The Obama Diary

Added to the schedule:

White House live

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Coming up:

Today: The President will meet with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Tomorrow: The President will travel to Philadelphia

Wednesday: The President will deliver remarks at the National Women’s Law Center’s Annual Awards dinner.

Thursday: The President will attend meetings at the White House.

Friday: The President and the First Lady will host a breakfast with veterans at the White House.

After, the President will visit Arlington National Cemetery to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony and deliver remarks; the First Lady will also attend.

Later, the President and the First Lady will travel to San Diego, California for the Carrier Classic and Honolulu, Hawaii for the start of the APEC Summit. The President and the First Lady will spend the weekend in Honolulu, Hawaii at the APEC Summit.

(Thanks Jovie)

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ABC: …. Over the past six months, the Obama campaign’s state-level operations have blossomed, re-commissioning offices and volunteer networks kept warm by Organizing for America since 2008 while adding new outreach centers to help raise the president’s profile on the ground.

Obama now has campaign offices in all 50 states, opening on average three new field offices each week, said campaign manager Jim Messina. State volunteers threw open the doors to dozens more over the weekend, from Michigan to New Hampshire, in a coordinated push exactly one year to Election Day.

… Filling the new offices around the country is an army of paid staff and strategists, including social media experts to corral what have become an army of volunteers – more than 1 million nationwide.

Obama for America nearly doubled the size of its staff on payroll over the summer, growing from 168 employees in July to 327 as of Sept. 30, according to the campaign’s third quarter financial report.

But perhaps more important than boots on the ground will be campaign cash Obama will use to put ads on the air. The president has raised more than $88 million for his re-election through September, slightly ahead of the record-setting pace he set four years ago and quadruple the cash-on-hand of Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney.

On Sunday, Obama’s surrogates fanned out across the states to keep that fundraising apace, holding events in eight major cities to gather cash on the one-year milestone before the election.

Full article here

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Touring the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14

Detroit Wayne Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., Oct. 14

Backstage before an event at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo., Oct. 25

Guinness Book of World Records holder John Cassidy performs a balloon act for First Lady Michelle Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Oct. 11

More new photos here