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Obama officials intend to frame romney as the very picture of greed in the great recession, a sort of political gordon gekko. in other words, both things can be true. you can excavate his record at bain and you can also be distracting from a slow economy that you're presiding over. >> what we need to get back to talking about is how did we get out of the great depression? and what can we do to get out of where we are right now. we're kind of boxed in as a country. you know, right now, this president should be pushing forward further go talking about job creation. quite frankly romney should be...

Reasons the numbers are improving. in march construction sector unemployment was 17.2% according to the bureau of labor statistics. it jumped in april to 14.5%, and then 14.2. in june it was 12.8. the chief economist of the associated general contractors of america says, it is not because they're finding construction jobs. >> they're finding jobs in other industries, not in construction. maybe truck drivering, manufacturing services or else going back to school and retiring. they're just not being hired in construction. that is a potential problem for the industry. >> reporter: the 12.8% figur...

And that's the kind of plan we need right now, is a plan to build the middle class and restore the american dream. megyn: it could be a tough sell. among construction workers in this country, the unemployment rate is a staggering 14.2%. manufacturing fares better, but it is still high at just over 7% unemployment. and that industry just yesterday we had reported took a hit. chris stirewalt is host of "power play" on foxnews.com. so the president will go through ohio and pennsylvania and try in particular to appeal to middle class and blue collar voters, chris. is that an uphill slog for him, o...

Ed? the white house says this is all about context. >> they also have ominous looking ads on poet sides to scare everyone. the white house saying look. the context that was missing is that the president was trying to point out that the public sector, government workers experienced a lot of layoffs. that is true when you look at the numbers comparatively public sector not do too bad. government workers had the lowest unemployment rate at all. just 4.2%. while others in the private sector doing worse 7.1%. manufacturing 9.7 for leash. 14.2% for construction. that's why republic senator john mcca...

We have seen teachers and police officers and firefighters laid off. >> only time government employment went down in a recession has been under me. i make that point just so you don't buy in to this whole bloated government arguement that you hear. >> bret: p obama on friday -- president obama on friday cleaning up if you will his news conference where he said the private sector was doing fine. then the second sound bite may 8 when he was talking about cuts that have cop in government. the white house secretary jay carney said they were cherry picked numbers but this is from the bureau of labo...