President Barack Obama is blaming the U.S. Secret Service for the politically damaging decision close the popular White House tours, and also suggested he would restart the tours.
“You know, I have to say this was not — a decision that went up to the White House,” he claimed in an interview broadcast Wednesday by ABC News.
“What the Secret Service explained to us was that they’re gonna have to furlough some folks,” he insisted to ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, who worked as top aide to the nation’s previous Democratic president, Bill Clinton.
His claim clashes with a March 7 statement by his press secretary, Jay Carney, who declared that “the White House made the decision that we would, unfortunately, have to temporarily suspend these tours.”
Blame somebody else. Is he the president? Or what? He should know that whatever goes on there, will be blamed on him, because he allowed it to go forward. What was the point in closing it, to then turn around and reopen it? You cant tell me that he didnt expect an outcry from the people who own that house. Jackass.
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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