2013 Obama Flashback: If You Don’t Like My Policies, ‘Go Out There and Win an Election’

President Obama: ‘Go out there and win an election’ (Politico)

President Barack Obama welcomed the end of the government shutdown and the raising of the debt limit Thursday with a call for the end of crisis-to-crisis governing and a new era of bipartisan cooperation.

But he also had a harsh message for those who stood in his way during the most recent crisis: “You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don’t break it. Don’t break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That’s not being faithful to what this country’s about.”