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Obama Chides D.C. as Ice Storm Shuts Daughters’ School (Henry J. Pulizzi, 1/28/09, WSJ: Washington Wire)

President Barack Obama took a poke at his new hometown Wednesday, after a slick coating of ice forced his daughters’ school, Sidwell Friends, to close for the day along with many other schools in the Washington area. That wouldn’t happen in Chicago, Obama said.

“In Chicago, school is never canceled,” the president said. “In fact, my seven-year-old pointed out that you’d go outside for recess in weather like this. You wouldn’t even stay indoors.”

“We’re going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town,” he continued.