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Obama to critics: I'll bend, but not break
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-25 21:02 "When it comes to domestic affairs," he said, "if we keep on working at it, if we acknowledge that we make mistakes sometimes, and that we don't always have the right answer, and we're inheriting very knotty problems, that we can pass health care, we can find better solutions to our energy challenges, we can teach our children more effectively, we can deal with a very real budget crisis that is not fully dealt with in my - in my budget at this point, but makes progress."
"It was just a few days ago or weeks ago where people were certain that Secretary Geithner couldn't deliver a plan," Obama said of proposals to bail out the financial sector. "Today, the headlines all look like, 'Well, all right, there's a plan.' And I'm sure there will be more criticism, and we'll have to make more adjustments, but we're moving in the right direction." Obama's bend-not-break strategy will get a test Wednesday, when he travels to the Capitol to meet privately with Senate Democrats. Some of them are his most troubling critics on energy, health care, taxes and spending.
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