In a 60 Minutes interview aired Sunday, Obama said, "my biggest disappointment is that we haven't changed the tone in Washington as much as I would have liked."
Do you bear responsibility for that?, Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked Obama.
"As President I bear responsibility for everything, to some degree," Obama said. "And one of the things I've realized over the last two years is that that only happens if I'm enlisting the American people much more aggressively than I did the first two years."
Earlier in the interview, Obama did cite the health care bill, new financial regulations, and other pieces of legislation. He also criticized a lack of cooperation from the Republican Party, saying "its number one priority was beating me as opposed to helping the American people?
"And there is no doubt that I've been disappointed in trying to get more cooperation from those folks," Obama said. "And that's something that we're going to have to continue to do.
For it's part, the Mitt Romney campaign said Obama's biggest disappointment should be the bad economy.
"In recent weeks, President Obama has cited several failures as his greatest --not being a better storyteller, not reforming immigration, and now his inability to change the tone in Washington," said Ryan Williams, a spokesman for the Republican nominee.
Williams added: "But President Obama just doesn't get it. With 23 million Americans struggling for work, anemic economic growth, and nearly 1 in 6 Americans living in poverty, his greatest failure - by far - is his broken promise to fix the economy."
By David Jackson, USA TODAY
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