He mocked McCain and is now saying the same!

Obama Team Adopts McCain's Optimism on Economy
Barack Obama lambasted John McCain during the presidential campaign for saying the fundamentals of the economy are "strong." Now the president's adviser says the fundamentals of the economy are obviously "sound."

FOXNews.com
Monday, March 16, 2009

"Stubborn."
"Out of touch."
"Incapable of understanding" the economic crisis.
That's how Barack Obama and his presidential campaign team described John McCain last year when the Republican candidate famously said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
But now President Obama and his advisers are adopting similar rhetoric as they try to build public confidence in an economic turnaround.
"Of course the fundamentals are sound," Obama economic adviser Christina Romer said Sunday.
The administration is now keeping the focus on "all the fundamentally sound aspects of our economy," Obama said Friday.
Romer explained on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the country is in a temporary "mess," but that the president is focusing on fixing up those fundamentals, which she defined as "the American workers."
That's the same line McCain used last September -- before the worst of the economic crisis emerged -- to explain his confidence.
The rhetorical shift is just the latest in which Obama has shown strains of the views and policies of the man he defeated in November, even though in some cases he once criticized those views.
"Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?" Obama asked in Colorado last September after McCain expressed his economic optimism. (continues...)