energy independence. Romney said that by the end of his second term, he would make America energy independent, but he was interrupted by the cheering crowd after he said 'the end of my second term.'

But when Fox News transitioned to President Obama, who was also addressing the July jobs report in the Washington, the tone became far more somber.

'Let's acknowledge, we've still got too many folks out there looking for work,' Obama told a crowd at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. 'Not only to reclaim all the jobs that were lost during the recession, but also to reclaim the kind of finial security that too many Americans have felt was slipping away from them for too long.'

'We knew, when I started in this job, that this was going to take some time,' Obama continued. 'We haven't had to come back from an economic crisis that was this deep or this painful since the 1930s. But we also knew that if we were persistent ' if we kept at it and kept working ' that we'd gradually get to where we need to be.'

Obama went on to say that there is no way to get to 'where we need to be' if America goes back 'to the policies that got us here in the first place.' He followed by saying that there needs to be a raise in taxes to pay for infrastructure projects and to guarantee that small business owners and middle class Americans do not see a tax increase.

Watch both candidates address the jobs numbers below via Fox News Channel:

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• No headwinds?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PPfkDCyn8k

  0bama is an abject failure.  He is done!

• We don't need more tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. 

  Lunch Special this week: The Mitt Romney ' A full pound of baloney on a hard, upper crust roll.

• How times have changed.

  Obama In 2004: Dismisses Job Creation Of 310,000 New Jobs

  After the economy added 310,000 jobs in May 2004 and the unemployment rate was 5.6%, then-candidate Barack Obama used the Democrat weekly radio address to attack the Bush administration for citing good economic numbers

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ae2Anha7ig&feature=player_embedded

• SHOW YOUR TAX RETURNS WILLARD!

• SHOW YOUR COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS BARRY!

• Well, in four more years he'll be done, yes.

• Bad news? Really. Look at the Dow.

• Team 0bama doesn't want to get into specifics but the 'jobless rate is really 8.254%'

  http://www.news-press.com/usatoday/article/817487?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

  LOL'yay unemployment'.yay poverty!  Go 0bama!

• Has Mittens shown his?

•  We just need to ask ourselves. Do we really want 4 more years of this clueless man?

• The economy hasn't grown by more than 200,000 jobs in any month since February and yet Obama's lead continues to grow.

  Is the Republicans had a competent challenger this would not be happening, but alas they're stuck with Mitt Romney.

• Romney said that the 42 months is the 'longest time we've had unemployment above 8 percent in American history.'

  'This is an extraordinary record of failure,' said Romney.

  ' Record of Failure and leadership.

  'Let's acknowledge, we've still got too many folks out there looking for work,' Obama said '

  ' Guess the private sector isn't doing fine after all?

  'We knew, when I started in this job, that this was going to take some time,' Obama continued.

  That's not what he said 3 years ago! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN5-ovvFL0

  'raise in taxes to pay for infrastructure projects'

  His friggin' solution to everything.  Infrastructure is 3% federal budget and is not permanent private sector jobs

  Double the infrastructure after addressing the minimum amount of fraud he's acknowledged in Medicare.  Imagine SS and HUD?

  Yet REJECTS IBM's offer to provide the software for free!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkV5IPVtVg

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/10/06/18/Do-Not-Pay-Do-Read-This-Post

  'Take 'improper payments' for example. These are payments that government agencies make to people and entities who aren't eligible to receive government money, as well as payments to the wrong person, or in the wrong amount, or at the wrong time. In 2009, improper payments totaled nearly $110 billion, the highest amount to date. These payments are not only a waste of money, they also erode the public's trust in government.'

•  I see you have fallen for the class warfare of your Marxist president

• Has anyone ever seen a bigger liar than this man?

• I prefer to look at my shares in Apple, thank you very much.

• I heard that starting next month brick OBAMO is going to 'pressure' the Labor Department to issue numbers more to his liking. This sounds like something he would do, so I believe it.

  Also, the Idiot-in-Chief said, 'Pay no attention to these one-month snapshots.'

  For the 45th consecutive month.

  What a wee-todd.

•  This a victory for President Poverty! We are screwed if this fraud gets to run this country for four more years!

• And let's not forget when Obama took office there was a net job loss.And he is stuck with an opposition which is more determined to take him out than worry about the people.

• He has released his tax returns.

  http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romney-and-the-tax-return-precedent/

  'Romney has released his tax returns for 2010 and an estimate for 2011 '