Barack Obama actually said...

"I want to extend my warmest wishes for the New Year."

"When the naysayers said we should just let the American auto industry vanish and take hundreds of thousands of jobs down with it, we said we'd stand by them if they made the tough choices necessary to..."

"I want to see solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars made in China."

"Bottom line is, these guys refuse to give up on the economic philosophy they peddled for most of the last decade."