President Obama claimed that he’s not thinking about electoral politics until “sometime next year,” just moments before taking a shot at former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., for opposing Obamacare after implementing the a state health insurance reform in Massachusetts that contains an individual mandate.
“Every opportunity that I see for us to be able to actually get something done, I will seize,” Obama said when CBS’s Steve Kroft asked if he had started “just trying to get your message out” instead of working with Republicans. “I’ll worry about the politics sometime next year,” Obama added.
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