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Obama: I'm getting 'better as time goes on'
The Hill ^ | 2/6/12 | Justin Sink

Posted on 02/06/2012 11:10:09 AM PST by ColdOne

During an interview that aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show, President Obama said that he gets "better as time goes on" at his job and that he believes the grassroots movement that propelled him to victory in 2008 will help him win a second term.

"What's frustrated people is that I've not been able to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes. But what we have been able to do is move in the right direction," Obama said.

"And you know what? One of the things about being president is you get better as time goes on," he added.

The president defended his record, arguing that he has been successful despite his confrontations with Congress.

"We've been able to get a lot done. Not as fast as we want; sometimes it's messy; the process is frustrating," Obama said.

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To: ColdOne
President Obama said that he gets "better as time goes on" at his job and that he believes the grassroots movement that propelled him to victory in 2008 will help him win a second term.

This sounds exactly like someone who knows he's about to be fired. Those among his "grassroots" who happen to work in the private sector feel as if he's sprayed them with ROUNDUP.

21 posted on 02/06/2012 11:41:43 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: ColdOne

Be afraid. Be very afraid.


22 posted on 02/06/2012 11:43:27 AM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Obama: I’m getting ‘better as time goes on’

Thats what an Intern says.
That’s what a new hire on minimum wage says.
That’s scary.


That is what a tumor says ....


23 posted on 02/06/2012 11:45:13 AM PST by EnglishCon
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To: EnglishCon

“Obama: I’m getting ‘better as time goes on’”

Clever putting the “getting” outside the quotes... that way they don’t have to put the “gettin’” that he would say.

Yes, just like President Starkey — “Stuff’s gettin’ better.”

FUBO and the media whores you rode in on!


24 posted on 02/06/2012 11:49:18 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: DannyTN

Too bad our Founding Fathers aren’t alive today. They would have plans for him AND his ilk.


25 posted on 02/06/2012 11:49:32 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: ColdOne
FLAKES
26 posted on 02/06/2012 11:52:45 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: ColdOne

Obama, you suck more and more as time goes on.


27 posted on 02/06/2012 11:53:55 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: ColdOne

He WAS my favorite WHINE but he’s transformed past that stage and become vinegar — really BITTER vinegar.


28 posted on 02/06/2012 11:59:33 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Obozo deserves another term: IN LEAVENWORTH. 25 to life sounds about right!)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Well one change I specifically remember he was supposed to bring about was that “the oceans would rise and the earth would begin to heal.” Should be easy enough to quantify, right?

/s

Mrs. Prince of Space


29 posted on 02/06/2012 12:03:16 PM PST by Prince of Space (Obama cares a lot about the poor. In fact, he wants to make more of them.)
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To: ColdOne


30 posted on 02/06/2012 12:04:28 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: ColdOne
"Obama: I'm getting 'better as time goes on.'"

Sounds like a line from Monty Python and thr Holy Grail:

I'm getting better!

No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

31 posted on 02/06/2012 12:09:53 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ColdOne
Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.
Like Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5, perhaps?

...he belieeeeeeeves the grassroots movement that propelled him to victory in 2008 will help him win a second term.

Surreptitiously calling out for more voter fraud, plain and simple in my book.
He's telling everybody that he can't win without some help, even if it's illegal.

@Mitt Romney...The Change We Need (ad from 1994)

Just run as a Democrat and be done with it, Mitt.

@Communist Goals - Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

32 posted on 02/06/2012 12:15:45 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: waus
You dic-—tator.

I really wish he would stop poking me in the eye with that thing.

33 posted on 02/06/2012 12:18:36 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cardinal4
wouldnt a "constitutional scholar" have known this BEFORE taking the Oath of Office..?
A "constitutional scholar" would, a @"constitutional lecturer" wouldn't.

Just one of the many bees in my bonnet.

34 posted on 02/06/2012 12:22:55 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cardinal4
wouldnt a "constitutional scholar" have known this BEFORE taking the Oath of Office..?

Obama's views on the US Constitution:

"But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.

Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."

-- Barack Obama interview, WBEZ-FM 2001


35 posted on 02/06/2012 12:23:11 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: cardinal4

I can’t believe he actually said this. I had to make sure it wasn’t satire. If the Republican candidates don’t jump on this immediately, then they are as dumb as a box of rocks. What a perfect campaign ad.


36 posted on 02/06/2012 12:24:37 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: cardinal4

I can’t believe he actually said this. I had to make sure it wasn’t satire. If the Republican candidates don’t jump on this immediately, then they are as dumb as a box of rocks. What a perfect campaign ad.


37 posted on 02/06/2012 12:24:57 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: MrB
I don’t buy the “constitutional scholar” BS...
Good for you. See 34.
38 posted on 02/06/2012 12:25:58 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ColdOne
"President Obama said that he gets "better as time goes on"

I assume he's talking about his golf game ...

39 posted on 02/06/2012 12:28:03 PM PST by In Maryland ("Truth? We don't need no stinkin' truth!" - Official Motto of the Main Stream Media)
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To: MrB

I doln’t even buy that Barky has even an average IQ. i think the “man” is a straight up blithering idiot.


40 posted on 02/06/2012 12:30:42 PM PST by jospehm20
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