Bill Press: Oval Office: Convicted felons need not apply

“My fellow Americans.” I’ve always been impressed when the President of the United States, began a speech from the Oval Office with that phrase. Because it meant that he was talking to all of us, regardless of party, about an issue that was so important all of us needed to take it seriously.

Think of John F. Kennedy, warning the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis; George W. Bush, after Sept. 11; Barack Obama, on the BP oil spill.