Posted on 12/11/2008 5:20:49 PM PST by granite
An Obama rejection ... President-elect Barack Obama just got nixed!
Sneed hears the White House has rejected a recent request by Obama to occupy Blair House, the president-elect's Washington residence, at an earlier date.
• • To wit: Sneed hears Obama wanted to move his family and his transition team to Blair House, which is across from the White House, nearly two weeks before the president-elect historically moves there on Jan. 15 -- five days before the inaugural.
• • The backshot: A source tells Sneed: "There were reportedly two reasons for the request: Obama's children start school in early January -- and the move could be interpreted as a New Year's symbolic gesture showing the president-elect in a presidential capacity across from the White House on Jan. 2, the day after New Year's Day."
• • The buckshot: Blair House, the president's guest house for visiting dignitaries, nixed the request. "It was a polite rejection," the source added. "But I'm told Blair House was appalled."
• • Responses: An Obama spokesman tells Sneed they were told Blair House had guests until Jan. 15. ... Sally McDonough, a spokesman for first lady Laura Bush, tells Sneed: "Respectfully, we are keeping transition conversations quiet. But Jan. 15 is historically the time when incoming presidents occupy Blair House, which is the president's guest house."
Looks like he learned from Blago or Blago learned from him.
Blair House should have attached a caveat to the request...
{provide us an official copy of the BHO Birth Certificate
and he’s in like flynt}.
She said she was watching it on TV but unsure if it was FOX or CNN ... I went to their websites but nothing ... wondering if anyone else heard about this ...????
Obama is a liar.
I went to the Sidwell School website. The first two weeks of January are the end of the fall semester and it’s when they’re giving exams. The Obama darlings won’t start school until after fall semester exams. Liar, liar pants on fire.
Let’s all remember this, he’s without a job right now. He needs shelter because the Hussein’s are selling the Chicago house. We should feel bad for the family and angry at that mean old white man Bush for not vacating earlier to help the brother out.
“I’m hardly an expert, but I’ve never heard this: Reference?”
In Ken Burn’s documentary “The Civil War” he has several clips of the writer/historian Shelby Foote (since deceased) that speaks of this. Foote is a pretty reliable source.
I would imagine he wanted to be in D.C. for the start of the second term for his kids. I guess they’ll have to start school from a Holiday Inn. LOL
Good catch!
I think Michelle wants to get her hands on the kitchen drapes for the material for her inauguration dress.
A friend of mine just tried to tell me this author is a far right angry crank over this.
She saw it in the window and just had to have it.
Maybe they'll paint it.
“What’s the best books on the shelves about General Lee?”
Honestly, I have never read a book on General Lee. Most of the stuff I quoted are things the writer/historian Shelby Foote said in the Ken Burns documentary, “The Civil War.”
In regards to Macarther....William Manchester’s “American Ceasar.” In regards to Patton.....Martin Blumenson’s, “Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945”
Sounds like something hillary would do. Warm fuzzies, eh?
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