Better than George Washington?
KROFT: Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments? If this is your last speech. What have you accomplished?
KROFT: Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments? If this is your last speech. What have you accomplished?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we’re not done
yet. I’ve got five more years of stuff to do.
But not only saving this country from a great
depression. Not only saving the auto industry.
But putting in place a system in which we’re
gonna start lowering health care costs and
you’re never gonna go bankrupt because you get
sick or somebody in your family gets sick.
Making sure that we have reformed the financial
system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded
bailouts, and the system is more stable and
secure. Making sure that we’ve got millions of
kids out here who are able to go to college
because we’ve expanded student loans and made
college more affordable. Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including Bin Laden
being taken off the field. Restoring America’s
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The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.