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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 978535" data-attributes="member: 38206"><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/06/01/154138225/may-jobless-report-keeps-obama-on-defensive-aids-romneys-offense" target="_blank">May Jobs Report Keeps Obama On Defensive, Aids Romney&#039;s Offense</a>FROM National Public Radio:How to convince voters that while the economy isn&#039;t roaring, the situation is still improving?That&#039;s President Obama&#039;s challenge, made more difficult with every passing month where the jobs&nbsp;report disappoints, as on Friday. The latest Labor Department report informed us that only 69,000 jobs were created in May, less than half&nbsp;what analysts had forecast. Meanwhile, the jobless rate ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 8.2 percent.Fortunately (or unfortunately, to put it more accurately) for the president, he and other White House officials&nbsp;have gotten plenty of practice in trying to put the best face on dissatisfying economic numbers while trying to stay on the offensive.Obama, for instance, had a visit to a Honeywell plant in Minnesota on his Friday schedule so he could talk up&nbsp;his initiative to encourage employers to hire military veterans. It was part of a strategy to show that he has ideas for improving the nation&#039;s job picture.&nbsp;Obama, of course, couldn&#039;t help but acknowledge to the audience at the plant the good news, bad news nature of the current economic story:<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/06/01/154138225/may-jobless-report-keeps-obama-on-defensive-aids-romneys-offense" target="_blank">May Jobs Report Keeps Obama On Defensive, Aids Romney&#039;s Offense : It&#039;s All Politics : NPR</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 978535, member: 38206"] [URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/06/01/154138225/may-jobless-report-keeps-obama-on-defensive-aids-romneys-offense"]May Jobs Report Keeps Obama On Defensive, Aids Romney's Offense[/URL] [SIZE=3][B]FROM National Public Radio: [/B][/SIZE]How to convince voters that while the economy isn't roaring, the situation is still improving? That's President Obama's challenge, made more difficult with every passing month where the jobs report disappoints, as on Friday. The latest Labor Department report informed us that only 69,000 jobs were created in May, less than half what analysts had forecast. Meanwhile, the jobless rate ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 8.2 percent. Fortunately (or unfortunately, to put it more accurately) for the president, he and other White House officials have gotten plenty of practice in trying to put the best face on dissatisfying economic numbers while trying to stay on the offensive. Obama, for instance, had a visit to a Honeywell plant in Minnesota on his Friday schedule so he could talk up his initiative to encourage employers to hire military veterans. It was part of a strategy to show that he has ideas for improving the nation's job picture. Obama, of course, couldn't help but acknowledge to the audience at the plant the good news, bad news nature of the current economic story: [url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/06/01/154138225/may-jobless-report-keeps-obama-on-defensive-aids-romneys-offense]May Jobs Report Keeps Obama On Defensive, Aids Romney's Offense : It's All Politics : NPR[/url] [/QUOTE]

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