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Monday, January 05, 2009

So where the hell is the President-Elect supposed to stay, the Motel 6?
Posted by Jill | 6:11 AM
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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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 Anonymous 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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