Barack Obama actually said...

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 ...

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