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Obama says Air Force One travel is ‘not my choice’ in sharp exchange
Yahoo! News ^ | April 12, 2012

Posted on 04/12/2012 5:39:07 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

President Barack Obama on Thursday firmly rejected any criticism that his worldwide travel on Air Force One or his family's vacations have left him out of touch with Americans' struggles, saying flying aboard the famed official plane is "not my choice."

"The fact of the matter is, I think if you look at my track record, I'm raising a family here. When we travel, we got to travel through Secret Service, and Air Force One, that's not my choice. I think most folks understand how hard I work and how hard this administration is working on behalf of the American people," Obama told KMOV of St Louis. The interview was one of four sessions the White House arranged with local TV in states expected to be battlegrounds in November.

KMOV reporter Larry Conners had told Obama that some of the station's viewers "are complaining, they get frustrated, even angered, when they see the first family jetting around, different vacations and so forth, sometimes maybe, they think, under color of state business and that you're out of touch, that you don't really know what they're experiencing right now."

"Well, I don't know how many viewers you're talking about that say that," Obama countered. "We do hear from some," replied Conners. "I hear from all kinds of viewers about everything," Obama shot back. "I'm sure you do," said Conners.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforceone; obama; obamavacations; vacationerinchief
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1 posted on 04/12/2012 5:39:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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2 posted on 04/12/2012 5:41:20 PM PDT by jimbo123
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That’s the same look he has when somebody in the foursome ahead of him three-puts.


3 posted on 04/12/2012 5:42:25 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Then explain Mooshelle’s fleet of jets that she used to cart dozens of her friends and hundreds of security personnel to her opulent, ostentatious, and BLOODY EXPENSIVE “vacations” in Spain and India.

Imagine *YOUR* carbon footprint, BLOODY HYPOCRITE, when the rest of us go to REAL jobs and do little errands driving Hyundais and Hondas.


4 posted on 04/12/2012 5:44:05 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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I’m confused. I thought he said it was “Spiffy.”

I’m sure he’d rather fly AF 1 than business class on American Airlines.

The sacrifices he makes for our sakes. We must all pledge allegiance to him in gratitude.


5 posted on 04/12/2012 5:44:21 PM PDT by Maceman (Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
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It was their decision that Micelles would fly separately to Martha’s Vineyard.


6 posted on 04/12/2012 5:44:29 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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I think most folks understand how hard I work and how hard this administration is working on behalf of the American people

94 rounds of golf, Mr 0bama??? At one round a day, that's over 3 months of golf. You sure you're working hard for the people?

7 posted on 04/12/2012 5:44:43 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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I think most folks understand how hard I work

What a POS. Is he that out of touch that he really believes that "most folks" believe he does much of anything except wipe his butt with soft taxpayer paid for tissue each day? All of his days are scripted and put on teleprompters.

8 posted on 04/12/2012 5:45:21 PM PDT by laweeks
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Using Air Force One is not the issue. Where it flies him (and Moochelle), and how often, is.


9 posted on 04/12/2012 5:45:55 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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Looks like this is a touchy subject for Obummer. This idiot is spinning and lying through his teeth. Americans do see the Kobe Beef President as out of touch. No one thinks he is working very hard either.


10 posted on 04/12/2012 5:46:13 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Reporter serves him up a softball.....and he actually connects a sentence or two without his aid Telie Prompter...but they left out the ah ah ahs...and errs..errs...errs


11 posted on 04/12/2012 5:46:55 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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the commies flew the dog back from hawaii for a photo-op at a store.


12 posted on 04/12/2012 5:47:20 PM PDT by biggredd1
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Then stay home, a$$hole.


13 posted on 04/12/2012 5:47:49 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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...whipped dog yelps the loudest.


14 posted on 04/12/2012 5:48:28 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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I can’t stand his use of the word, “folks”.


15 posted on 04/12/2012 5:49:09 PM PDT by zeebee
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When does Connor’s IRS audit start?


16 posted on 04/12/2012 5:49:53 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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When you come right down to it, he’s just another one of Eric Holder’s people. No more. No less.


17 posted on 04/12/2012 5:49:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
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what plane the boy, his shrew and their spawn fly on isn't, but where they go on the taxpayers dollar IS!!!
18 posted on 04/12/2012 5:50:00 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Of course not. He has 24x7 STAFF on payroll to wipe his butt with silk tissue. Not that he needs it, his s**t doesn’t stink, just ask him. . .


19 posted on 04/12/2012 5:50:26 PM PDT by Salgak (The Energizer Border: I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
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I think most folks understand how hard I work and how hard this administration is working on behalf of the American people,

We understand you work on behalf of totalitarian socialists. He probably thinks AF1 isn't good enough.

20 posted on 04/12/2012 5:51:27 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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