Standing Eight
By Mitch Berg
60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft responds to President Obama’s curious performance on the long-running, Democrat-leaning news show.
Quoting Kroft:
You’re sitting here. And you’re laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems,” Kroft told the president. “Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money?’ How do you deal with — I mean: explain … Are you punch-drunk?””No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama replied, with a laugh.
If it’d been Bush, the question would have been more like “are drinking agan?”
Of course, the media just is not going to hold The One’s feet in the fire:
The president also acknowledged surprise at how quickly the U.S. economy crumbled between his November election and January inauguration.
“I don’t think that we anticipated how steep the decline would be,” he said in the “60 Minutes” interview on CBS television. “That slope is a lot steeper than anything that we’ve said — we’ve seen before.”
Or since January. Y’know.
But some of us – the “economic reality-based” community – weren’t surprised at all. Tax and spend liberals shred economies.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 am
Slash could actually make a coherent satirical point here by popping in and writing something like “Yea! If ol’ ‘Free Market’ McCain had won we’d be lookin’ at Dow 14.000 again!”
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Haha, yeah, that’s all the president’s fault. And Jimmy Carter’s. Let’s not forget Jimmy Carter. At a time when nobody’s buying y’alls bullshit, you ever think of selling something a little more believable?
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Wouldn’t it be great if Obammy took Dick Cheney out hunting & “accidentally’ shot him in the face?
That would be so cool.
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Moderator, pls delete my last comment.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Well, let’s see.
1) Monetarize the debt. That’s good for killing growth stocks.
2) Run a massive stimulus by borrowing. That’s good for killing growth and stocks according to the CBO.
3) Run $1e12/year debts for a decade in your budget, killing growth and stocks.
4) Run an incompetent, unpredictable, bumbling regulatory and retributive policy, making investments dangerous. That’s good for killing stocks.
Yeah, we might not be at 14K if McCain were elected, but making the argument that we’re better off with what we’ve had is impossible.