And the lefties rage.

“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.

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. (Paul Miller/Associated Press)

Howard and his entourage will be bunking at Blair House on Jan. 12, the night before he, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe are to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bush, said Sally McDonough, a spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush. The three current and former heads of state are longtime political allies of Bush, and Blair and Howard were key partners in the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Blair and Uribe also were invited to stay at Blair House, but declined Bush’s invitation, a second White House official said today. Blair, who traditionally stays at the British Embassy, and Uribe apparently found other accommodations, said the second White House official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity.

There are other scheduled events at Blair House, but no other planned overnight visits between now and Jan. 15, when the Obama family is scheduled to move in, McDonough said.”

Well the lefties raging should be shouting for joy, after all it’s no special favors for the messiah, no sir, he can wait on the list like ordinary folk. Actually since – aside from winning the election – Obama has done….

Diddly squat – for the country, as opposed to John Howard who supported the US and our efforts on the war on terror while Mr. Obama talked down our efforts and called our troopers “rapers and pillagers”, this is most fitting.

Let me suggest Motel Six. After all, it would once and for answer the question of whether or not he was “down with the struggle”.

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