‘I’m for It’: Obama Lends Support to DC Statehood Push

Mediaite ^ | 21 Jul 2014 | Eddie Scarry

[mandaladon]

President Barack Obama said on Monday that he’s in favor of Washington, D.C., gaining statehood.

“I’m in D.C., so I’m for it,” he said to a room of mostly young, minority boys who were at the White House for Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. “Folks in D.C. pay taxes like everybody else. They contribute to the overall well-being of the country like everybody else. They should be represented like everybody else.”

Obama said he’s supported the idea of statehood for D.C. “for quite sometime” but acknowledged that “the politics of it” would make it something difficult to move through Congress.

D.C. is the most liberal city in the U.S., according to a poll released by Gallup in January.

[mandaladon]

He supports the idea...as long as they keep voting DemocRAT.

[mandaladon]

That would make DC the 58th State according to Zero.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

2 more socialist Senators, 1 more Marxist congressman.

[Veggie Todd]

Marion Barry for Governor! Rob Ford for Lt. Gov.

[SoFloFreeper]

Of course he is for it: two DemonRat Senators FOREVER.

[The_Media_never_lie]

It would make more sense to split mexifornia first.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Just what we need another blue state.

[DAC21]

Guaranteed 2 RAT Senators, no thanks. They can be dissolved into Maryland, they will welcome the Rif Raft that inhabits DC.

[EricT.]

I support walling it off and letting them eat each other.

[oldbrowser]

Washington DC is part of Maryland. Just combine it and be done with it.

[suijuris]

Not only difficult, but unconstitutional. But when did the Constitution ever matter to the Barack Insane Obama? After all he was a "adjunct" constitutional professor.

[Baynative]

Good Baraque; let’s make D.C. a state and then move the nation’s capitol out of that stinking swamp. We could carve out an uninhabitated corner of the geographical center and put it there.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

They contribute to the overall well-being of the country like everybody else.

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I don't care who ya are, that's funny.

[BerniesFriend]

Once again, Barry is tackling the most pressing issues facing this nation.

[Jim from C-Town]

Yeah, I think they should be GIVEN BACK TO VIRGINIA & MARYLAND.

It is not now and never was intended to be a state. It should be a part of an adjoining state. It would be best if it was returned and cut up along it's original lines and those areas returned to their respective states of Maryland and Virginia from where it came.

The City itself should be eliminated.

[House Atreides]

“Yeah, I think they should be GIVEN BACK TO VIRGINIA & MARYLAND....”
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I think that Virginia already got its part (or at least most of it) back. The remaining amount should be given back to Maryland. Maryland can’t be made any worse than it already is.

Come to think of it, but I think most of Virginia’s citizens would be well served if the part of Virginia that was formerly in the District was also given to Maryland.

[Rome2000]

If it’s evil, he’s for it.

[GeronL]

Maybe every city and county in America can become a state!?

[Jim from C-Town]

Lebanon, Kansas. The geographic center of the United States would be a great location. Only 212 people there now. Could be bought out for less than an hours U.S. Spending.. Could put a couple buildings for the Senate, House, POTUS and Courts. All limited to one secretary and the ability to meet every August for four weeks in buildings NOT air conditioned.

[Charles Martel]

2 more socialist Senators, 1 more Marxist congressman.

Perhaps just as bad, we'd also have a capitol *state*. One with no state law at all, just the U.S. Code. One with no state courts, just federal courts. You can see where this leads.