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.
he's on track to be ahead of schedule by 2 1/2 years at least.
So let's make sure he don't.
Hopefully, the Americans will be back in charge in 2012, to undo whatever damage 0 has caused.....
Let him try, we are now on his case like white and brown on rice (as the case may be). Come to your joint Waterloo with your treasonous Rats, sucker.
He has already been paid very, very well for this. But it is based on his ability to deliver the goods. What we have not yet found out is the price he pays for failure. What happens if he fails to deliver what he was sent there for?
He wouldn’t WIN a second term under any circumstances.
His future depends on this term. Period.
Make it half a term and I guess I might feel a bit more comfortable also .... A Quarter term - even more so.
Tsk, tsk...sour grapes already?
Gibbs=one idiot speaking for another idiot.
Doesn’t want to offend his Moose bro’s. I bet he won’t let himself be seen eating in the daytime until Ramadan has finished.
“I would prefer 1/4 of one term”
Exactly what I was getting ready to post. With this sucker serving out a full term might just be the end of the country with any resemblance to what it was when GWB left office. Can you say move over Zimbabwe.
Gee, A few more of these lulling announcements and the public will be ready to accept that he really didn't want to go two terms in the first place. You know, I’m almost ready to accept it right now.
That’s what we are all hoping and praying for.
Indeed he does, and with a grin.
Never take leftists at their word. Just how long is this term?
either do I
The embarrassment factor is ratcheting up higher and higher for him. And Sarah Palin has only thrown two or three roundhouse punches. He probably is trying to work something out with Joe Biden (when the latter is lucid) that he can quit and still be the mover and shaker behind the scenes.
Pour the gas, light the match and as the house burns, run like hell!!!
Do the damage and sit back in retirement admiring the ruination one hath wrought.
JJ61
The slumbering giant is stirring and when he wakes up completely he is going to be madder than sin...and is going to take it out on the dems and anyone supporting these monstrosities.
A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
My thoughts exactly.
President Wee Wee is a name that we must make sure becomes a common term for zero.
You mean of course, this is how you see Obama and the Rats. I agree. They are political arsonists.
I don’t either. It is pure bs.
Mr. Wee Weed can’t give up his goodies.
I say oui, oui to that.
Sure fits him.
I do not believe it either. What person wants to be a one term leader? The power is no much to be ignored.
Best regards,
On Monday morning I'm sure we'll hear that the former Press Secretary, Bobby "Dip$hi+" Gibbs regrets his inadvertent misstatement. His "resignation" was reluctantly accepted by the president.
Political arsonists indeed.
Don’t ever forget these lib/socialists mean to tear down our society in order to rebuild it in Karl Marx’s image.
JJ61
A jaw-droppingly inept press representative to accentuate the embarassment of the O’Peepee administation.
Do not believe that. President Reagan said the same thing in response to issues regarding his age when he entered office and I recall seeing a tabloid headline some time 1983ish saying he would not run for reelection.
Power is addictive and someone as addicted to power as Obama will most certainly run again. With ACORN voter fraud he can most certainly "win" again too.
Finally. Something that the Holy O and I can agree on.
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