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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:01:13 +0000 – By Lanny DavisAttorney/Former White House Special Counsel
Teddy Roosevelt said the presidency is a bully pulpit. George W. Bush frequently went out into the country to sell his programs and policies — whether tax cuts or the Iraq War — and often by inferring or stating that “Washington doesn’t get it.”
Anyone who suggests that what President Obama is doing now, visiting and holding town meetings in economically hard-hit communities to increase public pressure for passage of the stimulus package, is either unusual or wrong and is using a double standard — or ignoring history–or both.