Mayor Bloomberg also projected optimism.
Instead Mr Mitchell tried to project optimism.
"As long as he projects optimism," he said, "they are willing to dismiss the mainstream media as biased".
Talking for 10 minutes before reporters while the market continued to slide, the president tried to project optimism that the nation's problems could be resolved.
And as he struggled for playing time, the soft-spoken Casspi projected optimism that better times would come through sweat equity.
His advisers want him to project optimism about America and his policies while also showing some heat and energy in the right moments to challenge Mrs. Clinton.
It's true that "Sun" is more sonically perky than her previous record, "Jukebox," from 2008, but that doesn't mean that it is about, or tries to project, optimism.
From the past hardships and present challenges, she projected optimism about the future: "We were a country of hope in our part of the world, and we want to become that kind of country again," she said.
PAGE A10 SOUNDING AN OPTIMISTIC NOTE As part of his team's campaign to project optimism, President Obama said he was "confident about America," and the White House press secretary pointed to "glimmers of hope" that the economy could turn around.
