It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

On November 11 2003 Gibbs resigned "in reaction to the firing of Jim Jordan abruptly let go by Kerry Sunday night. We can't go to a discussion and be completely the demander with them not feeling that they need anything from us.

On January 5 2011 Gibbs announced that he would leave the White House to become an outside adviser to the administration. Gibbs who has worked with Obama since 2004 was press secretary of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and has previously specialized in Senate campaigns having served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and for four individual Senate campaigns including those of Obama in 2004 and Fritz Hollings in 1998. S.