CNN political commentator Ed Rollins is a Republican strategist who was national chairman of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign.

In a new article, Rollins talks about President Obama and his first prime-time news conference Monday night for which 60 million viewers tuned in.

Rollins says a president needs to be a cheerleader sometimes (such as, “you’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie,” as Bush famously told the head of FEMA right before the collapse of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?)  But right now, what we really need is a truth-teller.  I’ll agree with that.

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