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Breaking: Obamas Purchased House in Asheville, NC for Post-Presidency
wallstcheatsheet.com ^ | June 7, 2014 | ANTHEA MITCHELL

Posted on 06/08/2014 6:07:08 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

t seems all the bookmakers sending the Obamas to New York City or back to Chicago after the end of the President’s second term are wrong by a few thousand miles.

A source close to Wall St. Cheat Sheet has confirmed that the Obama family have purchased property in the city of Asheville in North Carolina as a post-Presidency residence. A call to get an official confirmation from the White House wasn’t immediately returned.

The President discussed retirement there last year during his trip to North Carolina during a speech in Asheville. “Love coming to Asheville,” said Obama. “Michelle and I always talk about how after this whole presidency thing, we’re looking for a little spot to –” here an audience member said, “Come on down” — “Come on down? Play a little golf, do a little hiking, fishing, barbecue,” said Obama. “There’s two things that keep bringing me back here. Number one is I really like the people. And number two is 12 Bones, which I will be stopping on the way back to the airport.” On the one hand, a smaller city like Asheville doesn’t offer the same enormous population to lose oneself in as does New York or Chicago. On the other, the president and his wife clearly like the area.

“The president first visited the Asheville area during the campaign, and he liked it so much that he vowed to take his family there. The president and first lady are planning to spend a quiet weekend enjoying some of the many things this beautiful part of the country has to offer,” reported the White House. This, of course, led to a great deal of “vacation like the president” slogans from the city’s tourism industry.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: asheville; ashevillenc; bho44; obama
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To: ilovesarah2012

Obama covets North Carolina like a precious pearl, but HE can’t have it, nor will he understand us (or change us)!!~


21 posted on 06/08/2014 6:20:15 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: cripplecreek

In other words, thanks to the multi-million dollar advance payments for Baraq’s and Michelle’s post-WH memoirs, it looks as if the O-duo will have enough dough to buy Ashville’s Biltmore, the USA’s biggest private home. After all, what lesser abode would be fit for a royal couple? Ain’t capitalism great!

(Putative congrats also to Bill Ayers, who undoubtedly will get a handsome cut of the payments, for his ghosting of both memoirs!)


22 posted on 06/08/2014 6:20:46 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: ilovesarah2012

I tend to think the Obamas would want to have access to the elites in Washington. I have a hard time believing they’d want a home in fly-over country.

Until I see this on a respected network, I will put this in the questionable category.


23 posted on 06/08/2014 6:20:58 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Pictures of the house here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biltmore_Estate.jpg


24 posted on 06/08/2014 6:21:42 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: cripplecreek

“Exiled President” has a nice ring to it.


25 posted on 06/08/2014 6:22:33 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Hawthorn

From WND, Ayers didn’t get a dime from the sale and he’s not too happy about that, because he can’t complain about it without exposing Obama for whom he is.


26 posted on 06/08/2014 6:22:33 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: PAR35

No doubt.


27 posted on 06/08/2014 6:22:38 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

The story has been floating around for over a year.


28 posted on 06/08/2014 6:22:53 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Jonty30

A jet Helicopter will handle that obstacle. Where do we sign the check?


29 posted on 06/08/2014 6:22:57 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I’m sure for some twisted reason the opposite will happen, but my expectations would be that property values in and around Asheville would plummet.

Just saying I would not want to live anywhere near a criminal, narcissistic psychopath.


30 posted on 06/08/2014 6:23:19 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Not far from the Billy Graham Training Center. Lovely area.


31 posted on 06/08/2014 6:23:25 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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“Obamas Purchased House in Asheville, NC for Post-Presidency “
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GOD, how disgusting....There goes the neighborhood !!
I knew Ashville from my early days. My mothers sister and family lived on Pine Tree Circle, later in Biltmore Forest.
We always loved our trips from Memphis to Ashville and the Smokies.


32 posted on 06/08/2014 6:23:25 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: Jonty30

I agree. I didn’t see anything on the Asheville Citizen-Times page. Of course, they are always the last to know anything going on.


33 posted on 06/08/2014 6:23:29 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012




The "Final vacation"....in leavenworth kansas
34 posted on 06/08/2014 6:24:17 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: jjotto

Silly us. We missed it.


35 posted on 06/08/2014 6:24:25 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: JSDude1
Obama covets North Carolina like a precious pearl, but HE can’t have it, nor will he understand us (or change us)!

I've been away going on 30 years. Once upon a time, Asheville was the young person's dream city. But the surrounding Buncombe County people were solid working-class people, conservatives. I hear that immigration from northern States has made the whole area a liberal's wet dream.
36 posted on 06/08/2014 6:25:42 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: ilovesarah2012

There go the property values


37 posted on 06/08/2014 6:25:48 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi or Atty General Holder, who brought more guns to Mexico?)
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To: Resettozero

No - who won?


38 posted on 06/08/2014 6:26:00 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

I’m betting that this will just be a place to visit and they will live in Hawaii.


39 posted on 06/08/2014 6:26:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

If it’s even true. I personally don’t think he will move from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. any time soon.


40 posted on 06/08/2014 6:28:09 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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