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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: ladyjane

I disagree. He is the President; he can smoke in the White House or in the EOB or on Air Force One. Who would tell him that he can’t?


61 posted on 02/09/2009 8:13:31 AM PST by quikdrw (Life is tough....it's even tougher if you are stupid.)
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To: Doctor Raoul
The way I heard it, he had a few delinquent train crews executed ...

Pour encourager les autres.

62 posted on 02/09/2009 8:13:36 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

LOL “il Douche”.


63 posted on 02/09/2009 8:13:44 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: mountainfolk
Haiku For Huessen
Barack knows
People froze
But "The O"
Won't go
To Kentucky

64 posted on 02/09/2009 8:14:00 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
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To: Crazieman

Lightweight party boy rockstar doesn’t like showing up to work in the morning in the most powerful office on earth? Cry me a river!


65 posted on 02/09/2009 8:16:01 AM PST by 50sDad (No Irish May Apply: Tell me I haven't been discriminated against.)
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To: Raster Man

Get out of Rush’s house!
Get out of Rush’s house!
Get out of Rush’s house!
Get out of Rush’s house!
Get out of Rush’s house!


66 posted on 02/09/2009 8:17:48 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa ( For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind)
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To: Raster Man

All this fraud knows how to do is campaign. He’s like the guy who dates everything in sight, but is a worthless, feckless, unfaithful disaster as a husband.


67 posted on 02/09/2009 8:18:11 AM PST by Campion
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To: Stentor
When he begins to wander the halls of the White House looking for portraits to talk to, won't be no homies.

His own fault for not looking like all the other Presidents?

68 posted on 02/09/2009 8:19:00 AM PST by 50sDad (No Irish May Apply: Tell me I haven't been discriminated against.)
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To: 50sDad
His own fault for not looking like all the other Presidents?

Buzz off.

69 posted on 02/09/2009 8:22:14 AM PST by Stentor (No tax cheat left behind.)
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To: mountainfolk

>>I talked to relatives in KY yesterday and they have been without electricity since the ice storm hit and no end in sight.

That is scary. I know our local electric company sent quite a few trucks and linesman to help out (we have some experience with ice storms here in CT), and I had heard the KY Nat Guard was mobilized, but local news hasn’t mentioned much more about the situation there.

Nothing worse or more dangerous than being without power in the winter, esp if you don’t have backup heat. I hope and pray your relatives get help soon.


70 posted on 02/09/2009 8:23:45 AM PST by Betis70
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To: Raster Man

This guy is nothing more than a puppet for the Chicago political machine and other folks like Soros. I really don’t think he ever had any clue what he was getting in to.


71 posted on 02/09/2009 8:26:20 AM PST by oldvike
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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.

Another "Can't I just eat my waffle?" moment is coming. Wait until the DBM starts getting on his nerves a little more.

72 posted on 02/09/2009 8:36:39 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ((D) = Taking the Culture of Corruption to lower standards.)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

That is true. lol.


73 posted on 02/09/2009 8:51:50 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Allegra

I can sympathize... when I worked in DC the commute was terrible.


74 posted on 02/09/2009 8:58:04 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Raster Man

In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.


75 posted on 02/09/2009 9:02:01 AM PST by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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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.

Compound? David Koresh lived in a compound. Obama's not some kind of cult leader, is he?

76 posted on 02/09/2009 9:03:48 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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To: Grampa Dave; Raster Man
Borrowed from Flopping Aces:

Sunday Funnies

************************************EXCERPT****************************

Many more over there.......

77 posted on 02/09/2009 9:08:15 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Biden's goin' stir-crazy, too

"Hi there, Americans. I just had my colon cleansed and underwent a beauty makeover."

"Revlon Tangerine Kiss Glace adds a certain je ne sais quoi, don'tcha think?"

"Watch me on Letterman, Americans."

78 posted on 02/09/2009 9:12:20 AM PST by Liz (Problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money. M. Thatcher)
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To: mrmargaritaville

If you look at the benefits of the stimulus bill by state and county, you will see that everything goes to the inner cities. Those middle class folks in PA and OH and the auto workers in Michigan were played for fools. All they’re going to see is the unemployment line.


79 posted on 02/09/2009 9:12:27 AM PST by jersey117
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To: quikdrw

I disagree with you. As president he is NOT supposed to be above the laws and the laws say NO SMOKING in public/government offices. Now, in the private quarters of the WH he can just as Bush smoked cigars there. In his public office space he falls under the federal rules.


80 posted on 02/09/2009 9:37:12 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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