Obama “forced” to live in beltway hotel pre-inauguration

Apparently “that one” is quite anxious to get into his new digs, arriving this weekend… 17 odd days prior to inauguration…. plus asking for the keys to Blair House.

And also just as apparently presumptuous is the petty and obnoxious London Telegraph headline, Barack Obama forced to live in Washington hotel.

Subtitle?

Barack Obama is to move to Washington this weekend but will be forced to stay in a hotel after President George W. Bush said an official residence was “not available”.

Geez Louise… what’s this “forced” stuff? Is the guy homeless, or did they forget about that hefty mansion in Chicago? This pundit makes it sound like early vacancy in the White House is “owed”, fer heavens sake!

But this isn’t the first time the Telegraph decided to portray the Bush family in a bad light… this goes back to another Dec 12th pissy article, with the headline:l

President Bush refuses Barack Obama
permission to move in early
President-Elect Barack Obama asked if his family could move into Blair House near the White House a little early, but the Bush administration was unable to meet the request.

Well…. ex’cuuuuuuuse me if the current POTUS does not alter his final days and receptions merely to accommodate the yanc’y incomers…

Mr Obama had requested to stay at Blair House, opposite the White House, but was told by the Bush administration it was booked up for farewell “receptions and gatherings” and was “not available” until January 15, five days before the inauguration.

All I know is, in real estate, you don’t get the keys to your new house early unless the current owners/residents can be out in time. The option for occupancy rightfully belongs to them, and what is needed for move out. And winding down an administration can be just as socially intense as winding up a new one…. however in the case with the Bush family, just with less fanfare.

But the Obamas’, and their dewey-eyed faithful, are already starting with the excuses for “that one’s” request for keys in advance. Young girls Sasha and Malia are due to start school at the same private academy Chelsea attended, Sidwell Friends.

Yet the Obama’s are not the first First Family to move with school age children.

Jimmy Carter came in from Georgia with family the day before the inauguration. No four day event, as the Obama’s have planned…. The Clinton’s came with Chelsea. The 42nd President retraced Thomas Jefferson’s route to the White House three days prior to inauguration.

The Nixons, the Kennedys and the current Bush family all had kids. Somehow, out of the normal early occupancy to accommodate their school starts wasn’t an issue.

Feeling a little “privileged”, are we Mr. President-elect? This stuff truly makes me ill. As if we didn’t have enough BDS for the presidential and CIC decisions, we now have to listen to the faithful whine because the red carpet isn’t rolled out weeks early….

Obama, as we know, is no stranger to big sets, bright lights and overblown staging of events. So the Obama party starts earlier too – on Jan 17th, when he plans to leave the beltway… after he moved there early… in order to emulate the Lincoln journey to the White House.

Mr Obama, emulating Abraham Lincoln in 1861, is also staging a symbolic arrival, taking a train trip from Philadelphia on January 17th stooping en route in Wilmington, Delaware – where he will pick up Vice-President-elect Joe Biden – and Baltimore.

Uh… why not just stay in Chicago until then, Mr. Obama? You’ve moved your entire transition team there, as well as the DNC headquarters. Are you moving everyone twice? Once to a hotel, and then their new offices? If so… on who’s penny?

I suggest the family cool their jets and wait their turn. As he so likes to say… at least in order to dodge the serious doin’s… we have only one President at a time. And he and family live in the White House.