Ah, so it’s a made up number based on assumptions. I suspect Obama is loving the birthers. They actually succeed in making the Dems look reasonable by comparison.
There is no quid pro quo in the statement.
Discrediting Republicans doesn’t make Dems look “reasonable” when a 2004 quote from Barack Obama on Air America is surfacing. One in which he decryies the size of the document, the rush to implement it, and the lack of debate that the party in power is willing to give it. He’s been exposed a naked hypocrite. Everything they campaigned on “new tone”, “transparency”, and “an end to the culture of corruption” has been shown to be a LIE.