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Obama Tells Jay Leno He‘s Not Paying Attention to Republican Candidates Until Most Are ’Voted Off the Island’

NBC has released clips of President Obama’s  upcoming appearance on the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. In the excerpts below, Obama talks with Leno about Moammar Gadhafi’s killing, the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and his take on the GOP presidential field. According to Obama, he is not going to start paying attention to the Republican contenders until they’ve “narrowed it down to one or two”

In another clip featured below, when asked about GOP opposition to withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, Obama quips, “It’s shocking that they opposed something I proposed.”

The interview is set to air tonight at 11:35 p.m. EST.

Below is a partial transcript and video clips:

JAY LENO: It’s good to have you back, sir. Of course, the big news this week, Gadhafi is dead. Rebel forces, killed by rebel forces. Your reaction? Your take on this?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, this is somebody who, for 40 years, has terrorized his country and supported terrorism. And he had an opportunity during the Arab spring to finally let loose of his grip on power and to peacefully transition into democracy. We gave him ample opportunity, and he wouldn’t do it. And, obviously, you never like to see anybody come to the kind of end that he did, but I think it obviously sends a strong message around the world to dictators that – people long to be free, and they need to respect the human rights and the universal aspirations of people.

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JAY LENO: See, here’s the problem. And the thing that angers me and I think a lot of Americans is I didn’t like what they did to President Bush. I don’t like when they do it to you. When Mitch McConnell says, “Our goal is to make this guy a one-time president.” I mean, why — does that anger you? How is that a goal? That doesn’t help the –

THE PRESIDENT: Look, I think the things that folks across the country are most fed up with, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, is putting party ahead of country or putting the next election ahead of the next generation.

When asked if he watched the GOP debates, Obama told Leno, “I’m going to wait until everybody is voted off the island before…. Once they narrow it down to one or two, I’ll start paying attention.”

Below is a clip of Obama’s reaction on the current Republican presidential field:

Below is clip of Obama’s take on GOP opposition to withdrawl from Iraq:

Obama talks about Gadhafi:

Obama on Halloween:

Comments (168)

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  • loubell
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:18pm

    Mr. Obama…that will be your downfall! (Good!)

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    • vtxphantom
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:22pm

      He is a liar. He’s looking very hard at the conservative lineup. The tea party is going to play a very large role in the next election, and obama is scared. Never believe a word this man speaks. He speaks with forked tongue.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:50pm

      He truly does not care. He is SURE that he is the nation’s LAST president. His handlers have told him as much.

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  • zman61
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:16pm

    just another useful idiot, You think Dear Leader could feel Leno’s lips sucking in the cheeks of his posterior?

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:38am

      Exactly. I can’t stand his smug mug attitude,. it drives me nuts where the heck is the humility? I can’t stand cocky better than you attitudes. just nauseating.

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  • johnnycarson
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:14pm

    Nebver allowed to return??? Wow. I’d hate to see hoim go bye-bye and take all that handsomeness and intellijence with him.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:52pm

      You’re laying the schtick on too thick. Its not coming across as authentic or believable.
      Just tryin to help.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 12:02am

      Noted, Itchee. Just having some laughs. Sadly, you’re the only one who noticed.

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    • rtist542010
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:10am

      @ johnnycarson

      Ok – you definitely have a man-crush on obama. Ewwwww!

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:17am

      Are you just acting the fool or are you really a fool? The spelling, grammar and faulty logic all look contrived. (Contrived means made up in case you really are a fool.)

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:00pm

      Try spell check. Or do your fingers work faster than your brain? Never mind. I answered my own question.

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  • johnnycarson
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:13pm

    Looking fourward to another for years from O’bama…You gonna cry then! The man is soooo handsome and charming I cant believe it. Y’all jealous, aintcha?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:15pm

      @johnnycarson
      Let me guess. You’re about 8 or 9 years old, your hippie parents with grey hair are smoking dope upstairs, you are in the basement trying to be a grown up. It’s not working…… dude! After one week of posting is this the best you can do? Go back to grade school and learn how to spell.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:17pm

      laff.

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    • marine249
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:47pm

      johnnycarson

      ???????????/

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    • doodlechez
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:15pm

      If he gets reelected he may not make it four more years!!!!!

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:11am

      I do hope that was sarcasm.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:11pm

    Project yourself 40 years into the future, change Leno’s name with some comedian at that time, change MQ‘s name with BHO’s and BHO’s name with the President at that time. Scary, but could happen if he gets his way. He wants to be a dictator for life.

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  • tess q
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:09pm

    is he trying to transform the truth????

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  • Bro Geo Too
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:08pm

    Hillary was right all along–he did not have the experience required to be president. Now, after 3 years on the job, she is still right and Obama still does not have the experience to be president.

    Regrettably his base, unions, legions of unemployed, ultra-rich trial lawyers, the Hollywood brain dead, live-off-the-government-teat crowd, outdated FDR Jews, and pampered college whiners will work tirelessly to reelect him.

    If Obama wins in 2012, look for the slow pace of our country’s decline to accelerate and with it a massive attack on our God-given freedoms especially freedom of speech. It is not inconceivable that someday you’ll be posting on The Blaze when suddenly your post ju. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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    • bboatmanable
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:18am

      It’s amazing how you talk about God Given Rights, and then bad mouth his chosen people in the same sentence. How about READING the Bible instead of assuming you know what’s in it. You just might stop making an @$$ of yourself.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:06pm

    Can’t this guy not lie? It’s cronic or he thinks your stupid.

    NoBama 2012

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  • GeorgieJo
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:05pm

    JAY LEENO is still on TV?
    Geeze Louise NBC is NUTZ….well they did employ KateyCourack/ BryantGUMBELL/AL-Choke/Roker—-WHO is he DATING?/NutJob Matty Lauer-Loser….Hopka and Kathie GIFFORDS

    JeffyGE-IMelt MUST be Proud

    BarryO’Bummer on Leeno
    NOTHING will improve your ratings
    UNLESS BHO mentions“special olympics”

    What was COMCAST thinking?

    Jaybabe?
    Retire and move to Vegas Take all your cars with you.
    Leave the cat. Take some cannoli’s.
    LMAO

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  • NotPoliticallyCorrect
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:04pm

    Barf.

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  • Arkansawyer
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:01pm

    If obama wore boots, they’d be shaking, dont let him kid you. I honestly believe just enough of America has woke up to get that bastard out of office. I really think this a truth, he is a bastard, we certainly cant tell by his birth certificate that it is other wise. I look at it this way if America, the Americans who care about Her, vote this pr–k back in, America lost Her soul and just forget it. Sad.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:08pm

      I, forr one, cant wait for O’bama to win again and watch all you hilllbillys cry in your beers.

      This man is the greatest president the American United States has ever did done see.

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    • chips1
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:31pm

      I demand a siliva test.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:10pm

      @johnnycarson
      Wow, you’ve been posting as a progressive poser since Oct 17th. After one week I thought you could do better than that…. and also learn to type and spell and think and reason… too bad, silly poser. You’re busted.

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  • Cat
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:00pm

    It makes perfect sense that he’s not paying attention to Republican candidates.
    He’s going to be the dictator of the USSA soon.

    Report Post » Cat  
  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:00pm

    Obama/Soros/Clinton directed propaganda like Huffington Post, Center for American Progress, Media Matters, Moveon,org, thinkprogress, is watching very closely. Obama is a pathological liar and egomaniacal Dictator.

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  • Fedup
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:00pm

    That makes us even. We’re not paying any attention to the instigator (or dictator, your choice)-in-chief either.

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  • Thevoice
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:55pm

    We the American people also believe you (Obama) also have had “ample time” …Your time is up come next November, When again the truly free people of the world, that aren’t living under sharia law, who do not have to wait for a fainting spell , a spring or winter..Vote your “New age Progressive commie” fundamental transformation out of our White House…

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  • alpha2omega47
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:52pm

    Obama lies and is very pathetic.

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  • phillipwgirard
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:50pm

    The IMP isn‘t paying attention to the debates because there are’nt going to be any elections period.

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  • alpha2omega47
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:50pm

    Obama is a liar, a fraud and a Marxist. He thinks he’s cute ~ but he is pathetic and disgusting.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:07pm

      I hear you ….You can just bet the entire show was scripted…By some Progressive commie working at NBC …They are great at making reality shows ….and can turn the unreality of what Obama does into mainstream reality. Just look at the unreality of the groups gathered as the 99%..Well at least 99% idiots, that part is correct. that they consider reality…Nazi party,KKK, and rainbow collation..all joining hands …when this becomes reality …anything Obama does or commands will be made to look like reality…

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  • edubble21
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:48pm

    So, he’s been on Leno twice, Letterman, The Daily Show, golfed 80+ times, and gone on more vacations in 3 years than I have in 30….but yet, he’s always whining about Congress not doing their job. Interesting.

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    • Voteman
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:08pm

      Amen If that were Bush they would not let up on those things one bit.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:38am

      Obama has been on Leno 4 times .. Leno is a piece of garbage!

      The USA has been downgraded under the leadership of this FRAUD called President,

      We have 14 million AMERICANS unemployed ,
      9.1% unemployment rates,
      1 in 7 Americans are on food stamps…

      and Leno lets this “piece of work” come on national TV and act the fool!

      The 12 MILLION Americans unemployed living off food stamps are NOT LAUGHING you out of touch freeking dolts!

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  • lovenfl3
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:46pm

    Obama is only thinking about taking care of his union buddies. This video shows how he only supports a very small portion of working American families. It’s only about getting jobs for unions.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_HvByUxVg

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  • Santa Cruz Kid
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:45pm

    IF we get to vote in 2012 and this creep gets reelected kiss what is left of the USA goodbye!

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  • teapartyconservatism
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:42pm

    Obama’s recent release of his purported birth certificate alleging “where” he was born, also indicates his parent’s citizenship “when” he was born. Unless Obama admits fraud, these equally important “facts” are now beyond Obama’s ability to refute, alter or hide!

    The now inescapable truth, is that his Kenyan father absolutely precludes Obama from being a natural born citizen, as required for eligibility to serve as President by Article 2, Section 1, of the US Constitution!

    Please don’t let the biased media or even uninformed conservative talk radio or TV hosts, dissuade you from learning the truth about his ineligibility or from demanding his removal from office, while also preparing to cast an informed vote in the next election. Let it be their credibility that‘s hurt by dismissing Obama’s birth certificate and social security anomalies while also sadly ignoring the Constitution, not yours! Why risk Obama being reelected by anti-American socialists and imminent vote fraud?

    Get the truth about his fake birth certificate & social security number as alleged by experts, and the Constitutional proof that a “natural born citizen” is one born in the US of TWO US citizen parents!

    Quickly understand why a “natural born citizen” is not the same thing as a citizen!

    It costs nothing to see, but it could cost you everything if you don’t.

    How to know the truth and remove Obama from office now! http://www.ObamaNotEligible.com

    Report Post » teapartyconservatism  
    • Patriot of My America
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:53pm

      your link has been killed, stay with it …

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    • teapartyconservatism
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:07pm

      @ PofMA thanks

      Obama’s recent release of his purported birth certificate alleging “where” he was born, also indicates his parent’s citizenship “when” he was born. Unless Obama admits fraud, these equally important “facts” are now beyond Obama’s ability to refute, alter or hide!

      The now inescapable truth, is that his Kenyan father absolutely precludes Obama from being a natural born citizen, as required for eligibility to serve as President by Article 2, Section 1, of the US Constitution!

      Please don’t let the biased media or even uninformed conservative talk radio or TV hosts, dissuade you from learning the truth about his ineligibility or petitioning law enforcement to investigate him, as you strive to be an informed voter. Let it be their credibility that‘s hurt by dismissing Obama’s birth certificate and social security anomalies while also sadly ignoring the Constitution, not yours! Why risk Obama being reelected by anti-American socialists and imminent vote fraud?

      Get the truth about his fake birth certificate & social security number as alleged by experts, and the Constitutional proof that a “natural born citizen” is one born in the US of TWO US citizen parents!

      Quickly understand why a “natural born citizen” is not the same thing as a citizen!

      It costs nothing to see, but it could cost you everything if you don’t.

      How to know the truth and remove Obama from office now!
      http://www.ObamaBirthCertificate.net

      Report Post » teapartyconservatism  
    • johnnycarson
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:11pm

      how can you suggest his brithed certificate was a fake when it was on the internet for everyone to see! I see it with my own eyes right in front of me on my computer. You people are dumb. The man is more american than baseball and apple pies for petes sake.

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    • Patriot of My America
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:12pm

      The evidence is clear and over whelming, Obama is a traitor and deserves the most extreme punishment that the law allows. Expulsion from America and never allowed to return,

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    • teapartyconservatism
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:33pm

      @ johnnycarson

      Having reviewed your last 10 posts, you have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly justify such ignorance? Begone, foul Obot. Your very name screams treason and ignorance.

      Report Post » teapartyconservatism  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:21pm

      @johnnycarson
      It’s “birth” certificate… not “birthed” certificate. Learn to spell you little poser. Oh, do you see Glenn Beck on the Internet? That must be true also… after all…. you see it on the Internet!!!! You’re so bright your mama must call you sunny!

      Report Post » The-Monk  
  • NickyLouse
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:37pm

    How can our President pay attention to the GOP when he is always focused on himself?

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:36pm

    How about putting your own agenda ahead of everything else Mr. President?

    Report Post » NOBALONEY  
  • h20sue
    Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:34pm

    I’m boycotting the Leno show tonight as watching Obama makes me want to throw up!
    I truly get nauseated when I look at him. He belongs in his mother country, Kenya, with his fake birth certificate. We’ll be too old to care by the time the truth comes out, but don’t trust a word coming out of Obama or any of his staff. Money talks, good and honest people walk.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on October 25, 2011 at 7:52pm

      I have been boycotting all the broadcast networks for a long time now.

      Don’t miss them in the least.

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