Obama: I Didn’t Do Good Enough Job Selling Americans On Stimulus Plan

August 30, 2012 2:23 PM

President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 29, 2012. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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TAMPA, Fla. (CBS Tampa/AP) — President Barack Obama says his re-election might help end the political stalemate in Washington, much like “popping a blister.”

In an interview with Time magazine, Obama says he expects Republicans in Congress to work more cooperatively in a second term, since his re-election would no longer be a factor.

“My expectation is that there will be some popping of the blister after this election, because it will have been such a stark choice,” Obama said.

The president says he also wants to do a better job of explaining to the public how his policies will help the economy grow. Obama claims he didn’t do a good enough job selling Americans on the stimulus plan and the auto company bailout because he was so focused on acting to fix the economy.

“[W]e were in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, so we had to just do stuff fast. And sometimes it wasn’t popular,” Obama told Time. “And we didn’t have the luxury of six months to explain exactly what we were doing with the Recovery Act, which was basically a jobs act and making-sure-middle-class-families-didn’t-fall-into-poverty act.”

Obama says he wants to focus on overhauling immigration laws and reducing the nation’s dependence on foreign energy during a second term.

The interview was conducted last week.

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Obama: I Didnt Do Good Enough Job Selling Americans On Stimulus Plan

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