Top 10 Things Overheard in the White House During Obama's First Term

White House Pushes #SaluteTroops On Twitter
The push followed a series of moves earlier in the day by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), who previewed an upcoming Speech he’ll give on the Iraq War by releasing an op-ed and Web video that slam Democrats for “seeking credit” for the end of the combat phase in Iraq. “With all due respect to them, our Troops who have served so courageously in Iraq deserve the credit for the success of the Surge and, along with the Iraqi people, the turnaround in Iraq,”...

Obama: Iraq War is Ending, Baghdad in Position to 'Chart Its Own Future'
President Obama said the withdrawal of U.S. combat Troops from Iraq means the War is ending and Baghdad is in position to chart its own future.

Biden: Obama making largest investment in veterans care 'in history'
Vice President Joe Biden followed up President Obama's weekly address Saturday with a release of his own about the U.S. combat mission ending in Iraq. Obama, who declared Saturday that he had fulfilled his campaign pledge to end the war in Iraq, will travel Tuesday to Fort Bliss, Texas, to mark the formal end of the seven-year combat mission. The president is also scheduled Tuesday night to speak to the nation from the Oval Office. Biden stressed that the administration was committed to care...

Growing Up In The White House Must Be Hard For Obama's Girls
A couple of weeks ago, I watched a television interview with POTUS Obama on '60 Minutes' from the White House. When that interview was conducted - President Obama was showing the CBS reporter around the White House grounds, which included a pretty nice swing set that was donated by someone for Barack and Michele Obama's Children to use while living there. That TV interview with Barack Obama got me thinking about how hard it really must be to raise young girls in the bubble of the White House....

Boehner vs. Obama and the White House: Who’s ‘Out of Touch’? | On the Record
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GOP plans wave of White House probes
Source: Politico If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority. Everything from the microscopic the New Black Panther party to the massive - think Bailouts is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by Politico. Republican Staffers say there wont be any...

Romanoff confirms White House job discussions
U.S. Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff said publicly for the first time Wednesday that a White House deputy discussed three specific jobs that "might be available" if Romanoff dropped a Primary challenge to a fellow Democrat, Sen. Michael Bennet. Romanoff, responding to increased pressure from national media and Republicans attacking the Obama White House, released an e-mail sent to him Sept. 11, 2009, by administration deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina describing two possible jobs...

Sestak White House scandal called ‘impeachable offense’
"This Scandal could be enormous," said Dick Morris, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, on the Fox News Sean Hannity show last night. "It’s Valerie Plame only 10 times bigger, because it’s illegal and Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime. "Obviously, the offer of a significant job in the White House could not be made unless it was by Rahm Emanuel or cleared with Rahm Emanuel," he said. If the job offer was high...

Election '12: Take back the victory mosque, formerly known as the White House
Bill Kelly’s Truth Squad is all about truth, justice, and all things America. Whether through humor or parody, or in just the facts, we are taking the side of those who have been continually shut out by the Mainstream Media. The Media seek to justify this position of dishonesty by perpetuating a storyline of Bigotry and prejudice; that those that oppose their thinking are backwards, illiterate, stupid, hateful, and dangerous. This has been the case from the beginning of the Obama...

Dorsal Fins Surround White House
Obama Administration At the beginning of the year, retiring seven-term representative Marion Berry (D., Ark.) recounted a conversation he had with the president. Obama's unrelenting push for Health-care reform in the face of public opposition reminded Berry of the Clinton-era missteps that led to the Republican rout of the Democrats in 1994. "I began to preach last January that we had already seen this movie and we didn't want to see it again because we know how it comes out," Berry told a...

White House plans new housing push
From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan revealed to CNN Friday that the Obama Administration plans next week to unveil two New initiatives to deal with the crumbling Housing Market. Washington (CNN) - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan revealed to CNN Friday that the Obama Administration plans next week to unveil two New initiatives to deal with the crumbling Housing Market, and he left the door open to also...

White House sees 'positive' GDP figure, says more needed
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (AFP) – The White House said Friday the latest US Economic Growth data represented "positive news" but that the lowered estimates mean more work is needed to keep the recovery on track. "Four consecutive quarters of Economic Growth is positive news, but the revised numbers mean there is still much more we need to do to continue on the path to recovery and that remains the focus of the president and the Economic team every single day," said...

White House Adviser Summers Hopes History Forgets This Great Recession
With the U.S. economy apparently headed for another rough patch, the Obama Administration faces a growing chorus of complaint and opposition. Just this past week, House Minority Leader John Boehner called for Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner , Obama's top economics advisors, to resign. While Geithner is fairly well-known to the General public, Summers is not. Who is this insider who helps President Obama call the macroeconomic shots? By most accounts, White House economic adviser Larry...

Bo takes his bow as latest White House pet
Bo takes his bow as latest White House pet The Obamas welcome their new dog, Bo, to the White House. He joins the line-up of famous presidential pets Email

Cenk Uygur: White House Circling the Wagons Around Alan Simpson
As Bob Shrum rightly responds, if the Democrats join with Republicans to destroy Social Security, it's going to spell big trouble for the party, and rightfully so. Alan Simpson and the whole commission need to go. Uygur: The White House is circling the wagons around former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, the co-chairman of the president`s Deficit commission after he went berserk about Social Security. Simpson likes to talk about the Budget in terms of farm animals. In an e-mail to an older voter...

White House press pool
Lousy is a Heinous Democratic Party who uses the Race Card against people with opposing Views. Lousy is a Corrupt Government who is unfeeling towards the people still suffering from 9/11 and allows a Victory Mosque built for 19 hijackers. What a Trophy they will have to show off to other countries. August 27, 2010 at 10:46 pm

White House already on a hunt to replace Souter
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Blogger face-off: As leaders come for talks, can Obama forge Mideast peace?
The Hill invites two established bloggers from either side of the ideological spectrum to sound off on a designated topic in original commentary each Saturday. In the run-up to next week's Mideast Peace Talks in Washington, Israeli and Palestinian bloggers were asked whether the Obama Administration is capable of forging a Peace agreement, and what the best steps were for the White House's Mideast Policy. The parameters are clear, and Obama needs to push them by Laila El-Haddad Can the...

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The Family We've been married since July of 2004. Our daughter was born July 1st, 2007; we think rather highly of her. He works in the Auto Industry, I teach 7th grade Social Studies and language arts. When I'm not trying to keep our daughter healthy, entertained, and from drinking the Motrin, I'm grading papers or writing lesson plans. I write this blog for three reasons:

A Light Bulb Goes on in the White House
President Obama was largely invisible to the public, taking in 10 days of R&R in the posh Chilmark section of Martha’s Vineyard. When he re-emerges to the public on Sunday, he will be kicking off a series of high profile events that have little to do with the issue foremost on Americans’ minds: jobs. On Sunday the president will travel to New Orleans to commemorate the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday he will deliver only his second Oval Office address, discussing...

Report: Barton's BP apology gave White House relief in oil spill coverage
Rep. Joe Bartons (R-Texas) infamous June 17 Apology to BP helped reduce coverage of the White House Oil Spill response and made it tougher for Administration critics to gain media traction, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. A close look at the coverage shows that after Bartons attack, the narrative focusing on the Obama Administrations performance declined substantially, never exceeding more than 13% of the overall Gulf coverage in any week...

Obama to escalate slaughter in Yemen
With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA's Drone "targeted Killing" program, the Obama Administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US Military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated. "The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against Al Qaida's branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA's armed Predator Drones to the fight," reported the Associated Press on Thursday, citing senior Washington...

Imam Faces Divisions Over Ground Zero Mosque
NEW YORK (AP) - Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, 61, was in the midst of a polarizing political, religious and Cultural debate over plans for a multistory Islamic Center that will feature a Mosque, health club and theater about two blocks north of Ground Zero. He’s one of the leaders of the project, but has largely been absent from the national debate over the implications of building a Muslim House of worship so close to where Terrorists killed more than 2,700 people. Though Rauf has said...

Tar Sands
The largest tar Sands reserves in the world are located beneath the boreal forest in Alberta, Canada. This forest provides critical habitat for about 50 percent of North Americas migratory birds and some of the worlds largest populations of wolves, Grizzly Bears, lynx and moose. Oil companies are digging up this pristine forest to extract the tar Sands, leaving behind huge toxic wastelands. To remove the thick black Oil from the sand, they heat it using Natural Gas and wash it using...

Mama Grizzly Hearts Unions
One of Palin’s political consultants posted a long paean to the glory and wonder of Unions on her Facebook page, titled “Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause!” Here’s the nut of the argument: In the past there were many great union leaders who courageously defended the rights of workers. Unions were founded for all the right reasons! They were to give working men and women the clout to negotiate fairly with their employers and to fight for decent...