The big difference is that Mr. Obama’s Land of Make Believe is a much creepier place.

Rather than abandon the impossible to measure, and therefore untrue, “jobs saved” rhetoric, President Obama has decided to ramp it up even more. He’s upped the play number to a cool million now.

Unemployment continues to rise well past the 8% that the stimulus was supposed to hold it under and the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs like a hemophiliac passing through a buzz-saw yet our Dear Leader continues to spin a fantasy tale that even some of the faithful aren’t buying now.

But in interviews with recipients, the Globe found that several openly acknowledged creating far fewer jobs than they have been credited for.

One of the largest reported jobs figures comes from Bridgewater State College, which is listed as using $77,181 in stimulus money for 160 full-time work-study jobs for students. But Bridgewater State spokesman Bryan Baldwin said the college made a mistake and the actual number of new jobs was “almost nothing.’’ Bridgewater has submitted a correction, but it is not yet reflected in the report.

So…is that zero jobs or a hundred and sixty?

Why, is there a difference?

In addition to the outright falsehoods, much of what this administration passes of as math is merely semantic accounting trickery.

In other cases, federal money that recipients already receive annually – subsidies for affordable housing, for example – was reclassified this year as stimulus spending, and the existing jobs already supported by those programs were credited to stimulus spending.

Rename the source of the funds for jobs that weren’t going anywhere and-Voila!-we’re saving jobs, people!

The only real question now is which will crack first under the weight of this game of pretend-the economy or the suspension of disbelief that is the hallmark of all hardcore Obama supporters. One would hope that they’ll give before the economy does.

“Hope”.

Oh, never mind, then.