Poll Numbers Down, Obama Tells Donor To Buck Up

[Purveyor]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Stung by plunging approval numbers at a low point in his presidency, President Barack Obama is urging donors to buck up while making a thread-the-needle appeal for bipartisanship with Republicans even as he calls for replacing the House GOP majority and holding his Democratic edge in the Senate.

Obama is seeking to gain back his political standing in the aftermath of his administration's botched launch of health care enrollment by defining himself as a pragmatic victim of tea party conservatives. At the same time he is casting his policies on the economy and immigration as popular remedies that could win bipartisan support.

"Right now in this country there is at least one faction of one party that has decided they are more interested in stopping progress than advancing it, and aren't interested in compromise or engaging in solving problems and more interested in scoring points for the next election," he told Democratic donors in San Francisco on Monday.

For Obama, the call for compromise is a veiled olive branch that also disguises a threat.

"What we're looking for is not the defeat of another party, what we're looking for is the advancement of ideas that are going to vindicate those values that are tried and true," he said at a fundraiser Sunday with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi seated among about 60 high-dollar donors. "But to do that we're going to need Nancy Pelosi as speaker, because there's just a lot of work to be done right now."

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[NYC_SKP]

1. And yet he's done nothing wrong and actually quite a bit og good lately.

This is all 100% manufactured disappointment and low poll numbers.

Unbelievable.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. Who can argue with this …

What we're looking for is not the defeat of another party, what we're looking for is the advancement of ideas that are going to vindicate those values that are tried and true, … But to do that we're going to need Nancy Pelosi as speaker, because there's just a lot of work to be done right now.

This ideological frame is healthy and sets his mind-set apart from most.

We are NOT fighting AGAINST the republican party (or anyone else) ... we are fight FOR advancement, for our ideals, for progress.