red states rule
01-14-2010, 09:35 AM
How could this be? We all know Obama has done things differently since he tooks office. Right?
Or have the American people failed Obama? :laugh2:
CBS/ AP) President Barack Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing the country together, acknowledging an atmosphere of divisiveness that has washed away the lofty national feeling surrounding his inauguration a year ago.
"That's what's been lost this year ... that whole sense of changing how Washington works," Obama said in an interview with People magazine.
The president said his second-year agenda will be refocused on uniting the country around common values, "whether we're Democrats or Republicans."
"We all want work that's satisfying, pays the bills and gives children a better future and security," Obama said in the interview, which the magazine conducted with the president and his wife, Michelle Obama, at the White House last Friday.
The president's comments came as Republican leaders rallied against the core items of his agenda, from his economic stimulus plan to health care. The mood of the country has remained in a sustained slump, too, as double-digit unemployment followed a campaign built upon "hope" and "change."
Obama said people have "every right to feel deflated, because the economy was far worse than any of us expected." But he insisted that his government's economic steps in 2009 are paying off and that people should have confidence in this new year.
The interview is not the only one the president has done recently with members of the press. But he is also getting some heat for not doing more formal press conferences as well. He hasn't held a formal prime-time press conference in several months, which has caused some consternation among some members of the White House press corps.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/13/politics/main6091648.shtml
Or have the American people failed Obama? :laugh2:
CBS/ AP) President Barack Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing the country together, acknowledging an atmosphere of divisiveness that has washed away the lofty national feeling surrounding his inauguration a year ago.
"That's what's been lost this year ... that whole sense of changing how Washington works," Obama said in an interview with People magazine.
The president said his second-year agenda will be refocused on uniting the country around common values, "whether we're Democrats or Republicans."
"We all want work that's satisfying, pays the bills and gives children a better future and security," Obama said in the interview, which the magazine conducted with the president and his wife, Michelle Obama, at the White House last Friday.
The president's comments came as Republican leaders rallied against the core items of his agenda, from his economic stimulus plan to health care. The mood of the country has remained in a sustained slump, too, as double-digit unemployment followed a campaign built upon "hope" and "change."
Obama said people have "every right to feel deflated, because the economy was far worse than any of us expected." But he insisted that his government's economic steps in 2009 are paying off and that people should have confidence in this new year.
The interview is not the only one the president has done recently with members of the press. But he is also getting some heat for not doing more formal press conferences as well. He hasn't held a formal prime-time press conference in several months, which has caused some consternation among some members of the White House press corps.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/13/politics/main6091648.shtml