President Obama: "Put It In D" — Transcript

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1. 0:00we've been through an incredibly
2. 0:02difficult time as a nation we've gone
3. 0:05through a tougher time than any time in
4. 0:08the lifetimes of most of
5. 0:10you a once in a generation
6. 0:16Challenge and when I was sworn in it was
7. 0:19my profound hope and I know it was the
8. 0:22hope of many of you not just Democrats
9. 0:24but Republicans it was the hope of so
10. 0:27many
11. 0:28people that it would cause
12. 0:30both parties to put politics aside for a
13. 0:32moment for the sake of the
14. 0:36country the Republican leaders in
15. 0:38Washington made a different decision
16. 0:40they figured if they just sat on the
17. 0:41sidelines long enough and if they
18. 0:43opposed everything that we
19. 0:45did if they said no even to policies
20. 0:48that traditionally they had
21. 0:50supported then they figured that they
22. 0:53could ride people's anger and
23. 0:55frustration all the way to success in
24. 0:58the next election that was their working
25. 1:00Theory it's as if they
26. 1:03drove America's car into the
27. 1:07[Music]
28. 1:09ditch they they they drove it in the
29. 1:11ditch and it was a big
30. 1:13ditch and so I came along and we put on
31. 1:16our boots and we went down into the
32. 1:21ditch and it was hot down there and it
33. 1:23was
34. 1:25muddy there were
35. 1:28bugs but we said that's that's okay even
36. 1:31though we didn't drive it into the ditch
37. 1:33it's still our responsibility to get
38. 1:35that car out of the
39. 1:40ditch and so we pushed and we pushed and
40. 1:44every once in a while we'd look up and
41. 1:45up on the road you'd see the Republicans
42. 1:47standing there Fanning
43. 1:50themselves sipping on a
44. 1:55Slurpee having a
45. 1:58latte and we'd say hey why don't you
46. 2:00come down and help push a little bit we
47. 2:02need some help down here and they'd say
48. 2:04no that's all
49. 2:05right they said but you need to push
50. 2:08harder you're not pushing the right
51. 2:11way and we just kept on pushing we kept
52. 2:13on pushing finally we get this car up on
53. 2:15level
54. 2:17ground it's pointing in the right
55. 2:20direction we're ready to move America
56. 2:23[Music]
57. 2:25forward but but but the next thing we
58. 2:28know we get this tap on our shoulder and
59. 2:31we look back and who is it it's the
60. 2:34Republicans and they say we want the
61. 2:36keys
62. 2:46back you can't have the keys back you
63. 2:49don't know how to
64. 2:57drive now if you want you can you can
65. 3:00roll with
66. 3:03us but you got to be in the back
67. 3:14seat I don't know if you've noticed if
68. 3:16you want to take your car forward you
69. 3:18got to put it in what in D if you want
70. 3:20to go backwards it goes what we don't
71. 3:23want to go backwards we're moving
72. 3:24America forward
73. 3:29w