Countdown: Blair House Was Not Booked

[sgpnc]

Our new president is a whiny bitch.

[sgpnc]

Keith Olbermann is RE-TAR-DED. John Howard, prime minister of Australia, was booked into Blair House. Nobody cares about Olberbaby or Obammie the Commie.

[jadebrew]

Obviously you do because you're talking about it... Don't worry, Palin will have another chance in 4 years... Maybe by then she can find Vermont on the map...

[sgpnc]

Why am I talking about Keith Overbite? God knows. This one was a YouTube "featured video"; that's why I clicked, with much the same queasy feeling as when I look at an auto accident on the side of the road.

There's a Jewish saying: "Against stupidity, God himself is helpless." Keith Overbite is Exhibit A.

[ch0224a]

Yeah, until you realise that the Bush Administration knew fairly early on that if Obama won, he would need to use Blair House before the traditional Jan. 15th because his two young daughters will be starting school in Washington DC in early January. What we care about is, did that Administration deliberately denied the then President-elect of having Blair House at his disposal whenever he needed it. That is the question for all those blind followers of Rush and Bill O'Reilly.

[sgpnc]

So Bush is responsible for BO's child care? Is BO still whining about not getting into Blair house? Sounds like BO has a real chip on his shoulder. Someone that senstive and willing to be offended must have a real problem with low self-esteem.

[ch0224a]

No, this is called being considerate to the needs of the Obamas, to the people of Washington, and to the US budget. Something you clearly have no understanding of.

FYI, journalists are curious people and want to know why were the Obamas staying at the Hay Adams instead of at Blair House. The Obama people told the press they moved into the Hay Adams and the press did rest. This is nothing about low self esteem or having a chip on Obama's shoulder. But you are right, Bush has a chip on his.

[sgpnc]

BO is a whiny bitch. The affirmative action president knows that he is not qualified for the role he occupies. The U.S. is going to suffer as a result. I know the left wants to destroy the U.S. They have the right president to do it.

[ch0224a]

I don't know whether you are a racist or a neo-conservative, but I do know your prejudice is overwhelming sir. The fact that you believe Obama will destroy America proves that you are a sore looser and that your only interest is to destroy secularism to advance a right wing Christian social agenda that is intolerant of all other religious or philosophical beliefs. Your allegiance is not to America as a whole, but to the lunatic Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.

[sgpnc]

Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, et al.

I could name probably 100 other black people who are better qualified to be president that BO and who have the added benefit of not being linked to Chicago mobsters (e.g. Rezko) or psychotic terrorists (e.g. Ayers and Dohrn) or other people who hate America (e.g. Jeremiah Wright).

[ch0224a]

Thank you. Now we know that you are a right wing conservative, who cannot stand the notion of a liberal being in the White House. You, sir, do not consider yourself an American first and a Republican second. It is disgusting to know that you will wish your country ill because you hate the politics of your president. That's real low, sir.

[sgpnc]

1) BO is a whiny, petulant baby. It may be because his father abandoned him or because he got admission to schools he didnt deserve due to affirmative action.

2) BO does not have the brains, experience or temperament to manage the local McDonalds.

3) If you think BO is going to be good for the country, please sell your your cat-hair macramé collection and invest it in 30 year U.S. Treasury bonds. It will sign of your faith in BO.

Ill be shorting U.S. Treasuries and somebody has to buy.

[jado818]

Bush acting like a petulant child... he will be gone soon and I hope Obama remembers his treatment when he has to make a judgement on war crime trials.

[Srekwah]

There is just nobody in Australian politics that comes close to John Howard for integrity or brilliance. The country is staggeringly poorer for his defeat but so many of the sheeple (many on Youtube) are too dumb, ignorant and led by the nose to ever know it.

[ChicagoJoe57]

It will be great to see Bush gone!

[AussieHinny]

Please keep Howard in your country. We don't really want him back. Maybe he can finally get the job he REALLY wanted- as Dubya's lapdog.

[sdaisy079]

Kanye West is proven right once again.

[redbonegal]

Bush once again shows what racist scum he is. He may as well have told Obamas' family to go to the back of the bus. This is why Bush is hated all over the world. Bush will go to hell and roast with Reagan and Bush senior!!! The damn ausie scum can get his @ss the hell out too!!!

[royceroscoe]

Well gee, hasn't Bush spent enough of the taxpayers money? We shouldn't be surprised at this snub, simply because the Bush administration have been and are petty!! However we all know that our man President Elect Obama has to much class and brains to stoop to that level.

[spanks2you]

Blimey ! (says a limey !)

[moonchair761]

Well, Bush must have got belly laughs and back slapping from his white Conservative pals for turning the Obama family away form Blair House. Very sad for America

[ozedee]

Typical of John Howard's arrogance, no wonder we Australians kicked him out, pity he wouldn't fade into the past as he should.

Denise G

[DillonX]

I believe Bush lied because he was hoping that in his last days some leader of another country would come to have a photo-op with him & could stay in Blair House.

But no one wanted to be pictured with Bush -- even from a small island nation.

So Bush's lying to Barack was rude, inconsiderate, disgusting & typical Bush.

[rollsthepaul]

You can complain or be astounded but this is just typical of 8 years of moral bankruptcy and mental retardation that Americans call "The Executive". You can count on Dumbya to be a complete asshole and fool and degenerate. Has he set the new standard for"Statesman"? If so, can anyone squeeze under the bar???

[Ludendorf01]

What a fucking joke, Australia sends troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, and loses soldiers for the "war on terror" and they're crying like babies when our ex-prime minister accepts an invitation to the blair house WEEKS AGO!

Meanwhile, OBAMA wants us to increase our troop numbers to Afghanistan and accept their Guantanamo inmates, yet he won't let our ex-prime minister travel there to receive an award?

FUCK AMERICA. This is about respect, and America obviously has none for Australia.

[Srekwah]

Fucked up isn't it. If this is an example of the new US, God or Allah help them.

[ch0224a]

People REALLY don't care about your ex-PM using Blair House instead of a freaking hotel. People do care when roads have been condoned off to meet the Obama's security requirements and there is a bloody tax bill to go with it.

Yeah, you don't have to pay for Obama's security right now, but if you knew how much it cost to house the Obamas at the Hay Adams, then you will see why we think that Howard should have stayed at the Hay Adams or any hotel of his choice.

[Ludendorf01]

Newflash: Security arrangements for your new president are always going to be enormous. He just ordered about two dozen brand new million dollar armored limo's.

And I'm very sorry about those few streets you shut down. Look up the G20 that was held in Sydney and notice how we shut down a whole city for Pres Bush and other world leaders, and get some perspective on what REAL traffic inconvenience caused by dignitaries is.

[ch0224a]

Late breaking news: Former PM John Howard has significantly less security concerns than Mr. Obama. The difference is Obama staying at Blair House instead of Howard cuts that cost by a few million bucks. Its my tax money, not yours. So give me a break.

And while you are at it, spare me your ignorance, as a New Yorker, people have to put up every year with over 150 world leaders trotting through town for the UN General Assembly. That is bigger than your whinning of the G20 in Sydney.

[Ludendorf01]

Your tax money pays for bailouts for the pricks on wall street. Get a grip. A few million bucks is nothing in the big scheme. It's not about money, it's about respect. John Howard commited Australian soldiers and lives when America asked. Olbermann was nothing less than a total arrogant cock, and that woman was worse. But seeing as you're a New Yorker, you'd probably find those qualities as a positive.

I'm done with this topic, it happened weeks ago, PM me if ur desperate to continue...

[DillonX]

Just another example of Bush's arrogant stupidity.

[duhCider]

Bush thought he meant Tony Blair's house.

[toby099]

I don't understand this issue at all. Why do people care where Obama stays for a few months? He'll be in the nice comfy White House in no time. This is out of our hands anyhow as Bush and Howard are close and powerful friends.

[Faustus909]

A few weeks, and it's because it's tradition that the incoming President have use of Blair House during his transition prior to the inauguration. It was irritating enough that the Bush administration was giving Obama a runaround (the guy wanted to move in when he did because his kids were starting school, and the security was already in place). To find out that it's for someone who's no longer even a world leader is just absurd. It was obviously a deliberate snub.

[jezza520]

Who gives a fuck.

138 rooms and you can have 2 couples staying there for a week and they still wont see each other once.

[Faustus909]

Actually, Howard's only staying one night. They'd have to go looking for each other to track one another down in a place that big. The whole thing is stupid- there's no reason why both couldn't stay there.

[TheBearInThere]

Howard is a clown. Pathetic.

[pipicat111]

Yeah hes called by other politicans in Australian Bush,s asslicker in the media here in OZ pple really hated Howard but they hated BUSH even more

[Srekwah]

..yes, and by the same leftist slimes and useful idiots too.

[pipicat111]

Yeah well we know whose ass you were kicking last Election day hehehehe Yep and the Asslicker lost the election and the only PM to loss his seat in many years hehehehe Howard hates Obama because Obama told Howard how high he could jump and Howard jump right out of Politics and landed but in the USA still licking Bush,s ass, hehehehe AYE MATE dunbass

[Nahasapasa]

Yeah, at least 20 times a much.

[DirectXControl]

It made me smile when you said "hated". Finally, we're moving on.

[Priceless21]

Howard is still widely respected in Australia.

Now all the money in the piggy bank that Howard carefully saved has been spent we'll see how well Kevin 07 fares.

Kevin 07

Mistake 08

Decline 09

[Faustus909]

"Widely respected," huh? Not according to anyone I've ever spoken to. I was down there for two weeks (just after the U.S. election, so politics were on everyone's minds), and not one person I spoke to had a kind word to say about the man.

[Faustus909]

And frankly, the level of respect he garners in his own country is largely irrelevant in this case. He helped displace the President Elect. Anyone with any class would be embarrassed for their host over something like this and probably insist that the Obamas stay at Blair House, as well.

[WhiteBearOZ]

Come on now, you americans like sticking to contracts/laws etc, now stick to this, asshole or not, you made a deal with him, you put bush in the whitehouse, he set it up for the butt sniffin Johnny H now deal with it, take the blame and take accountability for the peoples inability to get the truth outta your government, yeah we have have our own probs but now you HAVE CHANGE, CHANGE, OBAMA, CHANGE, OBAMA.. Your'e people fckd up BIG TIME, johnny h has class that's why he snubbed the BIG A P.

[Faustus909]

First, what in the world is a "big ap?" Secondly, I'm not particularly inclined to take advice on either contracts or foreign relations from someone who doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're" (or how to use basic punctuation, for that matter). Thirdly, what makes you assume that I'm American?

Incidentally, how many times in Australian history has a sitting P.M. lost his own seat? That doesn't seem like an indicator of respect by the general public to me.

[michaelbeckham]

Especially not one who was PM for nearly 12 years, one of our longest serving PM's. He was past his use by date by at least 4 years.

[cryovolcanic]

Not by anyone I know. He lost the election in a landslide, and even lost his seat.

[SatwaMan]

Tear down Blair House people.

[sonwinks]

So popular he not only LOST the election considerably so....but also LOST his seat!!!

You're right....so popular....

As popular as Bush really....

[sonwinks]

Sorry that was in reply to Aussb07...

Stating that Howard is popular...

[leo1321]

It's not that I don't think Bush is petty enough to pull this, but let's not overlook the possibility of pure incompetence being the reason. The guy failed in every business he was ever involved in, so what are the odds he could run a hotel?

[grace0418]

No surprise really, the Bushes have no class, no ethics and no shame. Keith asks how the Bushes thought no one would find out about this. The answer is that they don't care. The Bush Administration has blatantly perpetrated all manner of horrible crimes and it looks like they won't face charges for any of them. It's insane to me. Stolen elections, illegal wars, no-bid billion dollar contracts... the list goes on and they won't be held accountable.

[SpanishForkOutcast]

Bush was always a class act.

[Vierotchka]

Bush is to class what feces is to gold.

[SpanishForkOutcast]

I was being sarcastic. Bush has never had any class and this just shows, once again, what a boor he is.

[Vierotchka]

I realized that - I used it to put in my five cents. :)

[Fogslifted]

So much for "Texas Hospitality". This situation is very sad. A truely horrible and degrading snubon the Bush's part. No Class!!

They have both, George and Laura, have just reminded us all once again they are glorified low lifes. An ex-drug addict full of resentment and his wife, a shallow woman blinded by wealth. God bless the Obamas. How do you explain that to your children?

I'm sorry but the Bush's are racists period.

Ya'll come back now ya' hear!?

Fuck You George Bush!

[OneoftheImmortals]

Fogslifted, I'm surprised at you. How could you . . . forget to say:

Fuck Cheney too and the rest of Bush's band of criminals!!!

;-{)

[OneoftheImmortals]

And of course Dubya will do what his father did to Clinton before the inauguration. All the computers in the White House, Camp David, Air Force One planes, etc. will be wiped clean.

[Plutonwolf]

Now hold on there pardner, ifn you done did the desperado type doings thet thar Bush gang done did, wouldn y'all be a leavin any ev eee dense a layin' about fer the Sheriff to git a holt of? Land a goshin, I shore nuff wouldnt!

Cue the the credits as the Gang that couldn't think straight rides stupidly off into the sunset...right over a cliff they couldn't see because the sun was in their eyes.

[OneoftheImmortals]

Plutonwolf, sho nuff.

But I would leave out the credits.

[swankrecords]

I wish they would hold my balls.

[swankrecords]

Bush is bitter.

[aussb07]

btw John Howard is not unpopular in Australia. He served this country for 10 years and has left this country in a very good state. Australia is only of few developed countries not in recession at the moment.

[jcb74]

LOL!!!

You're kidding, right?

little johnny (bonzai) is definitely not missed by the majority of Aussies, with the popularity to match his hero, bu$h..

You ~must~ be a Howard hugger.. Sore loser, much?

[Scoppertop]

Sickening.  Really.

[aussb07]

Dont believe everything you here in the media. It was booked.

[jcb74]

It wasn't, troll...

And if bonzai was honoroable, and it was indeed booked, he would have declined or made other arrangements.. But as most Aussies know, he's not, like his master, bu$h..

[FriedDaisy]

aussb07: They should have had the grace to move whomever was supposedly "booked" at Blair House to the hotel where the Obamas are now staying.

[OneoftheImmortals]

Or offer the Lincoln bedroom. After all, it is only one night and who would not rather stay in the White House?

[Scoppertop]

...and I'm supposed to believe -- you?

[PussycatGoGo]

My questions is why would they go out of their way to make the place unavailable? Racism? Hazing? lol what is the point exactly? Granted the Bush administration has proven they don't need a reason to do anything stupid but this just seems rather crude even for the people that redefined what torture is.

[garthggarth]

This does not suprise me in the least.

138 rooms-Jesus. It's called a house?

I guess that means I live in a 16-room shack.