Liberal blog posts video of Rick on Saturday saying there is a recession...

A little more context from the liberal blog (link)...

This whole country’s in a recession. You don’t lose the number of jobs that we’ve lost in this country — and Texas has been impacted too. But, there’s no doubt that the impact is substantially less on Texas because of the policies that we’ve put in place. You better believe it — every family, every person who’s lost a job is a reflection of some policy, generally speaking policies that have come out of Washington, DC…

But you ask any people in the country which state would you rather economically be in than any other one, they rather be in Texas. We balanced our budget, we gave 40,000 small businesses a tax cut and we’re working towards having 9 billion dollars in our rainy day fund. In anybody’s estimation, that’s good economic policy that’s been put in place. Are we worried about what Washington’s doing and the impact that it’s having on the state of Texas and the recession that it’s pushing Texas farther into? Absolutely.

I think the real story is :19 is never enough to really get a feel for what a candidate is thinking or feeling. Try 1 or 2 minutes, and then a gaffe is actually a lot worse, because it is in context. This whole thing was not really a gaffe so much as something taken out of context, from what I am hearing.