QuoteHis conversation with Fox News Channel's Major Garrett, which airs this evening on Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier, was no different. Obama said:
-- He's hopeful the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "will be closed next year." That's a bit different than his promise last January that the facility would be shuttered within a year.
-- "Nobody's been more disappointed than I have to see how high the unemployment rate has gotten. And, I spend every waking hour, when I'm talking to my economic team, about how we are going to put people back to work."
-- While in South Korea, where he arrived today, he will press to get a free trade deal done with that country. "This is a region where right now we're sending about 25-26% of our exports. If we just boosted our share of exports by 1%, that might be 250,000 well paying jobs in the United States."
And then there was this more playful comment. Will he read 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's much-publicized book, Going Rogue?
"I probably will not, but I wish her well, you know, it looks like she's going to do very well without my readership."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/obama_probably_wont_read_palin.html?ft=1&f=103943429
He's right, both members of the George W Bush book club will be picking up a copy at Walmart. :biggrin: