Question: and the success of that — not, not in their decision-making now, but the success of that strategy being the "party of no," as was so commonly said.
Answer: when i look back, it was interesting, while i was writing the book. i mentioned this in certain passages. in my first couple of years in office, i think i had a unwarranted faith that if we did the right thing and implemented good policies, then people would know. and we didn't sell it hard enough. now, part of it i have to cut myself and my team a little bit of slack — we had so much stuff coming at us at one time. right? we had the worst financial crisis in history. we have the banks about to go under, we had the auto industry about to go under, we had two wars, we still had a very active al-qaida. and so, as we used to call it, we're drinking from a firehose. and so we didn't have time to do a bunch of victory laps or carefully stage pr campaigns around what we did. the recovery act, i think, is the best example where we had a big and what proved ultimately successful stimulus package. but most people had no idea that the reason the teachers in their schools hadn't lost their jobs or that folks were still working in construction, repairing roads in their communities that that was because of the recovery act. they just thought, "well, this is just politicians wasting money on a bunch of pork projects."
  so i guess one piece of advice that i would give joe that i think he will internalize 'cause he was there and helped preside over the recovery act is there is no such thing as building a better mouse trap and people will suddenly show up. you have to constantly market and explain what you are doing, and we figured that out but a little bit later than we probably should have.
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  and the success of that — not, not in their decision-making now, but the success of that strategy being the "party of no," as was so commonly said.
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  when i look back, it was interesting, while i was writing the book. i mentioned this in certain passages. in my first couple of years in office, i think i had a unwarranted faith that if we did the right thing and implemented good policies, then people would know. and we didn't sell it hard enough. now, part of it i have to cut myself and my team a little bit of slack — we had so much stuff coming at us at one time. right? we had the worst financial crisis in history. we have the banks about to go under, we had the auto industry about to go under, we had two wars, we still had a very active al-qaida. and so, as we used to call it, we're drinking from a firehose. and so we didn't have time to do a bunch of victory laps or carefully stage pr campaigns around what we did. the recovery act, i think, is the best example where we had a big and what proved ultimately successful stimulus package. but most people had no idea that the reason the teachers in their schools hadn't lost their jobs or that folks were still working in construction, repairing roads in their communities that that was because of the recovery act. they just thought, "well, this is just politicians wasting money on a bunch of pork projects."
  so i guess one piece of advice that i would give joe that i think he will internalize 'cause he was there and helped preside over the recovery act is there is no such thing as building a better mouse trap and people will suddenly show up. you have to constantly market and explain what you are doing, and we figured that out but a little bit later than we probably should have.