White House Press Secretary Jay Carney delivered gold on Thursday to bloggers and conservative talk show hosts, with a statement that is sure to go viral sans its context.
“The White House doesn’t create jobs,” Carney stated after Wall Street Journal reporter Carol Lee asked why Americans should trust that the White House will spur job creation.
In a paragraph that followed that statement, Carney explained what he meant: that the White House cannot OK jobs legislation – or any legislation, for that matter – unless it passes both houses of Congress. But if that context disappears over the next 15 months, Carney’s six-word statement could come back to haunt Obama heading into the 2012 election.
