First Lady Michelle Obama's Veterans Day included a visit with President Obama to Arlington Cemetery, breakfast with veterans and a speech bolstering a community service program aimed at helping active and retired military families. Read my column herewhere I note that Mrs. Obama's remarks dealing with Fort Hood--do [...]
Away and in danger no word comes quite yet,
So Afghanistan soldiers are hedging their bets.
For GM and Chrysler, there was no delay.
But the little boy President dithers away.
The generals are calling, the boy he awakes,
But little Obama no decision he makes.
I love [...]
by Mark Silva
It's the pie.
Not the turkey.
Much as we loved the fresh hen we devoured today, it's the pumpkin pie awaiting us, after a three-hour cooling-off period perhaps, that makes the mouth water.
That must be what they were thinking at the White House today, where [...]
The Obama White House on Thursday released the Thanksgiving Day menu the First Family is enjoying with about 50 guests--friends, family and staff, according to Mrs. Obama's press office. Mrs. Obama's press office announced Wednesday that the menu would not be released then changed their plans on Thursday. [...]
by Mark Silva
Today, on this day of a "distinctly American tradition,'' the president's tradtional weekly address arrives early.
"As much as we all have to be thankful for,'' President Barack Obama says in his address today, "we also know that this year millions of Americans are facing very" [...]
WASHINGTON--President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted their first state Tuesday night, including their closest friends from Chicago among the guests honoring India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharon Kaur, with Chicago songsters Jennifer Hudson and Kurt Elling performing.
The glitzy dinner -- planned for [...]
Steve Spielberg, Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Gayle King (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Deepak Chopra (photo by Lynn Sweet)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and husband Paul (photo by Lynn [...]
Pity Joe Moore. He's the flabby, limp tool of an alderman in Chicago, lord of the 49th Ward on the far northeast side of town, tucked just under Evanston. Moore, best known for his opposition to foie gras, taking massive amounts of money from SEIU, and' [...]
President Obama, Malia and Sasha at Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony at the North Portico of the White House. (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Courage, the pardoned Thanksgiving turkey. (photo by Lynn Sweet)
THE WHITE HOUSE
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President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks
Administration Announces U.S. Emission Target for Copenhagen
The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to [...]
by Mark Silva and updated with the pardons
President Barack Obama hasn't pardoned any people yet -- demonstrating a definitely deliberative tendency in the exercise of his constitutional clemency power -- but today he let a couple of turkeys go.
The White House pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, a' [...]
by Jim Tankersley
President Barack Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month, according to a senior administration official, a sign of the president's increasing confidence that the talks will yield a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The White House will also announce today that the [...]
Democrats are either hedging their bets on keeping Obama's US Senate seat in Illinois, or they're bluffing. An Associated Press piece says:
The Obama administration has even expressed some uneasiness about Democrats' ability to keep the seat away from Republicans in the wake of Blagojevich.
"Obviously there is an added burden, but'" [...]
by Rhonda Robinson
Will Barack Hussein Obama become just another name in the long list of defamed, failed, and corrupt Illinois politicians? Will he follow in Governor Blagojevich’s footsteps as another Democrat whose party abandoned him? Has his fall from political grace begun?
In the short span of time this administration has been in power, [...]
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November 24, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed [...]
President Obama said Tuesday that he was determined to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, and his aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional troops there even as they cautioned that the final number remained in flux.
The White House [...]
Marty Nesbitt and Anita Blanchard at the Obama state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky and husband Robert Creamer at the Obama state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Chicago business executive John Rogers [...]
White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers at the Obama State Dinner
(photo by Lynn Sweet)
WASHINGTON--First Lady Michelle Obama wore a floor-length gold and cream strapless dress with a wrap by India-born designer Naeem Khan at the state dinner Tuesday honoring India Prime Minister Manmohan [...]
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Below is a list of expected attendees at tonight's State Dinner:
The President & First Lady Michelle Obama
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, India & Ms. Gursharan Kaur
The Honorable (Rep) Gary Ackerman, United States [...]
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REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY
AT INDIAN STATE DINNER PRESS PREVIEW
State Dining Room
2:00 P.M. EST
MRS. OBAMA: Thank you. Welcome, everyone. How are you all doing? It's good to see you.
Well, as Desiree mentioned, this is a very [...]
If you haven't seen one of those orange and green "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" construction signs in your part of Illinois recently, you may have -- as most of us -- forgotten that in Obama's federal stimulus legislation, there was supposed to be check and balance. Indeed, a Recovery Independent [...]
Sample table setting for Obama first state dinner. (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Guests will be at tables of ten.
Linens: Apple green
Flowers: Deep purple
hydrangea, garden roses and sweet peas in a palette of deep plum purple and fuchsia
Services and Place Settings
From the [...]
Place card at the Obama first state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Desert plate, Obama first state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Potato and eggplant salad
White House arugula with onion seed vinaigrette
2008 Sauvignon Blanc, Modus Operandi, Napa Valley, California
Red lentil [...]
