Reporter to Obama: Will You Be Like Bush And Not Criticize Your Successor?; Obama: I Will If "Necessary"
"Look, I said before, President Bush could not have been more gracious to me when I came in and my intention is to certainly for the next two months, finish my job and after that to take Michelle on vacation, get some rest, spend time with my girls and do some writing, some thinking," Obama said in Peru.
"I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off in every instance," Obama said.
"As an American citizen who cares deeply about our country, if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal but go to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it is necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, I'll examine it when it comes," the president said.
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Obama attributed the loss of the House, the Senate, state legislatures and assemblies under his presidency to people not being able to "see the recovery" and and Republicans taking advantage of redistricting and gerrymandering.
right ... could not be Obama Policies .... nope, of course not Republicans could only win by taking advantage of something
"Look, I said before, President Bush could not have been more gracious to me when I came in and my intention is to certainly for the next two months, finish my job and after that to take Michelle on vacation, get some rest, spend time with my girls and do some writing, some thinking," Obama said in Peru.
"I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off in every instance," Obama said.
"As an American citizen who cares deeply about our country, if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal but go to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it is necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, I'll examine it when it comes," the president said.
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Obama attributed the loss of the House, the Senate, state legislatures and assemblies under his presidency to people not being able to "see the recovery" and and Republicans taking advantage of redistricting and gerrymandering.
right ... could not be Obama Policies .... nope, of course not Republicans could only win by taking advantage of something