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http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/obama-halts-speech-something-smells-its-burning-n328606
Obama Halts Speech: 'Something Smells Like It's Burning'
NBC News President Obama stops in the middle of his remarks at the White House Science Fair to call attention to a burning smell in the room. Obama jokes that the last time there was a fire at the White House "the British were invading."
srican69
(1,426 posts)The are all just so ANGRY all the time ..
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Probably thinking a letter to their government is in order...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Spazito
(50,549 posts)rurallib
(62,471 posts)is so adorable!
Imagine Ted Cruz doing a science fair - he would be wielding a sledge hammer and spouting the bible.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Is Darth Cheney in town?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Was that Malia standing on his right? She hid her face, almost in embarrassment, when he told the joke about the last fire in the whitehouse was when the British were invading.
erronis
(15,403 posts)Probably a lot more than the NoParty would - they don't care so much for history, just what their leaders/bibble tells them so.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)... pants on fire, in the Oval Office.
I don't remember any fire when the Beatles landed.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Could have been The Beatles they were guilty of "The British Invasion"
monmouth4
(9,711 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)onethatcares
(16,204 posts)with a republicant in the whitehouse.
SCIENCE FAIRS
tanyev
(42,644 posts)padfun
(1,790 posts)and nobody will quite understand what she is saying.
Historic NY
(37,457 posts)Renew Deal
(81,889 posts)Contrary1
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hunter
(38,339 posts)...oh, right, that was during the Bartlet Administration.
Our sad alternate reality got the Cheney administration, which was in no way entertaining. Whenever the Cheney administration did something foolish, they didn't just set off the smoke alarms, instead, many thousand people would die.
treestar
(82,383 posts)If he smelled it he'd know the other people in the room needed some reassurance that it was being dealt with or was OK. Dubya would have droned on while everybody wondered.
The girl with long hair at the left really cracked up at the joke.
stage left
(2,967 posts)That's for sure.