Above the fray, President Obama struggles to define liberalism in an era of debt and division.
WASHINGTON — When President Obama emerged from spending talks last Thursday night, he went before cameras to insist that an agreement was needed to avoid a government shutdown that he warned would damage the country. What he did not do was make a public case for what should be in the agreement itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/we...l?ref=politics
Note: April 9, 2011