<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/75c4afe4-ec46-45cd-b6b1-97e94dc48d7f/0E2BEFA0-C6BC-4F60-889D-1D07076C2AD6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/10/to-sell-stimulus-plan-obama-steps-up-to-presidential-bully-pulpit/" href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/10/to-sell-stimulus-plan-obama-steps-up-to-presidential-bully-pulpit/" style="font-size: 11px;">features.csmonitor.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/10/to-sell-stimulus-plan-obama-steps-up-to-presidential-bully-pulpit/"><P>WASHINGTON – Barack Obama is back on offense.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/10/to-sell-stimulus-plan-obama-steps-up-to-presidential-bully-pulpit/"><P>After a rough couple of weeks, in which he aggressively wooed Capitol Hill Republicans with little to show for it, President Obama is going straight to the American people with his pitch for action on the economy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/10/to-sell-stimulus-plan-obama-steps-up-to-presidential-bully-pulpit/"><P>At the conclusion of his press conference Monday, Obama mused aloud that he gets a sense that “there’s some ideological blockage there that needs to be cleared up.” But, he continued, “I am the eternal optimist. I think that over time people respond to civility and rational argument.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/10/to-sell-stimulus-plan-obama-steps-up-to-presidential-bully-pulpit/"><P>“You’ll remember that when we initially introduced our framework, they were pleasantly surprised and complimentary about the tax cuts that were presented in that framework,” the president said. “Those tax cuts are still in there. I mean, I suppose what I could have done is started off with no tax cuts, knowing that I was going to want some, and then let them take credit for all of them. And maybe that’s the lesson I learned.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E2BEFA0-C6BC-4F60-889D-1D07076C2AD6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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