Rep. Ellison: Obama ‘Great Lover of America,’ ‘11 Million Americans Got Healthcare’

‘I think that the president’s an amazing patriot and one of the best presidents our country has ever seen’

STEPHANOPOULOS: "We saw Scott walker trying to make the point that all the Republican candidates should haven't to be asked this question on principle, but then saying he doesn't know where President Obama is a Christian. Is he trying to play a double game here?" 
KLEIN: "I think he's trying to send two different messages. I think with Rudy and also with a lot of the other wild statements we've been seeing from Republicans lately, it really works for the disadvantage. People don't like to elect an angry president or an angry party. They sound very angry." 
STEPHANOPOULOS: "They do sound angry, Keith Ellison. But the point that Marco Rubio was making. The point that Scott Walker was trying to make, there does seem to be a bit of a double standard here. The Republicans tend to get asked these questions about their outliers more than Democrats are." 
ELLISON: "Oh, I don't agree with that. People are always being asked about what somebody else said. The president definitely is a great lover of America. So much so that 11 million Americans got health care who have never had it before. That's pragmatic love of country. When you do things for your countrymen and women. So, I don't know. I think that the president's an amazing patriot and one of the best presidents our country has ever seen."

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