Obama Continues Going Around Washington

(AP)

President Obama and the first lady took their 7-year-old daughter Sasha to school today in the presidential motorcade. They attended a class presentation at Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda, Md., just outside of Washington, reports the Associated Press.

But what might be most interesting about the trip was that the motorcade obeyed all traffic lights on the way, according to the pool report.

That's a rarity for the president. As CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports, the president usually blocks traffic in all directions when he gets around town, and the locals hate it.

Yesterday, the president made the trip to the Pentagon in just ten minutes during the height of Washington's rush hour. We're sure a regular motorist would not have made in that kind of time.

In the past week, Mr. Obama has also made trips to the State Department and the Capitol. And there have been indications the new first family wants to visit restaurants and other attractions around Washington from time to time.

As a comparison, President Bush was known to be a homebody inside the White House, and that suited Washingtonians just fine.

It is not yet known if Mr. Obama's trips were just to get acquainted with his new job and his new turf or if they mark the start of what will be a regular routines.

While the rest of the country is watching what happens with the economy and the wars, many in Washington are also wondering what kind of neighbor the Obamas will be.

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Give it up williamayer. Obama is not a Moslem. My guess is that he is not religious at all, given his background.

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We must be running out of news to discuss something so trivial.

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I just wanted to congratulate President Barack Obama in his performing that grand rite of passage for American Presidents. No, not any such silliness as his first bill or executive order. I meant something much more important. Today, President Obama ordered his first murder.

So, while you can look into the loving eyes of your own beautiful daughters, somewhere in Afghanistan, a grieving family will never look into the loving eyes of three children again

"THE AUDACITY OF CHANGE"