Now, now . . . one would have every right to critize, especially if the President said that the economy would be fixed in a short amount of time . . . he did, didn't he?

“This crisis didn’t happen overnight,” Obama said in his second prime-time news conference. And the recovery will take “many months,” he said, because “we’ve accumulated structural deficits that are going to take a long time” to rectify.
March 24, 2009

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at yesterday’s White House press briefing that the economic recovery “is going to take an enormous amount of time,” and when asked to clarify exactly what that meant, he said, “it’s going to take several years.”
September 22, 2010

As I’ve said many times before, it took us a long time to get out of where we are right now.

And the damage left by this recession is so deep that it’s going to take a long time to get out. It will take determination, persistence, and, most importantly, the will to act -– all elements that the American people have in abundance. October 11, 2010

Well, I guess he never said it was going to be fast or easy.