Snowflakes how Obama scoffed at Washington weather fears

THE scores of snow refuseniks, still jeering at our response to Storm Emma have an unlikely ally in Barack Obama. In his first White House winter, the US president was incredulous at the Washington schools closing because of icy conditions. Steeled by his experience of tough Chicago winters, the President, pictured, disrupted a meeting of business leaders to draw attention to the lack of backbone in the local school system. ‘As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never cancelled,’ he said. ‘In fact my seven year old pointed our that you’d go outside for recess. You wouldn’t even stay indoors. So, I don’t know. We’re going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness.’ Asked if he meant the people of the country’s capital were wimps, Obama said: ‘I’m saying when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things.’ It just goes to show that like age and prosperity, weather conditions are relative.