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ABC Frets About Obama's 'President-Elect Housing Crisis'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/12/19/abc-frets-about-president-elect-housing-crisis ^

Posted on 12/19/2008 3:05:39 PM PST by chessplayer

On Friday's "Good Morning America," anchors and reporters fretted about there being no room in Washington D.C. for Barack Obama. It seems that the President-elect's children start school on January 5 and Blair House, the presidential guest quarters, will not be available until the 15th of that month. News anchor Chris Cuomo worriedly insisted, "I mean, you know, he has got enough on his mind. He is worried about getting his kids situated, which is testament to the Obamas as parents."

Co-host Robin Roberts sympathetically wondered of Obama, "You know, he can't check in early?" An ABC graphic hyperbolically asked, "President-Elect Housing Crisis?" During a tease for the David Wright segment, Roberts labeled the Obamas as like "so many folks" who are "scrambling to find a hotel room."

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KEYWORDS: blairhouse; obama; obamatransitionfile
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Poor Bambi. No place to stay. Cry me a river.
1 posted on 12/19/2008 3:05:40 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

It’s called extended stay.


2 posted on 12/19/2008 3:06:26 PM PST by Perdogg (01-20-2013 Obama's last day - If we survive)
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To: chessplayer

Why doesn’t ABC’s Washington bureau set them up? Hey, isn’t Oprah buying a condo, or something, there? She can put him up. They’re both from Chicago. And black.


3 posted on 12/19/2008 3:07:39 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: chessplayer

There are no hotels in DC?


4 posted on 12/19/2008 3:07:39 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: chessplayer

No room at the inn for the Holy Family.


5 posted on 12/19/2008 3:08:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: chessplayer

Where does The Fool-Elect stay when he’s in the Senate? He doesn’t have any sort of residence in the area? Does he live in his car?


6 posted on 12/19/2008 3:08:31 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: chessplayer

I would get in touch with his real estate guy Tony R and see if he might want to help with temp housing.


7 posted on 12/19/2008 3:09:24 PM PST by Recon Dad (Marsoc Dad)
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To: Perdogg
Extended StayAmerica Washington, D.C. - Landover
9401 Largo Dr. W.
Landover, MD  20774
Telephone: (301) 333-9139
Fax: (301) 333-9138
dcl@extendedstay.com


8 posted on 12/19/2008 3:10:16 PM PST by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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DAVID WRIGHT: Morning, Robin. This has been billed in some places as a stumbling block in the transition. But it's really more of an etiquette problem. What do you do if the guest wants to arrive early? Especially, if the guest is the next president of the United States?

Yeah, those rude, crude, inconsiderate Bushes are at it again.

9 posted on 12/19/2008 3:11:33 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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Poor Bambi. No place to stay. Cry me a river.

Nope. They have places to stay. At least two: Obama's Senate apartment and military housing that President Bush offered to them to use. And I've seen some of the flag housing on military bases. Not too shabby. Obama turned this down.

10 posted on 12/19/2008 3:12:27 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

When has he been in the senate? He’s spent most of his time running for office.


11 posted on 12/19/2008 3:12:34 PM PST by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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To: chessplayer

Not to worry. I understand they have secured a small manger.


12 posted on 12/19/2008 3:12:42 PM PST by topfile
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Surely there’s a farm somewhere about where they can bed down.

The marxist messiah shouldn’t be adverse to sleeping in a manger after all.


13 posted on 12/19/2008 3:12:44 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg
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To: Slicksadick

Motel 6 Washington #4063
6711 Georgia Avenue
I-495 at Georgia Avenue, exit #31/31-B
Washington, DC, 20012
Phone: (202) 722-1600 | Fax: (202) 723-3979


14 posted on 12/19/2008 3:13:44 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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Where does The Fool-Elect stay when he’s in the Senate?

What evidence do you have that 0 spent time in DC while he was a Senator?

15 posted on 12/19/2008 3:13:47 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: chessplayer

Where did Obama stay when he was a senator?


16 posted on 12/19/2008 3:14:11 PM PST by kabar
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Where does The Fool-Elect stay when he’s in the Senate?

Obama was in the Senate? I thought he was elected to campaign for President.

I understand that the "Straight Talk Express" might be available. He could look into that.

17 posted on 12/19/2008 3:15:01 PM PST by AmusedBystander (Democrats' new lament: I voted for "hope & change" and all I got is "shuck & jive".)
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To: Recon Dad

Surely, they can double cell.


18 posted on 12/19/2008 3:15:02 PM PST by nufsed
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To: kabar

Some Freeper mentioned at one point that apparently Obama’s D.C. housing, whatever it was, burned down.

Kind of mysterious.


19 posted on 12/19/2008 3:16:01 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: chessplayer

Let him find a manger!


20 posted on 12/19/2008 3:16:12 PM PST by lonestar
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