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Obama mixes optimism and hard truths - Los Angeles Times

Firedoglake found this 2/25/2009 on latimes.com

Reporting from Washington -- When Herbert Hoover said on the eve of the Great Depression that "prosperity is around the corner," he was ridiculed as blindly optimistic, and shantytowns were mockingly named "Hoovervilles." When Jimmy Carter said a "national malaise" was behind U.S. economic woes ...