1.0 link 161634 <![CDATA[Obama Incredulous Over School Closing, Says DC Needs To Toughen Up (VIDEO)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/28/obama-weather-jokes-in-ch_n_161634.html At a meeting in the Roosevelt Room with business leaders to discuss the economy, President Obama asked to make an unrelated comment -- on the weather.

"My children's school was canceled today, because of what? Some ice," Obama said, and all at the table started laughing.

"As my children pointed out, in Chicago school is never canceled," he continued. He said that in their old hometown, "you'd go outside for recess in weather like this. You wouldn't even stay indoors."

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