Rep. Clyburn: "Anybody's Going To Be Tough" For Obama
CROWLEY: Who's the tougher opponent, do you think, for President Obama?
CLYBURN: Oh, I have no idea. I think anybody's going to be tough. We live in a tough environment. We're -- the country is at a place it's really never been before. Even if we go back to 1929, things were different then.
What happened in this country didn't affect the rest of the world. And what happened in Europe and Asia did not affect us.
Today, everything is so global, this country has never been where it is before.
CROWLEY: You represent a state, a portion of the state, that has a 9.9 percent unemployment rate. Nationwide, unemployment among African-Americans, 15.8 percent, among Whites, 7.5 percent. When you go back to your district, as you will, I'm sure, sometime this year, to appeal for President Obama's re-election, how do you sell those kind of numbers in your district which is majority African-American?
CLYBURN: Well, I'll remind them of where we were in the 90 days of the run-up to President Obama being sworn in. We jettisoned 2.1 million jobs in three months.
This was done before Barack Obama was ever sworn into office.
Remember, I will remind them, that in September of 2008 when this economy was crashing down, George Bush was president, not Obama. McCain and Obama jettisoned their campaigns, came back to Washington to help us try to pass some emergency measures to stop the hemorrhaging.
And this president stopped the hemorrhaging, and for the last 22 months we've been having private sector job growth. And if we should continue, I think he will get us to where we ought to be.
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