For those who kept their eyes open for Barack Obama’s yawn stifling press conference last night, it was the same old same old.

Obama had nothing new to offer Americans who are still waiting for that help he promised them. Instead what they saw was a guy who acts like he’s still on the campaign trail, making empty promises that he has no intentions of keeping.

From NY Daily News:

    Obama used his second prime-time news conference to acknowledge disgust over AIG bonuses, but mostly he somberly urged Americans to be patient and give his multipronged economic blueprint a chance to work.

    For Obama, it was a delicate balancing act – how to identify with the rage many Americans feel over Wall Street’s excesses and trillions in new government bailout spending, while at the same time asking voters to move beyond the fury to something more constructive.

    But many probably wished “American Idol” hadn’t been bumped from the lineup to make room for the President.

    “He’s a new President, but it was the same old, same old,” said University of Virginia political science Prof. Larry Sabato. “There just wasn’t much there.”