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Obama to governors: Feel at home, but not too at home

As President Obama welcomed governors to the White House Monday, he encouraged them to feel at home, though only if they pose no threat to him in the next presidential election.

"For those of you with a particular interest in the next election, I don't mean that literally," Obama joked with the bipartisan National Governors Association.

White House press pool reports from the event indicate that the president may have been pointing at Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a rumored Republican 2012 nominee, when he cracked the joke at the open of his remarks.

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