Saved by the STimulus

This morning President Obama claimed that the costly stimulus package passed last year saved the country from a depression. This comes out at a time when the latest poll found that only 6% of the American people think that the stimulus created any jobs. Since there are probably more than 6% of Americans who think that aliens from outer space have visited Earth during our lifetimes, the number who think that jobs were created is essentially zero.

I wonder why Obama thinks he will be able to convince the country that his trillion dollars of new debt and political payoffs to those who supported him can now be recast as saving us from a depression. Sounds to me like he still thinks he can convince anyone of anything. P.T.Barnum was right -- you can fool all of the people some of the time (like last election), but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.