Nicely Done, Mr. President | Talking Points Memo

Well, there’s a reason he’s president and not Hillary Clinton or John McCain.

Barack Obama handled himself with great aplomb, using his opening statement to lay out the problem and what his answers are. And with each question–and none of the questions were total boners, so score one for the press–the president managed to show a command of the issues and an analytic mind. Wisely, he kept coming back to the point that doing nothing is not really an answer and that tax cuts alone are not enough.


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