Reply #4: Dangerous thinking. Knock it off please.

[gcomeau]

As much as we all would like it if it was true until Obama is officially inaugurated his hands are tied. He has extremely limited influence compared to what he's going to have after January 20th. And the Right would love nothing better than to SAY that Obama is already in charge because then they can start blaming everything wrong with the economy on him while he's in no position to actually DO anything about the economy. "Why isn't Obama fixing things? Oh look, the market is tanking, why isn't Obama stopping it!?!?!?" Etc.. They're already trying to get that kind of thinking out there without us helping it along, thanks anyway. Bush is still President, this is HIS mess, and we're supposed to be pointing out that HE isn't doing anything to fix it. Not asking why the guy who isn't in charge yet isn't acting like he's in charge.

We don't want to go there. We do not need to help the Right try to pin responsibility for this mess on Obama by spreading the idea that he's already in charge before he actually is.