Obama snow days: First lady grounded

Ah, the typical Midwestern attitude when living in other parts of the country. I would think the president would have more than enough sense to not act like a pompous jerk toward his daughters' new school. Other parts of the nation simply do not have the snow-fighting resources found in Chicago.

All Obama does is whine.

Now, he's trying to get Sidwell School to abide by his rules.

Oh relax. I don't see any presidential order that the schools be opened in DC. Take a joke :-)

Oh give me a break. You all need to get used to President (yes, I said it, PRESIDENT) Obama's sense of humor. He was just taking a jab at Washington with a little light humor.

Stop being so upset that McCain lost, I mean...it's done and there's nothing that can be done about it....(you could move to Canada, but I digress.....)

Obama can sit at home and watch the snow and the stock market continue to drop, as the market has done throughout the month and a half since he became president. Is this his goal, to destroy the private economy in favor of the government? Certainly sounds like it in his speeches of constantly trashing America and sounding doom for the economy.

Obama can sit at home and watch the snow and the stock market continue to drop, as the market has done throughout the month and a half since he became president. Is this his goal, to destroy the private economy in favor of the government? Certainly sounds like it in his speeches of constantly trashing America and sounding doom for the economy.

mmm...global warming?

maybe humans ought to know nature runs in cycles and humans don't control nature!

humans do have a responsibility to be good stewards of good things on earth but control nature....

maybe the naysayers should stop jetsetting around, stop driving their expensive status driven cars, live in smaller simpler homes and be good stewards of resources!

it has been a while since we've had a "real winter" and now that it has been here between November and now everyone is complaining...that is except ski resorts.

mmm...global warming?

maybe humans ought to know nature runs in cycles and humans don't control nature!

humans do have a responsibility to be good stewards of good things on earth but control nature....

maybe the naysayers should stop jetsetting around, stop driving their expensive status driven cars, live in smaller simpler homes and be good stewards of resources!

it has been a while since we've had a "real winter" and now that it has been here between November and now everyone is complaining...that is except ski resorts.

Three to four inches of snow and they're closing schools? They are wimps!

To all you haters, just because he is the president does not mean he is not human, or still not a father, or still not from chicago, he was simply stating a fact. GET OFF HIS BACK

Snow blew across the White House grounds this morning as a snow storm "Marched" up the East Coast. ~ M.S.

This Global Warming Thing is just really starting to snowball, leaving a path of, well, snow and ice.

As a person born and raised in Chicago now living in a suburb of D.C. I agree with President Obama. It's sad to see adults behave in such a way. All the people in this area stay home from work, my building is mostly empty and so are the roads.

The data shows the Earth is gradually getting warmer.
Sure there may be snowstorms or even cold winters. Those are statistical noise on top of a gradual trend.

So don't think that a cold day has scientists reconsidering the global warming theory.

The data shows the Earth is gradually getting warmer.
Sure there may be snowstorms or even cold winters. Those are statistical noise on top of a gradual trend.

So don't think that a cold day has scientists reconsidering the global warming theory.

Three to four inches of snow, you don't need the "snow-fighting resources" found in Chicago - you just need to grow a pair and tough it out. My street hasn't been plowed this entire winter due to Daley's awesome budgeting skills, but yet I can still get to where I need to be.

It's bad enough to read some of these ignorant comments once, but twice?

Gee, why is it when someone makes a comment about the smallest thing criticizing or taking offense to anything that the President (yes, I said it, PRESIDENT) said, then we're accused of being upset that McCain lost. It was a stupid comment, criticizing his new home town and he deserves to have been called out on it. For the record, I don't care that McCain lost.

Close down a city because of snow . . . makes you wonder how the world's most powerful city accomplished anything.

You guy's need to give it a break, first of all he's has to undo what others before him has done, second of all, the stock market is in the shape it's in because of this recession, now if you want to blame someone blame your president before him for putting his hand in your pockets, give him some air, if you give it some time you may see some results. We all know you all want him to fail, it's not gonna happen one things for sure he can't do any worst then those before him. How about that!!!!!

The crossing of the Delaware has been cancelled today due to inclement weather. As a result, we will remain under British rule. Thank you.

Superintendent Washington

Janstress, I completely agree. And sorry but Chicagoans cannot handle snow either in comparison to those of us in NC Indiana and SW lower Michigan. Every system snow brings a day of lake effect right off the lake.

That's an absolutely stunning photograph.

Whatever, how can you not love the fact that he jokes about DC and their handling of what "some ice". Take a seat in a corner and calm yourself.

Good lord, all you anti Obama'ers are getting tiresome and annoying. This article was about a snow day in DC and Obama's reaction to it.

Perhaps you should try and use your energy to restablish the republican party and to find a better leader than Rush.

I guess now I know how you all felt say 8 years ago when Bush started his reign and all I did was complain about him online.

You all know how Chicago got started, don't you? ... People in New York said they were really enjoying the crime and poverty but it just wasn't cold enough ... grip it up Washington!!!

I lived in DC for 6 years and you know what? President Obama is right. They are so accustomed to mild winters that small flurries send everyone to the grocery store in a panic. It is very strange behavior.

BTW, the guys been in office a little over a month - he can't be blamed for the economic calamity we are in. That distinction goes to Bush who refused to acknowledge the recession for all of last year.

Will the snow stop him from running this country into the ground with his anti-stimulus package?

Matt,

I remain a GW infidel. If your car were to experience spontaneous combustion, u would at least get the salvage value. GW is bad enough, but apparently it presents NO benefits, at any moment in time. How, (a rhetorical How), did we come to this. Somebody needs to do Something.

Since I was born and raised in the Washington area, I have some perspecitve into the closing of schools there. The reason the schools close in Washington for 2-4 inches of snow is, surprise, political. The school systems are county-run, not district-run like the Chicago area. So you could have 1 inch of snow in one part of a county, and 4-5 inches in another part, and all the schools close. In addition, snow plows are run by the counties as well, so plows have many more roads to cover than here in Chicago, where each town has its own fleet of plows. I live in the southern suburbs(Mokena), and my town had our roads plowed by midnight last night. In DC, we would have to wait 24-36 hours after a snow storm(4+") to get our subdivision plowed, and expected nothing more.

The blizzard in Washington is espacially ironic, seeing as how the global warming nuts scheduled a protest march for today.

Nothing highlights absurdity more than snow falling on the warmenists.

Nothing highlights absurdity more than Global Warming deniers that don't know the difference between weather and climate change.

Bubba,

The whole GW business is troubling to be because it goes against my background in Engineering World, which I gained the upper hand on, ONLY by understanding the fundamentals. My favorite Thermodynamics textbook by Abbott and Van Ness says: “The atmosphere and the oceans approximate heat reservoirs. Usually, they can be considered as heat sink reservoirs” That is, they typically absorb external heat. Abbott and Van Ness is my favorite because I had to keep buying them until I could find one that I could understand.

To this, we can add every physical chemistry text in existence that will show the solubility of a gas in water, whether it be oxygen, carbon dioxide, or methane to be LESS, as the water warms up. A warming ocean will therefore expel carbon dioxide or methane into its external sphere, which is the atmosphere. Why do I (rhetorical) need to pick this moment in time to get excited over a natural heating-cooling cycle that has been going on for more than 10,000 years. The earth’s core, solar radiation, or a high density of pretty Latinas could cause the oceans to warm. I have no idea, but this apparently is not all that new of an operation. The IPCC needs to work on the weasel words that totally undermines their message. Django is a GW Infidel, a GW Deniar, and one of those pretty Latinas awaits patiently for me, in this very moment. Have a nice evening.