The president hadn’t posted a single update since taking the oath of office.
Many of my Twitterholic friends were disappointed. They had expected daily 140-character updates from the White House.
The good news: Barack is back. A new status update posted on Wednesday invited followers to submit questions to the White House’s new Open for Questions initiative. [...]
When President Barack Obama walks before the cameras on national TV this evening for his second formal White House news conference (5 p.m. Pacific), we’ll all get the latest retweaked version of his main economic message: a little more hope than gloom, more push for his (overly?) ambitious budget plan and a repetition of Treasury’s [...]
Obama’s teleprompter
Earlier today, we told you that someone something claiming to be the president’s teleprompter set up a Twitter account under the name TeleprompterOne read that story here. Following the program, the teleprompter appeared eager to reveal some details tweeting:
“Good Evening My Fellow Americans The interview with Jay went great. I got to meet Jay’s [...]
“Not all Americans are Irish, but all Americans support those who stand on the side of peace and peace will prevail,” Obama told Prime Minister Brian Cowen in the Oval Office, praising the two countries’ deep ties.
On tap for the evening’s festivities — which Obama described as “rambunctious” to East Room guests — was green [...]
By taking a seat Thursday night on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Obama will become the first sitting president to appear in such an unlikely venue, erasing — perhaps once and for all — any vestige of the line that separates news from entertainment.
It will also extend Obama’s habit of speaking past the Washington [...]
President Obama vowed to try to stop the faltering insurance giant American International Group from paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives, as the administration scrambled to avert a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street that could complicate Mr. Obama’s economic recovery agenda.
via Obama Orders Treasury Chief to Try to [...]
President Barack Obama’s agenda on the second amendment and firearms is posted on the White House’s Web site. Vice-president Joe Biden and Obama are in favor of repealing the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information. They also support closing the gun show loophole and making [...]
President Obama’s top economic advisers on Sunday disputed claims that the administration is receptive to the idea of taxing employee health benefits, but would not rule out the option.
“He is open to all ideas,” said Austan Goolsbee, of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, on “FOX News Sunday.”
via White House Will Not Rule Out [...]
OH.. MG! Will you people get a life? The First Lady doesn’t wear sleeves-
and her hubby (OH BTW he IS our President) doesn’t wear a suit coat in the Oval Office.. OMG What will we do? So the new first couple is not the standard Stick in the mud fuddy duddies that we have had [...]
