The Obama effect on cookie sales Obama’s favorite cookie when he was in Iowa is suddenly a big hit:

Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day.
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“I think everybody just … thought, ‘Oh, great cookie, great president–the world is a happy place. Barack’s going to fix all the problems and if I have a bite of this cookie it’s going to make me feel good,'” Maxfield said.

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Wow! Obama really has his work cut out for him lowering expectations. He’s been trying to warn people it’s going to take years to fix the economy but the people just aren’t getting it. Maybe he shouldn’t have sold himself as the one the world was waiting for
. It makes people think you’re able to solve the problems of the world. Good luck with that.