“Office of the President-Elect.” Barak Obama seems to be in a big hurry to have the pomp and glory of his new job. Does that mean he takes responsibility for the way the stock market tanked this week?
It’s the biggest post-election drop ever on a percentage basis, bigger even than the loss in value when Franklin Roosevelt was elected. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In the subsequent decades the leftmediaestablishment spun the 1930s as “Happy Days are Here Again” to impressionable young people like myself whom they hoped wouldn’t know any better.
From the change.gov web site: “President Elect Obama Meets with Economic Advisers, Calls for ‘Swift Action’ on the Economy.”
Barack Obama today held his first press conference as President-Elect to call for “swift action” to fix the nation’s economy.
“Immediately after I become president I will confront this economic crisis head-on by taking all necessary steps to ease the credit crisis, help hardworking families, and restore growth and prosperity,” President-Elect Obama said.
In other words, he still doesn’t have a clue what to do.
Yeah, that’s how to get swift action, all right. Spout a bunch of tired cliches to inspire the troops.
In other news, Scott Orr at Scrappleface says Barak Obama is his president:
After George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, and later John Kerry, for the presidency, countless Democrat-owned cars bore bumper stickers with clever phrases like ‘Not My President’ or ‘Don’t Blame Me I Voted for Kerry’.
As a conservative evangelical Christian who voted for McCain-Palin, and for every other Republican on the ballot yesterday, let me say for the record: Barack Obama is my president.
Orr talks as though the election is over. But Obama knows it isn’t, which is why he’s still campaigning. The days when an election settled the issue of legitimate succession are long gone, and he knows it. But there are Republicans who are still stuck in the old days.