Not to be nitpicky, but in the clip that the RNC based their new ad on, Obama was referring to forgetting the ‘magnitude’ of the recession which is still unbelievable. After all, he’s the one who has been proclaiming for the last four years that it’s the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Watch the ad below:
What Obama was really trying to communicate wasn’t that he’d forgotten about how bad the recession was, but rather that he wants more time to fix the country because it was worse than anyone could have imagined. Of course it’s absurd. The recession ended a long time ago (negative GDP growth) and we’ve been stuck with what amounts to anemic growth ever since.
So basically he’s being incredibly dishonest again like always.