From the NYTimes today, comes this.... (there is a longer piece attached about the Republican guests and their bemusement at all this.....).

Now I am convinced Obama is toast. Does he really think cookies are going to warm up these zealots so as to forgo their idiotic grandstanding crap?


Obama Woos G.O.P. With Attention, and Cookies
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: February 4, 2009
WASHINGTON — Can the shrill tone of Washington be changed through a presidential act of contrition? Or, perhaps, an enticing platter of oatmeal raisin cookies?

This week, President Obama has already served up both at the White House.

To one set of visitors, a gathering of Democratic and Republican members of Congress whom he invited to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, he carried around the freshly baked cookies as he mingled with his guests.....

yours,

Peter T.