Competing press conferences from the president and president-elect

Monday was a study in competing press conferences. One very popular president-elect stood surrounded by top minds as he unveiled his economic team, while one very embattled lame-duck president stood with his Treasury secretary and again promised improvement. President-elect Barack Obama may not be in office yet, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the reaction to his news conference when compared with President Bush’s.

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