Comments on: The Blair House Project

By: pete

pete — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:17:14 +0000

i’m thinking that maybe president obama should start a “special” gw bush secret service detail. all agents must have skin diseases, b.o., cronic halatosis, and or constant nose picking.

By: MollyNYC

MollyNYC — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:58:33 +0000

Did John Howard actually think it was in his country’s interest to aid in snubbing the new President of the United States?

Or is he–like Bush–one of those heads-of-state whose patriotism (or the pretense thereof) dries up the minute he leaves the job?

By: Prairie Sunshine

Prairie Sunshine — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:56:47 +0000

Read your post with interest. You did leave out a coupla things.

Like the media’s go-along-git-along furtherance of Bushspin like the January 15 daymarker. It was not a tradition, it was simply when Bush moved in so in his narcissistic world of history is all about me, BushCo used it as their excuse and the steno-media disgorged it as fact.

Pretty much the way BushCo–and the BushCo media of this era–have conducted business.

By: selise

selise — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:06:44 +0000

thank you!

By: Quebecois

Quebecois — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:54:07 +0000

When I read about this, my first instinct did not point to chimpy. The first wife had been in a few revisionist interviews already, and I thought that it was her parting shot. This woman is dumber than a rock…

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:53:47 +0000

Someone has posted David Rovics singing In One World to YouTube now, mind you without a true video. It wasn’t me.

By: JaneWade

JaneWade — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:15:33 +0000

The security arrangements necessary for the Obama’s while at Hay-Adams, which is outside the White House security perimeter, seems to have made quite a mess of traffic. This wouldn’t have happened if they were staying at Blair House, which is inside the White House security zone. I wonder how local residents and commuters feel about this. Not to mention the additional cost to the taxpayers. And renting a house would have caused the same problems.

By: Margot

Margot — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:14:22 +0000

Glenn and Hugh! LOL

By: Glenn W. Smith

Glenn W. Smith — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:03:04 +0000

I forgot. They’re the ones with the diplomatic pouches.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:43:06 +0000

The four adjacent townhouses that now make up Blair House total about 70,000 square feet. It’s bigger than the White House. Mr. Howard must be accompanied by a sizable entourage.

I think the problem is the kangaroos.