President Obama's Super Bowl Sit-Down: He Says He's Hopeful Regarding a Second Term (281 hits)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Sunday that he deserves another four years in the White House, even though the economy has been shaky throughout his time in office.
"I deserve a second term, but we're not done," Obama said during a pre-Super Bowl interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, who noted that Obama had told him in a 2009 interview that if the economy was still recovering in 2012, he would be a one-term president.
"When you and I sat down [then], we were losing 750,000 jobs a month," Obama said. "Now we're creating 250,000. We've created 3.7 million jobs over the last 23 months. We've created the most jobs since 2005, the most manufacturing jobs since 1990. But we're not finished."
The president said he needs another term to do more to boost American manufacturing, energy and job training. Echoing the theme of his State of the Union address last month, he said he also needs more time to ensure the country's "return to old-fashioned American values," referring to what has become his mantra about economic and social fairness. ...
