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Obama: I won't leave on Jan 20
Washington Examiner ^ | 12/31/16 6:00 AM | By DANIEL CHAITIN

Posted on 12/31/2016 6:58:56 AM PST by Resettozero

President Obama used his final weekly address in 2016 to assure Americans that he will remain committed to defending the "progress" made by his administration after handing over the White House to Donald Trump on Jan. 20.

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While the president initially indicated that he looked forward to a quiet retirement, at a time when many polls showed Democrat Hillary Clinton marching to victory in the presidential election, Obama has said his plans have changed since Trump ran away with the win.

"I promise you that next year Michelle and I are going to be right there with you, and the clouds are going to start parting and the sun is going to come back out, and we're going to be busy, involved in the amazing stuff that we've been doing all these years before," Obama told told supporters in late November. Obama also revealed then that his family plans to stick around Washington, D.C., for a few years while his younger daughter, Sasha, finishes high school.

Touting strides made in expanding health insurance coverage, job creation, bringing troops back to the U.S. from Afghanistan and Iraq, and killing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Obama said Saturday that the country has "made extraordinary progress as a country these past eight years."

The president said income is rising, poverty is falling and the auto industry is "resurgent." Turning to diplomacy, Obama said, "We shut down Iran's nuclear weapons program, opened up a new chapter with the people of Cuba, and brought nearly 200 nations together around a climate agreement that could save this planet for our kids." He also gave a nod to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling to grant nationwide marriage equality.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fubo; getoffthestage; obama; obamalegacy; obamape; obamaquotes; obana; peobama; worstpresidentever
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To: bert

Or the KGB (whatever that is called these days).


81 posted on 12/31/2016 7:37:38 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Only if he cops to foreign birth.


82 posted on 12/31/2016 7:37:50 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Resettozero

If he stays in DC and tries ti criticize what Trump does, I think it will backfire on the Obamadork. Just like pretty much everything else he does.


83 posted on 12/31/2016 7:37:56 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Gaffer

In many backrooms and lobbyist offices he will.

This petulant, little, child needs to be sent away to his room.


84 posted on 12/31/2016 7:38:11 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Resettozero

I suspect Trump will masterfully negotiate Obama into heading west, Cal or Hawaii, to spend time golfing.


85 posted on 12/31/2016 7:38:42 AM PST by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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To: Bryanw92

Obama tried to destroy the US, but failed because we are that resilient

He has 3 weeks left and is still trying


86 posted on 12/31/2016 7:39:06 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Resettozero

Bring it, you motherless f*ck.

Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens.


87 posted on 12/31/2016 7:40:11 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Resettozero

Some body’s got to tell Jug Ears when he’s out of office no one’s going to give two rips what he thinks or says. Thanks to him and a terrible Democrat candidate his party’s agenda was thoroughly rejected by the majority of the American people and it’s constituencies reduced to minority status.


88 posted on 12/31/2016 7:40:29 AM PST by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: Gaffer
Good point. And Trump won't be a rollover like W was, especially for someone who is trying to make this personal like Obozo is. In fact, I hope that Obozo really keeps trying to make it personal with Trump, because that will just truly piss Trump off, and he heads the engine of government now (if he can do anything about the entrenched leftist bureaucracy)
89 posted on 12/31/2016 7:40:35 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EBH

I think that lobbyists are going to have a hard row to hoe when the buck stops at Trump to sign off on the graft that they are able to infuse through Congress. Despite what people THINK Trump is, he is not an idiot.


90 posted on 12/31/2016 7:40:57 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: backwoods-engineer
They’re going to attempt a government-in-exile

And that is grounds for President Trump to act on the NDAA regarding domestic terrorists and insurrection. This demonstrates exactly why Trump needs to drain the swamp in Washington DC.

91 posted on 12/31/2016 7:41:25 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Islander7
I just posted the same thing before I read yours. That entrenched leftist bureaucracy must be dealt with somehow.
92 posted on 12/31/2016 7:42:51 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Diogenesis

That s great.


93 posted on 12/31/2016 7:43:06 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: dirtboy

The wun suddenly declares his Kenyan or Indonesian birth along with a legitimate certificate and other legal papers and there goes that pesky restriction.

That’s my conspiracy theory.


94 posted on 12/31/2016 7:44:48 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Mouton
Obama tried to destroy the US, but failed because we are that resilient. He has 3 weeks left and is still trying.

0's EO auto-pen is still working 24/7 while we post these comments.

If DJT can negate all of 0's recent EO mandates with one stroke of his own EO, why is 0 bothering to do this anyway?

I suggest someone is receiving bribes in return for certain EOs. Wonder if Jeff Sessions will be interested in looking into any of this fiasco.
95 posted on 12/31/2016 7:45:15 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

Obama who?


96 posted on 12/31/2016 7:45:17 AM PST by moovova
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To: Resettozero

I bet Jeff Sessions will be able to make him keep his yap shut


97 posted on 12/31/2016 7:45:20 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: BeadCounter

Private Citizen(of some country) with Zero power will turn Super Idiot


98 posted on 12/31/2016 7:46:13 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Resettozero

What progress?


99 posted on 12/31/2016 7:46:16 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

He didn’t really step down. Antonio Guterres of Portugal is the new secretary general and they change seats on January 1st.


100 posted on 12/31/2016 7:47:02 AM PST by Voluntaryist
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