Obama: ‘I can’t suck it up with a straw’

It’s near impossible to top the soundbite that Byron highlighted earlier today, but here’s another choice comment from the president, courtesy the Washington Post:

“Even though I’m president of the United States, my power is not limitless,” he told Grand Isle, La., locals in the video, released Friday. “So I can’t dive down there and plug the hole. I can’t suck it up with a straw. All I can do is make sure that I put honest, hard-working smart people in place … to implement this thing.”

 

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