The “otherwise smooth” transition of the Obama administration hit yet another bump in the road today when the team’s vaunted discipline could not keep the likes of pop princess Beyonce Knowles in line. When it was announced today that Beyonce would perform the couple’s first dance, the inauguration team insisted on secrecy:
Beyonce could not keep her mouth shut for more than a couple of hours, releasing a statement to Entertainment Tonight:
And, here I was hoping for “Single Ladies.” Now, Obama could go one of two ways with this. He could either throw Beyonce under the bus for embarrassing him, and ask someone else to perform. Or, he could look at her track record for keeping important secrets, and give her a national security Cabinet position. After all, she’d be about as good with classified material as Tim Geithner is with taxes.
