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"The debate we're having now is about what, Benghazi?
Obamacare? And it becomes this endless loop. It's not serious.
It's not speaking to the real concerns that people have," Obama
said.
He was speaking to more than 60 people at a fundraising dinner
for Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives.
The event took place at a physician's home in the Washington
suburb of Potomac, Maryland, as Obama seeks to persuade
Democrats to organize for a voter turnout effort to prevent
Republicans from ousting Democrats from control of the Senate
and from building on their majority in the House.
Republicans in the House have begun a new investigation of the
deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and
three other Americans during a militant attack on September 11,
2012.
The new probe was spawned by the disclosure of an email from
Obama national security aide Ben Rhodes. Rhodes used the email
to prepare Obama aide Susan Rice for television appearances,
telling her to stress that the protests rocking the Muslim world
at the time were not rooted "in a broader failure of policy."
Republicans have also directed election-year fire at Obama's
Affordable Care Act, focusing on the rocky rollout of the law
last October.
Obama said the main focus of Republicans "is trying to figure
out how they can make people sufficiently cynical, sufficiently
angry, sufficiently suspicious that they can win the next
election."
"I hate to be blunt about it, but that's the play," he said.
Polls show Republicans stand to maintain control of the House
and possibly seize the Senate in November elections. Such an
outcome would make it extremely difficult for Obama to advance
his priorities during the last two years of his presidency, in
2015 and 2016.
(Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Criticizes Republicans For Focusing On Benghazi, Obamacare
