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(h/t reader A) From Politico: "LUNCH: POTUS makes another burger run -- Five Guys near Nationals stadium." (This was only 20 minutes ago--is he still there?)
UPDATE: Apparently he had NBC's Brian Williams in tow, as today is the day that NBC is filming their "Inside the Obama White House" special.
UPDATE II: From my tweeting brother, watching the White House pool feed of the field trip: "Two blonde girls are chatting him up like they're at a cocktail party; 'Oh my God! Thank you! It's such an honor!' / Obama runs into people from Ireland. 'I've got to go to Ireland.' He had order number 41, three big grocery sized bags of burgers & fries. / Obama - 'I need one cheeseburger and one fries for me. Jalapeno, tomato, mustard. That's it for me...Plus lettuce on mine too.'"
UPDATE III: And here's the official White House pool report. And a slew of photos, from Getty (posted by Time). (The last one, of him returning to the White House carrying the bag with the food, is quite an image.) And the AP story. And the NYTimes's Caucus Blog, which notes that the NBC special is set to air on June 2.
UPDATE IV: Lots of video from NBC4. And C-SPAN. And ABC7.
UPDATE V: And from Politico, a transcript of an exchange that shows that the president doesn't know much more about those guys in the windowless building at First and M than the rest of the neighborhood.
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Pat says: (5/29/09 3:17 PM)
Great job, JD. Breaking news for sure. You do a great job covering Near SE, now if you'd only help us out a few blocks west of S. Capitol and turn on your brain in SW!


C says: (5/29/09 5:10 PM)
OMG, I can't believe I wasn't home to watch this spectacle, to be near The One - Did he use his teleprompter to place his order of burger and fries?


G St says: (6/1/09 11:47 AM)
We LIKE that 5 Guys! Cheaper than those overpriced yuppie burgers in Arlington, VA. Prez has found out.

Great service, clean, never too crowded (except before Nats game - but even then not too bad)...

Note - Jim Vance on NBC referred to it as in SW (!)......

I about had a stroke!!! (-:

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