Obama Advisor: Fundamentals of our Economy Are Strong

Ok, a follow-up to yesterday's post. Yesterday, OpinionPolitics pointed out that some of Obama's language sounded much like McCain's upbeat language on the economy during the campaign, in spite of the fact that the economy is actually doing worse than it was during the campaign.

But now, Obama economic advisor Christina Romer, upon being asked this morning on Meet the Press whether the fundamentals of the economy are sound, responded with almost the same wording that McCain used:

Of course they are sound.

—Christina Romer, March 15, 2009

I think a quote from Senator Obama might be appropriate here:

[W]hat economy are you talking about?"

—Barack Obama, September 15, 2008

OpinionPolitics agrees that the fundamentals are strong, but if they're strong now, they were definitely strong when McCain made his much-criticized assessment during the campaign.