Al Franken Builds on the President's Car Story [View All]

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Sen. Franken at the University of Minnesota Saturday October 23: http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/105606538.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3iUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDh_47cQiU47cQU17cQ_bDaEP7U




SEN. FRANKEN:"I think the analogy that the economy was a car in a ditch when he took office that he uses is just a little too static. Here's my analogy, which in my opinion is both more kinetic and, frankly, far more accurate.

When the president took office not only had the car gone into a ditch but the car had flipped over and was rolling down a steep embankment. We, the American people, were in the back seat and the Bush administration had removed all the seat belts. So we were all flying around the interior of this car, as it was rolling and flipping and careening down this steep embankment heading to ...a 2,000-foot cliff. And at the bottom of that cliff were jagged rocks and alligators.

Now at noon on January 20th, 2009 as the car was careening toward the cliff, George W. Bush jumped out of the car. President Bush jumped out of the car and President Obama somehow managed to dive in through the window, take the wheel, get control of the vehicle, just inches before it went over the precipice. And he and Congress starting inching this wrecked (car) back up the embankment.

Now, you can't push a car up an embankment as fast as it careens down an embankment. But we got it going in the right direction and slowly we've gotten ourselves up that embankment, passed the ditch, up on the shoulder of the road. That is what happened. That's where we are today. "





full transcript of President Obama's speech Saturday at Minnesota rally for Gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton: http://theuptake.org/2010/10/23/obama-franken-klobuchar-stump-for-dayton-at-u-of-m/