Posted on 12/11/2011 6:31:19 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
“The core philosophy that they’re expressing is the same,” he told CBS's "60 Minutes."
Defiantly proclaiming “it doesn’t really matter” who the Republicans nominate against him, President Obama declared that he is ready to take on either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney and ask voters to contrast his vision with that offered by the GOP nominee. In an at-times feisty interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the president suggested there is little difference between the two front-runners for the nomination.
“The core philosophy that they’re expressing is the same,” he told Steve Kroft in an interview conducted in two parts last week and aired Sunday night. “And the contrast in visions between where I want to take the country and… where they say they want to take the country is going to be stark.” He predicted “a good debate” and a clear choice for the voters.
Pressed by Kroft to explain Gingrich’s recent surge in the polls, Obama attributed it to the former speaker’s longevity. “He's somebody who's been around a long time, and is good on TV, is good in debates.” Despite his repeated insistences that he is not closely following the debates, the president also made sure to cast Romney as a politician, a theme often heard by Romney’s Republican opponents. “Mitt Romney has shown himself to be somebody who's good at politics, as well. He's had a lot of practice at it,” he said, adding that he expects the GOP fight for the nomination to be protracted. “I think that they will be going at it for a while,” he said. “When the Republican Party has decided who its nominee is going to be, then we'll have plenty of time to worry about it.”
He boiled down the 2012 campaign to a single question to be answered
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My bigger worry is that, if Obama is NOT defeated in November 2012, we WILL see, and MARK MY WORDS, a SECOND AMERICAN revolution.
Amen.
He’s such an arrogant little man.
Obama has shoveled 3 Trillion Dollars out the door of the US Treasury....
some of that should insure his re-election without difficulty ...
When the successful cash out and take care of themselves and their own, the obama zombies can get on the free soup line cause their free ride WILL end.
[“it doesn’t really matter” who the Republicans nominate against him...]
That hilarious, talk about ‘whistling past the graveyard’...He’s leading the whole DNC to the whistling theme of the Bridge on the River Kwai.
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