Blair House Mystery Solved

[elleng]

Source: WaPo

"The veil is lifted. We now know who is booked at Blair House, kicking President-elect Barack Obama and his family to the waiting list and across Lafayette Park to the Hay-Adams Hotel.

The only overnight visitor at the presidential guest manse is none other than John Howard, a former Australian prime minister and leading member of President Bush's coalition of the willing in Iraq." >>>



Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2009/01/06/blair_house_mystery_solved_its.html?hpid=topnews

[liberalmuse]

1. You've got to be kidding.

Howard? WTF!?

[Avalux]

2. Oh good heavens. Figures - a Bushie Buddie.

Bet they're partying and having a grand ol' time while there's still time left.

[Historic NY]

3. He could have stayed at the Aussie Embassy or Lincolns room...

then again the Aussies ran him out on a rail.

[scarletwoman]

4. Ah. Well he's here to pick up his "Medal of Freedom" from bush*, so of course he takes precedence.

Words fail me...

Oh yeah, link to the "Medal of Freedom" thing: Highest US civilian award for Howard

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[CreekDog]

27. Medal of failure?

:eyes:

[Gregorian]

5. Bush, and his gang, are human waste.

[NOW tense]

6. John Howard can go pound sand.

Take your symbol of right wing failure and get movin on down the road.

[AnnieBW]

48. And there's a lot of sand in Australia to pound

I've got a whole bunch of Aussie sand left in my suitcase after our trip. I'll take it to Blair House personally so he can pound it.

[peacetalksforall]

7. Hmmmm. Did he come to get $$$$$$$ settled?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. That's the only OVERNIGHT visitor.......

The place is booked with other "Goodbye Fuckface" events during the daytimes.

I no longer care. The Obamas are fine at the Hay Adams - which is MUCH nicer than Blair House, MUCH nicer - and so all I care about is those murdering hick motherfuckers get the hell out of my airspace.

I want them GONE.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. That picture is so wrong.

Washington is not putting a pump in his ass and Lincoln is not putting a boot in his ass.

You know they both would if they could.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. I know

But it's the best I can do.......

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. and the window is open. Defenestration requires it to be closed.

[DRoseDARs]

11. Except at the time the Obamas first requested to move in, NO ONE was scheduled.

Howard was scheduled AFTER THE FACT, Maddow just reported on her show.

[underpants]

16. Jesus Christ

There are no longer any words to express their pettiness

[pnwmom]

25. And Blair and Uribe said no -- leaving plenty of room still for the Obamas.

[jellen]

12. It figures, MORE crap from the creep.

I take this as a direct insult to Obama. How can Obama take this shit? I only hope that he can find a way to get even, I don't know how but it should be a thorough discrediting of the entire term of the creep. There aren't words to describe how I hate everything Bush has done.

[Incitatus]

13. This is just another examply of what a petty sack of shit Bush is. nt

[lonestarnot]

15. And that old first dump of a ladywannabee.

[Snarkoleptic]

17. Chimpy is a classless egomaniac slob.

Somewhere in Texas, a village will no longer be missing its idiot.

[Olney Blue]

18. So Bush is squeezing in last minute favors to John Howard over Obama.

figures

[opihimoimoi]

19. Typ GOP Bully Move...Bush is Now in ARROGANT SO WHAT MODE

What a Shallow No Class AssHole...

I only hope we don't have to wait like we did for OJ to see Bush get his ASS wrecked on a REEF....

[depakid]

20. Howard disrespected his own people- just like this

with Kirribilli house.

This latest deal comes after he's been disgraced. A mysogynist and bigoted PM who lost his own seat in Parliament (a very rare thing in Australian politics) -to a woman who talked sense.

Bennelong doesn't miss him.

Nor do the majority of people in Australia-

[LeftishBrit]

46. I have a colleague here in England who grew up in Bennelong

He was thrilled to hear they'd dumped Howard!

[madamesilverspurs]

21. Petulant snottiness.

Or snotty petulance. Either fits.

[Mz Pip]

22. And Howard needs all 135 rooms

and 35 bathrooms. Give me a break.

Bush is a snotty little twit isn't he?

[TahitiNut]

23. So, John Howard wasn't welcome to stay at his own embassy? Figures.

:shrug: The Obamas should've gone there. :silly:

[pnwmom]

24. Why couldn't the Obamas have stayed in the suites that Uribe and Blair turned down?

This complex has thousands of square feet of guest rooms. Space was never an issue.

[Name removed]

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[RFKHumphreyObama]

28. A bump in the night: how Howard debunked Obama

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Anne Davies
January 7, 2009 - 3:54PM

Thank heavens that John Howard is now our ex-Prime Minister, for it appears that he has inadvertently bumped President-Elect Barack Obama to the waiting list for the official presidential guest-manse, Blair House, forcing the first family into the nearby Hay-Adams Hotel.

Washington has been awash with speculation about the identity of the presidential guest who had caused the Obamas, whose children started school this week, to take up digs in a hotel.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/how-man-of-steal-took-the-presidentelects-bed/2009/01/07/1231004089152.html

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That's our former Prime Minister for you -selfish little prick of a right wing ideologue with an oversized ego. Because of course his need to strut on the world stage and pretend that he is still somehow relevant and Dubya's need to reward his equally worthless cronies is so much more important than the needs of the Obama family.

[MrModerate]

29. Actually, I think Howard is doing Schimpanski a favor . . .

Having quickly moved into the place to provide some minimum of credibility (minimum measured in "Bushits," the smallest measurable unit in nature) that Blair House was "booked" by a "foreign dignitary."

I guess even after 8 years I'm stunned by what a small-minded prick Bush is. I'm still shaking my head.

[proud progressive]

30. 'a small-minded prick' - i like that. well said

[Dr.Phool]

32. But, he's giving us other pricks a bad name.

[Old and In the Way]

33. He's leaving in the manner that he entered.

Remember the bullshit about the Clinton's wrecking the WH? How the cost 100's of thousands of dollars of damage and stole the "W" keysfrom all of the computers? All bullshit.

He is a small minded prick. No wonder similar small minded pricks like him so much.

[Dr.Phool]

31. Obama's first act of his presidency should be.....

Ordering Air Force One re-routed from Crawford, Texas to the Hague.

[DallasNE]

34. My Understanding From Margaret Carlson

Is that when Obama requested Blair House it had not been book. Apparently Bush when out and shook the trees and out fell Howard to fill the role of foreign dignitary. And he is just here to get the Medal of Freedom draped around his neck like Paul Bremer. Now that is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[cyclezealot]

37. Only close to the bottom... Colombia's Uribe is scummier.

The bottom of the barrel is President Uribe of Colombia.. Uribe has been invited a couple times to the Crawford White House to help George chop wood.. Considering President Uribe's Human Rights record, Bush and Uribe probably do a little target shooting at Crawford... Uribe and Howard will both receive the "presidential medal of Freedom" at the White House Jan. 13.. Considering political assassinations in Colombia, Uribe is just slightly moldier than even Howard... Guess, Uribe and Howard might well be bunk-mates at Blair House. Freedom and Colombia.. An oxymoron....

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

35. Bush is like the fart in the elevator

no one wants him around.

Its too embarassing to be compared to Obama, so he has to keep him away from the
White House as long as possible.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

36. Yeah, Obama-style grace and humor

can come in mighty handy when dealing with the Bush White House. This is an obvious slight, and I hope both Bushes experience a little guilty acid reflux when greeting the new First Family at their front door. Particularly when those 2 darling little girls jump out of the limo. It doesn't matter where in the wide world Bush goes - he's an inept social disaster. Just ask Angela Merkle. And soon he'll be as irrelevant as John Howard.

[OneBlueSky]

38. hey . . . Obama's hotel digs are probably better, anyhow . . . n/t

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[bunnies]

40. Better than a 70,000 sf 119 room mansion?

really? :shrug:

[shellgame26]

39. Does anyone remember

a little over a year ago, the said John Howard ridiculed Obama. He was criticised for mocking the possible future US president. SHortly after he was defeated in the elections. I will search for the link later, since I'm working now.

[muriel_volestrangler]

42. At the end of the SMH article, there's this:

The day after Mr Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2007, Mr Howard said Mr Obama's pledge to remove troops by March 31, 2008, would encourage the terrorists.

"I think he's wrong. I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory," Mr Howard told the Nine Network.

"If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats."

Mr Obama responded equally stridently.

"I think it's flattering that one of George Bush's allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced," Mr Obama told reporters from the campaign trail.

"I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops in Iraq, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1400, so if he is ... to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq.

"Otherwise it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric."

[proud progressive]

44. did obama really say that? DAMN that was good

[shellgame26]

50. Thank you Muriel

I knew the article was out there somewhere.

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Anyone noticed the original title: "How 'Man of Steal' took President-elect's bed"?

visible in the URL, and some other places it's been published:
http://www.aol.com.au/news/story/How-man-of-steal-took-the-President-elects-bed/1516811/index.html
http://www.daylife.com/article/09NY9lg5m3cqb

Plus - online poll to crash!

Man of Steal

Should John Howard give up his Washington rooms for Barack Obama?

Yes - 74%

No - 26%

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

[glitch]

43. Surprise! Bush (and Howard) STILL tacky! nt

[damntexdem]

45. The haunting of Blair House by the ghost of Howard's political career.

Ooh, Stephen King should have written this one.

[donco6]

47. Wouldn't you be embarrassed?

To know that you bumped the PE out of the Blair house? I sure would. There's no way I'd stay there.

[AnnieBW]

49. Howard did for Australia's economy

what * did to ours. That's why he's getting "Medal of Freedom".

:mad: