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somexper say hwas peap too ambitious. >> coming in he said the administration was to really change the course of foreign policy and economic policy that the bush administration had been following. and he was elected on that mandate. but it was again difficult for him to achieve that change. apparently because the problem is so huge that they can't reallyhange the suctural economy and military policy, foreign policy, in two, four years. he laid the groundwork, but i don't think he's achieved as much as he wanted or as the people expected. >> we just heard from the professor about foreign policy. how do you think obama has changed the u.s. approach? >> right, well, obama had said repeatedly that america is a pacific nation. and he's been refocusing foreign policy toward asia. commanders at the pentagon really poured resourcetowards this region. and obama tried to strengthen economic ties, for example, congress passed a free trade fact with south korea. but mitt romney and others say obama still hasn't done enough on issues such as the currency disparity with china. republicans say his ap

i would've would ertainly, peaps, if i had been governor and thought through this situation, once wew that obamacare was coming -- in the early days, this was talking about a totally different situation. now pple say, oh, you took the money but you don't want to -- in the early days, they were showing us something nice and warm and friendly to businesses. now, it has become something else. they showed us a totally different thing. we are just not good at doing that. the one well, the animal metaphors -- i'm trying to think about what's going on at the federal level. [laughter] the president is battling out over the budget. the national debt. i don't know how to describe it. it's more like a snake swallowing a turtle. this is important to you. we are going to offer this fiscal cliff. >> i hope so. i hope we are careful in doing so. i remember when george h. w. bush that read my lips at the republican national convention. i was on the floor when it happened. a few years later, the democrats convinced him that if you let us raise taxes, we will have an equal amount of cuts in the govern