Wow, those White House and State Department protocol offices are sure working overtime!
>>The rejection was heightened by the that’s-the-night-I-wash-my-hair explanation the Gridiron got from Obama.
At first, Gridiron members heard through back channels that the Obama family would be in Chicago during the Obama daughters’ spring break from school. Then, on Friday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said at his daily briefing that the family would actually be in Camp David on March 21, the night of the dinner.
That’s not exactly out of town by presidential standards — in fact, it is about a 20-minute helicopter ride if Obama had decided the event were important enough.
According to one member, “We got the impression from talking to our senior members who had talked to senior people at the White House that Mrs. Obama had made the decision about the family’s spring break and no one on the senior staff was about to challenge that.”
A White House official said this is untrue — Obama made the decision and it should not be pinned unfairly on the first lady. <<
In other words “The devil made me do it”?
No big.
Ignore the Gridiron...
Ignore the Vets....
Ignore the Constitution...
No big.
Got better things to do.
Coke anyone?
How many times are we going to hear this in the next four years?
This guy is nothing but an autistic savant, only instead of being able to play anything on the piano by ear or memorizing pi to seven million digits, all he can do is read speeches off Teleprompters in a mellifluous voice.
He has absolutely no feelings whatsoever about anyone - we are nothing but objects to him.
President Bush gave some downright hilarious Gridiron speeches during his term. They should invite him in Obama’s place!
...your better off without Puppet Man, it's called "change" man and hoop's his game, let's wait and see what happens with opening day this year...anyone hear anything?
geez, not even in office 100 days and even the in-the-tank Politico is saying he’s a dick.
What do they want? He won. Not they, he.
I hate the media, but they did elect him. He needs to at least pay homage to them, even if he can’t be bothered with our allies (-:
It’s really simple. Barry has no sense of humor, and finds it very unpleasant to make fun of himself.
I still remember watching a clip of JFK at the Gridiron Dinner in 1961, mocking his own speech attacking US Steel management. He brought the house down with laughter, and deposited the esteem of the Washington Press in his pocket. Barry, Caroline Kennedy was very wrong about you.
Just face it, media, Obama used you like XXX-42 used women. Now put some ice on it and go back to worshiping The One.
He would have shown but decided his 50 Bush is dumb and Cheney is evil jokes may not work??? Maybe the Establishment press attack machine might start to figure out they been used like a 2 bit ho.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
What’s going to happen when Memorial Day, D-Day, and Veterans Day roll around? Will Obama be too busy to go those? I can just picture him barbecuing on Memorial Day or something.
Well, except for maybe Ayers, Ahmadinejad and people like that.
“People feel uncommonly saddened....”
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Oh brother. Their Messiah doesn’t show and it is the end of the world. Saddened?!? What a bunch of lame pussies.
What if President Bush had ditched this event? He had every right to, with the way he was treated by the media. I doubt the marginally talented AssJournalists would have felt “saddened”.
He has to ditch any event that might result in his embarrassment. His brain is mush and he can’t be trusted to respond to anything coherently. Sooner or later a soundbite is going to sink him.
If Clarence Page is miffed at Obama it serves that leftist, race mongering journalist right. I’d like to hold his coat and Obama’s too if they want to duke it out. I’d work both corners.
I’d be telling each of them that I thought it was a shame the way that guy was talking about your mama.
An awful lot of the article is devoted to proclaiming that the Gridiorn Dinner is ‘not cool’just a bunch of rusty, old DC fuddyduddies engaging in ‘musical comedy’. So, obviously our terribly, terribly cool Pres. Obama won’t go. The author works very hard at managing the news in favor of the One.