Object In Chief’s Whipsaw Concerns
AP reports Obama doesn’t want you to be “whipsawed” by good news/bad news, and does want you to have confidence in his plans. The economy isn’t as bad as we think. Obama to the Business Roundtable:
“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 … 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.”
“Object In Chief.” That’s different. OK, the part that whipsaws me isn’t the news, which has pretty much been a consistent downer … recent bump-ups notwithstanding … but Obama’s message, which bounces around from “Panic!” to “We have nothing to fear but a lot to worry about” to “Always look on the bright side of life.” The Object in Chief generally likes it to be all about him. In this case, he wants us to think its about us and our economic fears. But the underlying concern is not so much how we might view the economy, but how we might view his long-term structural plans, which he knows are jeopardized by their fifth-wheel status at a time when the other four wheels are coming off. Read on at the link above, even pork-happy Congressional Dems are getting nervous about that. CNN re the same address notes he’s sensitive to conservative critics.
Gateway: Oops!
Topics: Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:49 am Comments (2) on Friday, March 13, 2009
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March 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Alluding to the political stakes, the president said that the country would be on an economic upswing by 2012, “or else you’ll be listening to someone else in 2013.”
You said it, Bub. But first, we need to attend to that house-cleaning project in 2010.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
So, is he saying that the fundamentals of the economy are strong?