Last week, Barack Obama caused quite a stir when he allowed himself to be photographed in the Oval Office without wearing a suit jacket, ending the Bush tradition of coat-and-tie for the West Wing. The New York Times reports on how Obama made that possible during a colder-than-usual Washington winter. All Obama did was turn up the thermostat to Hawaii hothouse levels:The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat....
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”[emphasis added]
But wait! This can't be the same Obama who said when he was running for President:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.[emphasis added]
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
-- Barack Obama, May 2008
I guess when you have taxpayers paying your heating bill, you can set that thermostat as hypocritically high as you want. Maybe he's just following Al Gore's shining example. I guess it's all part of the "Change We Can Believe In."
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