Posted on 02/03/2009 7:20:03 PM PST by Syncro
Updated 3:44 p.m.
By Michael D. Shear and Hamil Harris
As a sense of crisis engulfed his White House Tuesday with the withdrawal of former senator Tom Daschle as HHS Secretary-nominee, President Obama made an unannounced trip to a school to read to kids.
His motorcade was seen heading north on 15th Street, and local sources soon reported he was at The Capital City Public Charter School. There was no mention of a trip on the schedule sent out to reporters the previous day.
At the school, the president and Michelle Obama read to a group of second-graders in the school library from a picture book entitled "The Moon over Star," an account of the first moon landing in July of 1969. An Associated Press report from the scene said that Obama told the students, "We were just tired of being in the White House."
One of the comments:
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What a relief, now they can leave!
Typical. Hide behind the children!
I’m already missing LBJ, much less President Reagan!!
Bush was bashed for reading to children.
Why is the President reading to children (other than his own) anyways?
He learned well from his friends in Hamas.
George Washington reincarnated would be more fit to serve in the White House, even in today’s times.
All that’s left is to figure out a way to step down and blame it on whitey.
QUICK! Somebody LOCK the DOORS!!!
Thats what the terrorists do.....
I’m TIRED of him being in the “White” House too! And he’s only been in the “White” House for 10 days!
Ha, I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD!
This narcissist has to be in the paper every single day.
I love that they call it a “crisis.”
9-11 is a crisis
Katrina is a crisis
Iran getting nukes is a crisis
etc.
Being surprised that your corrupt cronies don’t pay taxes is not a crisis. It’s to be expected.
Hey Barry, Kwami Kilpatrick just got out of jail today so he’s free to be your Health Czar.
He’s tired of being in the White House?
What a coincidence!
Being tired of Obama in the White House is becoming epidemic.
Ooh... George Washington would NEVER make it in today’s American political system. I don’t even think the Rinos would hesitate to beat a guy like him down.
My Pet Hope?
The O family can pack up and leave.. just quit.. he is going to have a lot of days like this with his agenda..he is already looking haggard..
Well that did not take long
Obama only really liked giving speeches to 20,000 misguided, adoring fans. Now that he’s had a chance to try out all of the shiny stuff in the White House he’s realized this presidency work stuff is not what he had imagined it would be. Maybe he should try watching some stump speech tapes of himself in the mornings to get pumped up everday.
Obama, we’re tired of you being in the White House too.
Kwami da ‘K’ is a PERFECT guy for obamas cabinet! How ‘bout minister of finance?
LOL!
“Obama only really liked giving speeches to 20,000 misguided, adoring fans. Now that he’s had a chance to try out all of the shiny stuff in the White House he’s realized this presidency work stuff is not what he had imagined it would be. Maybe he should try watching some stump speech tapes of himself in the mornings to get pumped up everday.”
Jenny, you’ve hit the nail RIGHT on the head. This guy is a campaigner. He doesn’t have a CLUE how to lead or govern. Or work, for that matter.
What Obama really meant by that is: "We are so oppressed in that White House, I mean, even the "white" name is oppressive." When will he and Michelle attempt to have it painted so that it won't be "white" any longer?
Was not Pres. Bush talking at an Elementary School when 911 happened ?
Hey BHO ! wanna travel ? Fly over Kentucky and don’t land . . . we need another president to take the blame for the Weather.
George Washington exhumed would be more fit to serve in the White House.
Great! Let’s keep score. This is important. My read of his family systems dynamic is that he’d bug out of office in not so long a time. I said that back in the summer. This could be the start. Or just an innocuous comment.
Funny of the month!!!
I'm still guffawing!
Leni
Hell, I even miss Clinton! At least he put up the pretense of work, and he provided much better entertainment value!
George washington in the ground is more fit to serve in the white house.
Why isn’t he walking through the ice-storm damaged areas and promising to make it all better?
Has he even acknowleged that it has happened?
Much bigger area than N. O.
Being Leader of the Free World incurs SO much responsibility- I mean what a drag!
Obama is probably looking forward to the first bash he’ll throw with his old friends- having former terrorist Bill Ayers as a guest will surely liven things up!!
LOL
First acted like he couldn’t wait to get in (His office of the President Elect, etc) then he can’t wait to take a break. It’s only been 2 weeks, you’d think he was on the job over a year.
I don’t think he’s used to this kind of pressure.
As a matter of fact, I would feel more comfortable having the urn containing any of the previously deceased Republican presidents presiding over the direction of our nation, rather than empty suit, poorly-suited Obama.
What we need now are dedicated journalists to start covering the journalists who have sex with Obama every time they gushingly report anything about him. About how no matter what happens, they somehow always seem to put a positive spin on it.
Then compare and contrast their current reports with the total negative spins they did on Bush.
It may also be an attempt to distract from the withdrawals today.
maybe the illegal Ahole SOB should show up where ppl are freezing to death and being ignored in the midwest... I’m just sayin’
Obviously he didn't go to a public school.
Oh give the guy a break, will ya?
He has all kinds of experience to be the POTUS.
Just ax any of his supporters.....they will tell you.
He...is...the...chosen one.
"No mo 'fillin' my gas tank or payin' my mortgage....."
Insert pic of 'looter guy' here.........
What a friggin' joke......and in record time.
Precisely. Helicopter in for the agilation of the crowd, and then off to the celebrity fundraisers. Now that's bein' president!
I want to see a photo of him reading to the children next to a picture of one of the Icetrina victims.
Caption : “Obama reads while children freeze”
Barack Obama may surely be a basket case at the end of even 4 years! Look at now-impeached Gov. Blagojevich from Illinois- he started out “bright & shiny” but now he’s been found out to be corrupt and he’s running around like a deranged madman.
Why should any President be concerned about weather events hundreds or miles away?
Can you imagine Washington DC bailing out Chicago in 1871 (fire) or San Fran earthquake in 1906???
Is he going to run out and do a photo op every time things start getting a little too tight for him? Will he go read to some kids when he fumbles his first major test?
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From the official site:
"The school is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization "
Geez, why not goto a real public school in DC. Unless there was a favor to be fulfilled?
Charter schools are really private schools underneath it all.