Assploding contradiction.
BLITZER: When you took office, you said this — and I’m sure you remember — you said, if I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition, meaning you’re going to be a one-term president.
You remember that?
OBAMA: Well, here’s what I remember, is that when I came into office, I knew I was going to have a big mess to clean up and, frankly, the mess has been bigger than I think a lot of people anticipated at the time. We have made steady progress on these fronts, but we’re not making progress fast enough.
And what I continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. I’m going to be accountable. I think people understand that a lot of these problems were decades in the making. People understand that this financial crisis was the worst since the Great Depression. But, ultimately, they say, look, he’s the president, we think he has good intentions, but we’re impatient and we want to see things move faster.