The “Object in Chief” Declares the Economy Isn’t So Bad After All.
Well, why didn’t he tell us this before he panicked the country into believing that dumping a couple of million bucks on his favorite activist groups and campaign donors would be a great idea?
But Obama, speaking to top executives of the Business Roundtable, expressed an optimistic vision and called for patience.
Richard Parsons, chairman of beleaguered Citigroup Inc., asked if Obama could offer some help in a national battle “between confidence and fear.”
“A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we’re down on the dumps,” Obama said. “And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this varying assessment.”
“I don’t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,” Obama added. “Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They’re not as bad as we think they are now.”
“And my long-term projections are highly optimistic, if we take care of some of these long-term structural problems.”
Or is the answer to that question way too obvious?
So now, having panicked the dogspit out of all the people with the money to actually pull our country out of the recession, he realizes he’s gone too far, pulls the pouty lip, and tries assures everyone that he was just full of crap for three months. Of course, he’s still trying to tax the very people he wants to trust him into the poor house.
I also can’t help but point out that there’s hasn’t been “a little bit of bad news”. There’s been a whole freaking trainload of bad news, most of it either directly caused by the administrations bumbling ignorance or by the constant stream of fear-mongering and class warfare that’s flowed from the President’s own yap.
So, yeah. I’d say he’s the “object” here, if by “object” he means “proximate cause”.
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He's pushed through is pork and spending agenda for now so everything can be hunky dory for a while. The he can say, see it's working. Sad part is people will believe him.