Leader of the Most Powerful Country on Earth

A literal transcript excerpt from today's White House press conference (the first since last March):

"And yet our . . . uh . . . the economy is . . . uh . . . growing. In . . . uh . . . in other words, what I'm telling you is, is . . . uh . . . that we had a lot of obstacles to . . . um . . . to overcome. The '01 tax cuts affected the . . . um . . .this recession this way, it was a . . . a . . . shallow . . . um . . . recession. That's positive, because I . . . uh, what's the word, um . . . care about . . . um . . .people being able to find a job. Someone said, well, . . . uh . . . maybe the recession should have been deeper in . . . um . . . in order for the . . . um . . . rebound to be quicker. My attitude is, a . . . um . . . deeper recession means . . . um . . . more people would have been hurt. And I view the actions . . . um . . . we've taken as a jobs program, . . . um . . . a job creation program."

(Thanks to frog n' blog.)