DNC Releases New 'Jobs First?' Website, Video

WASHINGTON, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With John McCain attempting to re-launch his campaign with a "Jobs First" tour that the Wall Street Journal reports won't offer any new economic policies or solutions, the Democratic National Committee today launched a new website and web video aimed at highlighting McCain's promise to continue President Bush's failed and flawed economic policies. While McCain is working to "repackage" the Bush policies he has been offering for months, 68 percent of voters have already decided that his policies are too similar to President Bush's. The DNC's new "Jobs First?" feature on McCainPedia highlights those policies along with McCain's job-killing record, his history of voting against programs to help displaced workers, and his pattern of repeatedly voting against incentives for creating new green jobs right here at home. [Wall Street Journal, 7/5/08; USA Today/Gallup poll, 7/1/08]

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080519/DNCLOGO )

Along with the new website, the DNC's new web video, entitled "Jobs First?," uses Senator McCain's own words to show him echoing the Bush Administration's rosy rhetoric on the economy, including President Bush's claims that the fundamentals of the economy are sound and the North American Free Trade Agreement has created jobs. Despite the Bush-McCain rhetoric, America's working families have seen inflation hit a 17 year high, the number of unemployment insurance claims jump faster than any time in 22 years, gas prices jump 177 percent since President Bush took office, and the loss of 3.6 million manufacturing jobs since 2000. Instead of offering solutions to those challenges, Senator McCain is promising more of the same.

"John McCain doesn't get it: voters aren't looking for a new way to package the same failed Bush ideas. They're looking for new solutions and John McCain is clearly not offering any," said DNC spokesman Damien LaVera. "Maybe John McCain should call his latest tour the 'Lipstick on a Pig' tour because no matter how many shades of lip stick he tries, in the end it's still a pig. America's working families simply cannot afford four more years of failed Bush-McCain policies that have shipped jobs overseas and left American families paying more for everything from gas to groceries."

To view the DNC's new "Jobs First?" feature on McCainPedia, click here: http://mccainpedia.org/index.php/Jobs_First%3F .

To watch the new "Jobs First?" web video, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43HkmMGvL7w .

                                DNC Web Video:
                                "Jobs First?"
                               Annotated Script

    CHYRON: Jobs First?

CHYRON: McCain's First Job: Explaining Why He'll Stay the Course on the Bush Economy.

MCCAIN: "I think we are better off overall if you look at the entire eight-year period, when you look at the millions of jobs that have been created, the improvement in the economy, et cetera." [CNN Debate, 1/30/08: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/30/GOPdebate.transcript/]

CHYRON: The Fundamentals?

BUSH: "The fundamentals of our nation's economy are strong." [White House News Conference, 9/20/07: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070920-2html]

MCCAIN: "The fundamentals of America 's economy are strong." [Bloomberg Money & Politics, 4/17/08: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/john_mccain_on_bloomberg_tv. html]

CHYRON: "Inflation at 17 year high... Biggest Jump in Unemployment in 22 years... Gas prices up 177%."

-- Inflation Hits 17-Year High. "Consumer prices rose in 2007 at the fastest pace in 17 years as motorists paid a lot more for gasoline and grocery shoppers paid higher food bills ... Workers' wages failed to keep up with the higher inflation. Average weekly earnings, after adjusting for inflation, dropped by 0.9 percent in 2007, the fourth decline in the past five years. The lagging wage gains are cited as a chief reason many workers have growing anxiety about their economic futures. Core inflation, which excludes both energy and food, rose 2.4 percent last year, slightly lower than the 2.6 percent increase of 2006. It is the performance of core inflation that the Fed closely monitors." [Associated Press, 1/16/08: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/16/national/main3720221.shtml?source=re lated_story]

-- Biggest Jump in Unemployment in 22 Years. "The U.S. unemployment rate posted its sharpest one-month increase in 22 years last month, suggesting U.S. consumers already facing a housing slump and soaring gasoline prices now confront even more pressure from a weakening jobs market. The data, which included a fifth-straight drop in nonfarm employment, should take financial- market expectations of Federal Reserve rate increases as soon as this autumn off the table. Nonfarm payrolls, which are calculated by a survey of establishments, declined 49,000 in May, the Labor Department said. The decline was broad-based, including manufacturing, construction, retail trade and business services. Payrolls fell 28,000 in April and 88,000 in March. Both were revised to show slightly larger drops." [Wall Street Journal, 6/6/08: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121275530706251713.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news]

-- $1.496: Gas Prices on January 22, 2001. [Energy Information Administration, (All Grades - Conventional Areas) http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_tco_usw.htm]

-- $4.146: Gas Prices on June 30, 2008. [Energy Information Administration, (All Grades - Conventional Areas): http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm)

CHYRON: On NAFTA?

MCCAIN: "I know NAFTA was a good idea. It has created millions of jobs and it has helped the economies of all three of these nations. All you have to do is go toDetroit and see the trucks lined up every day or go to our southern border." [Des Moines Register, BigThink.com interview, 11/27/07: http://youtube.com/watch?v=86QwI-6TWic]

BUSH: "When you analyze it an objective way, it benefits -- beneficial to America ... " [Bush News conference inNew Orleans, April 22, 2008]

CHYRON: "Under President Bush: ...40,000 manufacturing plants closed ...3.3 million manufacturing jobs lost... one-sixth of all U.S. manufacturing jobs gone."

-- 40,000 Manufacturing Plants Have Closed Since 2000. "U.S. manufacturing joblessness has been worsening as some 40,000 plants closed over the past six years, according to the AFL-CIO, the labor confederation." [Bloomberg, 9/5/06: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=columnist_wasik&sid=aRmF 45ghi5wg]

-- 3.6 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since January 2001. [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6/30/2008]

-- One-Fifth of Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since 2000. [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6/6/2008]

BUSH: "...it helps create jobs." [Bush News conference inNew Orleans, April 22, 2008]

CHYRON: Like Bush's Economy? Hire McCain.

CHYRON: John McCain: The Wrong Choice for America's Future.

SOURCE Democratic National Committee

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