WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Obama responds to DeMint's 'Waterloo' comment
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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - President Obama has been calling out his opponents in the fight over health care, and he quoted South Carolina's own Senator Jim DeMint.
The Republican made a comment while on a conference call last week with GOP activists.
DeMint called the president's proposal "D-Day for freedom in America" to rally support against the president's government-run healthcare solution.
Without mentioning his critic by name, the president recounted South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint's comment that stopping Obama's bid for health care overhaul could be the president's "Waterloo," a reference to the site of Napoleon's bitter defeat in 1815.
"Just the other day, a Republican senator said, and I'm quoting him now, 'If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo, it will break him,'" said Obama, quoting Sen. Jim DeMint.
"This isn't about me," Obama responded. "This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses and breaking America's economy."
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