Obama: Generally Speaking, Republicans Are More Ideologically Extreme than Dems

‘We’re not denying science. We’re not denying climate change. We’re not pretending that somehow having a whole bunch of uninsured people is the American way’

"And I have to say here, you know, I've been speaking in generalities, and try not to be too political, but that ideological extremism and maximalist position is much more prominent right now in the Republican party than the Democrats. Democrats have problems, but overall, if you look at the Democratic consensus, it's a pretty common sense main stream consensus. It’s not a lot of wacky ideological nonsense. And by the way, it generally is fact based and reason based. We’re not denying science. We’re not denying climate change. We’re not pretending that somehow having a whole bunch of uninsured people is the American way. I mean, we're doing things that are pretty sensible."

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