Posted on 10/04/2009 5:59:37 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe
Barack and Michelle Obama are, among other things, husband and wife. And tonight, they celebrated their 17th anniversary, their first in the White House.
The president and first lady went out.
At 7:40 pm EDT, the presidential motorcade stopped in front of Blue Duck Tavern in the West End of Washington, between Dupont Circle and Georgetown.
"Taste cannot be controlled by law,'' Thomas Jefferson is said to have said -- it says so at the Blue Duck Tavern's Web-site.
(Excerpt) Read more at swamppolitics.com ...
Please note that the author of the article edited it subsequent to the original posting to say:
“Unfortunately, and this is the most troubling footnote of today’s run of criticism for the Obamas’ night out, much of it is clearly inspired by something that the former president, Jimmy Carter, identified in his recent characterization of some of the most extreme criticism aimed at Obama during recent months: The inability of a lot of people to accept a black man as president.”
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/obamas_night_out_first_wh_anni.html
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