Today's Detroit News has a brilliant piece, deconstructing the democrat lie that the President has "the worst job loss record of any president since Herbert Hoover."

Besides noting that the job losses did not begin with President Bush, and that September 11 exacerbated the country's economic problems, the article points out:

True, under Bush, jobs have declined 2.2 million, about the same as under the four years of the Hoover administration from 1929 to 1933. But in 1929, when the population was 121 million, a job loss of two million was a national catastrophe. It sent unemployment rocketing from 3.2 percent in 1929 to 23.6 percent in 1932. In 2004, when the population is more than 280 million, a loss of two million jobs means a national unemployment rate of 5.6 percent, sorrowful for the individuals involved but hardly a national calamity.

It also reminds us:

During his four years in office, Hoover followed the very policies being advocated most ardently these days by the Democrats — tax increases, trade barriers and higher spending on social programs. If anybody is following in the tradition of Hoover, it’s Kerry and Edwards

Between this and Kerry's constant harping on his Vietnam service, maybe it's time for the Republicans to start pointing out the obvious: that the Democrats are living in the last century.