A quiet day for the President :???:
I’ll be away from my computing machine for a few hours today, so there were won’t be many updates, but I’ll catch up with everything later - see you then ;-)
Archive for September 20th, 2011
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First Lady Michelle Obama introduces President Barack Obama at a DNC fundraiser at Gotham Hall, September 20
“This is like our date night,” Michelle Obama said. She thanked organizers for the “intimate” 400-person dinner, at which singer Alicia Keys performed for donors who anted up at least $2,500 each. “Who knows what will happen?”
The first lady said people often ask her if the presidency is taking a toll on her husband. “The only difference I can think of is the salt is starting to catch up with the pepper” in his hair, she said. “I think it’s quite sexy.”
As she spoke about meeting her husband decades ago in Chicago, she said: “That’s the same man who won me over all those nights ago.”
When President Obama himself took the stage later, he declared that he was “in a New York state of mind” but he also seemed to be in an affectionate state of mind.
“She’s not bad. Do you notice how she’s getting cuter,” Obama said. “She is remarkable.”
He called the event “the closest we get to a date,” though he said could perhaps arrange a real date “in about 14 months.”
“This is not my idea of a date night,” he added later. “Normally our dates don’t end with me being before 400 of our closest friends.
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Wow, that tweet must have hurt for Mark Knoller to type :lol:
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk off stage after attending a DNC fundraiser at Gotham Hall
Washington Post: Republicans in Washington have little love for President Obama’s jobs plan and his proposal to pay for it. But the president may find a warmer reception from Republicans governing on the local level.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors - a bipartisan national group for mayors of major cities - has openly embraced the American Jobs Act, with key Republican mayors offering high praise for the president’s infrastructure spending plan. And the group has come to Washington this week to press that point upon Congress, the White House, and the supercommittee.
Mick Cornett, the GOP mayor of Oklahoma City, welcomes the infrastructure spending that Obama has proposed in his jobs bill, explaining that mayors witness the impact of such investments on the ground level. “Mayors see up close the deferred maintenance that’s going on in nation’s cities … it’s just a ticking time bomb. We also know that it puts people to work,” he says.
Obama’s jobs plan proposes new infrastructure spending on everything from rebuilding schools to an infrastructure finance bank - all of which Cornett supports. “We need to be working on all of these really big picture items that are generational.”
….Cornett is skeptical that Obama’s jobs plan will be able to pass. But he credits the Obama administration for being far more receptive than the previous White House to hearing out the concerns of city leaders on the local level …. “There are a lot of things that government doesn’t do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff,” he concludes.
Full article here
