It’s Rough Up There Above the Fray
“So part of the Affordable Care Act health care reform, also known as ‘Obamacare’ -- by the way, you know what? Let me tell you, I have no problem with folks saying ‘Obama cares.’ I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks who don't care, that's fine with me.”
-- President Obama at a campaign stop in Cannon Falls, Minn.
"Lincoln -- they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart."
-- President Obama in Decorah, Iowa.
“As someone who’s been called a socialist, not born here, taking away freedoms for providing health care, I’m all for lowering the rhetoric.”
-- President Obama answering a question from a Tea Party activist in Decorah, Iowa about Vice President Joe Biden using an analogy that compared the Tea Party to nuclear-armed terrorists.