Pres. Obama: "We have had the most ... progressive legislative session in at least a generation."

[Clio the Leo]

“Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get – to see the glass as half empty,” Obama said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Greenwich, Conn. “If we get an historic health care bill passed – ‘oh, well, the public option wasn’t there. ‘ If you get the financial reform bill passed – ‘then, well, I don't know about this particularly derivatives rule, I'm not sure that I'm satisfied with that.’ ‘And gosh, we haven’t yet brought about world peace, and – I thought that was going to happen quicker.’

As his supporters laughed, Obama added, “You know who you are.”

“We have had the most productive, progressive legislative session in at least a generation,” he continued. “And so I want everybody here to – when you are talking to your friends and your neighbors and your coworkers, I want you to feel good about the support that you've provided, because you didn’t send me there to do what was easy; you sent me there to do what was hard. We have tackled some of the hardest problems facing this country and we did so in the midst of crisis, and we are succeeding.”

Video:
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/09/16/HP/A/38215/Pres+Obama+Remarks+at+Connecticut+Atty+Gen+Richard+Blumenthal+Fundraiser.aspx


quote excerpted from:
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0910/next_up_world_peace_4c9c519c-f031-4474-87b4-07b12e0f8b2c.html