Washington – The White House says President Barack Obama’s reference to “the crazies” in Congress may have been “a little too flip” and was not about Iran.
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At a Democratic fundraiser Monday night in Nevada, Obama declared himself ready for the challenges he faces this fall in dealing with a Republican Congress that disagrees with him on the budget, energy policy, education and much more.
Obama said that as he’d ridden to the fundraiser with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, they’d done some reminiscing and spent some time “figuring out how we are going to deal with the crazies in terms of managing some problems.”
He didn’t identify exactly who the two of them had defined as “crazies.”
Some suggested Obama was labeling opponents of the Iran nuclear deal as “crazies.”
White House spokesman Eric Schultz says Obama may have been “a little too flip” with his language, and adds that the president and Reid had discussed the legislative challenges they expect to face in the fall. Schultz says Obama was not talking about Iran.
But Obama spoke at length about his differences with the GOP Congress. And he lamented that “too often, our political debates are not about what’s best for the country but what’s best for the next election.”
If the country is to remain a strong world leader, he said, it needs “not just a president who, after a few gray hairs, seems to know what he’s doing, but we also need a Congress that functions.”
Obama also looked beyond the immediate challenges to simpler times down the road.
He said that since neither he nor Reid is seeking re-election next year, the two off them had talked about “riding off into the sunset together.”
To a super narcissist like Obama whoever doesn’t agree with him or see the great wisdom in his action must be crazy.
A typical third world potentate.