An interesting statement for a man who used fear tactics to pass a trillion-dollar stimulus, warning that a failure to do so would thrust us into a depression from which we couldn’t recover. Suddenly, with paybacks to special interests passed, everyone just needs to calm the heck down. As Drudge writes, “Dire Emergency Canceled”.
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.”
Translation: Obama wants you scared and warns that the sky is falling when he needs to shove a trillion-dollar bill down your throat. After that he wants everyone to know that things aren’t as bad as we think.
It’s more lying bullshit. Just like his railing against signing statements during the campaign. Now he’s in office and issuing signing statements. Or Obama’s broken promise to allow the public to comment on legislation for five days before he signs it. Just more bullcrap as usual.
Via Hot Air.
by Stephan Tawney on Thu, Mar 12, 2009