`Snowmageddon': Obama Names Blizzard

WASHINGTON — "Snowmageddon" – that's what President Barack Obama calls the storm that's shut down Washington.

His motorcade made it a few blocks through deserted streets so he could speak at the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting on Saturday.

In his opening remarks, Obama thanked activists for being willing to brave the blizzard. The streets around the hotel where the meeting was held were blocked by snow and police ahead of Obama's arrival.

California Rep. Mike Honda was delayed on the slow-running subway. Other officials who stumbled into the hotel were caked in snow and ice. Obama said he saw a sign that said "Californians for Obama" – and he joked that "you guys aren't used to this."

The party chairman, Tim Kaine, said "it's like an April day in Chicago" – that's Obama's hometown.

Comments

[pennlady]

10:28 AM on 02/08/2010

Must be climate change because Pennsylvania looks and feels more like the North Pole.

[wdw505]

08:17 AM on 02/08/2010

it is a good thing that global warming is kicking in imagine what temperature it would be without global warming

laughing

[Chise67]

07:20 AM on 02/08/2010

I'm just surprised that his comment hasn't been spun by some teabagger into it being some Muslim sleeper comment mocking christianity! :-)

[yourmomscalling]

03:56 AM on 02/08/2010

COUNT THE MONTHS OBAMA ELECTION DAY IS COMING YOU CORRUPT A HOLE

[Senzasord]

03:24 AM on 02/08/2010

Hell has frozen over.

[akobori4]

11:15 PM on 02/07/2010

sooo is "Snowmageddon" part of global warming? im confused. any eco-freaks want to comment?

[SCharb]

04:31 AM on 02/08/2010

Yes. "Extreme Weather Events" are a core concept of the danger of climate change. Was your research on the subject of Global Warming limited to knowing its name?

[LetsGoSteve]

10:38 AM on 02/11/2010

LOL

[Chise67]

07:18 AM on 02/08/2010

Yes, the holes in the ozone layer enable these epic fluctuations in the weather. The same will happen come July & August, it'll just be heatwaves.

[HazerX]

05:21 PM on 02/07/2010

Wow, that black man even made it snow white. lol

[Dredd]

12:45 PM on 02/07/2010

What do you expect when they are ground zero for "snow jobs" no body believes anymore?

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/01/momcom-mean-welfare-queen.html

[1010TRAVIS]

11:37 AM on 02/07/2010

The unraveling is deafening

[1010TRAVIS]

11:36 AM on 02/07/2010

Has anyone seen mr gore?

[wdw505]

08:32 AM on 02/08/2010

yes, he is hiding out as that fat snowman when you first come in to town......i'm sure you have seen him

[mikelartist]

10:48 AM on 02/07/2010

Where were all the Al Gore bashers 2 weeks ago when the temps are 20 to 40 degrees above normal and flooding in the northeast?

Were they off protesting health care?

The the silence was deafening.

Al Gore is right and that galls them.

[corwin]

03:33 PM on 02/07/2010

I takes a certain amount of,I don't know,faith,I guess to proclaim Mr Gore correct an authority when a blizzard is blanketing DC. COuld the author please describe a bit about his scientific background, any higher math (diff eqs at least) he's taken to let us know why his opinion is grounde in something other than belief.
Victor Frankl coined the term 'cognitive dissonance ' to ilustrate cases when things like this happen.

[NappyRoots100]

06:17 PM on 02/07/2010

One snow storm and there is no global climate change. You must be a Republican. Gore's work was based on the findings of scientists about long term temperature changes that causes our weather to be a lot more severe in certain cases. Cognitive dissonance? How about all those melting glaciers? How about all those pictures of land mass changes? Oh, yeah I forgot about the global scientific conspiracy to dupe the public for no apparent reason.

[jakash]

10:19 PM on 02/07/2010

weather isn't climate change....could any of the climate change deniers such as yourself describe your scientific background, and faith in an infinitesimal scientists that deny there's climate change ... I'm sure your kids or grand kids will honor you're faith in standard oil, coal companies, and Senator Inhofe

[boxman15]

10:33 AM on 02/07/2010

I can't wait to see Hannity and Beck use this as proof global warming is not true.

"It's cold out! Where's yer global warmings now, Gore?!"

[KIVPossum]

10:35 AM on 02/07/2010

I know. What we are having this year is the extremes. Instead of our 3 months of 0C we are having 3 days of -20, then two of +11. Freaky.

[blacktea]

10:02 AM on 02/07/2010

"The science is settled" - Al Gore

[SangZe]

09:21 AM on 02/07/2010

The real blitz is coming from Palin and the teabaggers. D.C. will survive the snow. It will not survive the angry masses.

[Nihillasowagan]

10:02 AM on 02/07/2010

DC will not survive the angry masses.

Oh brother.

[igotthis]

10:38 AM on 02/07/2010

Oh, yes it will if the Democrats listen! You are betting that they won't or that it is too late for them to change. Well, I'm betting that they will change and that it is not too late for them to change. Your bet is on! The angry masses will become a footnote in history if the Dems start governing.

[texhall00]

10:06 AM on 02/07/2010

Not survive the angry masses? Are you kidding? How can you measure the needs of the American people when the nutjobs paid this dumb, loose mouth, nothing to say crazy Palin who has to come up and cheer because it better be worth the $$$ they paid her?
The Tea Baggers are a small group who don't speak for the millions who support our President who (remember) was handled this mess, and for whom the right won't support the American people, because they are for the party.......not the American People.

[rougebaisers]

09:04 AM on 02/07/2010

Mother nature will indeed create her own massive areas of white reflective surface in the coming decades, as the polar ice caps melt, reflecting less of the sunlight away and dramatically escalating the climate change effects on this planet. An ice age is in order once again, being ordered up by her royal highness, OUR PLANET, the living being we have the great privilege of living with. The changes coming to this world in the next century are beyond comprehension for most, laughed at by many who still call it global warming. White will be a predominant colour of our world from space in the near future.