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Obama may be a rare ex-president who stays in Washington
Throughout his time in office, President Obama has opened many outside-the-Beltway speeches with a suggestion that he, too, feels like an outsider in the nation’s baffling, frustrating capital city. He shouts to the audience about how good it is to be wherever he is that day — Cleveland, Miami, San Francisco. Then he takes pokes at the town where great success in his chosen profession has brought him.
“It is good to be out of Washington,” he often says — a line that, in good times and in bad, always generates warm, sympathetic applause.
Changing Washington may not have come off as Obama promised. But for the president and his supporters, the city has been an object of contempt they can believe in.
Now, though, Obama has raised the possibility that he might remain a resident of the capital after his lease on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. expires in January 2017.
In an interview this week with Barbara Walters of ABC News, Obama and the first lady, Michelle, said they may live in Washington beyond their time in the White House to allow their younger daughter, Sasha, to graduate from Sidwell Friends School.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-may-be-a-rare-ex-president-who-stays-in-washington/2013/11/29/81ba049c-5912-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html
Well it speaks volumes does it not, guess who will have a say, Sasha. They believe in her best interests. Their child.
The President according to the article could and would become a target of further abuse and hatred, yet they have Sasha's best interest at heart. Not at all surprising is it? Pause a moment, what does that say to you about this President. He has his child's best interest at heart despite what it will mean to him. It is the same way he has taken this Country forward. No matter what the hate and abuse he receives he moves on. He takes us forward every damn day!
Thank you President Obama.
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I hope he goes to the Burbs so to speak. Washington is a hard place yet he has taken it on well.
Hey, we are voting again. Are you taking up ferrying voters again? 
she's been going to all these years. Malia will be off to College and the President and Michelle will keep the home fires burning in their own inimitable way, she.
That will be so interesting.. to see what they do post presidency with his Community Organizing spirit that led to world organizing and Michelle's gift of helping others to be their best.
Mahalo, she~ To the Obamas~ 
