President Obama to Magically Create 800,000 Jobs

President Obama, speaking today in Wisconsin, said something pretty funny.

“We expect our commitment to clean energy to lead to more than 800,000 jobs by 2012,” Obama declared. “And that’s not just creating work in the short term, that’s going to help lay the foundation for lasting economic growth.”

You have to wonder if even Obama believes his own propaganda about job creation. I doubt many other people do. But I guess when you are just making up a number off the top of your head, you might as well make up a big impressive one. Why not just predict 8 million new jobs? It would sound even better and be about as accurate.