We now know the reason why the Obama family couldn’t stay in Blair House for two weeks before the inauguration. John Howard, as loathsome a politician as ever emerged from Australia, is staying for one night. And to top it all off, it seems he was invited specifically to give the Bush administration a reason to turn down the Obamas.
Counting the days. Thirteen.
Presumably there are people staying there who *aren’t* foreign dignitaries, no? But even so, yes, very petty.