“You know, I’ve never asked President Obama for his endorsement, and what’s going here is really Washington insider politics at its worst. You have two former senators — Senator Chafee and former Senator Obama — who have behind the scenes tried to put, you know, together an endorsement for Senator Chafee. And who knows, maybe there’ll even be one coming, but I never asked for President Obama’s endorsement, uh, you know, he could take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I’m concerned.
The reality here is that Rhode Islanders are hurting. We have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. We had one of the worst floods in the history of the United States a few months back, and President Obama didn’t even do a fly-over of Rhode Island like President Bush did when New Orleans had their problems. He ignored us and, now, he’s coming into Rhode Island and treating us like an ATM machine.”
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