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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	This is leadership?!?!?
	Date:	1/8/2009 11:17:03 AM

Is it just me or is the constant barrage of quotes from Obama about how bad things are and how much worse they are going to get more than a little disconcerting? No one wants him to put his head in the sand but the constant barrage of dire warnings is only going to make our economic crisis worsen because it is going to completely destroy what little consumer confidence we have. What is he thinking? He almost sounds panicky to me.

The cynic in me makes me think he is trying to spin this as much worse than it really is so when he finally takes office he can take credit for the turnaround. Or worse yet, to justify the nearly trillion dollars he has already proposed (which we all know will double or triple before the government is done) to borrow for dubious incentives to improve economic growth. Considering we are in this mess in the first place as a result of too much debt, I am bewildered how more debt (even government debt) is going to bail us out. I hope I am being too cynical but his approach to the whole President-Elect business has painted him into a corner and he seems like he is flailing about while there is really nothing he can do until January 20th.