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Obama Says Americans Don't Want Him 'Twiddling My Thumbs'
LATimes ^ | August 6, 2014 | KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, CHRISTI PARSON

Posted on 08/06/2014 8:37:55 PM PDT by Steelfish

Obama Says Americans Don't Want Him 'Twiddling My Thumbs' Obama news conference

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, CHRISTI PARSONS

Americans don't want Obama 'twiddling my thumbs,' president says Obama defends his use of executive power despite GOP threats to sue him Despite Republican charges that he has abused his authority, President Obama said Wednesday he won’t dial back his use of executive power to advance his political agenda without help from Congress.

The American public doesn’t want him sitting around “twiddling my thumbs,” Obama said in a wide-ranging news conference. He reiterated his plans to order executive actions on immigration, and said he was considering ways to discourage corporations from moving some operations overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.

Obama, who leaves Saturday for a family vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, spoke for 45 minutes as he ended an unusual three-day summit of about 50 African leaders in Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africaleaderssummit; golf; obamapresser
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1 posted on 08/06/2014 8:37:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Keep that thumb in your pocket where it belongs.


2 posted on 08/06/2014 8:40:26 PM PDT by marron
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To: Steelfish

You don’t have to be Don Rickles to drive a truck through that one. The jokes just write themselves.


3 posted on 08/06/2014 8:40:26 PM PDT by huckfillary
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“spoke for 45 minutes ...”

hes addressing a collection of Africans...discussing HIS PLANS to punish Americans?

How very quaint.


4 posted on 08/06/2014 8:41:15 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Steelfish

Why does obama always have to talk about ‘gay sex’ ?


5 posted on 08/06/2014 8:41:42 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Steelfish

Fundraising and golf are ok though ..


6 posted on 08/06/2014 8:41:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Steelfish

Name them. Please be specific.


7 posted on 08/06/2014 8:42:33 PM PDT by Fungi (Do not read this post.)
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To: Steelfish

Obama, who leaves Saturday for a family vacation on Martha’s Vineyard

For what....his 8th vacation of the year?


8 posted on 08/06/2014 8:44:41 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Steelfish

As I watched the “President” sharing his brilliance with us today, I had a couple of thoughts.
First was. he really does have a photographic memory, too bad he never developed it.
Second thinking back to the nineties, maybe what he needs is a couple of interns.


9 posted on 08/06/2014 8:45:35 PM PDT by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Phillip Nolan by the day.)
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To: huckfillary

“Americans don’t want Obama ‘twiddling my thumbs...”

What!? Most didn’t seem to mind when Bill was diddling his intern!


10 posted on 08/06/2014 8:47:40 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Tupelo

Ive never seen evidence of photographic memory

If he has one why does he need a teleprompter?


11 posted on 08/06/2014 8:50:27 PM PDT by woofie
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To: smokingfrog

Lets all chip in and see if he we can keep him golfing for the rest of his term..It would be worth every penny


12 posted on 08/06/2014 8:52:20 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Steelfish

History is not going to be nice for this POS, count on it.


13 posted on 08/06/2014 8:52:29 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Steelfish

the Russians, ISIS, al quada, north korea, 50,000 illegal immigrants, and a dozen jihadist groups all really enjoy it when he twiddles his thumbs


14 posted on 08/06/2014 8:52:40 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: woofie

Is joke comrade.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 8:54:07 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Steelfish

Since when does this President give a tinker’s damn about what the people want? I really can’t recall the last time it happened.


16 posted on 08/06/2014 8:54:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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“twiddling my thumbs,”

we don’t want you spending so much time on the golf course , having so many exclusive $$$ parties at OUR White House and flying around uselessly on OUR Air Force One either .

Stop being such a spoiled ass punk narcissist and start trying to be an effective President of the United States; the job we pay your ass to do .....


17 posted on 08/06/2014 8:56:50 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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18 posted on 08/06/2014 8:56:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Steelfish

Gee I thought he was elected President to lead the nation, you know executive branch, if he wanted to legislate he should have kept his lazy butt where he was. Then again he didn’t do much of that back then either. The only things that seem to get mr. mulato engaged are golf and packing fudge, probably still smoke and blow too.


19 posted on 08/06/2014 9:01:37 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Steelfish

No, we just want him to get out of our lives and out of the White House!


20 posted on 08/06/2014 9:03:43 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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