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D.C's Doyennes Angle for the Obamas
The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com — ... NY Times: The capital's top hostesses hope to lure the new first family to their salons. Sally Quinn: "Everybody wants to have them over."       ...

The Sunday Word: Obama Comes to Washington
The Caucus — ... to police. The U.S. Park Police, for example, typically check the bags of the half-million or so people at the annual Fourth of July celebration on the Mall. But with potentially 2 million people wrapped in bulky coats and blankets pouring onto the Mall for Obama’s swearing-in, stretching to the Lincoln Memorial, police decided that it would take too long to funnel them through checkpoints. And now that Barack and Michelle Obama are in Washington, they have instantly become the city’s most sought-after dinner guests , The Times’s Julie Bosman reports: An Obama aide, ...

Village hates the Clintons. Film at 11.
Corrente — ... Here's a hilarious caption from an article in the Style section of the Times about how Village hostesses can snag the Obamas: ...

Hullabaloo — ... from Sisyphus Shrugged has discovered an interesting pattern in the media that may just explain some of the attitude we've ben seeing (via email): Between Politico's whining about Obama not answering his question during a press room visit, then when Jonathan Martin was mocked for being a whiner Ana Marie Cox announced that Obama's visit was a big evil plan to make some reporter "look like an asshole," Chuck Todd's pressroom-as-Gitmo, the Times' remarkably blunt warning that if he didn't go to their dinner parties the villagers were ...