More from Obama's Saturday Press Avail
On Sens. Hagel and Reed: "They are both experts on foreign policy. They reflect, I think, a traditional bipartisan wisdom when it comes to foreign policy... Neither of them are ideologues but try to get the facts right and make a determination about what's best for U.S. interests -– and they're good guys.”
On his comments about African-American men and fatherhood: “My argument is simply that it's not an either/or proposition, it's a both/and proposition. The government and society as a whole has an obligation to deal with poverty... But we also have to recognize there's a particular problem when more than half of African-American children are growing up without a father in the house.... I won't back up one bit in asserting that that's a problem that we have to be honest about.”
On Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac: “I think we need to watch carefully and see how it plays out before we make a decision about which steps need to be taken, if any.”
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