President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July.
They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports.
A top economic advisor to Obama had a glum warning for the rest of us Thursday morning: Neither the job market nor the stock market will be turning around any time soon.
"This might be a long haul," said Robert Reich, who was President Bill Clinton's secretary of labor. "2009 is going to be a very hard year. Some economists say we won't be out of this for two years, others are saying it may be three, or four, maybe five years."
Now wait a daggone minute here. Let's go back to June 3 of this year. Using The Messiah's own words.... “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
For cryin' out loud, that was over five months ago.
Any word yet on the lower tides on the Atlantic coasts?
2 comments:
You mean Peggy Joeseph is still going to have to worry about paying her mortgage and putting gas in her tank? With gas < $2.00 now, surely BO's administration can pay for that now.
Well I'm not sure. I haven't received my letter yet telling me not to pay my mortgage.
Now granted, The Messiah hasn't been anointed yet but I figure if the oceans started receding on 6/4 then surely our mortgage payments can't be that far behind.
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