Sometimes all you need to do is let them talk:

That was last year. This year?

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”

So what President Hothouse Flower Obama really meant to say during the campaign was that we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times, unless we’re from Hawaii.

In a similar vein: Everybody should pay their taxes on time, unless they’re going to run the IRS. Lobbyists won’t find jobs in the Obama White House, unless they do. Words mean things, unless they don’t. It’s easy when you just stop thinking. Give it a try!

(Hat tip: Hot Air)

P.S. In pointing out what Obama said 8 months ago, I missed what Obama said yesterday:

After his daughters got a snow day Wednesday, President Barack Obama wants to see a little bit of “flinty, Chicago toughness” applied locally.”When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things,” a joking Obama told reporters Wednesday morning.

“My children’s school was canceled today because of what? Some ice.”

Yeah, just turn up the thermostat and it’ll all melt away.

(Hat tip: Commenter Jenn)