Also look at this part of the quote: “ to save the free-market system.”
Did he do that?
As Obama continues to use a wrecking ball on it I have to say yes he did.
Do you want to argue that there is no longer a free market system?
Then move out and find a better place
“Do you want to argue that there is no longer a free market system?”
America with the Wall Street bailouts, bank bailouts and GM and Chrysler bailouts of 2008 is no longer a free market system.
You simply can not save capitalism by imposing socialism and that is what both Bush and Obama attempted to do.