For several weeks, President Obama has been talking up the economy, hinting at a robust recovery that he wants everyone to know has arrived – only four or five years late.

“At every step, we were told our goals were misguided or too ambitious,” Obama said in his State of the Union speech in January, winding up for a big I-told-you-so about what he called “the fastest economic growth in over a decade.”

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