Obama Talks Post-Presidency Plans: We’ll Be In DC ‘A Couple Of Years’

President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn with daughter Malia, left, followed by Sasha Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, on their return to the White House, in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016... President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn with daughter Malia, left, followed by Sasha Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, on their return to the White House, in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, after a family vacation in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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President Barack Obama said Thursday the First Family would stay in Washington for “a couple of years” after he leaves the White House so his daughter Sasha can finish school, according to the White House pool report.

During a visit to a restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Obama told a woman who had written him about the Affordable Care Act that he and his family hadn’t figured out where they’ll live after his term is up.

“We’re going to have to stay a couple of years so Sasha can finish,” Obama said. “Transferring someone in the middle of high school — tough.”

Obama then booted the reporters who were gathered.

“Thanks guys,” he reportedly said. “Get out of here.”

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  1. He’ll be available and handy for any over-time or temp work as POTUS, in case this election thingee gets really protracted or Congress decides they just can’t quit him.

    I said You Lie! but it was really more an attention-getting device … because you never acknowledge me, you never call, it’s like I don’t even exist for you unless I act out … OMG Barack, I’m SO sorry, please hold me, just hold me, hold me like you’re never gonna give me up, never gonna let me go. Please don’t LEAVE me, you big black beauty!

  2. I hope to see him out and about. I owe that man a drink!

  3. Don’t the GOP hate never-divorce family men.

  4. Sasha!? Fools! He doesn’t care about Sasha! She’s not even his daughter because he’s A GAY!

    This is the pretext for the Obama DICTATORSHIP!!! “Not leaving Washington?” Don’t you understand what that MEANS, libtards!!! He’s not moving out of the White House!!! I’ve been warning what your Messiah was up to for eight years!!!@!!:PTHWT!!!%!!!

    We need a man who respects the CONSTITUTION – like, say, Brilliant Businessman Donald Trump – to TAKE OFFICE NOW. I’m ready. We’ll all just load up are GUNS and drive from all directions – just like Republican Martin Luther King did – to Washington!!! We need to SAVE AMERICA from this DICTATOR!!!@

  5. You had me at Republican Martin Luther King.

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