Obama: Economic crisis not as dire as it seems (Obama thinks 9% unemployment is better than 5%)

Daily News ^ | 3/13/2009 | Kenneth R. Bazinet

[tobyhill]

President Obama said Thursday the nation's economic woes are not as dire as they seem and said his economic policies will get the country back on track.

"I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say," Obama told CEOs at a meeting of the Business Roundtable in Washington.

"Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy," he said. "They're not as bad as we think they are now."

[cripplecreek]

So in other words he inherited an ok economy?

[Doogle]

guess tea parties have their effect..*smiles*..maybe the sales of guns and ammo, torches and pitchforks......

[DarthVader]

Its called Obamanomics. Economics + Ebonics = Moronics.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Well, I certainly have less money to worry about since Obama was elected.

[tobyhill]

Must be. Since the economy is worse in the 6 weeks Obama has been in but it's still good, according to Obama, it must have been great at the end of Bush term.

[DemforBush]

I hate to ever agree with the toe-sucker...but I think Dick Morris may have it right. On O’Reilly last night he basically stated that 0bama is more interested in leaving his ideological stamp on the country than the economy, even if it ultimately hurts his chances for re-election.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

"I don't like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government's role," Obama insisted.

And I'm not an arsonist; I just like setting things on fire.

[Doogle]

don't believe your eyes

[Pietro]

"I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,"

And I don't think using cliches is ever clever.

[linn37]

Does that mean the economy is fundamentally sound?

[tobyhill]

The only stamp Obama has is the one that reads, “BANKRUPT”.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Yes, compared to Zimbabwe, we are still doing better, for now, says President Teleprompter.

[tobyhill]

Yep, everything is just peachy. All those foreclosure and unemployment is just the MSM exaggerations.
He basically just called his friends in the MSM liars.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Presidentin’ is hard.

[kempster]

"I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,"

Why does this statement give me such a new warm and fuzzy feeling?

[Brilliant]

He needs to make up his mind. He just convinced us to mortgage our children’s future to the extent of $2 trillion, telling us that we were facing economic catastrophe.

[rockinqsranch]

“I don’t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,”

“They’re not as bad as we think they are now.”

Who’s “They”?

[jilliane]

“This is the worst economy our nation has seen since the great depression.” ......

“errr, nevermind.”

[NavVet]

“Dire” when you need to funnel a few billion to your criminal ACORN buddies. Then the economy is “OK” when you need to explain away the fact that the Porkulus bill did not actually create any jobs.