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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All of the above.
Pretty girls. What a shame that they have such horrible parents.
LOL! That’s great! Did you create it yourself?
Yes, I make them all. :)
Are there no mirrors in the family living quarters?
They all cracked long ago.
Only if you are not a democrat.
They do remind me of lyrics to a song and your post gave cause to find the song. ‘Little Boxes’ is the title and it begins: Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
These ‘folks’ living in our WHITE House are ticky tacky as well. Avant garde doesn’t even begin to describe the mate. My goodness she wears couch fabric, curtain fabric, the only item we’ve not seen on the body is towel fabric *possibly because there was not one to be found to cover the delicate spots. In closing! What a disgrace.
Merry Christmas!!
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