Obama: My family would be OK if I were a one-term president

Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, ‘You know, guys, I want to do something different,’ they’d be fine. They’re not invested in daddy being president or my husband being president.
President Barack Obama • Claiming that if he wanted to be a one-term president, his family would be totally cool with the idea. While Obama says that he has days “where I say that one term is enough,” he keeps going because of “a belief that the work that we started in 2009 is not yet complete.” A few people on the other side of the aisle would probably welcome the idea of a one-term presidency, too, brah. source

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That’s Senator McConnell’s statement and his opinion. I think the American people want us to focus on their message during the election: stop the spending, get rid of the uncertainty. Let’s get around to creating jobs again and staying focused on what the American people want us to focus on is my number one priority.
Likely Speaker of the House John Boehner • Offering a modestly disagreeable tone towards his Senate counterpart, who thinks that it’s best to stonewall the hell out of the Obama administration until they can get another Republican in the White House. (Screw that guy.) Anyway, Boehner doesn’t exactly have a lot nice to say about Obama right now. “There seems to be some denial on the part of the president and other Democratic leaders of the message that was sent by the American people,” he suggests. Perhaps. But what do you expect the guy to do, John, cower in a ball for the next two years like your brother Mitch? source

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Know who’s kind of a jerk? That’s right. Mitch McConnell. The Senate Minority Leader, who’s still the minority leader after Tuesday’s elections, isn’t looking to compromise with Obama on anything. He’s digging in his heels. “If our primary legislative goals,” he said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation Thursday, “are to repeal and replace the health spending bill, to end the bailouts, cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things.” Your primary role is to end gridlock and get things done, and to find ways to reach your goals while working within the system. Not to keep the system stagnant for two whole years until you get what you want. In fact, we’d argue that part of the reason you didn’t do better on Tuesday is because of the gridlock. Obama would be smart to not bend to this guy. source

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14 Jun 2011 10:09