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monmouth3

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Mon Jul 1, 2013, 07:56 AM Jul 2013

Gov. Christie draws heat for attacking Obama

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“We look at Washington, D.C., and we shake our heads in wonder at a president who can’t figure out how to lead, at a Congress that only 11 percent of the people in the last poll I saw approve of the job they’re doing,” he said, according to an Associated Press account.

Referring to those low approval ratings, Christie said, “That’s what happens when you don’t have a leader at the top ... when you have someone in the executive office who is more concerned about being right than he’s concerned about getting things done, and I’m not going to be that kind of leader of New Jersey.”

State Sen. Barbara Buono — who is trying to unseat Christie — on Saturday compared the governor to a chameleon for turning on Obama, whom the governor politically and personally embraced in May for his help in securing billions in federal storm aid for the ravaged state.

“Just like a chameleon changes his colors to suit his environment, (the governor) changes his position,” said the Democrat from Middlesex County.

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Full article at http://www.app.com/article/20130630/NJNEWS/306300028/Christie-attacks-Obama

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Gov. Christie draws heat for attacking Obama (Original Post) monmouth3 Jul 2013 OP
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