Rose Garden Too Hot To Handle

Although today's press conference was to be President Obama's first in the Rose Garden, news came about an hour before the 12:30 p.m. start time that the event would be moved inside "due to humidity."

While it's a warmish 80 degrees in Washington, a spin around the block tells the Capitolist it's not oppressive, and Weather.com reports humidity is at a most bearable 49 percent.

A tipster reminds us that Obama wasn't always so sensitive to Mother Nature's whims. Days after moving into the White House this year, he complained that Washington-area schools had closed after a dusting of winter weather.

Obama said then that his own 7 year-old could not understand why her school had closed for weather that would have been fit for an outdoor Chicago recess. "I don't know. We're going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness," Obama said in January.

Asked if he was accusing Washingtonians of being weather wimps, the president told reporters, "I'm saying, when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things."

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