Chris Christie Turns On Obama

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Friday that he is a “conservative Republican” governor that will not be the “same kind of leader” for the state that President Barack Obama is for the country, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.

Christie, who is seeking reelection this fall, took a hard line on his sometime arcade-game pal Obama, whom he once praised for his leadership during Hurricane Sandy.

“I know when you look at Washington right now, you shake your head 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,” Christie said at a town hall meeting. “That’s what happens when you have someone in the executive office who is more concerned about being right than he is concerned about getting things done.”

Christie further strenghtened his GOP bona fides Thursday when he criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as a “bad decision.”

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