Obama Among The Republicans
OBAMA: “I mean, we’ve got to be careful about what we say about each other sometimes because it boxes us in in ways that makes it difficult for us to work together because our constituents start believing us. They don’t know sometimes this is just politics, what you guys, you know, or folks on my side do sometimes. So just a tone of civility instead of slash-and-burn would be helpful.
The problem we have sometimes is a media that responds only to slash- and-burn-style politics. You don’t get a lot of credit if I say, ‘You know, I think Paul Ryan’s a pretty sincere guy and has a beautiful family.’ Nobody’s going to run that in the newspapers, right?
(LAUGHTER)
And by the way, in case he’s going to get a Republican challenge, I didn’t mean it.
(LAUGHTER)
I don’t want to — don’t want to hurt you, man.
(LAUGHTER)”
(via The Awl)
