First lady Michelle Obama embraces honorary degree recipient and former Bowie State University President Freeman Hrabowski during the university’s graduation ceremony at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, May 17
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Any problems with the video, see here – text of remarks at same link
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Dan sat down for an interview and answered questions of what it is like to work as formerly the Communications Director for President Obama and now as his Chief Political Advisor
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First Ladies C-span series Schedule/Homepage
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Preview of next installment: C-span Series on First Ladies
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Each week beginning February 18th, “First Ladies: Influence and Image” will tell the stories of the women who served in the role of first lady over 44 administrations.
Back in a while with an update or two
2:0: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign rally at Elm Street Middle School, Nashua
Streaming has started at CBS
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President Obama at the Teamsters Union Local 633 in Manchester, New Hampshire, Oct 27 (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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Florida today (Peter Bosch/Miami Herald)
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Thank you Jaznote – your five-year-old son is the cutest ever!
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12:05: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at Sloan’s Lake Park, Denver
1:35: Departs Denver
2:15: Vice President Biden delivers remarks at a campaign event at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, IA
3:35: President Obama arrives in Madison, Wis.
4:40: Delivers remarks at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
6:05: Departs Madison
8:05: Arrives at the White House
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NYT: Mitt Romney repeatedly questioned President Obama’s honesty at Wednesday night’s debate …. but he made a number of misleading statements himself on the size of the federal deficits, taxes, Medicare and health care……
Doubling the Deficit: Mr. Romney said Mr. Obama had doubled the deficit. That is not true….
Green Energy: Mr. Romney said that half the companies backed by the president’s green energy stimulus program have gone out of business. That is a gross overstatement. Of nearly three dozen recipients of loans under the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, only three are currently in bankruptcy…..
The $716 Billion Cut From Medicare: Mr. Obama first brought up Mr. Romney’s frequent criticism that the president cut $716 billion from Medicare, by saying the cost savings were from reduced payments to insurance companies and other health care providers. But Mr. Romney repeated the claim, suggesting that the $716 billion in Medicare reductions would indeed come from current beneficiaries.
While fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked this claim, it remains a standard attack line for Mr. Romney…..
Full article here
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Thanks DesertFlower
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LA Times: Mitt Romney repeated a number of erroneous claims during Wednesday’s debate about President Obama’s healthcare law, including that it relies on a board that will decide “what kind of treatment” patients can get.
This is a myth advanced repeatedly by critics of the Affordable Care Act and debunked consistently by independent fact-checkers.
…. The panel of independent experts is empowered to suggest cuts to how much the federal government pays healthcare providers … but is explicitly prohibited from cutting benefits for people on Medicare.
Full article here
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Facebook (Thanks Susan)
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