Today’s entry is more along the lines of a TOTUS hiccup, but it falls into the category of a “what if Bush said it” mistake — and it’s a legitimate Obamateurism. After all, if we’d only been losing 700 jobs a month at the beginning of the year, I doubt Barack Obama would have had the political heft to get a $787 stimulus bill passed, let alone a $787 billion Porkulus:

“Just six months ago, we were in the middle of the worst recession in our lifetimes. We were losing about 700 jobs each month.”

If Bush had said that during the final months of 2008, the media would have lit him up like a Texas Rangers scoreboard for being out of touch. As it is, only Breitbart appeared to have noticed it, as well as Chris P, who sent it to me.

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