Good news about bad news

How much has the Obama's White House missed David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager for the 2008 elections? A lot, perhaps, in terms of choosing a message that changes the political dialogue, if the chart above (click here for a readable version) is any guide. This was emailed out by Plouffe last night, via his Organising for America gig, and it gets across a succinct point that the Obama administartion and the Treasury have failed to so far: that the state of the labour market is improving. And portrayed this way, it also does a nice job of juxtaposing the Obama administration with the tail of the Bush era.