Obama: "If I didn't have to move twice in five days I would be happy."

[TTUBatfan2008]

The Bushes are petty assholes. :mad:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inauguration-watch/2009/01/obama_visits_washington_post.html

[rwheeler31]

yes and

[Avalux]

1. Did Obama really say that?

Sucks for the girls. :(

[elleng]

4. Yes, it does.

Tho Os have not made a big deal of it, We the People sure have!

[TTUBatfan2008]

5. Yes, he did...

When he visited the Washington Post today, one of the reporters asked if he was having a good time and his response was the quote in my OP.

[babylonsister]

2. Link please? Thanks. nt

[JTFrog]

7. Obama Visits Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inauguration-watch/2009/01/obama_visits_washington_post.html

[TTUBatfan2008]

8. Here's the link

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inauguration-watch/2009/01/obama_visits_washington_post.html

I'll put it in the OP.

[babylonsister]

9. Thanks! nt

[Hieronymus]

33. The link is in the original post.

[CoffeeCat]

3. This is probably the least of their crimes...

Preventing Obama from moving in is probably the kindest thing these criminals have done.

I can't even imagine the buried corruption and trap doors that will be revealed after
these thugs have high tailed it to their respective mansions.

You know damn well they've set economic and foreign-policy land mines that will go off
soon after Obama takes office.

That is when the house of cards falls, and you bet they'll be pointing the finger at
Obama, when it does fall.

[emilyg]

6. This will be the least of O's problems.

[my3boyz]

10. If I was in their situation I would stay at the hotel until

after the inaguration. That is too much moving around for the kids.

[TTUBatfan2008]

11. I agree...

I would have stayed at the hotel. Pointless to move for 5 days. But it's "tradition."

[Captain Hilts]

12. It's a very recent "tradition." Most folks in DC haven't heard of it. nt

[rvablue]

14. It is NOT a "recent tradition".

[elleng]

18. Mookie,

'most folks in DC' may not have heard of the Hay Adam! NO TEST, imo!

You gonna be downtown Tuesday?

[Captain Hilts]

21. AND Sunday! See you there! I'm still hoping for a Monday night...

nah nah nah NAH, HEY HEY HEY gooooood-bye outside the White House.

[elleng]

29. Dear Mookie, sing one for me!!!

.

[Captain Hilts]

22. Folks Have heard of the Hay Adams. The "tradition" of staying at Blair, they don't know.

John Howard should have shacked up at the Hay Adams, or the Ambassador's residence.

What a jerk.

[elleng]

26. Howard prolly didn't know

about the fuss, and if he did, didn't care.

[firedupdem]

13. I thought the move was more about financial reasons. There was

a major cost involved in staying at the hotel.

[TTUBatfan2008]

15. As C.I.A. agent Felix says to James Bond in Casino Royale...

"Does it look like we need the money?"

The Obamas are loaded. They're sending their kids to $30k per year grade school. Hell, his book sales have probably gone through the roof even more in recent months.

[firedupdem]

16. The money for the hotel was being paid for by the transition team,

I don't think staying at the Blair house will cost the money the hotel did.

[backscatter712]

23. Very true - I'm sure the Obama's will have plenty of help moving their stuff.

I always have to call friends and family when I'm moving - amazing how often people are suddenly busy when you ask them to help you move...

[elleng]

27. THEY won't move anything, I suspect!

WE the People will, as it should be!

[pink-o]

36. Well, you know what they say: Friends help you move. Real friends help you move...the bodies!

[Cha]

34. There's that.

And if bush hadn't have been an asshole they wouldn't have to be moving again in the middle of everything else.

But, bush not being an asshole is like the Earth not revolving around the Sun. It ain't gonna happen.

[sandnsea]

17. Blair House has 119 rooms

That really ticked me off. They couldn't find 20-30 rooms for the Obama family and the transition team? How ridiculous.

[EraOfResponsibility]

19. Maybe they're really tiny rooms?

:sarcasm: lol

[AllentownJake]

20. Arrest them

You can do it Obama! Send Bush to Gitmo!

[yourguide]

24. Probably why he made a point of very publicly leaving the hotel for dinner

right when chimpy started his farewell address.

fuck them.

[ecstatic]

28. Yep. nt

[K Gardner]

25. LOL ! Good for Obama. He doesn't usually do "snark", this one was well-deserved. n/t

[TTUBatfan2008]

31. He had another one from that interview...

The reporters were setting up a question by talking about how there's a lot of doom and gloom in the country right now. Obama cuts the reporter off before the question is asked and says, "Well the doom and gloom will end on January 20th." The whole room of reporters broke out in hysterical laughter.

[Cha]

35. Freak out! That's the best answer

in the world and I hope bush and cheney heard that one.

[BlooInBloo]

30. The final nail in the bush's coffin, and his headstone will read...

"Here lies a man who was smaller than life."

(Frank Rich line)

[Cha]

32. "There goes our journalistic objectivity"

.."one reporter quipped, as people traded stories and pictures."

Good story...read the whole article.

[Cha]

37. FYI..c-span is doing a special on Blair House

on Saturday..tomorrow.

Inside Blair House
Saturday

"As is tradition, Pres.-elect Obama & his family will spend several days at Blair House prior to his inauguration on January 20th. In conjunction with that visit, C-SPAN presents "Blair House: The President's Guest House," a special documentary on this rarely seen historic home. An encore presentation of C-SPAN's feature-length documentary, "The White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home," will follow."

http://www.c-span.org/