This just in from the Department of Nothing's Ever Good Enough...

Kerry: Jobless Rate Points to Failures

Associated Press -- NEWARK, Ohio - Democrat John Kerry cited new government figures Friday showing fewer jobs created than expected as another example of what he called President Bush's "record of failure."

With all due respect Mr. Senator... are you on glue? At least the AP (surprisingly) goes on to shoot this bit of nitwittery down.

The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate slipped to 5.4 percent last month, from 5.5 percent in July...

Let's see, the unemployment rate went from 5.5 to 5.4 and this is a bad thing? (BTW, the unemployment rate was 5.6 when President Clinton was running for reelection and he was lauded as the friggin' savior.)

... with the economy adding 144,000 jobs. Economists, however, had been expecting a net gain of 150,000 jobs.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. So, the actual number of jobs added didn't meet the guestimations of economists? Big friggin' deal. What kind of tolerances are they trying to hold? The actual was off from the nominal estimation by 6,000 (or 0.96%) jobs. Pretty damn close to deadnuts (industry term, sorry) if ya ask me. But since he thinks "This is your wake up call" is five words, I guess his idea of holding to a tolerance is pretty loose.

This report is certainly nothing to try to score points with... well, if you're the Kerry campaign anyway.