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Obama May Stay in Washington After Presidency
breitbart ^ | 12/1/13 | w bigelow

Posted on 12/01/2013 11:45:11 AM PST by bestintxas

Barack Obama, who has spent a career inveighing against the politicians in Washington, is thinking of staying there even after his second term expires, ostensibly because he doesn’t want his 12-year-old daughter, Sasha, to leave Sidwell Friends School.

Obama has often intoned, “It is good to be out of Washington.” But when interviewed by Barbara Walters of ABC News this week, Obama and Michelle Obama averred they might stay beyond their call of duty in order to let Sasha graduate. “We gotta make sure that she’s doing well . . . until she goes off to college,” Obama said, “Sasha will have a big say in where we are.”

No president since the dying Woodrow Wilson has stayed in Washington after leaving office. Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, deplored the idea, saying, “Once you’re in Washington you are somehow connected to every problem that your predecessor is going to be confronting. And you will be asked to say something each time your name comes up, given that you will have reporters camping out on your doorstep … It’s just not a very congenial place to hang out” Josh Earnest, the White House principal deputy press secretary, said the issue was still undecided, saying of the Obamas, “they are still trying to figure it out. It is certainly something they have been thinking about, and that is evident in the answer they gave. I think it is school and Sasha being able to keep her social group as much as possible — that is what is most important to them.”

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KEYWORDS: bho44; enoughalready; flotusmichelle; obama; reggielove
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To: faucetman
he will NOT fade into the background as every other former president has done.

You've got to be kidding. Clinton?

21 posted on 12/01/2013 12:10:26 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: Dr. Ursus

Cankles had to play second fiddle to her husband for decades, and then this upstart nobody that “would have fetched her coffee” snatched her coronation right from her hands. If she is elected in 2016, you can get he’ll be encouraged to leave town.


22 posted on 12/01/2013 12:15:50 PM PST by TheGipperWasRight
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To: bestintxas

I was thinking more like the FT. Leavenworth Presidential suite.. Newly remodeled.


23 posted on 12/01/2013 12:24:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Huskrrrr

Me really likey.


24 posted on 12/01/2013 12:28:14 PM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: bestintxas

political hacks should be required to send their rugrats to the public schools they force on the rest of us


25 posted on 12/01/2013 12:28:20 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: bestintxas

By the time Sasha graduates the little one won’t want to move. I’m sure that there are children who board and go to Sidwell’s. My brothers and I all had to deal with moving during high school. It is very difficult. My parents did move my older brother between his junior and senior year and at 73 he is still bitter. With the next brother, they lived on virtually nothing, refusing a transfer until he did graduate. They moved me part way into my junior year. I still grieve. Never easy once the kid is 11.


26 posted on 12/01/2013 12:38:21 PM PST by Mercat
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To: bestintxas

Hussein has no class. None.


27 posted on 12/01/2013 12:40:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: bestintxas; a fool in paradise

After Jamuary 21, 2017 the Queen won’t tolerate competition.


28 posted on 12/01/2013 12:42:28 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: bestintxas

Hawaii and Chicago are breathing sighs of relief . . .


29 posted on 12/01/2013 12:48:45 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: bestintxas

This is news?


30 posted on 12/01/2013 12:57:52 PM PST by SIRTRIS
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To: bestintxas

Sasha is the older girl. I would think she would be graduating about that time. Malia would be the one forced to change schools.
He can always become a lobbyist. Schmoozing all day isn’t work, he could be on the golf course three seasons out of the year.


31 posted on 12/01/2013 1:02:34 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The rule seems to be that the worst presidents seek the most publicity and have the most to say after leaving office. This rule would tend to indicate that Nixon was not as bad as I tend to think he was because he had the good grace to mostly stay out of things after he resigned. This rule would also lead us to expect that Obama will be on TV at least twice a day for the rest of his life after leaving office. He is the boil on the buttocks of the presidency, the huge wart on the face of the presidency, he is the punch line of thousands of jokes as yet unwritten, he is a national nightmare unlikely to ever be equaled. Even if Joe Biden succeeded him he would likely be an improvement. I will not say as so many said of Bush that we could do no worse but I will say that I for one am incapable of imagining how we could do worse...oh, wait, on second thought I know what would be worse. Worse would be to have a president with his hatred of America and intent to destroy this nation coupled with actual competency. Much better to have a bitter enemy who is a blundering jackass than one who is an evil genius.


32 posted on 12/01/2013 1:05:29 PM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: bestintxas

Of course he will; he wants the bucks that will come his way. Chicago wouldn’t be near as lucrative.


33 posted on 12/01/2013 1:07:05 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: bestintxas

...he’ll hitch rides on Air Force One...he really wants to buzz Manhattan again...it’s that juvenile thing


34 posted on 12/01/2013 1:09:54 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: bestintxas

0bama is dog whistling. “As long as I’m going to be here anyway I might as well be in the WH.”


35 posted on 12/01/2013 1:11:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: bestintxas

As long as Obama remains in Washington after the end of his term, there would be no reason for any Democrat to want to be president.

From his new home in Washington, Obama would serve as the defacto President for Life of Black America and also of Far-Left America, and of any other Democratic factions that might believe from time to time that an actual Democratic president in the White House was not acceding to their every whim.

A President Hillary Clinton would have an especially hard time, since the 2008 Democratic primaries proved that Obama was more popular than Hillary among Democrats. And she certainly wouldn’t be popular among Republicans. But she also couldn’t rule as a moderate, since Obama would be constantly attacking her for not being liberal enough.

Obama as a lifelong fixture in Washington would take all the Democratic party’s oxygen out of the air, and the party would collapse. May King Obama have a long reign.


36 posted on 12/01/2013 1:12:49 PM PST by Bluestocking
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To: bestintxas; a fool in paradise

If that fellow Zimmerman (not that that one, and not that other one either!) has his way, there’ll be no “after Presidency” for Odunga.


37 posted on 12/01/2013 1:12:52 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: bestintxas

OK

38 posted on 12/01/2013 1:15:42 PM PST by kidd
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To: DPMD

Has anyone noticed the scowling, straight face of this child, Sasha? Looks a lot like the mooch, with her angry, snarling face. I’d like to know what’s in the head of this offspring of Lucifer in OUR White House.


39 posted on 12/01/2013 1:16:44 PM PST by itssme
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To: DPMD; hoosiermama; autumnraine; mojitojoe; sweetiepiezer; Rushmore Rocks; Albion Wilde; ...
Apparently, he’s willing to admit that, unless the daughter is in an expensive private school, as opposed to a tax-funded public school, she won’t do well.

Wondering about doublespeak; is he saying the daughter isn't doing well in Sidwell, and teachers are having to "work with her" to get passing grades?

40 posted on 12/01/2013 1:18:03 PM PST by LucyT (~ If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on. ~)
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