CNET Forums: Message List - Our president is abusing his power again

Going to see the President in person is just a ruse

09 Jun 2012 08:50:45 PDT

to get out of work or school.

Yeap some will do anything to avoid things they don't want to do. ...

I saw Reagan's hand once

06 Jun 2012 06:35:39 PDT

His motorcade was coming up 6th Avenue in Manhattan and I saw the limo and a hand waving out the partially open window, ...

That is cool.

05 Jun 2012 19:21:04 PDT

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The two Presidents I've met were

05 Jun 2012 17:35:40 PDT

Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. I skipped class to see them. It had nothing to do with the party. They were Presiden ...

RE: BO is one president I wouldn't take time away

05 Jun 2012 11:32:09 PDT

BO is one president I wouldn't take time away from my garden to see

You're not in your garden now...You ca ...

Sure, it was neat that Christie did it too

05 Jun 2012 10:00:50 PDT

I like the guy even if I don't like everything he does or stands for.

Come on now, I did it. You can too. ...

A 'neat' story?

05 Jun 2012 09:56:05 PDT

Admit that it was also 'neat' that Christie did it, and I'll give you a pass. BO is one president I wouldn't take time ...

A friend of mine won his state's Science Fair and went to

05 Jun 2012 09:19:47 PDT

Washington, met LBJ, and was struck by how small Bobby Kennedy was, and ended up walking in the Rose Garden alone with R ...

I did skip to see a presidential candidate running for

05 Jun 2012 07:48:11 PDT

the '68 office. I walked from the university campus to the statehouse. The three running were Nixon, Humphrey and Walla ...

So what if the kid wasn't there to ask a question?

05 Jun 2012 07:47:29 PDT

And how do you know the parent only did it "to look cool to the kid?"

If I had a chance to meet the pre ...

I'd have skipped school to see the President.

05 Jun 2012 06:57:35 PDT

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BO is wayyy cooler...just ask his media

05 Jun 2012 05:47:08 PDT

The point being....the kid at Christie's town hall was there specifically to ask him a question because he is interested ...

I knew you'd find a way, LOL

05 Jun 2012 03:53:38 PDT

Let's see, which would be cooler for a kid -- governor of New Jersey, or PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Hmmmmm.......< ...

Nothing new

04 Jun 2012 13:47:41 PDT

Chris Christie did the same at a town hall meeting recently for a 10-yr old who came to ask him a question. At least th ...

I wonder if the teacher will refuse to accept

04 Jun 2012 08:00:24 PDT

anything but the original. ...

I like the reader comment below the article....

04 Jun 2012 06:45:15 PDT

.....that says Donald Trump has already declared the note to be fake.

LOL ...

Waiting to see how Toni will rip Obama for this

04 Jun 2012 06:43:21 PDT

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NO, we have live video evidence.

04 Jun 2012 05:03:47 PDT

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What?

04 Jun 2012 04:55:22 PDT

No bond hearing? ...

should have beEN dispatched on the spot.

04 Jun 2012 04:05:11 PDT

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RE: cuffed and led away

04 Jun 2012 04:04:36 PDT

you're too generous...he should have be dispatched on the spot. ...

Actually, it's the kid's dad who's at fault

04 Jun 2012 03:54:19 PDT

for corrupting a minor. He should have been cuffed and led away.