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After three weeks, Obama going stir crazy in White House, needs a change of scenary.
Chicago Tribune ^

Posted on 02/09/2009 7:17:14 AM PST by Raster Man

Obama starting to hit the road to sell economic plan, get a break from White House By BEN FELLER 7:12 PM CST, February 6, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — It's time to get out.

Barack Obama, who has spent most of his nascent presidency in the White House compound, is shifting into travel mode.

The rundown: Saturday and Sunday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland; Monday in Indiana and Tuesday in Florida for economic events; Thursday in Illinois to commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday; and then Valentine's Day weekend with his wife, Michelle, at home in Chicago.

One motivation is for Obama to break free of the Washington debate and sell his economic plan among the people it is designed to help. The other is for the president simply to get away from the White House, the gated address that has quickly become his office and his family's home.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


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To: mojitojoe

Mojitojoe, that gif is BRILLIANT!!!! ROTFLMAO!!


41 posted on 02/09/2009 7:41:45 AM PST by ScottinVA (Make my world PURRRFECT, Lord Obama!)
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To: indylindy

oops, ploitics=politics, maybe I invented a new word


42 posted on 02/09/2009 7:42:35 AM PST by dforest (life is now good again....he has been inaugurated)
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To: mojitojoe
ROFL!

Hey Barry! "Smell ya later."

43 posted on 02/09/2009 7:42:52 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Why did not Obama choose to make his home in Kenya with the rest of the idiots?


44 posted on 02/09/2009 7:44:20 AM PST by tessalu
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To: ladyjane

Best comment so far.


45 posted on 02/09/2009 7:45:36 AM PST by bergmeid (Watchin' Obrother self-destruct)
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To: ladyjane

I should think it would be more difficult to smoke on the road, what with constant public appearances and traveling press. I’m pretty sure he already has a smoking room in the White House someplace. But you may be right. Trying to stop smoking while under intense pressure is probably pretty difficult. It may help account for his recent testiness, although he was crankly during the campaign also.

I suspect part of the reason is to relieve the pressure so Obama doesn’t flip off the public during one of his speeches.


46 posted on 02/09/2009 7:46:34 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Say what you will about Benito Mussolini — he was a genuine intellectual and he got the job done. Our current president isn’t fit to carry il Duce’s fasces.


47 posted on 02/09/2009 7:47:16 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Raster Man

48 posted on 02/09/2009 7:47:49 AM PST by paulycy ("I WON! OBEY ME!!!")
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To: Allegra
I wonder if it’s time to start a pool on when this guy is going to have a meltdown.

When he begins to wander the halls of the White House looking for portraits to talk to, won't be no homies.

49 posted on 02/09/2009 7:50:09 AM PST by Stentor (No tax cheat left behind.)
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To: Blue Turtle

Bingo!


50 posted on 02/09/2009 7:50:16 AM PST by pnut22
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To: Raster Man

Just judging from the content of his message, he has given up on the strategy of channeling Franklin Roosevelt and has now gone to channeling Jimmy Carter.


51 posted on 02/09/2009 7:50:41 AM PST by Busywhiskers (Delinda est Democrats)
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To: Raster Man

Too much like REAL work ... actually (gasp!) having to make consequential decisions, and voting PRESENT is no longer an option.

“Obama’s bleeding. They know! He says not god, not devil, but man!

“They’ve twigged it, Barack. You’ve had it! The jig’s up!”

With apologies to script of THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING ...


52 posted on 02/09/2009 7:53:28 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: B-Chan
Sure ... Il Duce was smart. He was still a socialist totalitarian SOB with really poor taste in friends, and got what he deserved.

Our present leader, Il Douche, is dumber than a box of rocks.

53 posted on 02/09/2009 7:55:11 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: mrmargaritaville
I talked to relatives in KY yesterday and they have been without electricity since the ice storm hit and no end in sight. They have received no cash handouts or FEMA lodging arrangements and are staying in their home because of very serious disabilities that would be extremely difficult to accommodate in public shelters. Katrina in 85 degree weather was easy pickings for the Bush hating media and OPRA circus to exploit. Kentucky in freezing temperatures with a democrat President in DC sweating in a hot house office is not on the same MSM radar.
54 posted on 02/09/2009 7:55:38 AM PST by mountainfolk (God Bless The United States of America)
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To: Raster Man

This sick nitwit need the attention from his cult. He is a bottom feeder and can not exist without being in constant touch. Mark of such a insecure person, and this jackass is President?


55 posted on 02/09/2009 7:57:21 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Raster Man
Barack Obama, who has spent most of his nascent presidency in the White House compound, is shifting into travel mode.

That's because this idiot doesn't KNOW anything other than campaign mode, can't take the pressure and is in general, more interested in the perks of office than actually DOING anything.

That's all I can say; anything more would get me banned.

56 posted on 02/09/2009 8:01:37 AM PST by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: Raster Man
"We were just tired of being in the White House."

Finally something he and I can agree on, I too am tired of he and Michelle being in the White House.

57 posted on 02/09/2009 8:03:42 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: aureliusss
"I have convinced myself that I am glad that McCain lost. I am afraid that he would have only encouraged the typical RINO behavior that we have been accustomed to."

HEar, Hear!. I'm fully in agreement. Let the 'rats get the credit for this.

58 posted on 02/09/2009 8:03:58 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: IrishPennant; nutmeg; neverdem; Ernest_at_the_Beach; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; george76; ...
This is great. A perfect pictorial summary of the ADD Poster Boy, who is now our president!


59 posted on 02/09/2009 8:09:06 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax evaders?)
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To: ArrogantBustard

At least Benito made the trains run on time...


60 posted on 02/09/2009 8:11:16 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
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