Posted on 12/07/2008 7:31:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama won't sneak smokes in WH By: Mike Allen December 7, 2008 09:55 AM EST
President-elect Obama says he and Michelle Obama plan to open the White House to local pupils as a “bully pulpit” to inspire youth to reach for the stars in science, education, music and poetry.
“Part of what we want to do is to open up the White House and remind people this is the people's house,” Obama told NBC’s Tom Brokaw during a “Meet the Press” interview taped Saturday in Chicago.
“There is an incredible bully pulpit to be used when it comes to, for example, education: Yes, we're going to have an education policy; yes, we're going to be putting more money into school construction. But ultimately we want to talk about parents reading to their kids. We want to invite kids from local schools into the White House.”
The president-elect said his administration is interested in “elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling to the stars or breaking down atoms, inspiring our youth to get a sense of what discovery is all about.”
“Thinking about the diversity of our culture and inviting jazz musicians and classical musicians and poetry readings in the White House so that once again we appreciate this incredible tapestry that's America,” he said.
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I actually feel sorry for him for being caught in that trap. You couldn’t pay me to light up again.
You bet she does.
I don’t think there are pictures. I have heard it so many times. I wish I had more information; but I don’t.
I don’t think there are any pictures.
... and more people calling themselves jazz musicians.
Sure he will-being president is not conducive to quitting the smoking habit. I am an ex-smoker and still succumb in moments of great stress. You would think people who smoke were mass murderers the way the media focuses on this.
The peoples house? What is this North Korea?
He was voting present while he smoked, how is he not going to smoke when he is making even tougher votes?
malignant narcissism
common in males abandoned by their dads and in his case...mom too
it’s over compensation to “was I not good enuff for them?”
yep...his smoking is the ONLY thing about him I ever liked
nah.....Kools or Salems.
if he’s like the 1000s of breddahs I’ve known
but his cracker half may have won out and if so that would be Marlboro Lights
“Obama won’t sneak smokes in WH”
What are we talking about here, a little teenager??
The way he swaggers in to press conf., it's kinda, what's the word?
.S M A R M Y ?
Marlboro Menthol 100's?
You will find Obama on the roof with Willie Nelson.
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