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« Reply #150 on: July 16, 2012, 08:08:06 PM »
WH: Stimulus ‘Widely Recognized to Have Broken the Back of Recession’ (Carney)
CNS News ^ | 7/16/12 | Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on July 16, 2012 10:58:42 PM EDT by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last week that the $831 billion economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed on February 17, 2009 is “widely recognized to have broken the back of the recession.”

When President Obama signed the law three and a half years ago, the Congressional Budget Office estimated it would cost $787 billion. Since then, the CBO has revised its estimate, eventually concluding the stimulus cost $831 billion.

In January 2009, the month before Obama signed his stimulus, the national unemployment rate was 7.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It has not dropped below 8 percent in any month since then. In February 2009, it hit 8.3 percent. In June 2012, it was 8.2 percent.

In January 2009, there were 12,049,000 unemployed people in the country, meaning there were that many people age 16 and older who wanted a job, had actively sought one in the previous four weeks, but had not been able to find one. In June 2012, there were 12,749,000 unemployed people—or 700,000 more than there were the month before Obama signed the stimulus.

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« Reply #151 on: July 17, 2012, 05:08:02 AM »
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« Reply #152 on: July 18, 2012, 03:22:31 AM »
"I'm also a pretty good doodler, folks don't know that about me," President Obama said in an interview with WJLA-TV last Friday when asked what people don't know about him.

"I do all kinds of things. Faces, people," Obama shared.

Obama also revealed that he sometimes draws doodles when he is in a "big important international meeting."

"Sometimes when I’m in a big important international meeting and you see me writing stuff down it might be that I’m just drawing some folks," Obama said.


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« Reply #153 on: July 18, 2012, 05:45:57 AM »
Jerry Springer gushes about Obama
 

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By CAITLIN MCDEVITT |
7/17/12 3:04 PM EDT


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Jerry Springer called President Obama “truly exceptional,” after meeting him in Cincinnati on Monday, according to the Huffington Post.
 
“He’s so competent and so smart, I just don't see why we wouldn't want him for four more years as president,” Springer said.
 
(See also: PHOTOS: Jerry Springer with politicians)
 
The former mayor, who’s better known for his daytime talk show, said he was “honored” to spend time with Obama and “felt the meeting was substantive.”
 
Describing himself as “a long-standing supporter of the Democratic Party,” Springer said he’s “met with lots of politicians, but this man is truly exceptional.”
 
“I’m a die-hard supporter of President Barack Obama,” he added.
 

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« Reply #154 on: July 19, 2012, 06:08:34 PM »
Obama Tells Supporters To Press "Mute" When Ads Targeting Him Air
RCP Video ^ | 7-19-2012 | Obama
Posted on July 19, 2012 10:15:03 PM EDT by Sir Napsalot

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: "They'll have a bunch of ads with the scary voices and you know, most of what you hear you can just go mute. Just press the mute button. That's a good thing about the remote. Or you can use the DVR and fast forward.

"And the reason why you don't have to pay much attention is because these ads are going to say the same thing over and over again. They know, the other side knows they can't sell their economic plan because we tried it and it didn't work."

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« Reply #155 on: July 20, 2012, 10:57:59 AM »
Obama Wants to Be in Your Family Holiday Photo


By Katrina Trinko

July 19, 2012 3:41 P.M.

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It’s not enough that your wedding registry may be centered around Obama donations. Now, Obama wants to be featured in your Christmas holiday family photo:
 

Katrina –

Maybe you’re already thinking about which family photo you’ll use in your next holiday card — or maybe your Facebook photo is due for an update.

I’ve got a once-in-a-lifetime solution: President Obama is coming to New York City for an event in a few weeks — and you could get to meet him.

Chip in $25 or whatever you can today and you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to get your family photo taken with the President.

Here’s what will happen: You and up to five of your family members will get to your reserved spot at the event, where a photographer will be waiting. You’ll all meet the President of the United States, and we’ll take the picture to prove it.

So comb your hair, put on a clean shirt, and start practicing your camera-ready smile in the mirror.

Give it a shot today: https://donate.barackobama.com/Say-Cheese

Thanks,

Julianna

Julianna Smoot

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Obama for America
 








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« Reply #156 on: July 20, 2012, 08:47:05 PM »
Barack’s nuts for Beckham - US President wears David's pants
The Sun ^ | July 20, 2012 | STEPHEN MOYES
Posted on July 20, 2012 9:34:45 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY

BARACK Obama wears David Beckham’s tight-fitting boxers, The Sun can reveal.

Becks sent the US president a box of around 50 pairs after learning Obama AND wife Michelle were big fans of his underwear range.

The footie ace — who models the pants he designed himself — found out the Obamas were fans after meeting them in Washington earlier this year.

A source close to the White House said yesterday: “David promised to send a box of his undies to the President — and Michelle has insisted that her husband wears them!”

Becks, 37 — whose briefs are part of a range made by H & M — is also a big hit with Obama’s daughter’s Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11.

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« Reply #157 on: July 24, 2012, 04:08:40 AM »
"Because we're leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America. There’s more confidence in our leadership. We see it everywhere we go," President Obama said at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno.

"Four years ago, I stood before you at a time of great challenge for our nation. We were engaged in two wars. Al Qaeda was entrenched in their safe havens in Pakistan. Many of our alliances were frayed. Our standing in the world had suffered. We were in the worst recession of our lifetimes. Around the world, some questioned whether the United States still had the capacity to lead," Obama said earlier in his speech.

"So, four years ago, I made you a promise. I pledged to take the fight to our enemies, and renew our leadership in the world. As President, that’s what I’ve done. And as you reflect on recent years, as we look ahead to the challenges we face as a nation and the leadership that’s required, you don’t just have my words, you have my deeds. You have my track record. You have the promises I’ve made and the promises that I’ve kept," he said.

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« Reply #159 on: July 26, 2012, 06:32:31 AM »
OBAMA TELLS TEENS TO GET OFF THE COUCH
 


Grace Wyler|Jul. 26, 2012, 5:59 AM|2,002|25

 

Obama's Latest Ad Proves His Campaign Is Freaking Out About Republican Attacks

 
President Barack Obama admonished American college students last night to stop slacking off and start studying, warning that their counterparts in the developing world aren't just "hanging out."
 
Veering slightly off-script during a speech to the National Urban League in New Orleans, the President touted his administration's efforts to improve access to higher education but said that students will have to do their part as well.
 
"Of course, that means all of you all have got to hit the books, I'm just saying," Obama said, according to a White House transcript. "That's part of the bargain — America says we will give you opportunity, but you've got to earn your success."
 
"You're competing against young people in Beijing and Bangalore. They're not hanging out. They're not getting over. They're not playing video games. They're not watching 'Real Housewives.' I'm just saying. It's a two-way street. You've got to earn success."
 
"That wasn't in my prepared remarks," he added. "But I'm just saying."
 
The slightly awkward remarks appear to be Obama's latest effort to fend off the Republican assault over his recent "You didn't build that" comment. Although the remark has been largely taken out of context, the Obama campaign has so far struggled to hedge its pro-middle class message against attacks claiming that the line proves the President wants Big Government to get credit for the American Dream.


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« Reply #160 on: July 26, 2012, 12:09:40 PM »
Obama: ‘My Upcoming Birthday … Could Be The Last One I Celebrate as President’
 nationalreview.com ^ | July 26, 2012 | Katrina Trinko





The latest fundraising e-mail from Team Obama:

Katrina –

My upcoming birthday next week could be the last one I celebrate as President of the United States, but that’s not up to me — it’s up to you.

This July deadline is our most urgent yet, coming after two consecutive months of being significantly outraised by Romney and the Republicans.

And if you pitch in $3 or whatever you can before midnight tonight, you and a guest will be automatically entered to join me at my birthday get-together next month:

https://donate.barackobama.com/My-Birthday

Thanks. Hope I’ll see you soon.

- Barack

If you are on the Obama fundraising e-mail list, you may have gotten a vague hunch by now that Obama’s birthday is coming up. By my count, I have received eight e-mails in the last two weeks centered on Obama’s birthday, the first from Michelle Obama on June 16, telling me, “Barack turns 51 next month, and there will be a little celebration at our house in Chicago.” On June 17, Obama campaign finance director Rufus Gifford e-mailed, “Have you ever gotten to do something so cool you’re almost jealous of yourself? Pretty sure this would count: On August 12th, just three weeks before the Democratic National Convention and 12 weeks before Election Day, President Obama will have a few friends over to mark his 51st birthday — in the backyard of his Chicago home.”


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« Reply #161 on: August 01, 2012, 11:13:30 AM »
President Obama to gymnastics team: How do you not bust your head?
 washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 8/1/12 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 1:58:58 PM

During a campaign event in Ohio today, President Obama recognized the Olympic athletes for their accomplishments in London.

Obama acknowledged that he called the women’s gymnastics team during his trip to Ohio, to congratulate them for their gold medal winning performance

“These gymnastics folks, I don’t understand how they do what they do,” Obama said. “So I told these ladies, as I was congratulating them, ‘How do you not bust your head every time you’re on that little balance beam?’”

“I couldn’t walk across that balance beam!” Obama exclaimed.


Obama added that the Olympic games, “reminds us that for all our differences, when it comes down to our country, we’re Americans first


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« Reply #162 on: August 01, 2012, 02:28:16 PM »


"I'm sure they're OK," President Obama said. "Sometimes folks faint because they've been standing too long. So just need a paramedic right here, in the front. They'll be OK, just give them room. That's all. This happens to me all the time. It means I've been talking too long. They'll be OK. Just give them space."


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« Reply #163 on: August 01, 2012, 02:35:06 PM »
"And then I spoke to the women's gymnastics team," President Obama said at a campaign event in Akron, Ohio.

"Let me just say, you know, I know how to run, al though I don't run as fast as these guys. I know how to swim, al though I don't swim as fast. These gymnasts, I don't understand what they're doing. I cannot even walk on a balance beam. They're doing backflips," he said.
 
"Little itty-bitty young ladies. Unbelievable," Obama observed.


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« Reply #164 on: August 01, 2012, 03:26:53 PM »




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He was at a fundraiser at 40k per hear in NYC last night! 

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« Reply #165 on: August 02, 2012, 09:12:45 AM »

Obama Wants Your Beer Money!

by Keith Koffler on August 2, 2012, 11:28 am



President Obama and his campaign made a desperate last minute push to close the July books on the highest note possible, resorting to a seemingly endless series of gimmicks and pleadings to prod supporters to contribute.

The Obama campaign long ago abandoned hope that it could raise $1 billion, and probably won’t make it’s downgraded goal of $750 billion either. It was outraised by the Romney campaign for the previous two months, and may well get trounced again in July.

Obama staged a desperate race around the country during July to raise money, with the final days of the month including a last minute dash out to the ritzy Virginia suburbs and then a special trip on Air Force One to collect $40,000 a head from the One Percent at a swank New York City fundraiser.

But Obama’s personal touch was accompanied by a series of sometime bizarre tactics to get backers to part with their cash before midnight July 31.

Among the oddest was a demand for booze money dispatched via Twitter.



Other Tweets offered a free car magnet and that staple of money raising chotchkies, the T-shirt: Pick your favorite state! Pick your favorite color!

Nothing degrading here . . .

The effort also included an email box-clogging stream of messages from the campaign, some shrieking that Romney is outraising Obama and that he and his wealthy donors threaten to steal the election.

One message came from none other than the president of the United States, who wanted $3.

H/T to Bluegrass Pundit and Doug Ross @ Journal.

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« Reply #166 on: August 15, 2012, 03:55:13 AM »
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upi ^ | Aug. 14, 2012
Posted on August 15, 2012 6:51:01 AM EDT by JoeProBono

PASADENA, Calif.-- U.S. President Barack Obama joked a NASA scientist has inspired him to revisit his dreams of sporting a mohawk hairstyle.

Obama said during a Monday phone call to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "Mohawk Guy" -- NASA scientist Bobak Ferdowsi, who became an online celebrity when his hair style was noticed in pictures of scientists working on the Mars rover Curiosity project -- has reawakened his old dreams of sporting the same hair-do, CNN reported Tuesday.

"I, in the past, thought about getting a mohawk myself, but my team keeps on discouraging me," Obama said during the call, which was broadcast on NASA TV.

"And now that he's received marriage proposals and thousands of new Twitter followers, I think that I'm going to go back to my team and see if it makes sense," the president said.

Obama made the phone call to congratulate the scientists on the successful landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars last week.

"What you've accomplished embodies the American spirit," he said. "Our expectation is that Curiosity is going to be telling us things that we did not know before."







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« Reply #167 on: August 16, 2012, 01:44:28 PM »
President Obama Takes Questions from People Mag, Entertainment Tonight, Disses White House Press Corps


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/president-obama-takes-questions-from-people-mag-entertainment-tonight-disses-white-house-press-corps




President Obama hasn’t formally taken questions from the White House press corps in more than two months, while on the campaign trail in Iowa yesterday he made time for reporters from People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.
 
His last news conference was at the G20 in June, when he answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water’s edge.
 
The White House press corps has not formally been given the opportunity to ask questions of the president on U.S. soil since his appearance in the Briefing Room on June 8 (when he said “the private sector is doing fine.“)
 
His last formal White House news conference was on March 6.
 
The president answered a shouted-out question about the shooting at the Sikh Temple on August 6, after the signing of “Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012.”
 
That’s not to say the president has not faced the press. As he campaigns heavily across the country, Obama has done countless interviews with local radio and TV stations, including several ABC affiliates.
 
During his three-day Iowa bus tour this week, for example, he conducted three interviews with local radio stations, including a sports talk radio show, and a roundtable discussion with columnists from three Iowa papers, in addition to sitting down with People and Entertainment Tonight. On July 12, he did an interview with Charlie Rose for CBS This Morning.
 
Asked if the president will be holding a full-blown White House press conference any time soon, Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday, “I don’t have any scheduling announcements to make about that.”
 
-Jake Tapper and Mary Bruce
 
Get more pure politics at ABC News.com/Politics

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« Reply #168 on: August 17, 2012, 01:33:52 PM »
Obama's soft-media strategy
By: Byron Tau and Dylan Byers
August 17, 2012 03:33 PM EDT

 
Forget Chris Matthews — he’ll take Nancy O’Dell.

President Barack Obama has been taking a lot of questions in the two months since his last press conference or national news interview. He’s just been doing them with ESPN, Entertainment Tonight, People Magazine and FM radio stations around the country, mostly to talk local sports and regional cuisine.[/color]

(PHOTOS: Politicians on SNL — sort of)

This isn’t a mistake. Even at the height of a campaign in which they’ve been firing hard at Mitt Romney and trying to keep hold of the news cycle, Obama’s reelection staffers are pretty sure most voters aren’t tuning in.

“People get their news in many different ways,” Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told POLITICO. “Sometimes it’s turning on ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and seeing what the latest news is out there.”

Psaki said the president will be doing a variety of media appearances in the coming weeks with both national and local outlets, but for now, “We’re reaching an audience that may not be paying attention to the day-to-day political back and forth.”

That also lets them avoid the back-and-forth with the national press corps for much lighter outlets. Friday, Obama was behind closed doors at the White House to cap off a week in which Mitt Romney announced his running mate and Obama’s own vice president lit up controversy. But he was on the air: Obama called in to a New Mexico morning radio show to weigh in on “Call Me Maybe,” his favorite work-out songs and his ideal super power (he chose speaking any foreign language, though “the whole flying thing is pretty good”). The exchange ended with one co-host Kiki Garcia giggling, “I just flirted with the President of the United States of America.”

Obama’s not the only one. Romney has been more available recently — including two news conferences just this week — but before that had done only one since May. He even spurned U.S. reporters in favor of a British press availability on his recent overseas trip. And the day after he tapped Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, the GOP ticket (and their wives) gave the first sit-down interview to … People magazine.

(VIDEO: Romney breaks out whiteboard at presser)

Obama himself has often complained about the media’s focus on trivialities over substance. But the anti-Beltway press sentiment is one that Obama himself has echoed on the trail, saying that the concerns of the national press corps and the the American people are wildly different.

“What the American people hear and what the press corps want to focus on are two very different things,” Obama told “Entertainment Tonight,” about ongoing questions regarding Vice President Joe Biden’s controversial quip about Republicans putting Americans back in “chains.”

Obama points to his failure to communicate as one of the single largest problems of his presidency, but media exposure has always proved tricky for him. In 2008, he was clearly helped, despite the knocks — including the famous “celebrity” ad from John McCain — from making stops like Ellen and Oprah a regular part of his routine. Even then, though, he was chided for giving an October 2008 interview to Mario Lopez on “Extra,” after a month without a press conference. And in 2009, his media handlers yanked him back in the face of withering criticism that he’d overexposed himself and the presidency in a way that was bad for the presidency and bad politics too.


But now, Republican strategists say no matter how frustrating Obama’s national media freeze-out is, it’s smart.

“I think just think it comes down to their overall strategy, which is to be low risk, to play it safe. They feel like they’re ahead and there’s no need to put the president in a position where he makes a mistake,” said former George W. Bush spokesman Trent Duffy, a founding partner of public affairs group HDMK. “They feel like they’ve got it won, and Romney’s got to do something dramatic.”

The press corps cares a great deal, but that’s not the constituency either campaign is courting.

“You have a category of voter that is watching ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and reading People that are not exposed to the cable news shows, are not high-intensity New York Times or POLITICO readers,” Steve Schmidt, chief strategist on McCain’s 2008 campaign, told POLITICO. “The one thing the Obama camp knows for sure, while there’s a lot of griping among the press, the public doesn’t care.”

The decision to grant interviews to People and “Entertainment Tonight” after eight weeks without a news conference is proving to be a slight even the most high-profile, fair-minded White House reporters are not willing to suffer privately.

“I hate the fact that they have made me worry more about access than reporting. Why build a press briefing room if the president isn’t going to brief the press?” NBC News chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd told POLITICO, who said the White House’s disregard for the press has “reached a new low.” “Both campaigns say the press doesn’t cover them seriously. But the more they cordon us off, the harder it is for us to report on the issues.”

ABC News chief White House correspondent Jake Tapper made his frustrations with the White House known in a terse blog post hammering home how much time has elapsed since the president’s last presser.

“I know that defenders of the president will say the White House press corps is just being whiny. But the bottom line is presidents set precedents,” Tapper told POLITICO. “So President Romney, or Ryan, or whomever the next Republican president will be, will be able to use President Obama as a benchmark. And today’s defenders of today’s president may not find tomorrow’s president’s avoidance of questions not about chili or fave songs as acceptable.”

Indeed, Obama has held half as many availabilities as his two most recent predecessors at this point in the year of their reelection campaigns, according to data provided by Towson professor and presidential scholar Martha Joynt Kumar. At the same point in their reelection campaign, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had held 17 and 16 pressers, respectively. Obama has held just eight.

Obama’s campaign swing across Iowa this week is a case study in his low-risk, low-stakes media strategy. Obama spoke with Carlos, Kiki and Danny on KOB-FM, Big Ken and Colleen on Star 102.5, People magazine, “Entertainment Tonight” and a handful of local newspapers. (One local newspaper reporter filed a story about how exciting it was to ask Obama a question — without transcribing the answer to the question). In July, he sat for interviews with 35 outlets — 26 of which were local TV stations, newspapers or radio outlets, according to data provided by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller.


Obama has even declined an interview with the friendliest liberal outlet on television. Earlier this month, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd sat down with Mitt Romney for a one-on-one interview that will be featured in an hourlong MSNBC documentary that will air prior to the Republican convention. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who has been very public about his support for Obama, was not granted an interview with the president for the network’s Obama documentary, which will run prior to the Democratic convention. The White House offered Biden instead.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt defended the president, pointing out that he has been available for “dozens of questions each week on the campaign trail” from local media outlets.

“He’s certainly given press conferences, and he’ll do them again. But that’s not to say that an interview in Cleveland, Ohio, with the television station there isn’t just as important,” LaBolt said.

When pressed by Mitchell on whether Obama would give a national news conference “where he could be asked questions on all subjects by those who cover it full time,” LaBolt once again cited his interviews with local media and a recent CBS interview.

“I’ll take that as a ‘No,’” Mitchell replied.

On Thursday, the Republican National Committee took a playful jab at Obama, reminding voters what the world looked like the last time the president gave a news conference. “Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were together,” “Lebron James had still not won an NBA Championship,” and the like.

“From the tone of the campaign to his lack of plans on Medicare, it’s clear Obama is avoiding tough interviews that will help get Americans the answers they deserve,” RNC spokeswoman Kristen Kukowski told POLITICO.

But for all the kvetching about the issue from Republicans and reporters, White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest rebuffed reporters on Friday who were pressing for information on when they’d get a chance to question the president again, arguing Obama’s been talking to “reporters from a wide range of outlets.”

”I don’t have any announcements to make in terms of what kind of timing,” Earnest said. “The president has spent a lot of time answering questions from journalists all across the country.”

“The White House should be admonished for not answering questions, but it’s not going to affect behavior,” Schmidt said. “The public is seeing him answer questions on ‘Entertainment Tonight,’ seeing snippets of his speeches on the evening news, so the notion that he’s not accessible doesn’t make sense to them.”

“The public doesn’t care because the message from both parties has been, ‘Don’t trust the media,’” Todd said. “With both campaigns trashing the press, 90 percent of the country is being told that they can’t trust us. Obama and Romney have no problem with that.”

“The problem is, if you protect these guys too much, they’re more likely to make gaffes. If you expose them more, no one gaffe stands out,” he went on. “So this strategy only serves to raise the profile of the limited access they give.”
 
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Obama Talks Colors, Food, Super-Powers, and Music in Interview with New Mexico Radio Station
9:52 AM, Aug 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER


President Obama talked about colors, food, Chicago, and music in a hard-hitting interview on New Mexico's 93.3 KOB-FM:

"I just flirted with the president of the United States of America," the interviewer says after Obama hangs up.
 
"Obama hasn’t answered questions from the White House press corps in over 8 weeks but he has appeared on Entertainment Tonight and pop radio stations. Obama has yet to be asked by reporters about the increasing unemployment rate but we do now know where he stands on Call Me Maybe," says an official from the Republican National Committee.


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Obama gives one-on-one to Glamour
 
By DYLAN BYERS |
8/27/12 8:23 AM EDT


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Yet another push in President Barack Obama's soft-media strategy, unearthed this morning by WWD's Erik Maza:
 

Editor in chief Cindi Leive flew to Portland, Ore., last month to sit down with the President for an interview that will appear in the magazine’s November issue. It is not the first time Obama has sat down with Glamour — he did so in 2008, along with John McCain — but it is his first time as a sitting president. ...

Glamour pitched them on a big audience, said Washington editor Linda Kramer Jenning. “There’s a lot of attention being paid to young, women voters,” Jenning said. “That’s the calling card that opens the door.” It took five months to lock down some face time.

Jenning said Leive asked the President about women’s health care, among other topics, even though the interview took place before the recent uproar over the antediluvian comments about rape by Missouri congressman Todd Akin.