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"So when you ran for office you built a tremendous

amount of trust with the American people, that you

seemed like someone who wouldn't move the bar on us,"

she said.



"And it seems, especially in the last year,

as if your negotiating tactics have sort of cut away at

that trust by compromising some key principles that we

believed in, like repealing the tax cut, not fighting

harder for single-payer.



"Even Social Security and Medicare seemed on the line

when we were dealing with the debt ceiling. So I'm just

curious, moving forward, what prevents you from taking

a harder negotiatingstance, being that it seems that the

Republicans are taking a really hard stance?'



An Iowa mother named Emily to

President Obama at a town hall

meeting at the Seed Savers

Exchange in  Peosta, Iowa.

Quoted by Columnist Maureen Dowd



New York Times

August 17, 2011

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