Philosopher Obama

President Obama: “I've never bought into these Malthusian, woe, Chicken Little, the earth is falling. I tend to be pretty optimistic. I wouldn't be here if I weren't pretty optimistic. A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and 'Ooohh, we're down on the dumps. And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say. Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They're not as bad as we think they are now.”