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The White House Holiday Photo Line: A Tradition of Awkwardness (poor BO being pestered)
NY Times ^
| DEC. 13, 2015
| JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Posted on 12/14/2015 10:55:57 AM PST by ETL
WASHINGTON -- As President Obama faced public criticism over his Oval Office address on terrorism this month, one lawmaker took a private moment during a holiday party at the White House to reassure the commander in chief.
"That was a good speech you gave last night, Mr. President," Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, told Mr. Obama as he stopped to have his picture taken with him in the photo line at the black-tie congressional ball last week. "It's hard to be the grown-up in the nation."
It was one of hundreds of seconds-long interactions that the president and the first lady, Michelle Obama, are having with guests at some of the 20 holiday receptions that crowd their lives each December. Eagerly anticipated, sometimes politically fraught and often agonizingly awkward, photo-line banter with the president has become a staple of the holiday season in Washington, where yuletide ritual meets professional opportunism -- all in the course of about six seconds.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: holidayseason; holidaytree; obama; whitehouse
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I saw on another thread regarding the Obamas and Christm..., i mean that "holiday" at the end of December, that the Obamas were proudly showing off some of their 'holiday' decorations.
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posted on
12/14/2015 10:55:57 AM PST
by
ETL
To: All
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posted on
12/14/2015 10:57:30 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
To: All
Obama's Christmas tree graced by Chairman Mao
12/22/2009
The face of China's Mao Zedong, blamed for the deaths of 50 to 80 million of his countrymen, graces an ornament on the White House Christmas tree for President Obama's first holiday season in residence.
According to BigGovernment.com, the tree also features an ornament adding Obama to Mount Rushmore. ..."
http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/119800/#BegxVTOfQ0v6oZsj.99
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posted on
12/14/2015 10:57:48 AM PST
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ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
To: ETL
"Another really embarrassing speech you gave there, Mr. Osama."
[moves on without shaking hands]Regards,
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:00:43 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: ETL
It's mildew resistant too!
To: ETL
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:06:29 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: ETL
A chocolate White House. Something just wrong on many levels with this. And the dress is just ugly.
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:06:53 AM PST
by
Conservative4Ever
(ENOUGH!! Man the pitch forks and torches...let the revolution begin!!!)
To: ETL
"It's hard to be the grown-up in the nation."
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:08:30 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Conservative4Ever
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:09:14 AM PST
by
tgusa
(gun control: hitting your target.)
To: ETL
"That was a good speech you gave last night, Mr. President," Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, told Mr. Obama as he stopped to have his picture taken with him in the photo line at the black-tie congressional ball last week. "It's hard to be the grown-up in the nation."
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12/14/2015 11:09:20 AM PST
by
Maceman
To: Conservative4Ever
...A chocolate White House. Something just wrong on many levels with this...
Like a chocolate New Orleans? Would Ray Nagin approve?
To: Snickering Hound
To: ETL
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:15:25 AM PST
by
Bon mots
To: Snickering Hound
They could have gotten the material for her shower curtain dress from the local .99 cent store.
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:15:51 AM PST
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ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
To: ETL
look at all the white crackers on those tables.
oops, I mean the nutcrackers are very nice.. &^)
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12/14/2015 11:19:35 AM PST
by
SGCOS
To: Bon mots
I wonder what happened to the poor little old lady who can’t see that is shown in that GIF. Either running for president can do wonders for your appearance or somebody was peeing on our legs and tell us it was raining during those Congressional hearings. I think it’s proof that the ‘RATS know that the people living in this country are the most gullible people to ever roam the planet and they are exploiting that fact. The woman in that GIF appears to be the Looking For Sympathy Clinton.
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:29:59 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Have you unpacked from your white privilege guilt trip yet?)
To: ETL
Missing something here? Our White House resembles a mausoleum when done in dark chocolate.
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:36:57 AM PST
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V K Lee
(u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
To: tgusa
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:37:41 AM PST
by
Conservative4Ever
(ENOUGH!! Man the pitch forks and torches...let the revolution begin!!!)
To: tgusa
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posted on
12/14/2015 11:41:42 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Keep calm and Pray on.)
To: V K Lee
Wouldn’t doing our White House in blackface be racist?
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12/14/2015 12:18:58 PM PST
by
sheana
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