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Obama: "I'd Rather Be a Really Good One-Term President"
 Ever since Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in Massachusetts, destroying the filibuster-proof 60-seat majority held by Democrats, pundits have been arguing about the fate of the health care reform bill. In a recent interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, President Obama acknowledged that his push to get the bill through Congress has cost him political capital. But he is still determined to tackle health care reform and other "big problems," even if it costs him another four years in the White House: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president," Obama told Sawyer. "You know, there is a tendency in Washington to believe our job description, of elected officials, is to get reelected," he said. "That's not our job description. Our job description is to solve problems and to help people." Ever cynical, New York magazine's Daily Intel blog, noted that Obama "seems to have forgotten the third option ... being a mediocre one-term president." The interview was to air this morning on Good Morning America. The full transcript is available on the ABC News Web site.Posted by: tipper 2010-01-26 |
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