President Obama's mixed message on growing government

President Obama contradicts himself in the space of a month on growing government.

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[Angus Parker]

Sorry this is editing the words of Obama to the point where the Romney campaign is lying. Obama is correct in saying that private employment has grown while public employment has contracted during his administration - but this was mostly at the hands of Republican Governors and also partly because the Congress has provided little help to the states to help them hire back the teachers, firefighters and police that were fired - again a lack of support due to Republican votes at the Federal level.

[Jaimy Moore]

Nice clipped quote, guys.

Example # 3,428,929 of how Romney knows his supporters are stupid.

[wingfeathers00]

May Barack's days be few.

[Anthony Cuesta]

"The Private Sector is doing fine, where we're seeing weakness is in our economy"

That's a damn contradictory statement if I ever heard one. Extremely evident this idiot has no idea what he's talking about.

[AmmoPlus]

both are terrible

[aantoniojr4]

Obama supporters arent stupid either ? You cant tack stupid voters to a candidate. There just ARE stupid voters...

[seelybooth13]

The argument of "bloated government" isn't that he has hired more people. It's that he has made the government more powerful. And he certainly *has* done that.

[XXXAnonGodXXX]

ITS OKAY TO COMMIT MURDER AS LONG AS YOU MURDER OBAMA OR MITT ROMNEY

[Nick Nittolo]

Honestly, I really do wish we could afford to think like that. But if we really want Obama out, we gotta vote for the biggest. Right now Romney is. Personally, I really don't like Romney, he's a natural politician. Which means he's a very good liar. And the lesser of the two evils is all we have to deal with here. It's either Obama or Romney.... I don't like it either, man.

[nairb2693]

Romney will lose, but even if he wins its going to be just the same as the Obama presidency.

I want people to vote for values and principle, not for the lesser of two evils.

The voting system is a scam, there is no difference between the left and right.

[Zoasterboy]

The whole "confused obama" making contradictory statements thing is out of context. His "private sector is doing fine" statement isn't what I'm contesting. #strawman

[Nick Nittolo]

So who do you expect people to vote for?