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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
February 25, 2009 07:32 PM
Former President Bill Clinton was perhaps the most notable voice to advise President Obama to lighten up a little and be more hopeful about the economy.
With his address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, Obama struck just the right tone and pulled off "a real success," Clinton told Greg Sargent ofWhoRunsGov.com today.
Obama succeeded in telling “the American people that we’re gonna get out of this and it’s gonna be alright in the end,” Clinton said in the interview. “I think he drew the right balance — he didn’t sugar-coat anything, he didn’t say it’s gonna get better tomorrow.”
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