During the 2009 campaign, one Christie commercial even showed his supporters cheering and waving signs as a stirring Obama speech played on the soundtrack. You wouldnt know it from looking at them, or hearing them talk, or hearing people talk about them, but Barack Obama and Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, have a lot in common. And both plan to spend 2011 tackling the same thorny issues: education reform, public-pension stabilization, and long-term debt reduction. Both inherited a post-apocalyptic mess from a predecessor of the opposing party. Both were elected in the midst of the Great Recession. Both sold themselves to voters as truth-telling change agents.
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Both were elected in the midst of the Great Recession. Both sold themselves to voters as truth-telling change agents. And both plan to spend 2011 tackling the same thorny issues: education reform, public-pension stabilization, and long-term debt reduction. You wouldnt know it from looking at them, or hearing them talk, or hearing people talk about them, but Barack Obama and Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, have a lot in common. During the 2009 campaign, one Christie commercial even showed his supporters cheering and waving signs as a stirring Obama speech played on the soundtrack. Both inherited a post-apocalyptic mess from a predecessor of the opposing party.
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Robert Gibbs, the press secretary for the White House, counters: "We have more interviews with more journalists at this stage of our presidency of someone else." We go too often Don 't make sense to anybody, "said Gibbs. We have a shy at the time of turn on the TV and see Barack Obama." The president said he holds press conferences to be "a major transit route, but the next will take place during the day wore on cable only, not in primetime.
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Cameron spoke in a adapted farm building and received polite applause. There was no razzmatazz. The setting could hardly have been added traditional as David Cameron launched the Conservative party’s acclamation campaign yesterday in a quiet corner of rural Oxfordshire. A small audience of Tory supporters had gathered at Sansomes Farm Studios, the home of the Oxford School of Drama. “It was a bit like a constituency event,” said an aide.
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Dec 1, 2010 by News Gatherer
