Obama ‘amused’ by protest, but remains confident

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President Obama admits to being ‘a little amused’’ by all the rallies protesting taxes lately -- federal taxes have been cut for 95% of Americans, he notes.

And the president appears endlessly amused by the 24/7 news cycle’s obsession with impatience.

‘You know, sometimes the way they cover stuff in Washington, [if it were a farm] you’d be up there tilling the soil, and the press would look, and [say], ‘Look, the dirt’s all messed up!’’’ Obama said at a Democratic Party fundraising rally Thursday night in Miami. ‘And then you’d put the seeds in and pack it down. And next morning they’d come up, ‘There are no crops! It’s not working! We’re going to starve!’’’

If the president appears fairly upbeat these days -- this was, after all, a $2.5-million fundraising day for his party, and there’s nothing like talking to a crowd that’s paying a lot of money to see you -- this last 15 months has been quite a year -- and some -- for Obama.

--Mark Silva

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