Obama: I've got 'five years' left to solve immigration

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2...on-115342.html


In an interview with Univision Radio, President Barack Obama said that he has "five years" left in his presidency to figure out issues like comprehensive immigration reform. Striking a confident note about his reelection prospects, Obama assured a largely Hispanic audience that he has not given up on getting an immigration bill done — one that would provide a pathway to citizenship.

"My presidency is not over," Obama told Univision's Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo. "I’ve got another five years coming up. We’re going to get this done."

Obama also said that Hispanic voters would ultimately face an easy choice in deciding between him and the Republican nominee in November — emphasizing his support for comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship.

"So far, ... we haven’t seen any of the Republican candidates even support immigration reform. In fact, their leading candidate said he would veto even the DREAM Act, much less comprehensive immigration reform," Obama said, in an apparent reference to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. "So the choice at the presidential level will not be that difficult."

Obama also defended his administration's approach to immigration, which has been characterized by a high level of deportations, saying that the law needed to be changed and Congress needs to act.

"The only way we’re going to do this is to get something passed through Congress, and that’s why we have to keep the pressure up. Unfortunately, the Republican side, which used to at least give lip service to immigration reform, now they’ve gone completely to a different place, and have shown themselves unwilling to talk at all about any sensible solutions to this issue, and we’re going to have to just keep up the pressure until they act," Obama said.

Hispanic voters remain an important part of Obama's coalition, though his approval rating has dropped 30 points among Hispanics from a 2009 high of 86 percent approval. A more recent Univision/Latino Decisions poll, however, puts his approval back up to 72 percent. In 2008, Obama won the Latino vote by a 36-point spread, beating John McCain 67 percent to 31 percent, according to national exit polls.

the only time he got the cojones to talk like this is when he's on Univision or any other hispanic media. NEVER on the mainstream...

Fuck this Guy! arghhhhhhhh lying ass bullshit

seriously this shit pisses me off too! go talk that shit on white TV Obama i bet you won't.

biach...... better yet...u want your five years..do it now. use your executive power. politics grrr

Haha I dare him to go over to Billo the Clown and say that on his show.

Never going to happen.

How you gonna get it through Republican House? Lying piece of sh*t

ROFLMFAO...Wow. I feel immature writing this, but it feels great.

I have *five* things to say to you Mr. President and Dems:

I need to work to support myself.
I need access to healthcare.
I need to continue my education.
I wish to live in peace and not in fear of being persecuted. By your administration.
I am in company of 11 million others; you help us take care of those things and we can wait *five* more years.

this takes care of the rest. we need to ask for work permit. nothing more.

I don't have enough patience to depend on some cheap talk damn it!

I stop reading after this.