Analysis: Cheney defends Iraq war, skips failures

Le Spambo wrote:

<quoted text>JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE AGAIN.....blah, blah, blah....………………RESIGN.

EXCELLENT job of proving my point there, Spambo...:)

Jobless claims rise again. Do you really think a speech will change anything? That is so much B S. Whatever President Obama now plans to do should have been done 2 1/2 years ago when he had a Democrat House, and Senate, and the Presideent still had some credibility.

"In April 2007 delivered an upbeat assessment of the economy, saying growth was healthy and the housing market was nearing a turnaround. "All the signs I look at" show "the housing market is at or near the bottom," Paulson said in a speech to a business group in New York. The U.S. economy is "very healthy" and "robust," Paulson said.[20]
In August 2007, Secretary Paulson explained that U.S. subprime mortgage fallout remained largely contained due to the strongest global economy in decades.[21]
In May 2008, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Paulson said U.S. financial markets are emerging from the credit crunch that many economists believe has pushed the country to the brink of recession. "I do believe that the worst is likely to be behind us," Paulson told the newspaper in an interview.[22]