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Post by einebierbitte on Jan 28, 2009 18:09:01 GMT -4
Perhaps his staff should inform him he's not in Kansas any more
( yea, ok..chicago...but you get my drift!)
… WASHINGTON – You call this bad weather? President Barack Obama, steeled by many snowy Chicago winters, expressed disbelief Wednesday when his daughters woke up to find that their classes had been canceled for the day.
Schools in Washington and the surrounding suburbs either opened late or scrapped all their classes because of icy conditions.
"Can I make a comment that is unrelated to the economy very quickly?" the new president told reporters at a gathering with business leaders. "And it has to do with Washington. My children's school was canceled today. Because of, what? Some ice?"
The president said he wasn't the only one who was incredulous.
"As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never canceled," Obama said to laughter. "In fact, my 7-year-old pointed out that you'd go outside for recess. You wouldn't even stay indoors. So, I don't know. We're going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness."
Asked if he meant the people of the national's capital are wimps, Obama said: "I'm saying, when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things."
Obama's daughters attend the private Sidwell Friends School.
Malia, 10, is a fifth-grader at the middle school campus in the District of Columbia, while younger sister Sasha is in second grade at the elementary school in Bethesda, Md., just outside Washington
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Post by mcbeth on Jan 28, 2009 18:47:36 GMT -4
Perhaps he should find a way to fund DC's increased need for plows and salt trucks, then? Now, I know that people up north laugh at us (like we laugh at the people in SC and GA who come to a standstill when they get 1/2" of snow) but there's a reason why we don't pour that much money into snow removal - we don't get nearly as much as the northern states do! (So, when we get slammed, yes, we choose to be safe rather than sorry and close or delay school).
Now, I'd think he would have reason to bi% if he and Michelle didn't have child care provisions, but c'mon. You know they didn't have to worry about Sasha and Malia not having someone to keep eyes on them all day, unlike many families who do have to worry about child care on days schools are closed.
BTW, I'm a registered Dem (I vote all over the place, so please don't err and just call me another liberal - I am very much all over the place when it comes to my politics), but I have to say think it was a little rude to slam his new place of residence, when he's only been here for a few weeks...wait till summer when he has to deal with the humidity continuously, unless he heads up to Frederick Co. to Camp David to escape "real summertime"!
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