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Obama on the economy June 17, 2008 on MSNBC

2009-06-12 124 Dailymotion

The good parts starts at 1:40 in!

HARWOOD: So could high prices help us?

SENATOR OBAMA: I think I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocket books is not a good thing.

GLENN: Stop just a second. He would have preferred a gradual adjustment. Have you ever heard that campaign promise from anyone in congress, conservative, Democrat, Republican? Have you ever heard anybody say I'd like a gradual raise of gases, besides environmental kooks? Those are the only ones that would say that. He just said, I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that it's a shock to the American pocketbook is not a good thing. But then listen to what he says.