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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 4, 2009

WASHINGTON - On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left.

With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated compound of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday. They ended up at a Washington public school, greeted by children who could not care less about the collapse of a Cabinet nomination.

"We were just tired of being in the White House," the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School.

"We got out! They let us out!" Michelle Obama said as the kids and their teachers laughed.

Meanwhile at the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs was getting grilled about Tom Daschle's doomed nomination for Health and Human Services secretary.

The Associated Press

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