Barack Obama actually said...

You have some people, very sincere, who philosophically just think that government has no business interfering in the marketplace.

The credit crisis is real. And it's not over. We averted catastrophe by passing the TARP legislation.

Last month our economy lost 598,000 jobs which is nearly the equivalent of losing every single job in the state of Maine.

What I have said is what other economists have said across the political spectrum, which is that, if you delay acting on an economy of this ...