Caption: Red, white, and blue potato chips?
Just minutes ago, CNN got confirmation from White House Press Secretary Dana Perino that President Bush and President-Elect Barack Obama will meet again for another post-election transfer-of-power discussion. The pow wow is set for January 7. But this time, they've invited a few more guests to the party.
"President Bush will host a lunch for President-elect Obama and former Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Bush," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino told CNN.
The idea to include all the living former presidents was Obama's -- he proposed it to President Bush at their last meeting on November 10, and Mr. Bush quickly agreed.
Perino said the White House would release additional details about the meeting as the date nears. I guess we'll just have to wait to hear what kind of finger sandwiches are served at a meeting of five U.S. presidents. Do I hear red, white, and blue potato chips?
We won't need to wait for the outcome of the meeting, or even for Obama to take power and his policies to go into effect -- Time Magazine has already named him the 2008 Person of the Year.
But Obama isn't chalking one down in the victory column just yet. Here's a few of the tough questions he's going to judge his presidency on:
"Have we helped this economy recover from what is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? Have we instituted financial regulations and rules of the road that assure this kind of crisis doesn't occur again? Have we created jobs that pay well and allow families to support themselves? Have we made significant progress on reducing the cost of health care and expanding coverage? Have we begun what will probably be a decade-long project to shift America to a new energy economy? Have we begun what may be an even longer project of revitalizing our public-school systems?" he said in an interview with Time.
Sounds like a pretty tough checklist to me. He might want to consider an extra helping of my "Freedom Chips."
2 comments:
That's an originally photoshopped picture (the chips were all the middle color)
LOL -- so creative
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