Washington – President Obama’s remarks on Wall Street regulations yesterday featured a special guest, though we’re not exactly sure who — or what — it was.
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Some kind or rodent — maybe a rat, maybe a mouse, perhaps a mole — scurried in front of Obama’s podium, drawing chuckles from reporters and rapid clicks from camera people.
Members of White House camera crews reported seeing the same suspect a week ago, just before Obama spoke about the Gulf Coast oil spill.
Yes, there are exterminators at the White House, but there is also a lot of foliage and they can’t track down everything.
The latest sighting generated many comments about “a rat in the Rose Garden,” and “a mole in the White House.” The rodent himself — herself? — didn’t hang around for examination, heading straight for the bushes that ring the garden.
Perhaps the best headline came from our friends at The Drudge Report, which referenced the president’s relative lack of news conferences: “Obama doesn’t take questions from the rat, either.
this is not a joke , since nobody wants a rapid rodent around them
Can’t the white house afford glue traps???
Im surprised he didn’t kill it on the spot like he did to that fly.
That was just a White House DemoRAT !
During Jimmy Carter’s presidency there was mice problem in the White House, Jimmy Carter said just to trap it and not to kill the mice.
It should be returned immediately to where it came from. New York City.
Anyone dare saying. a word against him/her will be sued the hell out, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, for racist remarks, racial profiling, and sexual harassment. (Aint kidding!)
If there was 311 in DC it would not happen
It’s an almost 200 year old wood-frame building. Of course it has mice and rats.
It looks like a meadow VOLE, not a rat. Still a rodent, but a harmless grass-eater, strictly melkadich.