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struggle4progress

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Sun May 4, 2014, 08:27 PM May 2014

TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks at the White House Corresponents’ Association Dinner

Sunday, May 4, 1:35 AM

... We have some other athletes here tonight, including Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Jamie Anderson is here. We are proud of her. Incredibly talented young lady. Michelle and I watch the Olympics, we cannot believe what these folks do. Death-defying feats. We haven’t seen somebody pull a 180 that fast since Rand Paul disinvitied that disgruntled rancher from this dinner.

As a general rule, things don’t end well if the sentence starts, “Let me tell you something I know about the negro.” You don’t really need to hear the rest of it. Just a tip for you. Don’t start your sentence that way ...

I am feeling sorry, believe it and not, for the Speaker of the House. These days, the House Republicans give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black ...

There is one thing that keeps Republicans busy. They have tried more than 50 times to repeal Obamacare. Despite that, 8 million people signed up for healthcare in the first open enrollment. Which does lead one to ask, how well does Obamacare have to work before you don’t want to repeal it? What if everyone’s cholesterol drops to 120? What if your yearly checkup came with tickets to a Clippers’ game? Not the old Donald Sterling Clippers, the new Oprah Clippers. What if it gave Mitch McConnell a pulse? What is it going to take? ...


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TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks at the White House Corresponents’ Association Dinner (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2014 OP
We haven’t seen somebody pull a 180 that fast since Rand Paul disinvitied that disgruntled rancher.. yellowcanine May 2014 #1

yellowcanine

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1. We haven’t seen somebody pull a 180 that fast since Rand Paul disinvitied that disgruntled rancher..
Tue May 6, 2014, 03:11 PM
May 2014

That's funny.

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