Barack Obama actually said...

All year, President Obama has been pointing to the monthly figures, suggesting strong growth in the job market.

After losing more than eight million jobs in the recession, we have added more than three million private sector jobs over the past 22 month...

We just learned that our economy added 220,000 private sector jobs in December.

Our businesses just added 233,000 jobs last month, for a total of nearly four million new jobs over the last two years.