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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Tom Hanks has already said he would vote for him in ‘16. I’ve said for a while that he’ll declare martial law, EO or something that will allow him to stay on.
Lakin’s old cell.
Giving her the benefit of doubt, perpetually annoyed and bored is the normal 15 year old face.
He will be Mayor before the year is out.
As David Horowitz says in Rush’s newsletter, Obama lies constantly.
He is moving to the mansion in Hawaii as soon as possible.
He is lying to make it sound like he likes being in Washington since he is doing such a great job.
Maybe Obama’s idea is that the Queen on Jan. 21, 2017, will be Michelle.
Probably so much shredding to do to get rid of incriminating evidence of massive govt fraud——the Chicago criminal/pols need more time.
From the office of President-elect to the office of Former President?
He's not leaving the White House.
I am of the same thought.
baraq openly flaunts the law. The Constitution is a speed bump for him and NO ONE is enforcing the law on him.
If he stays in the White Hut after 2016, who is going to remove him? And given his past behavior, why should he start obeying the law now or then? The last election was a sham so why would the next one be legit?
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