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"You ran on very high rhetoric, hope and change, and the Democrats this year seem to be running on, 'Please give me one more chance,'" he said, while later stating that Obama's legislative agenda "felt timid at times."
The president pushed back hard against that notion.
"Jon, I love your show," Obama replied, "but this is something where I have a profound disagreement with you. We stabilized the economy...we got nine months of consecutive job growth...we have passed historic health care reform, historic regulatory reform. We have done things that people don't even know about."
Stewart quipped back, "Are you planning a surprise party for us, filled with jobs and health care?"
Still, "The Daily Show" anchor persisted that perhaps Obama's administration had not been as bold as it wanted to be.
"So you wouldn't say you would run next time as a pragmatist? It wouldn't be 'Yes we can, given certain conditions,'" Stewart said.
