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'America's pretty darn great right now,' Obama told reporters Friday as he celebrated a strong jobs report
Hours later a Gallup poll revealed that President Obama had a very strong 51% approval rating
On Friday, a Labor Department report showed employers added 242,000 workers in February
'Our businesses have created jobs every single month since I signed that job-killing Obamacare bill,' Obama said, mocking Republicans
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Published: 16:03 EST, 4 March 2016 | Updated: 08:00 EST, 5 March 2016

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While Donald Trump is trying to win voters with his Make America Great Again slogan, President Barack Obama thinks things are going pretty well already in the United States.

'America's pretty darn great right now,' Obama told reporters Friday as he celebrated a strong jobs report that he said proved Republicans' 'doomsday rhetoric' is little more than 'fantasy.'

Also making things 'pretty darn great' for President Obama is a new Gallup poll that reports he has a very strong 51% approval rating one day after what many people believe was a less than stellar Republican debate focused more on arguing among than candidates than the actual addressing of any issues.

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Winning: 'America's pretty darn great right now,' Obama (above on Friday) told reporters Friday as he celebrated a strong jobs report

Obama's brief remarks were a striking turn for a president who for most of his seven years in office has put on a sober face every time he spoke about the economy.

Years of slow jobs growth and stagnant wages made the president and his team wary of seeming out of step with the plight of Americans still feeling the aftereffects of the recession.

Those concerns seemed a thing of the past on Friday.

Hours after a new Labor Department report showed employers added 242,000 workers in February, Obama called reporters to the Roosevelt Room at the White House, and he didn't hold back.

'Our businesses have created jobs every single month since I signed that job-killing Obamacare bill,' Obama said, digging at the Republicans' favorite name for his health-care law.

Obama didn't name names but showed he's been following the especially combative GOP nomination fight. He seemed ready to get off the sidelines.

The president said he looks forward to 'forcefully' making his case for changing the conversation to a debate over investing in education and infrastructure and increasing wages, "not fantasy, not name-calling."