claim: says that president obama promised that with the stimulus plan, "unemployment would never go above 8 percent. he even said it would be 6 percent by now."
author: bob latta
evidence_1: aug 3, 2012 ... bernstein was vice president biden's chief economic advisor. ... unemployment  would never rise past 8 percent, and would peak just under ... without the  stimulus, they predicted that unemployment would peak ... it has declined since  then but has remained above 8 percent for 41 months straight, a record.
evidence_2: sep 13, 2012 ... the president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that  unemployment would go to 5.7 percent or 6 percent. those were his words,"  bramnick said in a sept. ... that with the stimulus plan, "unemployment would  never go above 8 percent. he even said it would be 6 percent by now."
evidence_3: oct 8, 2011 ... romer took it home over christmas to double-check, rewrite and pick over. ...  recovery plan” — forecasts unemployment peaking at 8 percent in ... even with  the stimulus, unemployment shot past 10 percent in 2009. .... if we had done  nothing, they say, unemployment would never have reached 10 percent.
evidence_4: mar 15, 2012 ... matt lauer: at some point will you say, “wait a minute, we've spent ... if you add  up the promises, he boldly promised well over 5.5 million ... rise to 9 percent  during most of 2010 and stay above 6 percent through most of 2012. ... stimulus  package was passed, “unemployment will peak at about 8 percent.
evidence_5: the white house and congressional leaders, he says, pursued an agenda that ...  a large part of obama's appeal to independents and moderates was his promise  to ... care with senate republicans who never had any intention of getting to yes;  .... passage of the stimulus bill, unemployment would peak around 8.5 percent.