Obama says goodbye this week, but his message hasn’t always gotten through

Even before Barack Obama moved into the White House, he and his team made a choice that made actually selling his policies to the public more difficult.
In December 2008, Obama’s economic team gathered in Chicago to map out what would become the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
“A dispute, discussion, something breaks out at that meeting. We haven’t even come in yet,” said Austan Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago, who was a top economic adviser in