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President Obama On 60 Minutes: Recovery ‘Will Likely Take More Than One President’

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President Barack Obama recently sat down with 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft for what was a significant and full-throated defense of what his administration has accomplished in the almost three years he has lived in the White House. Obama pushed back on detractor’s suggestions that he has somehow both been obstinate in legislative negotiations and continually capitulated to the House GOP. He also remarked that when it comes to his potential opponent, ‘it doesn’t really matter’ who Republicans nominate.

Kroft traveled to Osawatomie, Kansas to see President Obama’s recent speech on stimulating the economy and ostensibly establishing the protection and fight for the middle class as a politically advantageous position. Kraft has a longstanding, mutually respectful relationship with the President, having closely covered his meteoric rise to the White House from the very beginning of his campaign. Any notion that Kroft would go easy on the sometimes embattled president quickly abated, though, when Kroft candidly confronted Obama over a stagnant economy, and some less than impressive poll numbers:

Steve Kroft: We have a new CBS poll, which is out this weekend. And I’ll give you the news that’s good for you first. People like you. They respect you. They think that you’re working hard. And they realize that you faced an enormous amount of trouble and problems, many of them inherited. And you’re approval rating is four times higher than the Congress.

President Barack Obama: That’s a low bar, I gather.

Kroft: But they’re not happy with the way you’re doing your job. You’ve got 75 percent of the people in the country think it’s headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-five percent. And 54 percent don’t think that you deserve to be re-elected. I mean, those are not good numbers with 11 months to go before the election.

Obama: Well, look. We’ve gone through an incredibly difficult time in this country. And I would be surprised if the American people felt satisfied right now. They shouldn’t feel satisfied. We’ve got a lot more work to do in order to get this country and the economy moving in a way that benefits everybody, as opposed to just a few.

President Obama’s argument for a second term appears to be that the economic times may be tough right now, but that his leadership on stimulus, among other things, kept us from a more disastrous economic meltdown. Obama’s detractor will, as matter of course, try to hang the stagnant economy around his neck. Right of center media outlets have already tried to belittle Obama’s appearance on 60 Minutes, especially the president’s suggestion that the economic recovery “will likely take more than one president.”

But the interview was the sort of safe and bland exercise in rhetorical platitudes that served more as a campaign appearance than a serious discourse. And in that light, the candid and friendly interview is likely to be viewed as a win by President Obama’s campaign office.

Watch the two part segment below, courtesy of CBS News:

Part 1

Part 2

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  • Anonymous

    Recovery ‘Will Likely Take More Than One President’… Right, so lets move on to the next one next year. Glad he agrees with the 54% who don’t think he deserves re-election.

  • OSTL

    Wow. He’s already walking back his “I need 4 more years” line?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    During the campaign he said if he couldn’t fix the economy in three years he would be a one term president..
    Follow through already and quit…

  • http://twitter.com/Rushlimbang Brian Skinner

    We only have 1/2 a president right now.

  • Anonymous

    60 Minutes: A sympathetic weekly infomercial for Leftist causes and candidates.

    Everyone knows this to be true.

  • Anonymous

    A new president is on the way.

  • Gloves J. Donahue

    They keep saying that people like Obama.

    I’m a people.

    I don’t like Obama.

  • Gloves J. Donahue

    What can Obama do , Gloves ?

    Glad you asked.

    Why not let the pipeline be built right now, creating 20,000 jobs and 120,000 ancillary jobs? It would be good for the country. It would keep Canada from sending the pipeline West and the oil to China. The unions would like it. The environmentalists would howl, but they will still vote for Obama, which is his concern. Everybody wins.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2K2LC5Y5Y7CHZVHCSU2X7XBMBA Jimmy

    And that half is a Kenyan closet Muslim, the other is a Occupier of the White House.
    Don’t give this illegal, commie lover another 4 years to finish his destruction of America.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kiya-Tut/100003230882289 Kiya Tut

    you are one of the few

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kiya-Tut/100003230882289 Kiya Tut

    what does a pipe line have to do with tax breaks , except to obstruct the issue

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2K2LC5Y5Y7CHZVHCSU2X7XBMBA Jimmy

    You don’t understand, Obama and his hacks want to fundamentally change Amerika into a Fascist/Socialist utopia with the Unions and The Democrats in permanent charge of course. That means they need to destroy what is in place first.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kiya-Tut/100003230882289 Kiya Tut

    Rich republicans in congress want tax breaks for themselves and tax increases for working families. They just can’t get enough of our money.  

  • Anonymous

    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”  Or not?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, after what he’s done to the country, I’ll be surprised if the next two presidents can fix it.

  • Anonymous

    Gloves, you seem to like short term solutions to long term issues.  Why in God’s name would we want to transport the dirtiest oil know to man over a very shallow aquifer that supplies water to the entire region?  It is sort of like your “Fracking” buddies saying that “there is no way that fracking can mix with drinking water” and yet  Montana already has benzine at 50 times the safe limit in their water.  Short term solutions are no solutions at all.

  • Anonymous

    Well, a new presidential term is on the way,,,,,

  • Anonymous

    FOX:  Where the old and feeble minded go to mentally_masturbate.

  • Anonymous

    No I think President Obama will serve four more years.  The Republicans have nothing
    new to offer just the same old tricks they have had for years.
    Republicans want a class of poor and rich, no middle class.
    They have been working on this for years if you can’t see it then you are not
    listening to the Republican Party rhetoric.

  • Anonymous

    Morning Joe remains the home of the overwhelming ratio of liberal to conservative guests.  Even so, in recent weeks a narrative unflattering to Barack Obama has emerged around the table: Obama doesn’t like his job. He doesn’t particularly like people and is in the wrong line of work.An even more damning appraisal was offered today: Obama doesn’t think he has failed America. He thinks America has failed him.  Or as Joe Scarborough encapsulated the concept, Obama believes our version of democracy is a “stumbling block to his greatness.”  

    MIKE BARNICLE: I think he is stunned, given his gifts, at his inability to get anything really done in Congress.  I think he’s stunned by it.JOE SCARBOROUGH: But he doesn’t look at it as his inability. Jon, he is stunned that those that are fortunate enough to work with him are not helping him pass legislation to make history.JON MEACHAM: I think it’s, if you think about it from a biographical point of view, it’s his thinking the system, and really the country, is not commensurate with his gifts. That’s a harsh thing to say, but I have a feeling that in the dark night of the soul, that’s what he feels. I think he thinks that this is a 18th-century constitutional republic that needs significant updating.  I think he sees the reflexive opposition—a culture that  Gingrich helped build—as one huge stumbling block. He sees all of us [Ed.: presumably a reference to the media] as another huge stumbling block.      SCARBOROUGH: And let’s just say, he sees elected leaders from across the country as a stumbling block.  He sees democracy, he sees this version, as you say, this government as a stumbling block that’s getting in the way of his greatness.

    (In the repeat version, Morning Joe edited out Scarborough’s second comment that, “He sees democracy, he sees this version, as you say, this government as a stumbling block that’s getting in the way of his greatness.”Morning Joe remains the home of the overwhelming ratio of liberal to conservative guests.  Even so, in recent weeks a narrative unflattering to Barack Obama has emerged around the table: Obama doesn’t like his job. He doesn’t particularly like people and is in the wrong line of work.An even more damning appraisal was offered today: Obama doesn’t think he has failed America. He thinks America has failed him.  Or as Joe Scarborough encapsulated the concept, Obama believes our version of democracy is a “stumbling block to his greatness.”  MIKE BARNICLE: I think he is stunned, given his gifts, at his inability to get anything really done in Congress.  I think he’s stunned by it.JOE SCARBOROUGH: But he doesn’t look at it as his inability. Jon, he is stunned that those that are fortunate enough to work with him are not helping him pass legislation to make history.JON MEACHAM: I think it’s, if you think about it from a biographical point of view, it’s his thinking the system, and really the country, is not commensurate with his gifts. That’s a harsh thing to say, but I have a feeling that in the dark night of the soul, that’s what he feels. I think he thinks that this is a 18th-century constitutional republic that needs significant updating.  I think he sees the reflexive opposition—a culture that  Gingrich helped build—as one huge stumbling block. He sees all of us [Ed.: presumably a reference to the media] as another huge stumbling block.      SCARBOROUGH: And let’s just say, he sees elected leaders from across the country as a stumbling block.  He sees democracy, he sees this version, as you say, this government as a stumbling block that’s getting in the way of his greatness.(In the repeat version, Morning Joe edited out Scarborough’s second comment that, “He sees democracy, he sees this version, as you say, this government as a stumbling block that’s getting in the way of his greatness.”)Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2011/12/12/morning-joe-obama-believes-america-not-commensurate-his-gifts#ixzz1gKdZO1wF

  • Anonymous

    I know isn’t is sad that someone like Bush even occupied the White House!
    Compared to Bush I would say that President Obama looks like a Saint!
    Bush was a corrupt President along with Cheney.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2K2LC5Y5Y7CHZVHCSU2X7XBMBA Jimmy

    Hey dunkoff, the Democrats own more wealth than do the Republicans and have more money in Wall Street too. So shut your hole unless you know what you are talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2K2LC5Y5Y7CHZVHCSU2X7XBMBA Jimmy

    Agree but I hate him as I hate all communists.

  • Anonymous

    It took us eight years with Bush to get where we are.  I never heard one complaint about Bush
    with all the horrible things he did.   The Repbulicans are what this country does not need.
    President Obama is having to dig us out of the mess that was created by Bush and his sick
    Administration.   If another Republican gets in we will take more steps back and it will take
    us many, many more years to clean up the mess.

  • Anonymous

    Colby;

    In what part of the video did the president say the “economic recovery” will likely take more than one president?

    On video #2 he says that about the “culture in Washington”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2K2LC5Y5Y7CHZVHCSU2X7XBMBA Jimmy

    Go back to MSNBC/CNN tool.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2K2LC5Y5Y7CHZVHCSU2X7XBMBA Jimmy

    Dunkoff liberals just make me laugh.

  • Sabrina Grossman

    That’s not what he said at all. He was asked about changing the culture in Washington – changing how things work. And he said – I never said I was going to get everything done in 1 year, or 2, and in reality, it will probably take more than one term, and more than 1 president.

  • Pablo

    1/20/2013. Let the countdown begin!

  • Pablo

    Why don’t you quote some of them saying those things?

  • Anonymous

    No you mean what Bush has done to this country it will take more than two Presidents
    to fix it.  Need you be reminded that Wall Street is Bush’s mess and the economy
    is Bush’s mess.   It will take years to clean it up.  Let’s just keep the Fat Boys Richer
    and American Families just trying to survive.  This is what America is afterall to
    the Republican Party.   Lets just keep making their pockest fatter while families are
    struggling to make ends meet and put their children through college for a better life
    here in Great America that the Republicans want to destroy.   What American Dream?

  • Anonymous

    Hey Stevie boy, ya forgot to ask Obama about  Solyndra, Fast & Furious and collapse of MF Global run by ally Jon Corzine. What happened- it would show Obama in a bad light?

    75% think the country is headed in wrong direction? Yeah, the other 25% are libs who think a weak, destitute, and vulnerable America is the right direction.

  • Pablo

    The issue of jobs? The one Obama is laser focused on?

    “However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline, they’re going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance.”

    http://tinyurl.com/6u396m4

    Because unemployment puts people to work! What. A. SCOAMF.

  • Mo Fokker

    Good Luck to Newt Gingrich

    ROFLMAO!

  • Pablo

    What we need are imaginary solutions. Let’s get Dr. Frankenstein in here to resurrect Solyndra!

  • Pablo

    Sadly, the man who halted the rise of the oceans does not control the weather. Only Bush did that.

  • Pablo

    It took us eight years with Bush to get where we are.  I never heard one complaint about Bush with all the horrible things he did.

    Were you in a coma?

  • Anonymous

    Are there no rich dems in congress? I didn’t hear all the whining when the libs held congress. I didn’t see anything good being done either. The only thing the libs want to do is have full control of our money to spend it on what ever they want.If I’m not mistaken, it was Dodd,Frank and Maxine waters that got us into this housing mess and what does Odumdum do? He appoints Dodd in charge of financial regulations! Aint that like sticking the fox in the hen house. ??This must have been a short interview if they’re talking about Odummer’s accomplishments. Everything he touches goes to sheet! So the only thing he has left to do is attack, and divide and take as many vacations on our dime as he can fit in before we throw him & Moochelle out of our office!

  • david r

    Recovery ‘Will Likely Take More Than One President’

    That much is a certainty.

  • Anonymous

    I sam entire 60 minute last night and did not hear what it says in the title of this article. Why make things up Colby or you don’t understand non-texan english?

  • OSTL

    probly had his lips glued to somebody’s bong

  • david r

    And let’s start drilling in the Gulf and put those cajuns to work.  When they have money it really trickles down.

  • Anonymous

    This interview on 60 minutes is very revealing on how intelligent Obama is.  Compared to all the Republican candidates, he is far more superior.  He is trying to clean up the mess that Bush created and if one of them becomes president, we can expect more messes!  They will never compromise on anything, because that is their method of trying to get one of them in the oval office.

  • Anonymous

    You never heard one complaint about Bush?? Are you deaf?? From day one all you libs cried,whined, called him names, made threats.Please, at least tell the truth just once, if you can. I know you are a lib and you think Odummer walks on water. But I hate to burst your bubble. Him, Ayers, Wright,Holder have a lot of plans for this country, and not one of them are good. And who got us into this mess?? Maxine Waters, Chriss Dodd and Barney Frank. all libs, all still in their positions!

  • david r

    The idea behind the tax breaks is to stimulate jobs. You must have thought it was just another government giveaway.

  • Mo Fokker

    Bush kept us safe after 9/11 occurred on his watch.  That was the only standard they used to establish his presidency as a success.

  • Mo Fokker

    Colby is too important to respond to reader inquires. 

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what the ratings were?  I’m so sick of the constant campaigning I don’t even watch any Obama stuff anymore.  Wonder about the rest of the voters?

     

  • Anonymous

    Next he will walk back that “the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal .”

    He forgot that good speeches don’t make good presidents.

  • Gloves J. Donahue

    “…more superior.”

    Is he more smarter, too ?

    No offense.

  • Anonymous

    Good point. I noticed that too. It is sad that there are no journalistic standards left.

  • Anonymous

     I didn’t say us Democrats didn’t complain, you Republicans never complained
    and you put the diasaster in for another 4 years.   Smart!
    We went screaming about Bush no shame there he was a complete
    disaster for America.   President Obama is so much better.
    Who did Bush have?   Water Boarding, Torture, Lies for a War.
    Yes such a up standing President you  gave to us.

  • Anonymous

    Compared to all the Republican candidates, he is far more superior. ”

    Yeah, and he shows that superior intelligence often:

    “I have been to 57 states….”

    “”We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad”

    “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s….”

    “…you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…”

    “There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.”

    “He is trying to clean up the mess that Bush created..”

    But, son, he has shown he is incapable of that and has only exacerbated everything.

    Therefore, bye bye Barry!

  • Anonymous

    Bush has no standards. 

  • Anonymous

    son, Bush is not the president. It was in all the papers. Damn, that’s right, libs can’t read! Just post some nonsense about racism, bigotry, homophobia, Islamophobia- you know- the libs go to TPs when they have nothing to say or are nonplussed.

    LOL

  • Pablo

    Lies for a war? But you liked being lied into a war for oil in Libya, didn’t you?

    BTW, Bush didn’t lie. Just ask Eric Holder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmbqeTUbueM

  • Pablo

    It’s Mediaite. Journalistic standards have never been a priority here. They’re somewhere way down the list just above copy editing.

  • Anonymous

    Watch out- They are banning again for criticizing Mediaite or authors.

  • Anonymous

     Let the Republicans into office again and America as we know it will be no more.
    Listen very closely to want they want to do.   Then when America has fallen do not
    blame the Democrats.   We are the ones who want to keep America strong and to
    keep her strong we must take care of our Middle Class Families.   They are what
    makes America strong.   Get rid of them and America will fall.
    Republicans want to destroy the Middle Class.  America was built on strong
    Familes not Wall Street, not the Big Corporations, and not the Huge Banks.
    But American Families who work hard and pay their taxes.
    Keep America Strong Vote Democrat!!!!  Stand for the American Familes of this
    Country!

  • OSTL

    thanks patsy!

  • Anonymous

    Colby;

    One more time … can you point out where the president say the recovery would likely take more than one president?Here’s the transcript;
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57341032/president-obama-the-economy-the-congress-the-future/?pageNum=7&tag=contentMain;contentBody

    Question:

    “Kroft: You declared your candidacy. And you said, “The reason we’ve not met our challenges is a failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics, the ease with which we’re distracted by the petty and the trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our presence for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to take on big problems.” I mean those were eloquent words and true words. Unfortunately, they’re still largely true today. Did you overpromise? Did you underestimate how difficult this was gonna be?”

    Here’s the president’s answer:

    “Obama: I didn’t overpromise. And I didn’t underestimate how tough this was gonna be. I always believed that this was a long term project. That reversing a culture here in Washington, dominated by special interests, it was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.”

    I think it’s pretty clear what he’s talking about.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You could get banned for that statement!! Watch it buddy!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! Who would that be?? Newt, Romney or Paul??

  • Anonymous

    When the public turned congress back to the Democrats, the country went downhill.  It was the democrat leadership in the house and the senate that destroyed this economy,. not Bush.  I’m so sick and tired of all the BS on Bush.  Obama was part of that senate where economic hell was created.

    He needs to be a one termer, more than one and this country will not survive.  He thinks WE have let him down and the media lets him get away with that level of BS.  He doesn’t understand his job, he is not a leader, he thinks we are here to serve him not the other way around.
    CBS is complete BS in their cow towing to this idiotic, narcisistic manchild.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    After 30 years of failed Republican Party policies, it may take some time to fix their mistakes that have been bringing down the country!!

    It all started with Reagan, the most over-rated President in American history!!

  • Pablo

    Yep. We didn’t have this kind of workplace violence when Bush was in office, right?

  • Pablo

    After he said that statement, how can you even wonder?

  • Pablo

    He’s still right, because he’s not doing a thing to end the dominance of special interests. That problem is as bad or worse than it has ever been. So it’s going to take another POTUS, at minimum.

  • Centrist79

    Are you still sleeping in your Beck superhero pajamas with matching sheets?

  • http://twitter.com/Rushlimbang Brian Skinner

    Do you want proof that Barack Obama sucks?     Just watch this video. 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8X_FsBCDk
    This is how a president is supposed to talk, not finger pointing and making our citizens feel like crap.

  • Anonymous

    Right.  Life was so much better under Carter when cities were slums and gas stations had lines of pintos around the block and the world laughed at us and it was looking like the Soviet Union would be taking over Europe.

  • Anonymous

    Bush’s Fault !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Fox Lies !!!

    *drink*

  • Hartley (Buck) Macklin

    Recovery?  Did he really say Recovery?  or was it the “culture in Washington” that he said would take a long time, perhaps even more than one President?

  • Anonymous

    Bush’s Fault x2 !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Bush’s Fault x3 !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Bush Lied People Died !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    ObamaGasm !!!

  • Anonymous

    Obama has seen the light only he doesn’t know it yet.  He’s finally saying what most of America has been thinking…He’s not able to get the job done and we’re going to need a different president to make it happen.

  • Anonymous

    DemoGasm !!!

  • Anonymous

    Oblamer =  the most incompetent President this Country has ever had at the worst time possible!!

  • Anonymous

    You’re an idiot!! You don’t have a fricking clue!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I would just like to inform you that Carter wasn’t in Office 30 years ago!!

  • Anonymous

    He’s not old enough or smart enough to learn facts…..he only runs around repeating liberal talking points.

  • Anonymous

    I guess the 4% GDP growth and 7% unemployment that He promised isn’t going to happen.  Remember HE had all the answers in 2008.

  • Anonymous

    He is right but at least he should have started the recovery. Does he want the country to fall or is he just that inept.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicans nominated, at best, a “B-list actor than in his best movies played second fiddle to a chimpanzee!!

    Reagan’s “Voodoo” economic policies failed and were the beginning of the destruction of the middle-class!!

    Plus, Reagan negotiated with terrorists to release the hostages held in Iran!!

    Reagan was a disgrace!!

    Though, he was the nation’s first President to have alzheimer’s while in Office!!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I suppose we’re going to need a president who cuts taxes and regulations, because as we all know, it was that sudden onslaught of taxes and regulations which sank the economy in 2008. (Not to mention those millions of workers who suddenly decided to become lazy and quit their jobs.)

    …Wait a second, actually there were no tax hikes or new regulations in 2008, nor were there mass resignations.  In fact the Bush tax cuts were still in place, and there was no health care, Dodd-Frank or credit card regulation in place at that time.  I suppose maybe the Great Recession wasn’t actually caused by taxes or regulations.

    So then why should we elect someone like Gingrich or Romney who proposes the wrong solutions for the problems we face?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BTQMLQCXUY2NPN352PWOZ5HUFQ jerry

    Waa, waa, waa.  I want my mommy.  Give me my pacifier.  Whatever happened to ‘the buck stops here’?  So any minority prejudice is actually the fault of any president before Lincoln?  Oh, but he can’t give Bush credit for the intelligence already gathered on Osama?  Oh no, THAT was strictly Obama.  Obama should be on a comedy show right before 30 Rock because everything he says is comedy.  Baldwin would love it.

  • Anonymous

    and I would say that if you believe that, your judgement sucks.

  • Anonymous

    Is your head still up Obama’s ass?  Please pull it out and take a look around and see what the person you admire is doing to the country.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you have that backwards?

  • Anonymous

    Nobody wants the America as we know it right now.  Obama and all you libtards have destroyed the country.  Nice job.

  • Anonymous

    And it is now Obama’s fault, the most under-qualified, over-rated President in American history!!

  • Anonymous

    Would that include the vast majority of viewers who watch Fox over the cellar-dwellers who spue nothing but vitriol 24/7? You’ve got to be brain-dead to buy into their entitlement mentality!

  • Anonymous

    I’m still waiting for the oceans to stop rising and the planet to start healing as well…

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Obama: I didn’t overpromise. 
    http://t.co/hCGUD87I

    Really? 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You do recall when Obama took Office that this nation was losing 700k jobs per month?? Are we still losing that many… the answer is no!! But it appears you would like to go back to the Republican policies that caused that!! Lol!!

  • Anonymous

    First step is to retire his happy self to the golf course next year and find a competent replacement. Obama did nothing but make a bad situation worse.

  • Anonymous

    Hard to tell…Soros, Gore, et al will profit either way.

  • Anonymous

    Forget Kenya.  This clown is from another planet.

    He’s bragging on Obamacare as reducing healthcare costs.

    The only reason people are unhappy is because they are dumb.

    The problems we’re facing are all a result of racist Republicans not going along with his great ideas.

    No he didn’t over promise.  He never considered not running for a second term.

    Just like Lincoln, he is steering the ship of state, but unreasonable Republicans are rocking the boat, because they want our country to fail.

    He suggest that we ask bin Laden about his foreign policy.  Maybe Obama should ask bin Laden himself.  I have a pretty good idea where he can find hm.

  • Anonymous

    Then stop putting clowns in the GOP primary.

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm? No one cares whay you think. What is clear is that you don’t have any idea what you are talking about.
    Obama is going to lose 40 states and he will be sent packing back to Hawaii. Notice I didn’t say “I think”. I know.

  • Anonymous

    FOX NEWS: where haters and jack offs go to lick each other.

  • Anonymous

    Because you won’t read them.

  • http://twitter.com/Nuktubian Andy

    How many times are 60 Minutes going to interview this naked communist anyway? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    So, you’re admitting you’re a one term President. The fools who want his job don’t have damn clue either. Republicans like, Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, Jebb Bush, and others declined because they knew what the hell they would get into. A full recovery will take 10 years, if there is one, and the clowns who are running don’t know what the hell they’re getting into. The smartest and the brightest declined. So, we’re left with freakshow candidates, and the biggest clown of them all, Donald Trump, all who think we can win a trade war with Asia and bring about democracy by bombing Iran.  

  • Anonymous

    It may take more than one wuss Democrat “president” to get things right but it would only take one conservative  to do the job
    They are called “balls”, Barry

  • Anonymous

    However, you don’t have any competent people running this year.

  • Pablo

    That’s pretty lame. It’s actually because you can’t find them to quote.

  • Pablo

    Community Reinvestment Act. Google it.

  • http://twitter.com/Screaming_Head The Screaming Head

    Your polls have a 4% margin of error. Chump.

    http://alturl.com/akcog

  • Joan Kelly

    And in 5 yrs. people would be dying of cancer in droves.  Check the facts from last week on fracking.

  • Joan Kelly
  • Anonymous

    No matter who the GOP puts in the primary the media and the leftists
     (one in the same) will go on full attack.  

  • Centrist79

    Must be tough to type and teabag at the same time.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KJ2G2SMNO335OCRGCBMVJXU2WQ AndyA

    That would only be true for “republicans” like Gingrich or Romney – RHINOS

  • Anonymous

    Most of the time when Republicans owned both houses the country was prosperous. And no, you can’t give Clinton credit. The first two years of his presidency he was spending like a typical Dem. It was the Republicans who put the leash on him in 95.
    If YOU remember it was the dem controlled house and senate beginning in 2007 when all our economic problems started.  I blame Dems and the “progressive” Bush for our problems. “Progressivism”, as usual, is the problem.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    In your first sentence, I would replace your words “country was” with the words “wealthy were”!!

  • Anonymous

    I am all for starting with a new President.  One who is American, who has American Values, and who is loyal to America and We, the People.  Yes, it is past time this sickening excuse of a President is shown the door, and please let it hit him in the butt, so he will know he dispise him!  B. Hussein Obama is the Most Pathetic Excuse of a President and Human we have ever had the unfortune to have as a NonLeading President!  ABO in 2012!  Anyone But Obama!

  • Anonymous

    We are trying to save America!   Your party already destroyed it!
    Keep going and finish the job by getting another Republican in.
    From what I’m seeing we are looking at disaster by what you
    have to vote for, for America.

    Obama/Biden 2012

  • Anonymous

    When you are talking about idiotic, narcissistic manchild I thinkl you made a mistake
    you said President Obama when you meant President Bush and all the Republican
    Presidents.  Just wanted to correct your mistake.

  • Anonymous

    I just love when Republicans come up with all the names for President Obama,
    That goes to show us that you have nothing on the brain but name calling, no
    substance and you live in a fantasy world.   You don’t remember Bush!
    You must not watch to much Fox it turns brains into Mush!

    President Obama will stay President for four more years!
    We won’t step back!   We will move forward!

  • Anonymous

    When did the GOP become the PARTY OF VICTIMS?

    “Leftist media”! That’s hilarious.

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