Posted on 08/21/2009 8:53:25 PM PDT by advance_copy
White House (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama is “quite comfortable” with the prospect of being a one-term president in order to address the issues he is concerned about, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday.
The comment came on the same day the president’s approval reached a new low, with only a 45 percent approval rating in the Zogby International poll released Friday. The poll said that 51 percent disapprove of the president’s job performance. The Real Clear Politics average of all polls puts the president approval rating at 52.2 percent.
Gibbs was addressing a question about a comment made by Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), who said the president told him he is willing to risk a second term to get a health care overhaul bill approved. Gibbs said that would be true of most issues.
“I don’t know that I’ve specifically heard him on health care,” said Gibbs, “but I have heard the president say that if making tough decisions in getting important things done that Washington has failed to do for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he’s quite comfortable,” Gibbs told reporters at the White House press briefing.
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o ur so noble mr prez. /s
I’m glad to hear them say this. Obama might be happy to have a single term, but I don’t think most Democrats in Congress are as willing to go down with the ship.
Just like suicide bombers. It’s okay for them to die as long as they inflict deathly wound on their enemy. Like a Freeper wrote, 0bama is a political suicidal bomber.
Martial Law!
I would prefer 1/4 of one term.
I get it...he’s “comfortable” turning the country into a socialist 3rd world sh*thole on the brink of collapse.
Sorry, I hope Prez hope ‘n change, wee-wee is as uncomfortable as can be...all the way up to when he is voted out of office... or impeached.
WoW!!!... He is already setting up his excuse for failure!
Buh-Bye!
I know Hillary is tickled to death to hear this.
Hogwash. It’s all about *him*. Always, all the time. Socializing America is a close second however.
I’m already hearing sheeple voters call him a one-termer.
Obama is the most successful communist traitor mole in history, bar none, ever.
He double dog dares us.
He won’t see one term as a failure if he wrecks the USA, and sets us on a one-way course for socialism.
Socialist dictator doesn’t actually count as a “second term”.
Point being, there is some kind of ugly surprise coming up, that has been long-planned, and we're not going to like it one bit.
He has too much ego not to try to run again, unless barred by new birther regulations.
LOL, ask the scumbag the same question in 3 years.
I’m still trying to accept the “coincidence” of Obama starting his vacation on the very first day of Ramadan.
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