Mitt Romney on unemployment - when HE was in charge

When Mitt Romney inevitably slams President Obama later today regardless of how good or bad the new jobs report is, he’ll likely say something along the lines of how the president needs to stop making excuses about inheriting a down economy.

But when Romney himself was running a government, in his case the state of Massachusetts, he was even more defensive about his lack of control of the employment picture than Obama is today. A new video unearthed by the liberal research group American Bridge shows Romney at a press conference in June 2006 admonishing reporters on disappointing jobs data. “You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. I came in and the jobs had been just falling right off a cliff, I came in and they kept falling for 11 months,” he explains.

“And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month,” he added.

This isn't a statement from decades ago. This is from five years ago.

Via Salon.com