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To: LindyBill who wrote (295186)	3/5/2009 6:37:36 PM
From: mph	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793931

Does Wolff even believe half of what he's saying about Obama? lol. IMO, the only thing keeping Obama from giving a whole hog sales pitch for the market and houses, etc. is that he knows his so called stimulus won't help the economy and won't help the markets. He just doesn't want to go down on record as the guy who encouraged people to throw even more money away on his say-so. He couldn't blame Bush or his grandma or his preacher or his press agent for that...

To: LindyBill who wrote (295186)	3/5/2009 8:59:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793931

It would be wrong to say that the new president, after his 2 years on the road and his historic victory, isn't one hell of a salesman himself. But his salesmanship has played to the moral high ground, rather than to the baser instincts of merely wanting things. Indeed, we certainly seem to have gotten what we wanted, somebody who really isn't sleazy. Barack Obama is a man who really seems reasonably inclined to tell the truth—even difficult truth. Which is something great. What is the distinction between sleezy and utterly cynical? Barack Obama ran as a giant screen projector, onto which everybody could project their hopes. He played to gauzy New Age wishes for community and apple pie from the government. Did he ever tell the truth about himself? Let me put it this way: if he did, why are so many moderates so unpleasantly surprised by his first round of budget choices?