The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video
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Norah O’Donnell, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS: Today is Super Tuesday so I thought you might want to weigh in on some of your potential republican opponents.
Mitt Romney has criticized you on Iran, and said ‘hope is not a foreign policy.’ He also said you are ‘America’s most feckless president since Carter.’ What would you like to say to Mr. Romney?
President Obama: Good luck tonight. (Laughs all around W.H. press room)
Unknown reporter: No, really?
President Obama: Really. (More laughs)
“Ed, just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into reelection wants gas prices to go up higher? Is there anybody here who thinks that makes a lot of sense?”
“I am speechless. I am without speech.”
Inside the president’s home theater
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“It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick.
I ducked under the table and did it. It wasn’t like I got high. The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the President.”
“And let me start with a quick public service announcement to all the gentlemen out there: Today is Valentine’s Day. Do not forget. I speak from experience here. It is important that you remember this. And go big. That’s my advice.”
“I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them. That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me.”
“And to all the folks who are here, don’t let your robots wander off anywhere.”
“You ask me, [Obama] should have put that mother-f*!cker on ice and defrosted his ass Nov. 1.”
President Obama Speaks at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast
President Obama speaks about the role of faith in his life and in society during the National Prayer Breakfast
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Barack Obama: Fist-Bumper-In-Chief
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“He does have a beautiful voice, and he sings to me all the time. … He doesn’t hesitate to show off his lungs to his wife,” she said. “He sings that song. That’s why I knew when people said he sang, I thought, ‘I’ll bet he sang Al Green.’”
But daughters Malia and Sasha aren’t so impressed. “Anything we do is highly embarrassing,” Obama said. “They just want us to be very quiet.”
Obama takes a look inside a Mustang Shelby GT500
