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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: nascarnation; faucetman
faucetman ~ he will NOT fade into the background as every other former president has done.

nascarnation ~ You've got to be kidding. Clinton?

Carter???

41 posted on 12/01/2013 1:23:16 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Mercat

Were you a Brat?


42 posted on 12/01/2013 1:24:29 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: bestintxas
What about Hawai'i?
43 posted on 12/01/2013 1:38:04 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SERKIT
What about Hawai'i?

Too hot. And he's never been there.

44 posted on 12/01/2013 1:39:31 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: bestintxas

He’s lying.


45 posted on 12/01/2013 1:41:48 PM PST by Slambat
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To: bestintxas

Obama should stay in Kansas.

(Ft. Leavenworth, you know.)


46 posted on 12/01/2013 1:44:50 PM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: bestintxas
Following their arrest, trial and conviction for treason, Traitorobama and his regime can hang around Washington, D.C. just like four other former Washington D.C. residents.

For years, as far as I care... or until the maggots are through with them.

47 posted on 12/01/2013 1:53:02 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: bestintxas

With that grand mansion in Hawaii we all paid for?

Not likely.


48 posted on 12/01/2013 2:14:27 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: faucetman

“he will NOT fade into the background as every other former president has done.”

Or Carter?


49 posted on 12/01/2013 2:20:20 PM PST by bestintxas (Obamacare = Obamascrewed)
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To: itssme

Usually the younger girl,Sasha, seems to be enjoying herself. The older one, Malia, looks perpetually annoyed and bored. Sasha does look more like Mooch poor kid.


50 posted on 12/01/2013 2:24:56 PM PST by surrey
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To: null and void

No. My dad worked for Greyhound. Interesting story about when he was put on unpaid leave when my second brother was in high school. In the late 50s, he was manager of the Houston bus terminal and locked the colored waiting room and told the Post House that they had to serve blacks or he would lock their door too. Soon after that he was told by the company that he could move to another job anywhere except in the south or go on unpaid leave. He chose the later until my brother graduated. Hard times.


51 posted on 12/01/2013 2:37:22 PM PST by Mercat
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To: Mercat

Good for him!


52 posted on 12/01/2013 2:39:00 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Revolting cat!

Although I spent some of my youth on Oahu, I’ve never been to the state of Hawaii.


53 posted on 12/01/2013 2:40:37 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: bestintxas

I do not believe ANYTHING Obama says. Nuttin’.


54 posted on 12/01/2013 2:44:26 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: All

This is such good news, I was worried that the next president might not know where to find him for tons of good advice.

In other news, my lobotomy has gone really, really well.


55 posted on 12/01/2013 2:47:22 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: Revolting cat!

Hehehehehe.


56 posted on 12/01/2013 2:57:35 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: bestintxas

ChiTown is too dangerous for him. Too many gang shootings.


57 posted on 12/01/2013 3:50:13 PM PST by Veggie Todd (I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for Large Fries.)
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To: bestintxas

I was thinking he could stand on a corner with a cardboard sign....


58 posted on 12/01/2013 4:03:06 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: IbJensen

They make Leavenworth’s prison library the Obama Presidential Library.


59 posted on 12/01/2013 4:03:09 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Taxpayers will be footing the bill for these bunch of grifters to fly back and forth to Hawaii.


60 posted on 12/01/2013 4:13:45 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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