Blitzer to Wasserman Schultz: Why Doesn’t Obama Get Credit for Improved Economy?

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CNN's Blitzer to Wasserman Schultz: Why Doesn't Obama Get Credit For Improved Economy? (RealClearPolitics)

WOLF BLITZER: The economy has clearly improved over the past six years, when the president took office, 800,000 jobs per month were going away--

REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: And the deficit has been cut in half.

WOLF BLITZER: Dow Jones has gone from 7,000 to 17,000, but he doesn't get much credit for that, why?

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: This is a president who inherited more problems at once than any president since FDR and really has continued to keep his head down and focus on what is most important, without any cooperation whatsoever from the Republicans.

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