Barack Obama Bores the Press (Economy, Numbers, Blah Blah Blah)

Last night President Obama held his first prime-time press conference to address, among other things, the fact that our economy has collapsed. So exciting! Except not, according to the crankypantses over at The Corner…

The conference was, frankly, boring and long-winded. His answer to the first question was an unforgivably meandering and pointless 10 minutes.

For reference, this was the first question:

Earlier today in Indiana, you said something striking. You said that this nation could end up in a crisis without action that we would be unable to reverse.

Can you talk about what you know or what you're hearing that would lead you to say that our recession might be permanent when others in our history have not? And do you think that you risk losing some credibility or even talking down the economy by using dire language like that?

And then, yes, Barack Obama went on at length about statistics and economists and the credit markets. Snoooooooze. Obviously what he should have said was: "I will personally resurrect the corpse of Ronald Reagan so he can lead us through this econopocalypse, and then I will halt all government spending on everything, except for faith-based initiatives and military contractors. The end, thanks for coming! Afterparty with open bar at Rahm's place!"