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11. This is irrelevant. Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes in general, and there's no proven link that short-term usage of the former actually affects coginitive ability or intelligence. Next.
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32. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
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5> There's two definitions of "foreign" here. For the former, it was because the college's definition of foreigner was "Not born in the US", but the latter is because the legal definition when it comes to immigration matters is "not legally allowed to be here", in short. Given Obama was born a US Citizen, this doesn't apply. So this is another case of misinformation.
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73. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
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9> Christ, another fucking birther meme. Good god. Do some research, he was born in Hawaii and lived there for a month before moving to Washington state. If you seriously buy the birther crap, you're pretty far on the left end of the intelligence bell curve.
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114. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
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13> A cut that happened in 2011 because of Congressional (and Republican majority) actions to raise the debt limit AGAIN. After we recovered from a recession we just had to claw our way out of. And the Executive branch did not take these actions, the Legislative branch did, and it's credit agencies that downgraded our credit rating, aka private entities, based on actual metrics. This one is not obama's fault.
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155. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
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17> What? Didn't Bush Jr. literally plunge us into an endless military campaign over in Irag, Afghanistan, etc back in 2003 far beyond the alloted time without Congressional approval? Also on April 6, 2017, we launched missiles into Libya, which would also violate the same act.
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196. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
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21> http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2012/11/court_rules_interior_didnt_vio.html Please read this. It's by the Associated Press, and they're the most neutral source there is on this. 
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237. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
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25> The Militia acts of 1792 signed by George Washington required everyone to own a Musket
26http://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_act_1792.htm
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288. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
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30> President Obama did use the term “Shovel Ready Jobs” in a plan to fund $50 billion in improvements to highways, transit systems, railways and aviation. The idea was to put Americans back to work by construction upgrades to 150,000 miles of road, 4,000 miles of train tracks, 150 miles of airport runways and the nation’s air traffic control system. Political reported that experts did not see the jobs being as shovel ready as one would think as ” A tremendous amount of money and time is needed to get a project through a detailed design process, permitting, environmental hurdles, public hearings and land acquisition.
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32Obama did not spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. This number appears to come from reports on how much should be spent on infrastructure. “The Society of Civil Engineers (Failure to Act Studies) gives its price tag for restoring a first-world infrastructure. It would take $1.7T to correct our current infrastructure deficit and an extra $160 billion a year – or $1.1T — to meet our infrastructure needs through 2020.”
33http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2013/04/01/infrastructure-gap-look-at-the-facts-we-spend-more-than-europe/
34http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64454.html#ixzz1cP0l9zCV
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36God forbid we have a solid infrastructure plan, right?
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389. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
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40> This is referring to Chrysler. Chrysler did file for bankruptcy as part of TARP restructuring, but I don’t know what is implied by turning over control to his union supporters.
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4210. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
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44> It’s called an executive order and he is not the first president to use one,  Additionally, the president’s executive order falls very short of the full Dream Act
45http://www.factcheck.org/2011/07/did-obama-enact-dream-act/
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4711. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
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49> Obama has deported a record number of people, focusing on criminals and there was nothing secret about this:
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51“The Obama administration announced a major change in policy for thousands of illegal immigrants going through deportation proceedings. They now may be able to stay in the country. There are currently 300,000 deportation cases making their way through the federal immigration courts, but under the new policy immigrants classified as low-priority cases could be granted a stay and a chance to apply for a work permit.”
52http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/12/24/167970002/obama-administration-deported-record-1-5-million-people
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5412. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
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56> The penalty is not being “handed over to a political appointee” This is referring to the BP Oil victim’s fund. Kenneth Feinberg, who administered the fund, has been responsible for the most high profile victims funds in recent history, including the 9/11 victims compensation fund and the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund after the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. BP chose to set up the fund to minimize law suits. It was not demanded by Obama, though Obama did meet with BP before hand
57http://www.claimsjournal.com/magazines/claims-review/2012/07/08/211336.htm
58http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_Oil_Spill_Trust
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60BP fucked up horribly, the least they can do is make the thousands of lives they ruined whole again. 
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6213. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
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64> {{Citation needed}}
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6614. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
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68> The United States had no ability to launch astronauts into space from 1975 — the year of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project — until 1981, when the space shuttle program went live.
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70“One could blame (President Richard) Nixon, who ended Apollo and approved the shuttle, or (President Gerald) Ford, who didn’t disagree with Nixon, though by 1974 it might have been too late to rescue Apollo,” Smith said. “Usually it’s Nixon who is ‘blamed’ for that. By the time Carter came into office, Apollo had already ended and shuttle couldn’t be accelerated. It actually was supposed to be ready by 1979, but NASA couldn’t pull it off.”
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72“Richard Nixon, perhaps in conjunction with Gerald Ford, would be the one to qualify for the unwanted title of “First president to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space” – not Obama.” The Apollo program ended in 1975 and had a five year gap in space launches until the Space Shuttle program was in full operation
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74This doesn’t even take into consideration that the NASA Program was canceled by Bush, not Obama, or the fact that America still has the ability of commercial space flight.
75http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13404
76http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canceled-apollo-missions/
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7815. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
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80> The "National Day of Prayer" is a blatant First Amendment violation. You can't have a law that sanctions one specific religion, nor one that sponsors one. Read the Constitution.
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8216. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
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84> Obama wasn’t the first president to use an autopen, but he was the first to sign a law with one.
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86President Harry Truman is believed to be the first sitting president to use the modern autopen regularly. eBay even had a Truman signed thank-you-note for sale, as Gawker noted. But Time Magazine said President Thomas Jefferson was a fan of the polygraph, a new invention at the time that recorded his signature.
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88Obama has used it before, including to sign an extension of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act in May 2011 because he was in France at a G-8 Summit, CBS News reported at the time.
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90There’s an entire book dedicated to the auto pen. In 1965, Charles Hamilton published “The Robot That Helped to Make a President,” about how President John F. Kennedy used the machine.
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92Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had bills flown to Turkey and China, respectively, so they wouldn’t have to sign major pieces of legislation with the autopen
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94Citing ambiguity in the Constitution (the exact line is “if he approve he shall sign it”), George W. Bush’s Justice Department made the legal case that an autopen is as good as the president’s hand when it comes to signing bills.
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96“Neither the constitutional text nor the drafting and ratification debates provide further guidance regarding what it means for the President to ‘sign’ a bill he approves,” the opinion begins, and then dives into a lengthy legal discussion of what “signing” meant during the early days of the republic” The result: A 29-page opinion saying it’s legal. But Bush didn’t risk the controversy and never used it to sign legislation.
97http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/autopen-barack-obama-10-facts-85720.html
98http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/when-a-robot-signs-a-bill-a-brief-history-of-the-autopen-20130103
99http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/us/politics/28sign.html?_r=0
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10117. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
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103> Declaring DOMA unconstitutional was not arbitrary, as the Supreme Court (Republican majority, by the way) has shown. Also, Obama is not the first President to do so. For example, under Bush, the state department would not defend Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act  
104http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/oip/legacy/2014/07/23/11-04-1992.pdf
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10618. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
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108> Said insurance companies were chastised for "misinformation and scare tactics". Also fuck the health insurance companies.
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11019. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
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112> “In a case that has become – as the New York Times described it — a cause célèbre among Republican lawmakers and 2012 hopefuls, the National Labor Relations Board has accused Boeing of opening its South Carolina shop in a “right-to-work” state to retaliate against union worker strikes at its main manufacturing base in the Seattle area. An Obama appointee is now asking a judge to order Boeing to relocate all 787 Dreamliner production to Washington state — a move that’s feeding the GOP narrative that Obama’s Big Government is meddling with job creation, just as the first plane nears its first commercial flight.
113http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64199.html
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115Note it says "Obama appointee". NOT OBAMA. CHRIST DO SOME RESEARCH.
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11720. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
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119> The oath of the President of the United States does not have any conditions to protect U.S. States. The oath of office is in the U.S. Constitution and it says, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Also, Obama is hardly the first president to sue a state. This happens all the time.
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121Example: Bush v. Illinois http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/25/nation/na-immig25
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12321. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
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125> True, but completely legal.
126http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/court-rules-epa-can-withdraw-mining-permits-90528.html
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12822. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
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130> Nope. Market forces are moving in favor of renewables and have been even before Obama became president. The "scary government" didn't do this, these companies' failure to adapt did this.
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13223. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
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134> Obama did fire Walpin, and Walpin was criticized for the way he handled an investigation into Kevin Johnson, former point guard of the Phoenix Suns, who was elected Mayor of Sacramento last November and is an ally of the president’s.
135http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/obama-accuses-fired-inspector-general-americorps-confused-disoriented/
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13724. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
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139> It’s meaningless to ask a question about what “hiring czars” allows a president to do, because presidents don’t hire czars. “Czar” is a label bestowed by the media – and sometimes the administration – as a shorthand for the often-cumbersome titles of various presidential advisers, assistants, office directors, special envoys and deputy secretaries. (After all, what makes for a better headline – “weapons czar” or “undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics”?)
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141There’s been a certain fascination with calling Obama’s advisers and appointees “czars.” Fox News host Glenn Beck has identified 32 Obama czars on his Web site, whom he has characterized as a collective “iceberg” threatening to capsize the Constitution. Beck and other television hosts aren’t the only ones crying czar, either. Six Republican senators recently sent a letter to the White House saying that the creation of czar posts “circumvents the constitutionally established process of ‘advise and consent.’ ” Republican Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah issued a press release saying that czars “undermine the constitution.” And Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison wrote an opinion column in the Washington Post complaining about the czar menace, including the factually inaccurate claim that only “a few of them have formal titles.”
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143The habit of using “czar” to refer to an administration official dates back at least to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but the real heyday of the czar came during President George W. Bush’s administration. The appellation was so popular that several news organizations reported on the rise of the czar during the Bush years, including NPR, which ran a piece called “What’s With This Czar Talk?” and Politico, which published an article on the evolution of the term. The latter, written during the 2008 presidential campaign, points out that czars are “really nothing new. They’ve long been employed in one form or another to tackle some of the nation’s highest-profile problems.” Politico quotes author and political appointments expert James Bovard saying that the subtext of “czar” has changed from insult to praise: “It’s a real landmark sign in political culture to see this change from an odious term to one of salvation.”
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145http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/czar-search/
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14725. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
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149> What? This makes no sense. Any claims I googled on this were all from far-right crazies. There's no elaboration on this from any of them. Nonpoint.
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15126. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
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153> Presidents love golf! “Woodrow Wilson, who reportedly played about 1,200 rounds during his presidency. Dwight Eisenhower is the runner-up at 800, according to his memorial commission.”
154http://www.businessrecord.com/Content/Opinion/Opinion/Article/The-Elbert-Files–Teeing-it-up-with-presidents/168/963/64277
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156Surely you have the same problem with Trump, who actually has golfed more than Obama, right?
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15827. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
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160> Actually historical revisionism. He never hid it, and he has actually published his records and every single source has corroborated his claims. But birther-types are just so obstinate.
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16228. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
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164> The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama on October 9, 2009 after he had been in office approximately 9 months. According to the Nobel Peace Prize website Obama was awarded this, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. On January 20, 2010 Britain’s The Guardian released a timeline showing the major events during the President’s fist year in office. In April 2009, Obama flew to England for the G-20 conference where he not only met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown but also met with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to discuss U.S. and Russian relations.
165http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html
166http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/19/barack-obama-key-events
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168It's a private organization, why do you care?
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17029. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
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172> What? Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies, such as pledging to close the detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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174This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.
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176In none of these cases does Obama actually use a word at all similar to “apologize.” The Latin American comment might have resonance with Rove’s old boss, since that was Bush’s charge against the Clinton administration in the 2000 campaign. The Prague and London quotes are not apologies at all. The Paris quote, which is often cited as an apology, is taken out of context.
177http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2011/02/obamas_apology_tour.html
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17930. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
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181> The fuck are you on about?
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183· In 1798, President John Adams left the capital for seven months to care for his ailing wife Abigail; his enemies said he practically relinquished his office.
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185· Thomas Jefferson and James Madison routinely went away for three- and four-month stretches.
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187· Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, was blasted for spending about 25 percent of his time away from the White House.
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189· Dwight Eisenhower took long summer breaks in Denver and spent almost every single weekend at Camp David.
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191· John F. Kennedy rarely spent a weekend in the White House, staying at family homes in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port, and the Virginia countryside.
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193· Lyndon Johnson spent 484 days in five and a half years at his Texas ranch.
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195· Ronald Reagan was away for 436 days, usually at Rancho del Cielo (his mountaintop retreat in California) or Camp David.
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197· Bill Clinton, who didn’t own a vacation home, loved to party with his elite friends in Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons.
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199· George W. Bush spent 32 months at his ranch (490 days) or Camp David (487 days) — an average of four months away every year.
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201Time off doesn’t mean goofing off. President Bush, for example, met with a variety of foreign leaders at his ranch. President Obama held a G-8 summit at Camp David.
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20331. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
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205> In fact, according to Anita McBride, Laura Bush’s former Chief of Staff, Mrs. Bush had between 24 and 26 staffers working for her by the end of her husband’s second term in office. It’s therefore fair to say that the size of Michelle Obama’s staff is not “unprecedented,” but rather on a par with her immediate predecessor’s.
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207Lady Bird Johnson, whose signature issue was beautifying roadways, had a staff of 30, said Stacy A. Cordery, a history professor at Montmouth [sic] College in Illinois who studies first ladies.
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209Betty Ford had almost the same number.
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211Jacqueline Kennedy, who made renovating the White House her cause, had about 40 people on staff, Cordery said.
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213http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2010006834_apusfirstladystaff.html
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21532. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
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217> Bo's (the dog) trainer died in 2011. So even if the above is true, it wouldn't be for long, and we have no data that proves the salary number. Certainly Trump would have published it by now if this were true, right?!
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21933. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
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221> And the current president takes vacations and bills the secret service for it through his own company at Mar-a-lago. And don't we want a president who is healthy to represent us on the world stage?
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22334. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
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225> I doubt Obama was the first to quote the Quran. Jefferson certainly read it and owned a copy (Which is currently at the Library of Congress). On June 4, 2009 the President delivered a speech in Cairo, Egypt. In this speech he used the term “Holy Koran” a total of 5 times. He also said, “Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I’m a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.” There was no mention in this speech that the Azaan was the most beautiful sound to Obama’s ears.
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22735. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
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229https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._United_States This was a SCOTUS ruling by a republican majority that actually "sided with a foreign nation" on some points, and Arizona on others. The president had no ruling here given this was a Judicial decision, and NOT an Executive one.
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23136. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
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233> {{citation needed}}. Like, I've literally heard nothing of this having grown up in a military family, otherwise someone would have said something. Like, there's no elaboration on this.
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23537. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. 
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237> {{citation needed}}. A continuation on point 36.