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Obama’s Real Gaffe Was About the Public Sector

By Troy Senik
Thursday, June 14 2012

It was the gaffe heard ‘round the world. If Barack Obama’s political adversaries had been allowed to script a moment that laid bare all of the president’s failings as an economic leader, they couldn’t have done much better than the moment last Friday when the Commander-in-Chief, appearing behind the lectern of the White House Briefing Room shortly after the release of a truly dismal jobs report (8.2% unemployment and a middling 69,000 jobs created), announced that “the private sector is doing fine.” Particularly in the midst of an election season, the most damaging…

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