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Obama Presser

By Jeralyn

The Obama press conference is on. You'd have to be on Mars not to be seeing it online or on tv, so I'm not going to live blog.

Speech part is over. (Text here.) Shorter version: This is the worst economy since the Depression. If we don't act now, we'll be in dire straits.

In answer to first question, he backtracked of an earlier statement today implying we'll never get out of it if we don't act now. He says he meant it will be difficult to get back on track. Shorter version: He avoids Doomsday scenario.

He seems very presidential and in control. Good for him and us.

Here's a thread for reactions.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).