I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.
I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.
The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.