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Clever Chris Christie: In his Fox News Sunday interview, Governor Christie was asked — as he must have known he would be — about his presidential ambitions. He gave the expected answer, that he was working hard at being governor of New Jersey, and then got in a clever dig at two potential opponents.
Chris Wallace asked him about Obama in a follow-up question, giving Christie a chance to add to his criticism.
Christie isn't the first Obama opponent to imply that Obama is arrogant and unready to be president, but few have made those criticisms so cleverly.
Christie was lucky (or perhaps very good in his timing) not to be asked a similar question about Palin. But he had already shown, earlier in the interview, that he could deflect such questions.
(Oh, and there was an added bit that former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty must have appreciated: Christie said that being governor of a "big" state prepares you for being president, implying that being governor of a small state, or even a medium-sized state like Minnesota, doesn't.)
Listen, I think every year you have as a governor in an executive position in a big state like New Jersey would make you better prepared to be president. And after one year as governor, I am not arrogant enough to believe that after one year as governor of New Jersey and seven years as the United States attorney that I'm ready to be president of the United States, so I'm not going to run.Christie is implying that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are arrogant. And he does so without mentioning either person's name.
Chris Wallace asked him about Obama in a follow-up question, giving Christie a chance to add to his criticism.
WALLACE: Yes, but you know, and I heard you say it might make more sense somewhere down the line, 2016, 2020, whatever. But one of the things that Obama learned and showed us all in 2007, when it's your moment, you have got to move.Christie is implying that Obama was, in 2007, unready to be president.
CHRISTIE: Listen, that is a decision that he made. And he's obviously was successful in winning the presidency. My view is I want to, if I ever would have run for the presidency, if I was ever to do it, I want to make sure in my heart I feel ready. And I don't think you run just because political opportunity is there. That's how we wind up with politicians who aren't ready for their jobs.
Christie isn't the first Obama opponent to imply that Obama is arrogant and unready to be president, but few have made those criticisms so cleverly.
Christie was lucky (or perhaps very good in his timing) not to be asked a similar question about Palin. But he had already shown, earlier in the interview, that he could deflect such questions.
(Oh, and there was an added bit that former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty must have appreciated: Christie said that being governor of a "big" state prepares you for being president, implying that being governor of a small state, or even a medium-sized state like Minnesota, doesn't.)
- 6:19 AM, 18 January 2011 [link]
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