Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

He stayed there for another two years before joining the Little Rock bureau of the AP in 1989. Fournier received some criticism from commentator Glenn Greenwald for behaving in a "petulant" manner and for his policy on anonymity for sources. Career
Fournier began his journalism career in 1985 at The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs Arkansas.

1963) is an American national political journalist currently of the National Journal. Ron Fournier (b.