What’s the best preparation to run for president?
President Obama Tuesday told a student the first step is watching what your Facebook posts, and another is to not be a politician who thinks about re-election and “never get anything done.”
Appearing at a Washington, D.C., area high school in a nationally televised speech to urge kids to study hard. the President also took some questions from students including, one from a student named Jesse.
South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson’s boorish behavior during President Obama’s speech to Congress last night -- Wilson yelled out “you lie” at one point -- is continuing to draw heavy attention both in Washington and on network and cable TV programming Thursday.
Vice President Joe Biden appeared on both ABC’s "Good Morning America" and on NBC’s "Today" and was questioned about it on both shows.
Is Kanye West a “jackass” for his comments on Taylor Swift at the VMA’s?
Apparently President Obama thinks so. While waiting to go on air in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood, the President -- unaware he was being recorded -- said:
Who knew that a meeting of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and related events would end up with video of new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor mamboing with Esai Morales or J.Lo visiting the White House.
Here is a prediction: President Obama is going to be funny on David Letterman tonight.
What funny anecdotes will the president have? Well, the White House won’t say exactly.
That’s of course not to say that reporters didn’t ask that exact question Monday of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs aboard Air Force One as the president headed first to Troy, New York, for an event and later to New York City for the Letterman taping.
It perhaps was only logical the health care debate in Washington would end up with Hollywood echoes, but the reverberations today include a new web video featuring Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm and others supporting health care reform.
A Congressional committee Thursday heard dire warnings about the fate of newspapers and the potential impact their decline could have on public discourse -- but also a clear suggestion that no government bailout is in the wind.
“This hearing is not about bailouts,” said U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., chairman of the House-Senate Joint Economic Committee. “That is not the purpose.”
The National Jewish Democratic Council is giving MPAA president-CEO Dan Glickman its Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award as part of a fundraising event Thursday in Washington.
How likely is President Obama to pardon Roman Polanski?
Well, if there was any doubt that the answer was likely to be a gigantic “No way,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ended even it today.
Asked at the White House press briefing whether the president intended to pardon Polanski, Gibbs responded.
“I -- I -- I don't know of any pending pardon request."
