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Obama gives chilly reception to canceled school
The Associated Press ^ | 1/28/09 | BEN FELLER

Posted on 01/28/2009 9:39:50 AM PST by theruleshavechanged

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To: Oldexpat

Time for the 100k snowplow program?


41 posted on 01/28/2009 9:58:59 AM PST by Eagle Eye (Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
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To: theruleshavechanged
Drivers in Chicago have much more experience driving in the snow than the drivers in D.C.. Believe me Obama, I have lived in both areas. You don't want to let your kids wander outside the fence today, or someone from your own party will run them over.
42 posted on 01/28/2009 9:59:14 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Sidwell could invite him to enroll his daughters elsewhere, or assume personal liability for any student/parent injured traveling to work in icy conditions. Ice ain’t snow, Barrack.


43 posted on 01/28/2009 9:59:41 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Non-Sequitur

I hear you. During the big storm in ‘67 the bus was cancelled, but school was still open. We watched movies all day and left at 1:30, but the principal showed up, so school was officially open.


44 posted on 01/28/2009 9:59:50 AM PST by Seven plus One
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Years ago we had a mornngtime ice/on/snow/with/sleet event in the DC area. I made it to work by 10 AM. Only guy who beat me was a fellow who grew up in Louisiana.

Now he knew how to handle ice ~ got to work at 7:30 AM in fact.

All the smart-alecs from NYC and Chicago didn't even make it in.

That's when I began noticing who could or could not handle ice.

45 posted on 01/28/2009 10:00:33 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: theruleshavechanged
what a tool.

he completely lacks any personal warmth. Has anyone ever heard him say something that was actually funny?

46 posted on 01/28/2009 10:01:21 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
After spending many winters in CNY I can handle just about anything. Speaking a Virginia native, DC is a snow wuss.

It's not snow, it's ice.

And no, you can't drive on ice any better than anyone else.

47 posted on 01/28/2009 10:04:23 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: theruleshavechanged
Hey NEA, Barack just called your Washing DC Politburo members wimps. Are you gonna take it?? ...

NEA Response: pucker slurp, slurp, slurp.

48 posted on 01/28/2009 10:04:39 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: Starfleet Command

LOl, he should of called Gore, and got some global warming sent.. and then got Ted Kennedy to come by and drive the girls to school.. Ted Has driving experience on curvy roads..


49 posted on 01/28/2009 10:04:45 AM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Dear Mr. Barak Hussein Soetoro 0bama Whatever:

Welcome to DC. They close schools, here, at the drop of a snowflake. Live with it. Think of it as “cultural diversity” if that helps.

Or, you can just STFU. That works, too.

Sincerely,

-A. Bustard


50 posted on 01/28/2009 10:05:51 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: muawiyah
And where was FEMA? Did he tell them to just stand down, it's only a little ice storm?

lololol

I can see that - as Obammie bungles this weather emergency - what will he do when another Katrina hits?

"Ahh - come on! Just a little rain. You wanna evacuate the whole city? What wimps!"

51 posted on 01/28/2009 10:05:52 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: muawiyah

We all tend to get used to our weather but don’t do well out of our comfort zone. Here, below freezing , we close schools and freeways. It’s to protect people from injury. We don’t get enough cold weather to learn to drive in it. Northerners laugh at us but they don’t think it’s funny when someone mentions they don’t do well with humidity and high heat here.


52 posted on 01/28/2009 10:06:03 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: muawiyah

“Regarding “ice” people in Chicago rarely have ice ~ it’s an alien thing to them. What they have is “snow” ~ Lake Michigan gets “ice”.

Ice, as any Souvrnr’ can tell you is very dangerous, slippery, and sneaky. Mayor Barry taught us that if we wait for Spring it’ll melt ~ no doubt Obama has consulted with the old man on that matter.”

Agreed. Here in Central Texas, we have tens of thousands of northern transplants. Every year, when things close due to ice, I hear a lot of them gripe about how stupid people here are, and that we just don’t know how to drive in “that stuff.” Oddly, the day after, the bar ditches are filled with cars with out of state tags.

I was in Iowa over Christmas, and I sure noticed any number of cars that had run off the road due to ice.

Some people don’t know the difference between ice and snow. Skill can help a person drive in snow, but it doesn’t help a whole lot on a sheet of ice in hilly areas.


53 posted on 01/28/2009 10:07:55 AM PST by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: CindyDawg

Actually I don’t do well with the humidity and high heat here either ~ and look forward eagerly to the coming Ice Age!


54 posted on 01/28/2009 10:08:06 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: thefactor

The presidency really is his plaything to do with as he chooses.


55 posted on 01/28/2009 10:09:45 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (He is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

No. He’s wrong. You are too. If your town can’t drive in it safely, then it would be foolish to insist people try.


56 posted on 01/28/2009 10:10:40 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: theruleshavechanged

Mr. Hopey McChangey is turning into Whiney McBitchy.


57 posted on 01/28/2009 10:12:13 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: theruleshavechanged
What he said was kind of stupid for a President to say.

"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."

But I'm not the President, and I've spent winters in both places, so let me say I know exactly what he means.

But it's not just Washington. I live in California where it only rains in the winter time. No snow, rarely ice, just rain. And when it rains people on the roads lose their frakking minds. Something a Chicagoan wouldn't think twice about causes people here to run into perfectly innocent telephone poles.

58 posted on 01/28/2009 10:12:49 AM PST by mlo
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To: JoanneSD
...and then got Ted Kennedy to come by and drive the girls to school.

ROTFLMAO. That's *inspired*.


59 posted on 01/28/2009 10:13:29 AM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: theruleshavechanged

Why doesn’t he just bang his staff and make the ice stop?


60 posted on 01/28/2009 10:14:06 AM PST by popdonnelly (The problem with Obama is that he believes his own hype.)
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