Barack Obama's first prime-time press conference

"I won't return to the failed theories of the last eight years"

The White House news conference, the first since Inauguration Day, put a calm, confident President Obama in front of the nation for an hour; while he didn't make any news, he easily drove home a twofold message to anyone watching -- he didn't cause the mess we're in, but he intends to solve it. Full Story »

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Peter L. Combs
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by Peter L. Combs - Feb. 11, 2009

The article while well written has a slant so deep Politically in favor of the President it reads more like a Press Piece. Central assetions are in many cases more a viewpoint than factually based. Still worth the read, but should be viewed for what it is.

If you want a to the right slant you can read The New Republic or Charles Krauthammer and if you want the left Salon or Huffington are the places to go. All are worth keeping up on. Yesterdays stock market reaction repudiated the President rather brutally. He needs to do a better job "putting lipstick on his pig".

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