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Monday, January 05, 2009

So where the hell is the President-Elect supposed to stay, the Motel 6?
Why should the cost of Barack Obama's accommodations until January 20 be an issue? But the press seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time cluck-clucking over the Hay-Adams. Today's exhibit is Jackie Calmes in the New York Times:
For all of the luxury of the Obamas’ temporary home — Hay-Adams suites cost as much as several thousand dollars a night — Mr. Obama clearly was not looking forward to the short residency there after nearly two years on the campaign trail. “Well, living in a hotel for two weeks, I kind of did that for two years,” he said.


Perhaps Ms. Calmes thinks that the prospective First Family would be more appropriately housed at a Motel 6 out at the airport. After all, they ARE Democrats and their pigmentation is unseemly. And I guess only "American Aristocrats" like the Bush family, with their stage ranches in Crawford and that bigass family compound in Kennebunkport, are entitled to stay wherever they want.

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Posted by Jill | 6:11 AM
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Blogger D. said...
In my youth, this would have been selected as an example of "Catch-22."

The Obama family are being housed at an expensive hostelry presumably for security, but that costs money! and seems snotty to that reporter; but Motel 6, to use your example, is about as secure as a banana in a ricer. (Also it's not all that cheap anymore. Don't tell Cokie. Or Jackie Calmes.)

Dear Ms. Calmes: Your snobbery is hanging like boogersnot for all to see. Get a tissue.
1/5/09 1:11 PM  
Blogger Bob said...
Silly stuff. Given what he has on his mind, Barack couldn't care if it was a Motel 6 as long as the bed is comfortable. Secret Service makes the call on these matters. I'm sure they gave him a very short list of accomodations.
1/5/09 5:50 PM  
Anonymous tata said...
Did you catch the story a few weeks back where the Bush Administration declined to let the Obama family stay in the official residence where Presidents-elect traditionally stay? You didn't? Wonder why Cokie didn't mention that little etiquette faux pas, because that's why this "story" has surfaced now.
1/5/09 6:22 PM  
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