WTF? Chuck Todd: Obama owns the economy at 12 o'clock eastern time today. Did I say WTF?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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[democracy1st]

1. corp media what a dayum shame

[rosesaylavee]

2. What a stupid thing to say. And irresponsible too.

Chuck Todd shouldn't have that job.

[GainesT1958]

3. Chuck's watch is wrong...

By around two months, me thinks!:eyes:

Does Chuck also think FDR "owned" the Depression by Thanksgiving, 1932? Chuck's great on political stats, but often SORELY LACKING on the analysis front.

B-)

[lob1]

4. They refuse to blame Bush and he's president.

They blame Obama, and he's not president. That's the way the world looks when you have your head shoved up your own ass.

[ihavenobias]

5. Yep. And this is our "liberal" media. n/t

[deepwater152]

6. This bailout is a big mistake.

If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history.



• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

President Obama ,Please bring home the troops from Iraq,and Afganistan

[PatSeg]

11. Welcome to DU!

Well at least the Bush administration has been consistent to the very end. Are there any records left that he hasn't broken? Maybe he thought federal spending was a competition and he beat everyone!

[AtomTan]

7. I can't watch the vid, what's the rationale for this bullshit?

On the same day that the BUSH ADMINISTRATION announces their next $800 billion giveaway to their robber baron buddies, the man 2 months away from office is responsible for what exactly ...?

[lob1]

8. There is no rational. They're just doing their damndest to blame

this mess on Obama. Seriously, they don't even offer a reason why this is all Obama's fault, it just is.

[ryanmuegge]

9. I expect nothing less than idiotic nonsense from the cable talking heads.

He obviously doesn't know what day or month it is. Why do these clowns get paid so much money? Well, because they are completely indoctrinated and vigorously defend and maintain the status quo by talking only about trivial shit.

[GreenTea]

10. Republican strategy; blame the economy on Obama to get big republican gains in both houses in 2010

Start now, blame the economy over & over on Obama so it sticks for 2010 - And oppose everything Obama does to try & help it, (even though he doesn't take office until Jan 20th 2009) But start blaming him now....Filibuster if necessary anything just so Obama is badly weaken for the 2012 presidential election. Republicans will just say to each other (as they always do) fuck what's best for the country...just weaken Obama so they (repugs) can get back power for their corporate fascism & military imperialism!

The Republicans will play very dirty and cry liberal media over & over, but what else can one expect from the filthy lying, hateful, greedy republicans and their corporate owned mainstream media pushing their bullshit each and every day!

[truedelphi]

12. From a bio posted on the web (Just for our info)

Count Austan Goolsbee among the new breed of University of Chicago economists-led by best-selling "Freakonomics'' author Steven D. Levitt-who are concerned with applying the laws of economics to everyday business and human behavior, as opposed to spinning out abstract macroeconomic theory in the tradition of the Chicago School.

In his monthly column in the New York Times, Mr. Goolsbee has written about iPod software, ethnic divisions in postwar nations and the elimination of paper tax returns. "He asks questions people care about.''