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At first it seemed like everything was going well in what was suppose to be a light hearted interview with the sitting president Barack Obama. It took a serious turn as soon as Stewart asked "You're two years into your administration, are we the people we've been waiting for? Or does it turn out those people are still out there, and we don't have their number?" Stewart started out trying to not interrupt the President as he rambled on with answers, but by the end of the interview he was interrupting him left and right.



Stewart was in Washington DC, so the audience there was somewhat friendly to Obama, cheering at a few of his jeers, but all around Obama did not look good. He came across as very apologetic, saying several times that he believes he could have done more to fix the economic crisis.

Stewart openly mocked the democratic party: "You ran on very high redirect (Hope and Change) to, what the democrats are now running on which is, Please baby give us one more chance"

Obama got cheers when he talked about the Children's health bill, but not Obama care. Midway through the interview, Stewart expressed his displeasure with the Health care bill saying: "Is the difficulty that you have here, the distance between what you ran on and what you delivered, is that, you ran with such, if I may, audacity, so much of what you said is great leaders lead at a time of oppurtunity,.. I'm not sure at times what you want out of a health care bill." Obama responded by grouping Stewart with other pundants, saying "I don't mean to group you in with other pundants, but.." and that News pundants are wrong about the Health care bill.

after talking about legislative reform, Stewart jumped back on to health care asking: "There's really nothing in this bill that doesn't allow these insurance companies to raise rates" Obama said "That's not true, we have empowered state insurance commisioners to review the rate hikes that are put out in their state..." Stewart interrupted " Doesn't that only trip though, on egregious cases." Obama responded "If what you are implying Jon is that we didn't change the Health care system overnight, you're right..."

Stewart called him out, about hiring democrat Larry Summers saying "I remember very clearly we can't expect different results from the same people, and I remember when you hired Larry Summers, I remember thinking that seems like the exact same person.. the expectation was audacity, really going in there and rooting out corruption..." Obama responded by defending the democrats defense of the economy. Obama went on to pretty much say, this is a lot harder than he thought.


President Barack Obama, on left, discusses with a group in the White House, including Larry Summers on far right (back to camera)

While he certainly is no Bill O Reilly, the Comedian, Jon Stewart was much tougher on Obama than anyone on CBS or NBC news has ever been. Jon made it his job to express some of the displeasure people are feeling. He continually attempted to implicate that the campaign Obama was running on served to mislead the people, and therefore he deserves the scrutiny he is getting.

Entire Interview Here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/we...ck-obama-pt--1