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To: John W

Look. The meltdown is underway. With Obama in the White House it will only get worse. MELTDOWN. It can and is hapenning here. Prepare.


22 posted on 03/02/2009 6:33:12 AM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: screaminsunshine

“Look. The meltdown is underway. With Obama in the White House it will only get worse. MELTDOWN. It can and is hapenning here. Prepare.”

Ya think? (/s)

Obama kicks up White House entertaining

Mar 2 11:09 AM US/Eastern
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.
Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America’s head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.

The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation’s highest award for pop music on Wednesday.

A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the city.

Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.

Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration’s first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire. And a conga line.

The flurry of entertaining is in keeping with the Obamas’ promise to make the White House a more open place for everyone.

The governors’ dinner was “a great kickoff of what we hope will be an atmosphere here in the White House that is welcoming and that reminds everybody that this is the people’s house,” Obama told the state chief executives after they had dined on Maryland crab, Wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and citrus salad.

“We are just temporary occupants. This is a place that belongs to the American people and we want to make sure that everybody understands it’s open,” he said.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96M09BO0&show_article=1


25 posted on 03/02/2009 9:59:05 AM PST by shoutingandpointing
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