Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Read to Children--OBAMA: "...tired of being in the White House."

washingtonpost.com ^ | Feb 3, 2009 | Staff

[Syncro]

Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Read to Children

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:

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.

[seekthetruth]

Wonder if the parents of those children were notified of this visit?

I would not have wanted my child in the presence of the squatter in our White House named Barack Hussien Obama aka Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.

[katiekins1]

More like Drag Queen and his wife can't cope with the responsibilities they so desperately BOUGHT. I would never allow my child around an accused addict and sexual deviant.

[tina07]

I plead ignorance, sorry, and no I did not know about Harding nor see the dripping sarcasm. I am forever a student here!