Obama pressed on failures at Univision forum
...much of the time in front of the Spanish-language audience here was spent on Obama’s failure to get comprehensive immigration reform — something that Obama attributed to focusing instead on the economy and blaming Republicans in Congress.
But to host Jorge Ramos, that answer was not good enough.
“You promised that, and a promise is a promise,” Ramos told Obama. “And with all due respect, you didn’t keep that promise.
Obama responded with an explanation for the Spanish-language audience about the separation of powers in the federal government.
“There’s the thinking that the president is somebody who is all-powerful and can get everything done,” Obama responded. “In our branch, in our system of government, I am the head of the executive branch. I’m not the head of the legislature, I’m not the head of the judiciary. We have to have cooperation from all these sources in order to get something done. So I am happy to take responsibility for the fact that we didn’t get it done,
but I did not make a promise that we would get everything done, 100 percent when I was elected as president.”
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Obama pressed on failures at Univision forum - Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com
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