{"id":11917,"date":"2011-12-15T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11917"},"modified":"2011-12-15T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:33:18","slug":"pres-obama-gop-wanted-to-take-me-down-not-fix-country%e2%80%99s-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11917","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama: GOP Wanted To Take Me Down, Not Fix Country\u2019s Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what may have been one of his most candid\u00a0 interviews to-date, <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> levied highly contentious charges against his Republicans rivals, accusing them of willingly allowing the economy to tank in order to regain the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <em>60 Minutes\u2019<\/em> <strong>Steve Kroft<\/strong> in an interview that aired Sunday night, the president said Republicans chose to stand on the sidelines while the economy worsened so that they could capitalize on blaming him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came into office in 2008, it was my firm belief that at such an important moment in our history, there was no reason why Democrats and Republicans couldn\u2019t put some of the old ideological baggage aside and focus on common sense, what works, practical solutions to the tough problems we were facing,\u201d <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> told \u201c<em>60 Minutes<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may have been one of his most candid\u00a0 interviews to-date, President Barack Obama levied highly contentious charges against his Republicans rivals, accusing them of willingly allowing the economy to tank in order to regain the White House. Speaking with 60 Minutes\u2019 Steve Kroft in an interview that aired Sunday night, the president said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}