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Full transcript of PBO’s remarks on the economy
US First Lady Michelle Obama (L) creates ornaments with children during the White House Christmas decorations viewing at the White House in Washington, DC, December 4, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) | JIM WATSON via Getty Images
The ornament laden White House Christmas tree is seen in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Full remarks by First Lady Michelle Obama
A gingerbread house of the White House, complete with dogs Sunny and Bo, is part of the holiday decorations in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
First lady Michelle Obama hugs a child during a holiday celebration at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, to display the holiday decorations for the first time this season. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A Christmas decoration is seen in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
First lady Michelle Obama reacts as Ashtyn Gardner, 2, from Mobile, Ala., loses her balance when she was greeting Sunny, one of the presidential dogs, as children of military families participate in a holiday arts and crafts event in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Remarks by the President to ACA Youth Summit
We’ll post full videos when available.
The little girl from the Christmas gathering seems fully recovered from Sunny’s LOVE attack, HA!! She is a pretty little blessing. Mrs. Obama is so very compassionate. She is truly the “Mom” in charge. I am so proud of Michelle Obama! I am proud of the entire First Family!!
I love Christmas at the White House!!!
Me too Rikyrah Our First Family is EVERYTHING.
He will meet with Chris Matthews tomorrow to answer questions.
I heard, vitaminlover. But I’m not going to watch it. I’ll wait for the video. I can’t give MSNBC any channel time. They’re going down like CNN & FOX.
What went on with Martin Bashir? Sarah dingbat Palin is not worth apologizing to.
I am going to do my best to watch it. I hope he is going to be respectful of President Obama. I believe he will do his best as only Chris Matthews can. LORD have Mercy!
He was in a way. I don’t know why but he is definitely obsessed with our President. It’s almost creepy. I guess he di the best he could. What got me was when he had three guests on after to talk about him and what he said. Why would someone have others on to dissect a guest especially the President? What the crap?
vitaminlover; this is the very reason why I wait for the videos when it comes to PBO. It’s watching him live or the video. Who the fuck wants to hear someone’s analysis of PBO, when we just watched it live. This is why these pundits are irrelevant.
trekkiewife: LORD have Mercy!
That’s probably the best thing to say whenever you mention Chris Matthew’s name.
Here’s the video of what happened with the little girl and Sunny
Oh my; what’s up with the little girl, Sunny & Bo, hmm?
‘Inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time’
By Greg Sargent
December 4 at 2:01 pm
The speech on inequality that President Obama delivered just now will mostly pass unnoticed by the political world, with Republicans dismissing it as “class warfare” and an effort to distract from Obamacare, and pundits describing it more delicately as a ”pivot” away from the law.
But experts who see inequality as one of the most urgent moral, political and economic long term challenges facing the country will see it as one of the most important speeches of the Obama presidency – more ambitious than his similar 2011 speech in Kansas.
“This is a major speech on a topic that American presidents normally stay away from,” Tim Smeeding, an expert on inequality at the University of Wisconsin, tells me, adding that it compares in some ways to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s addresses. “The fact that a sitting president faced with a crowded agenda had the courage to discuss this overarching problem is historic.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/04/inequality-is-the-defining-issue-of-our-time/?wpisrc=nl%5Fpopns
The Youth Summit has just begun.
PBO’s challenging folks *looking@youGOP* give me your ideas “You owe it to the American people what you are FOR, not what you are AGAINST.”
PBO’s laying it down with where his adminstration is moving FORWARD. He’s setting the stage for the State of the Union address, I’m guessing.