Obama: Opposition to health care was pure politics

In an interview on Monday with the Today Show's Matt Lauer, the President argued that opposition to his Health Care legislation was pure politics.

I think that the Republican Party made a calculated decision, a political decision, that they would not support whatever we did.

Well, I give him credit for not perpetuating the racism/extremism narrative. But it does contradict some of what he said after the health care summit last month, when he acknowledged that there were "legitimate philosophical differences" between Republicans and Democrats.