President Obama on 'The View': Satisfying 'how resilient the American people are'
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President Barack Obama sits down with the women of "The View" Thursday (July 29), but ABC has released some transcripts of the interview early. Barbara Walters speaks with the President about the economy, the war in Afghanistan and his persona in the press. Barbara Walters: But you know we said this has been a kind of difficult time for you, between the oil and questions of racism and Afghanistan and a few other little things. We understand that you sit at night with your daughters and your wife and you do the rose and the thorn, right? Do you still do it?
President Obama: We still do it. Although Malia is now at camp and Sasha is away at a friend's house, so it's just me and Michelle.
Barbara Walters: We'll do it for you. We'll do it for you. In the last month what has been the rose? And what has been the thorn?
President Obama: Well in the last month the rose has to be a couple of days we took in Maine with Michelle and Sasha and Malia, and we went on bike rides and hikes, and the girls are getting old enough now where they're not quite teenagers yet, so they still like you (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER), but they are full of opinions and ideas and observations, and it's just a great age. Malia just turned 12 and Sasha just turned nine, and it couldn't have been a better couple of days.
Barbara Walters: Thorn?
President Obama: Well, where do I begin here? (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)
Barbara Walters: At the top.
President Obama: Obviously the country has gone through a tough stretch since I took office. When I was sworn in, I know you showed the Inauguration, we were losing at that time 750,000 jobs per month, the economy was shrinking at a pace of about 6.5%, which is unheard of since the Great Depression, and so the last 20 months has been a non-stop effort to restart the economy, to stabilize the financial system, to make sure that we're creating jobs again instead of losing them, and in the midst of all that we've also had the oil spill, we've also had two wars, we've also had a pandemic, H1N1, that we had to manage, and a whole host of other issues. What has been gratifying is the fact that the economy now is starting to stabilize and grow again, and what's been satisfying is seeing how resilient the American people are. As much as you said it's been tough for me, the truth is, it's not tough for me; you know I've got people, pundits on the news who may say things about me.
Barbara Walters: You noticed?
President Obama: Of course, you think about what the American people have gone through, losing jobs, seeing their home values go down, their 401Ks declining, those are the folks who I draw inspiration from because I get letters every night from them and I read them. And as tough as it's been, they remain hopeful, they remain optimistic about America, and so I don't spend a lot of time worrying about me. I spend a lot of time worrying about them.
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Well, boo-frickin'-hoo for poor, poor Obama.
I'z bets dat heez hads duh sex wif all dem women on'z dat show... heez uh freek
Here come all the racists with nothing better to do except scratch their a***s
That guy is an a$$clown.
Obama is the begining of the coming of the anti christ.. just a matter of few years from now.. Obama is one of the anti christ liutenants doing all the ground work.. the anti christ wants to criple american and Obama is helping.. wants us to be dependant on the goverment instead of having faith in God...I wish all this wasn't true but it is...
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@Dave-- I can't speak for Dat Stinks or Paco, but I can assure you that my disdain for Obama's self-pity has nothing to do with the fact that he's half caucasian....
This guy is simply a figurehead. The real people in power are setting policies behind closed doors as we speak.
Obama is all talk and no action. More Americans are on food stamps now than ever before. Unemployment is the highest it has ever been. Tent cities are popping up everywhere. Free speech on the Internet is being attacked (73,000 blogs shut down). They are in two losing wars. They have a drug war brewing at the border. The media makes it look like it's racist to have a border with Mexico. Terror attempts are increasing. War logs have been leaked showing the atrocities of coalition forces in Afghanistan. Americans still have more people in jail than any other country in the world with non violent offenders, including China. etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
But don't mind me, I'm just a racist.
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How disgusting...all one has to do is read these remarks to see the character of these people!
If President Obama is "one" of the Lieutenants for the Anti-Christ, then lets give the just due to the other Lieuntenants...George W. Bush, **** Cheney,Rumsfeld,
Pearl and Wolfowit;, it's
only fair, since it was on their watch that initated
the bringing down of our country, we had tent cities
in California...the war started on a lie with "WMD" never found, THAT put us deep in debt. Lets not forget George W. received a country that was in the black...not in the red. On whose watch did we need the first stimulus, he had no choice but to admit the economy was in trouble...thank you George W. and **** Cheney.
Let us all remember the words "Mission Accomplished"!
what a joke, Iraq is longer then World War 2!!!!!!!
Wake up idiots, our country didn't get in this shape from Jan. 20th,2009...it was already sinking, jobs were dwindling, Wall Street was already in trouble, as was the Automobile industry!! who are you kidding you fools, get your heads out of your a$$... put the blame on the 8 years prior to President Obama, that's where the blame belongs!! Where was your out cry during those 8 years???