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Barack Obama 'would be OK with one term'
US President Barack Obama would be fine with serving only one term if he achieved some of his most audacious goals, like his embattled health care overhaul, spokesman Robert Gibbs said."I have heard the president say that, if making tough decisions and getting important things done that Washington has failed to deal with for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he's quite comfortable with that," Mr Gibbs told reporters. His comments came as some of Mr Obama's Democratic allies are balking at his push to remake US health care, while others are on the fence about his approach to fighting climate change, ahead of the 2010 mid-term elections. And Mr Obama himself has seen his job approval ratings, and ratings on key individual issues, drop from their sky-high levels when he took office in January. "The way he approaches this issue, the economy, Afghanistan, Iraq, any of these issues is not in a mode of self-preservation," said Mr Gibbs. Mr Obama says he wants to take decisions "he thinks are in the best interests of the American people, not what's in the best interest of his personal polling numbers", said the spokesman Posted by: tipper 2009-08-22 |
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