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01
Mar
12
evening all
New York, March 1
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Friday:
2:20 PM: PBO visits the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
5:15 PM: Delivers remarks at a conservation event.
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President Barack Obama at a dinner honoring Iraq war veterans, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 2/29/12
In this composite image, President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., (top) and arrives at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, N.H., (bottom) March 1, 2012. The President traveled to Nashua, N.H., to tour Nashua Community College and deliver remarks on his blueprint for an economy built to last with a focus on American energy. (Official White House Photos by Pete Souza)
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Snow falls as people stand in line to see President Barack Obama, March 1, 2012, in Nashua, N.H.
13
Feb
12
rise and shine
USA Today: President Obama’s re-election team is seeking help from Internet and on-the-ground backers to spread the word about Obama’s record in office, and to bash his Republican critics.
The purpose of the “Truth Team” is to “promote the President’s achievements, respond to attacks on his record and hold the eventual Republican nominee accountable,” said the announcement from the Obama re-election team.
The overall website - BarackObama.com/TruthTeam - includes three specialty websites: KeepingHisWord.com (devoted to Obama’s record), KeepingGOPHonest.com (attacking Republicans), and AttackWatch.com (responding to critical GOP ads).
“The sites also contain tools for sharing materials via Facebook, Twitter and email, and empowers supporters to take further action by volunteering, writing letters to the editor, sending postcards to undecided voters with information about the President’s record, and more,” said the Obama announcement.
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The three sites: KeepingHisWord - AttackWatch - KeepingGOPHonest
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More ‘Keeping his Word’ videos here
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AP: President Barack Obama wants community colleges and businesses to work together to train 2 million workers in high-growth industries, and on Monday will request $8 billion to create a fund to encourage the effort.
Obama’s plan, to be spelled out at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., is called the “Community College to Career Fund,” the White House said. It would seek to train workers within areas such as health care, transportation and advanced manufacturing, and would be administered by the Education and Labor departments.
The proposed fund is part of a new budget Obama is sending to Congress. It aims to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade by restraining government spending and raising taxes on the wealthy. In an election year with a gridlocked Congress, nearly every aspect of the budget will face tough scrutiny.
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Today:
11:00: PBO delivers remarks on his FY 2013 Budget to students at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale
1:45: PBO awards the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal. Michelle Obama also attends.
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TPM: It was a long road back, but President Obama is now back in positive territory in our TPM Poll Average.
The shift comes on the heels of a completed Iraq withdrawal, a legislative win on the payroll tax cut before Christmas, and perhaps most importantly, good economic numbers in January and early February. The President’s numbers have jumped in the last few days in both Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls as well as individual national polls.
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The Week
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BroadwayCarl: Many on the left have set their hair on fire over President Obama’s solution to the conflict between religious institutions, primarily the Catholic church, providing health care coverage which includes birth control to women and the teachings of the church. One would have to be in the wildest parts of Siberia to have missed this controversy, so I will not recount the drama that has unfolded.
However, once again the ubiquitous word “cave” has appeared in association with this decision. There was a time when this would infuriate me, but now I laugh at the predictability of the critical left.
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White House
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ThinkProgress
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More ‘Keeping his Word’ videos here
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Washington Post
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TPM
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Morning everyone ;-)
20
Sep
11
gotham hall
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
28
Aug
11
oh……
The Political Carnival
The mystery “foam” …… was raw sewage.
Thank you - I think - desertflower
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10
May
11
austin (video added)
President Obama walks on stage at a DNC campaign fundraising event at Austin City Limits Moody Theater
TODers spotted in the audience
Random photo from earlier today :???:
02
May
11
done
2008:
2011:
Text of President’s remarks here
A man holds up a shirt of President Barack Obama as crowds celebrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, early Monday, May 2, after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
21
Apr
11
los angeles
President Obama at a Gen44 fundraiser event at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, April 21
….at the Gen44 fundraiser event at Sony Studios
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