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President Obama To ABC’s Diane Sawyer: I Want Second Term ‘Badly’

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President Obama spoke with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an interview on Thursday. Sawyer asked him how intense his reelection ambitions were. “How much do you want it?” “Badly,” Obama replied. “Because I think the country needs it.”

“Whoever wins the Republican primary is going to be a standard bearer for a vision of the country that I don’t think reflects who we are,” Obama said. “I’m going to fight as hard as I can with every fiber of my being to make sure that we continue on a path that I think will restore the American dream.”

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Obama also responded to Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich referring to him as “the food stamp president.”

“First of all, I don’t put people on food stamps,” Obama said. “People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion of food-stamp eligibility happened under my Republican predecessor, not under me. No. 3, when you have a disastrous economic crash that results in 8 million people losing their jobs, more people are going to need more support from government.”

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  • Gloves Phil Donahue

    President Obama To ABC’s Diane Sawyer: I Want Second Term ‘Badly’

    “And I will continue to ‘govern’ badly”.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. President take no prisoners this election cycle.  Republicants are useless and deserve a thorough beating.

  • Anonymous

    All he
    has to do is keep breathing considering the competition. Half the Republican
    Party is on suicide watch and the other half is frothing at the month for
    Newtron.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Mr. President, you shall get your wish!!

  • Anonymous

    I guess George W. Bush wanted a second term really, really, really really, really badly.

  • Anonymous

    “I killed Osama bin Laden.  I want a second term badly.  Did I mention yet that I personally shot Osama bin Laden?”

  • 12voltman1

    Did bush’s team get him?

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty sure the CIA that Bush rebuilt after Clinton desolated it did.  But, to be fair, Obama used every single thing he complained about most as a Senator to kill Osama as President, which he will still attack at every chance even if it provided his greatest victory.  But to be further fair, 9/11 may have been avoided entirely if Clinton, Berger, and some other guy had a pair between ‘em.

  • 12voltman1

    Clinton had a crystal ball?  I remember while Bush was on one of his long vacation at his ranch he got a CIA briefing titled “Bin Laden determined to attack the United States” a month before 9/11.Remember that?

  • 12voltman1

    Besides that Bush had 7 years to get Bin Laden and failed!!!

  • Anonymous

    That is a real neat trick Snowball, all good to Bush and all bad to Dems. Keep it up and you can get your own column in the Limbaugh Newsletter.

  • Anonymous

    Is anything I stated incorrect?  Did Michael Scheuer not say OBL lived because of Clinton?  Did Clinton not desolate the CIA?  Did Obama not kill OBL because of policies put in place by Bush?

  • Anonymous

    I just have a hard time comprehending, why was there a unit at the CIA created specifically to find OBL if he wasn’t a threat?  Michael was head of it from 1996-1999.  To be fair though, Clinton did say he wanted to kill him and authorized those to do it.  To be further fair, though, he lied 
    http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/011919.php  And, of course, this was after the embassy bombings which OBL was responsible for.

    I vaguely remember that briefing.  Though, I do better, remember the actions of Jamie Gorelick which prohibited intelligence agencies from communicating with each other and putting the entire puzzle together.  Huh, I think she worked for…Clinton?  Who’d thunk it?

  • Anonymous

    It’s not easy rebuilding a desolated intelligence and military community.

  • Anonymous

    No,no,and no.

    Michael Scheuer.LOL

  • Anonymous

    So,instead he makes it worse.Excellent.

  • Anonymous

    Oh yawn – you need to learn your history; stop going to MSNBC for truth and fact — you are being sorely misled.

  • Anonymous

    Why did George Bush disband that unit.Not very wise.Why didn’t George heed Ricard Clarkes advice?

  • Anonymous

    In a word yes-W got the info that led to getting him; as long as the idiotiot one refuses to share credit with those who came before him, he will forever be viewed as the manchild, the finger pointer, the big baby…because thatis exactly what he is.

  • Anonymous

    OMG (that is Obama must go) is such a big fat baby- cry baby finger pointer.  Three years into his term he is still saying “It’s Bush’s fault” and the over the hill, high on something anchorette lets him get away with it.  Oh so funny.  Poor Dianne, she is such a eyelash batting fool.

  • 12voltman1

    That has been determined to be unture. Water boarding did not lead us to Bin Laden.

  • Anonymous

    Wasn’t Richard Clarke the third guy blamed by Michael Scheuer for letting Osama live?  And while it was disbanded, I guess it can be assumed nothing took its place?  How ever did they track down Osama without it…?

  • Anonymous

    I’ll assume you choose to be stupid.

  • Anonymous

    @oscar_leroy:disqus There’s no point in communicating with you any further as it seems you are fully liberal and fully devoid of intelligence, but I repeat myself.

  • Anonymous

    If that’s how you feel,Obama must be doing everything right.LOL.

  • Anonymous

    Not at all.What’s your excuse.Oh yeah,you are conservative.Can’t remember past last month.

  • Anonymous

    Michael Scheuer is a wingnut crank with an agenda.

  • Anonymous

    President Obama To ABC’s Diane Sawyer: I Want Second Term ‘Badly’

    Hey bro, that’s the only kind of 2nd term you can have.  Ba da boom.

    Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week, tip your waitress.

  • Anonymous

    Whaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Strangly enough, being president for 3 years doesn’t change any of the facts about where the country was going before he took office.

    The GOP seems like they are now trying to blame the fire that started when they were in the house, on the firemen who have been trying to put it out.

    “Hey, you haven’t put the fire out and rebuilt the house as quickly as we think you should. Now the fire is all your fault. Hey Hey, don’t deflect blame by reminding us we were there when the fire started. If we were in the house again, we’d have that fire out and the house all rebuilt by now, honest.

  • Anonymous

    So funny – he is the first child we have ever had as President,and the only one who stands before a nation and said:  It’s his fault, or his fault, or the buck stops over there, or whatever.  Never in this history of the nation have we seen such an incompetent, not even Jimmah was this bad.

    Wah wah wah….it’s anyones fault but mine…and the idiot media slurp it up.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, he is a huge baby.

  • http://twitter.com/dorothymo dorothymo

    Let’s talk facts, when President make decisions without the republicans, let’s see what gets done. He gets Bin Liden, no lives loss, success.  He told everyone at his State of the Union that Citizens Unit was a bad decision, he was right. When he helped Libya no lives loss, success. When the Navy seal resuced Jessica Buchanan today, no lives loss a success and when he gets the 2nd term the middle class will be back, and to finsh we the middle class do not want the rich’s money as the Republicans say, we want their TAX BREAKS.

  • Anonymous

    Alright Tina , way to avoid the facts and repeat lame talking points.

    So tell me, logically if you can, how exactly do we judge where the economy should be now , following a deep recession that happened under the watch of a GOP president?

    What are the fact based standards of, if you haven’t fixed it all by now, it’s all your fault?
    http://www.huntingtonnews.net/20792

  • Anonymous

    He wants it so badly he stopped paying attention to the country months ago and is working full time (in between golf outings) on his campaign.

  • Anonymous

    He wants it so badly he stopped paying attention to the country months ago and is working full time (in between golf outings) on his campaign.

  • Anonymous

    No you.Constant complaining.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5ob9B9yD4

  • Anonymous

    George W.Bush was the first child President.It is his fault.Time to man up and take responsibility for your little shrub.

  • Anonymous

    Oh blah, blah, blah…..You can’t deal with the fact that this so-called POTUS stands up in front of nations and says “It’s Bush’s fault”.  No POTUS in history has been weaker than this guy, not even Jimmah.

  • Anonymous

    No, W took responsibility…he wanted OBL “dead or alive” and yet the media lambasted him for wanting that.  No POTUS in this history has done what this manchild has done, NONE – to stand up in front of the world, pretending to be the leader of the world, and pointing the finger of blame at anyone but himself.  Skinny little weakling he is, for sure.

  • Anonymous

    Oh blah, blah, blah…

    I’ll take that as a no, I can’t Dan. Thanks for asking.

  • Anonymous

    What a frivolous piece of crap!

    Sawyer has turned into an airhead and then within 35 seconds
    into her delicate Tee ball interview Obama flashes he unmanly smile, as if he were
    a 17 year old coquette.
    What is wrong with that guy?

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha – HE got Bin Laden?  HE got the two hostages?  Let’s talk facts – the SEALS are responsible for both of these, not Barry.  What have we gotten from Libya?  A country in chaos and the muslim brotherhood moving in.  You already have tax breaks.  If he has a second term we will have continued high unemployment, stifling regulations, uncontrolled spending, unsustainable debt, class warfare…  That’s a lot to look forward to.

  • Anonymous

    Yep and you do realize just how big the US is?  BTW, Bush had working vacations at his ranch, all set up with a working office and everything.  Entertained visiting dignitaries there, too.  No need to head off to Hawaii to a rented place, no office – just photo ops. 

  • Anonymous

    4 years of you has been quite enough, thank you.

  • 12voltman1

    MSNBC is my only source? Hardly! I do like Rachael though.
    Tina, do you watch or read anything not connected to News corp?

    Oh BTW- Can we please be civil to each other? Please note :I never liked a post that attacked you(That I can remember)

  • Anonymous

    What do you get?  Well you get an effective 17% unemployment rate, billions of taxpayer dollars going to companies that are in the process of going bankrupt.  You get a Democratic controlled Senate that has not passed a budget bill in over 1000 days.  You get the highest rate of food stamp receipients since the Great Depression. 

    But you also get a President who blames everyone else for problems.  He must have not heard of FDR’s “the buck stops here”, in Obama’s case it should read “I pass the buck to whoever I can screw”.

    Then there is the “racist” cry that comes out of the White House and Department Secretary’s anytime they are called on the carpet for their actions.  It is never their fault, it is everyone else being “racist”.

    Oh, and the National Debt has TRIPPLED under Obama’s “watch”.  Bush gave us the shaft, but Obama has screwed us.

    Personally, November 2012 can’t come soon enough…we need to get this useless President (even worse than Jimmy Carter who was the worst) out of office before the USA is completly bankrupt like Greece and other countries in Europe are.

  • Anonymous

    Source/link?

  • Anonymous

    Why didn’t Bush use the Seals to get Osama when he couldn’t find him and didn’t know where he was?

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    He didn’t want a second term badly enough to show up in Judge Malia’s Court in Atlanta to day.  The Judge entered a default judgement against Obama on the Natural Born Citizen issue and he will not be on the Georgia ballot.  The Judge let all attorneys enter their cases into the case record .

    Other States will follow suit now.  Nice job, Barry.

  • Anonymous

    No.  Obama killed OBL because he had the guts to go after him.  Bush said he didn’t even think about him anymore.

  • Anonymous

    No.  Obama killed OBL because he had the guts to go after him.  Bush said he didn’t even think about him anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Everything after “I’m pretty sure”

  • Anonymous

    “I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you.”  Bush on Bin Laden.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

    Meh,loopy conservatives,weakling today,thug tomorrow.Spin,spin,spin

  • Anonymous

    Shhhhh…His real name is Clark Kent…..

  • Anonymous

    He wasn’t very wise.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    You don’t run for office by ignoring the country.
    Expect four more years of Obama presidency.

  • Anonymous

    We can’t let you back in the house…..You like to play with matches…..

  • Anonymous

    A little child shall lead them….

  • Anonymous

    The Seals report totheir Commander in Chief…..You got to have a leader…..

  • Anonymous

    Show us what you got…..

  • Anonymous

    He’s cute…..

  • Anonymous

    Tall, dark, and handsome and is very smart….

  • Anonymous

    President Obama To ABC’s Diane Sawyer: I Want Second Term ‘Badly’
    Sawyer responds that she and the rest of the media will work hard to give him what he wants.

  • Anonymous

    It just occurred to me what is going on
    here.  The current republican field for
    president is such a pile of dog shit that that you guys are forced to defend
    the worst president in history to take your mind off current events.  That must be in, I mean even the guys running
    for president in the GOP field dare not speak the name of Bush.  Okay, I will play along, tell us more about
    how great W was and how much better the country is for having him.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Bush did not get Bin Laden. Bush did not send Seals to rescue pirates’ hostages.
    Bush was a total failure. Yes. I go back to the old blame bush argument, since you refuse to give credit when it is deserved.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Is IS Bush’s fault. Him and the Republican party. Notice that the Tea Party is NOT Republican, and hates them as much as you hate Obama.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Who has been crying since Obama got elected? YOU!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Ah, yes. Blame the media for telling the truth.
    Cry some more, CHILD!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    As will all Republicans and Tea Party members. They are and will be losers for the foreseeable future.

  • Anonymous

    Bet he spends another 6 trillion he doesn’t have. Did you here the Obama fool say anything about the debt or balancing the budget during the State of the Union. Debt is 16,000,000,000,000

  • Anonymous

    You being in your mom’s basement still would not know it takes 2-5 years to develop “assets” in the middle east. It fails you that the entire drone system was developed under Bush.  It took Bush years to redevelop the CIA after Clinton’s chop and paste.I know, I was there.  grow up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Obama is so lucky because all the FOX-TEA party have are clowns to run against him.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad it’s only going to be half the story.

  • Anonymous

    Right, 90 holes of gold in 4 years.  OMG!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Hey Bart why don’t you run against him?

  • Anonymous

    And a jihadist who believes in radical autonomy.  You ever look at his supposed mother Stanly Ann Dunham’s father?  Obama’s real father.  Look at the African that was supposed to be his father and look at his grandfather/real father and tell me his dad didn’t have an affair with a black woman and use his radical liberal daughter to act like Obama was hers.

  • Gloves Bugsy Donahue

    “And in my second term, I promise to do all the things I promised to do in my first term”.

    Cool Barry, Jan. 2012.

  • Anonymous

    You would make a great Republican candidate.

  • Anonymous

    Look at who he’s runnin against. Of course he’s smiling.

  • Anonymous

    Funny how Repuicans deny Obama’s accomplishments but somehow give Reagan credit for ending the Cold War.

  • Anonymous

    And that’s how the second term will go – badly !!

  • 12voltman1

    Spare me the BS. Did Bush’s team get him after 7 years?
    Answer= NO!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UZEYM7GOD4ANTXVRCI57J5JQYI David

    You are the reason this country is in decline, braindead liberal.

  • ScarredReality

    And how much did Bush spend to get us here? However, we cant worry about the debt until we get Americans working again, and get America prosperous again. Then we worry about the debt. Thats how good austerity works.

  • ScarredReality

    Thats funny, does that mean Bush and co were braindead liberals?

  • ScarredReality

    What a waste of taxpayer money that is.

  • ScarredReality

    Hes governed fine, its Congress that has the problem.

  • Anonymous

    He hasn’t completed ruined this country…that is why he wants another 4 years…then he can sit back and watch from afar…AFRICA!

  • Anonymous

    Wrong as usual, Barry.  No, America does not need another four years of your idiotic failed nonleadership!  We need a Real Leader who is a Real American and who LOVES America and doesn’t go around, bowing and groveling, like a maggot, before our enemies!

  • AliveStillKickin

    This does not bode well for Barry with an “angry black woman” at home who
    hates being in The White House….Has only been proud of America since 2008….and whispers “All of this just for a flag?” in his ear.

  • Anonymous

    First, you need to repent…..You just broke one of the ten commandments…..Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor…..it doesn’t matter if you believe in God or not…..it still applies…..Second you need to go back to school and take a course in Genetics Third, you need to study geneology and get your people straight….none of what you said makes sense

  • Anonymous

    Can’t live without the PERKS, wearing out Air Force 1

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