Kenny insists he can lead country out of recession

ENDA KENNY invoked Barack Obama’s campaign motto as the Fine Gael leader insisted he could lead the country out of recession.

“The simplicity of his slogan ‘Yes we can’, captured the imagination of the world,” Mr Kenny said in his televised address. “My call to the Irish people is different. It is not just ‘Yes we can’, but ‘Yes we will’.”

Mr Kenny claimed that Fine Gael in government could return the public finances to health by 2012 — without increasing the current rates of income tax.