President Emily Ogabe

clipped from justoneminute.typepad.com They told Glenn that if he voted for McCain we'd have a President who was an out-of-touch cheerleader for the economy.  And they were right! Let's roll the tape - this is John McCain last September, in comments subsequently and routinely derided by Obama: "You know," said McCain, "there's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and it is -- people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. And here is President Emily Litella speaking yesterday: After meeting with Paul A. Volcker, one of his top economic advisers, Mr. Obama said, “There are a lot of individual families who are experiencing incredible pain and hardship right now.” “But if we are keeping focused on all the fundamentally sound aspects of our economy,” he added, “all the outstanding companies, workers, all the innovation and dynamism in this economy, then we’re going to get through this. And I’m very confident about that.”