Obama Dines with Conservative Journalists

Susan Davis reports on the transition. President-elect Barack Obama made an unscheduled stop this evening to attend a dinner party at the Washington, D.C. area home of conservative columnist George Will . A press pool photographer also spied fellow conservatives William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and David Brooks of the New York Times. A spokesman for Obama was also in attendance; a full guest list was not made public. “This is for real, folks. The bloggers are going to love this one,” the pool report read. Obama stayed for nearly three hours at Will’s home before returning to the Hay Adams Hotel. While some on the left may find Obama’s choice of dinner companions unsettling, these conservative writers have shown warmth towards the president-elect in their columns. “But I also have to admit that I look forward to Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer,” Kristol wrote in a Dec. 28 New York Times column . “And right now I’m dreaming of ... (link)