President Obama attended a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative with former President Bill Clinton and, to conclude a general discussion of his policy efforts and praise of CGI, presented the face of certitude to his supporters in the room.
“You are doing the Lord’s work,” Obama told Clinton and the rest of CGI. “And I can assure you,” he said, “that you will continue to have a partner in the Obama administration for what I expect to be years to come.” Obama had earlier dubbed Clinton “our do-gooder-in-chief.”
Obama defined his partnership with CGI throughout the speech by reference to “investment,” government spending in concert with private initiatives intended to create jobs, and accordingly devoted much of his remarks to his jobs stimulus proposal, which he acknowledged is not “a silver bullet that would solve all our problems.”
Obama mentioned “climate change” as one of the final policy items he discussed before pledging his multi-year partnership with CGI. “It is technically difficult to figure out how we are going to deal with climate change — not impossible, but difficult,” Obama said. “But they’re solvable, if everybody’s attitude is that we’re working together, as opposed to trying to work at odds with each other.”
