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Obama’s amnesia about his first year as president

What is it with Barack Obama and 27 months? Listen to the president and his aides talk, and you'll soon hear claims that the administration has accomplished great things in the last 27 months. "The private sector creat nearly 4.3 million new jobs in the last 27 months," the president said at a fundraiser in Baltimore on Tuesday. "We have created 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the last 27 months," top Obama economic adviser Gene Sperling said the same day on CNN. "We've had 4.3 million private-sector jobs created over the last 27 months," Obama campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said in a conference call with reporters Monday. There are plenty of other examples. Beyond that, whenever Mitt Romney or some other Republican attacks the president's record, the Obama campaign [...]