During the election Barack Obama ridiculed John McCain for claiming that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
They thought it was so funny, they even mocked him in an ad:
But, just like we’ve seen several times already…
That was just typical Obama campaign rhetoric.
This week Obama’s economic chairwoman Dr. Christia Romer told David Gregory on Meet the Press that, “Of course the fundamentals of the economy are strong”:
Via TownHall
Figures.
It’s just more of the change you’ve been looking for.
UPDATE: WHite House Spokesperson Robert Gibbs was also caught stumbling over the difference between the economy being “sound” and the economy being “strong.”
More… This one was so obvious, that even the AP couldn’t ignore this flip-flop.