Obama said, "I'm prepared to make a whole range of compromises"

[BlueCollar]

45. compromise vs. concede...

There's a difference Mr. President.

And I do understand why you are saying what you are saying....

Once bitten....twice shy

but at the Dem convention this should be repeated ad nauseum

"But what I'm offering the American people is a balanced approach that the majority agrees with, including a lot of Republicans. And for me to be able to say to the Republicans, the election is over; you no longer need to be focused on trying to beat me; what you need to be focused on and what you should have been focused on from the start is how do we advance the American economy—I'm prepared to make a whole range of compromises, some of which I get criticized from the Democratic Party on, in order to make progress. But we're going to need compromise on your side as well. And the days of viewing compromise as a dirty word need to be over because the American people are tired of it."