Former New York Governor George Pataki had an extensive interview with the Wall Street Journal, to announce plans for his new national organization to Repeal ObamaCare. But the question of Obama and his presidency in general also came up.

From the WSJ:

I'm very excited about Revere America. This is a great group of people that I'm going to be working with and as I've said for some time, I do want to get more involved in the national political dialogue and I think this is the best way to do it. We're going to be kicking off the end of this week an effort to get a million signatures, e-mails calling for the repeal and the reform and replacement of the Obama health-care bill. I'm optimistic that we can not only change that and have a significant impact in undoing the government's takeover of the health-care system, but we can also help candidates move onto other issues so that those who believe in limited government and not having Washington usurp power from the people and sacrifice their future with trillions in debt, in borrowing -- then, we can have a very real impact. So, when I looked at the different options, one of which included running for the Senate, it was obviously very flattering that people were encouraging me to run. I think that by being chair of Revere America and this effort to rally Americans in support of freedom, as Paul Revere did this coming Sunday 235 years ago, I think that's the best way for me to have an impact now.

(Later in the interview)

what we're seeing is a president who is ideologically committed to higher taxes, to bigger government, to having government dictate to people how they lead their lives...

Note - Pataki has been rumored to have a "libertarian streak" in the past. During his administration in the last 1990s, the Governor made some favorable comments about what he called "alternatives to the War on Drugs."