Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to graduates at California’s smallest, youngest public university, UC Merced on Saturday and praised them “for their struggle to succeed.” Obama urged the ”jubilant members of her audience to give back to their communities.”
Students at UC Merced “bombarded the first lady’s office with letters, e-mails and even hundreds of Valentine’s cards [...]
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Filed under: California, Democrats, Education, In The News, Michelle Obama, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, YouTube
Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Barack Obama was a hit at last night’s White House Correspondents’ dinner as made his “debut as the nation’s Stand-Up-in-Chief.” Obama delivered plenty of zingers and no one, including himself, was “safe from his one-liners.”
“During the second 100 days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first 100 days.”
And: “My next [...]
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Filed under: Arts & Entertainment, Democrats, George W. Bush, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Michelle Obama, News Media, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, White House
Posted on April 12th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The identity of the First Puppy leaked yesterday and everyone wanted to know, “Who let the dog out?”
The puppy, a “6-month-old Portuguese water dog given to the Obama girls as a gift by that Portuguese water dog-lovin’ senator himself, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.’
The Obama girls have named their puppy “Bo,” because, “their cousins have [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I grew up with a large vegetable garden (which was all organic) in our yard in West Newbury, Massachusetts. Every year my father would till the soil and we would all go out and help with the planting, weeding and then when the time came, the picking. The memories of the taste of the just [...]
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Filed under: Corporatism, Democrats, Economy, Environment, In The News, Michelle Obama, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Oh my! The some members of media are in a tizzy… Michelle Obama touched the Queen!
Howard Chua-Eoan reports in Time:
The rules are set in stone, and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Barack Obama is in the midst of his first trip abroad and and a new Gallup Poll shows that he is “enjoying a 61% job approval rating at home for handling foreign affairs, up seven points since February.”
The poll results on foreign affairs show his approval rating is just a bit higher that the approval [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Economy, Foreign Policy, In The News, Michelle Obama, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Polls, President Barack Obama, Recession
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Hart Williams
(A moment away from my book to write a guest post.)
It turned out to be a lie. A very strange lie. A “journalism 101″ moment, where basic facts were ignored to make an ideological point — which utterly belies the concept of “responsible journalism.”
That was the essence of last Wednesday’s posting on my blog, which [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
An excerpt from the 60 Minutes interview tonight as Michelle Obama talks of the emotions the moment they realized they had won the election.
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Tags: 60 Minutes, Election Night, Emotion, Emotions, Excerpt From, Michelle Obama
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Chief of staff and senior advisor to Michelle Obama, Stephanie Cutter responded today to John McCain’s hypocrisy on the “lipstick on a pig” controversy. Watch Stephanie Cutter here:
The whole thing is one big faux controvesy and McCain is proving once again that’s nothing but a hypocrite. McCain fails on women’s issues and his faux [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Everyone’s been looking for the Obama bounce in the polls. The Gallup Daily gives Obama a 6 point lead today:
The latest three-day Gallup Poll Daily tracking average (Aug. 25-27) is directly coincident with the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and is no doubt beginning to reflect the typical convention “bounce” [...]
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Filed under: Bill Clinton, DNC, Democrats, Denver, Election '08, In The News, John Kerry, John McCain '08, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Polls, Presidential Election, Republicans, Sen. Joe Biden
