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Obama: 'That's the Good Thing as a President, I Can Do Whatever I Want'
The Weekly Standard ^
| 10 Feb 2014
| DANIEL HALPER
Posted on 02/10/2014 3:04:45 PM PST by mandaladon
President Obama "quipped" today during a visit to Monticello with the French president, "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want."
Via the pool report:
Monticello
At 4:45 POTUS and president Hollande walked out from a portico and strolled in Front of your pool with Leslie Bowman, president of the Monticello Foundation. Looking at a terrace she said that Jefferson loved to admire the landscape from there. POTUS said that he'd like to take a look and seemed delighted to "break the protocol". "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" he quipped, walking to the terrace with his guest and Ms. Bowman. Pool now in the mansion as the leaders will come and visit Jefferson's study.
The comment came around the time the White House announced it would be delaying the Obamacare mandate for some businesses unilaterally.
The French president is here in the U.S. on a state visit.
More notes from the pool:
Monticello POTUS and pres Hollande paid a short visit to the study as your pool was looking through an alcove over president Jefferson's bed. They admired contraptions invented by Jefferson to read and write more efficiently such as a lectern and a "polygraph". Hollande noticed that one of the books was written in French.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; obama
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This moron really means that!
To: mandaladon
He’s not a moron, he’s a despot.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:06:02 PM PST
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: mandaladon
Insanity strikes. Down with the King!!
To: mandaladon
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:06:34 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Embrace the suck)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Insanity strikes. Down with the King!! And down with everyone who chose him.
That is what it will take, literally.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:08:10 PM PST
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: mandaladon
Obama is mistaking himself for Reichskanzler.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:07 PM PST
by
MeganC
(Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
To: mandaladon
And the "news" media have to check their cheat sheet:
Dem Prez - that's good.
Repub Prez - "imperial Presidency! Bad!"
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:13 PM PST
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: fwdude
Hate filled racist tyrant.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:26 PM PST
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: mandaladon
Well, he has a point. He’s doing what he wants and no one stops him, so how is he wrong?
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:28 PM PST
by
OKSooner
("As the riders went on by him, he heard one call his name...")
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:40 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: mandaladon
King Louie of France thought that too.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:48 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: mandaladon
They admired contraptions invented by Jefferson to read and write more efficiently such as a lectern and a "polygraph". After which the illegal, illicit, illegitmate squatter in our White House proclaimed, "Jefferson didn't really build those."
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:09:52 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
To: mandaladon
Dictators say this kind of stuff all of the time.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:10:46 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
To: fwdude
He’s not a moron, he’s a despot.
You are right, however, the people that elected him surely are
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:10:50 PM PST
by
munin
(MSNBC?)
To: All
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:11:34 PM PST
by
Biggirl
(“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: mandaladon
“...such as a lectern and a “polygraph”...”
Jefferson was so far ahead of his time. Of course now we don’t need it. Whenever Obama is behind a lectern he is always lieing.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:11:43 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: mandaladon
Well with Republicans leaders like Boehner & Mcconnell Obama can do whatever he wants.
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:11:56 PM PST
by
RginTN
To: mandaladon
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:14:47 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
To: mandaladon
Correction, that c0@%sucker really means that!
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posted on
02/10/2014 3:16:23 PM PST
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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