President Obama delivered a message to Congressional repugicans during an interview before the Super Bowl. He is not going
to concede anything to them because they stole a midterm election
The interview took place in the White House kitchen
with the president in shirt sleeves. This was a much different setting
from previous Super Bowl interviews, and it was impossible not to notice
that the president was much more relaxed. With the economy growing and
his approval ratings surging, Obama looked like a president who is
finally out from under the weight of the economic collapse that he
inherited.
Obama refused to pick a winner of the game but said that the game will be close.
The president used the big pre-Super Bowl audience
to remind people of the progress that has been made while he is in
office, “Well actually, nobody was doing an end zone dance. What we were
talking about was the success that America’s had digging itself out of a
really tough recession, and that’s a celebration of the American
people. That’s not about politics. I was speaking about the fact that we
have seen a faster drop in unemployment in the past year than we’ve
seen in the past thirty years. We’ve seen that wages are starting to
tick up again. We’ve seen housing recover, auto industry recover, energy
production up, gas prices down. All of those things are good for the
American people and that is worth us celebrating and now we’ve got to
build on it by making sure that middle-class economics, one where it
works for everybody that ends up being something that both parties can
embrace.”
Savannah Guthrie trotted out the mainstream media’s
favorite talking point that Obama should be more conciliatory because repugicans are in charge of Congress. The president responded by
saying, “My job is to present the right ideas, and if repugicans think
they’ve got better ideas, they should present them, but my job is not to
trim my sails, and not tell the American people what we should be
doing, pretending somehow that we don’t need better roads, or we don’t
need more affordable college. One of the things I’ve learned over the
last six years is that when I tell the American people very clearly what
direction I think the country should go in sometimes people change
their minds and even repugicans occasionally start agreeing with me.
Although sometimes a little later than I would like.”
In other words, this president isn’t going to
concede anything to repugicans because they stole a midterm election. In
fact, the president was suggesting that he is going to use his bully
pulpit and executive powers to fight for what he thinks is right for the
country.
The president still maintained his easy going
manner, but it is clear that he is going to spend the last two years
fighting for what he believes in. Boehner and McConnell better strap in
because it looks they are in for a bumpy ride.
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