Walter Shapiro, writing on The New Republic, takes a dive into President Barack Obama’s press conference last night and concludes all of this media exposure is to set voters at ease. “It was telling politically that Obama's strongest answers Tuesday night were in defense of his budget--the issue that is almost certain to dominate Congressional debates and the TV talk shows in the weeks ahead. When a questioner invoked Republican outrage over the deficits that even Obama's budget concedes will pass the $7-trillion mark over the next decade (the Congressional Budget Office last Friday estimated $9.3 trillion in red ink),...