January 7, 2009

Snubbing Obama?

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SNUBBING OBAMA?….Last month, Barack Obama asked the White House if he could move into Blair House a couple of weeks early so that his daughters Malia and Sasha could start school. They turned him down, saying there were guests already booked to stay there, and at the time I assumed this was legitimate. George Bush is many things, but turning down the request just out of personal pettiness didn’t seem like his style.

But as so often happens, whenever I give Bush the benefit of the doubt, I turn out to be wrong. ThinkProgress has the dope. It’s still possible that bureaucratic bungling or miscommunication might be the culprit here, but it doesn’t really look like it.

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