This is becoming something of a trend, isn’t it?  Obama doesn’t want progress in Iraq until after the election because progress is bad for his campaign.  Now his campaign has apparently been rooting for economic collapse so that The One can blame it all on Bush and McCain, according to this transcript from CNN (courtesy of Newsbusters).

COOPER: Candy, no doubt—very quickly—on the campaign trail, it obviously played a big role today. You anticipate, in the days ahead, issue number one, it’s going to be front and center?

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN: Oh, absolutely.

I mean, listen, just as foreclosures were showing up on B-17, or in the real estate section, along comes this horrific headline out of Wall Street.

COOPER: Right.

CROWLEY: I mean, this is what they wanted. They believe, of course, that the economy is one of their strengths and that they can paint John McCain as George Bush.

That’s not change we can believe in.