Posted on 07/21/2014 4:23:01 PM PDT by mandaladon
President Barack Obama said on Monday that hes in favor of Washington, D.C., gaining statehood.
Im in D.C., so Im for it, he said to a room of mostly young, minority boys who were at the White House for Obamas My Brothers 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 hes 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.
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Why not!
We should all be sovereign states!
“Not only difficult, but unconstitutional.”
Didn’t you get the mainstream media memo about this??
The Constitution is “an outdated, racist document”, now.
Lecturer. Not "Professor".
So do earthworms.
NOW WE’RE TALKIN”!
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