MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
President Obama's 2008 presidential campaign manager David Plouffe will do his first interview since writing his new book "The Audacity to Win" this Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" with David Gregory . "The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory" is scheduled to hit stands next Tuesday, November 3rd. NYT 's Jeff Zeleny blogged...
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
When I first arrived at Sarasota International Airport this afternoon, this was a view. A big 747 sitting there, all decked out in blue & white, labeled United States Of America on the side. There were a few hundred people gathered on the side of the road watching. Technically at this point, you're looking at just another plane. Just another really big plane, though. SRQ isn't a big airport, and...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Among those vying for time with POTUS on the flight from DC to Jacksonville, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson. The plane just landed and Nelson, followed by Reps. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, and Ander Crenshaw, R-Jacksonville, followed Obama during the steps. The...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
By Matt Viser, Globe Staff Moments before Air Force One landed at Logan International Airport, Governor Deval Patrick spoke to reporters waiting on the tarmac and gushed about today's visit by President Obama. "It's exciting. I guess I'm still an...
The Caucus (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The president's former campaign manager goes along to Boston for the ride, and perhaps a reading.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
This is going to happen more and more and more and I hope the Secret Service is making good money. On the eve of the President's arrival in Newark, a private airport security guard is charged with making a terroristic threat against the commander-in-chief. Police and secret service agents spent the day at Newark Liberty International Airport preparing for President Obama's arrival. It turns out one...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
First Lady Michelle Obama talks with, from left, Chicago 2016 board member Marty Nesbitt, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Education Secretary Arne Duncan aboard Air Force One prior to departure from...
David Drake (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Dear Leader His Excellency Barack Saddam Hussein Obama, Junior finally got his bi-racial ass down to New Orleans . WSJ : President Barack Obama spent a couple of hours Thursday telling the hurricane-stricken people of New Orleans how the government is helping them. Afterwards, he flew to San Francisco where he spent Thursday evening telling the high-tech glitterati the same thing–but they paid...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The 747 used as Air Force One flies over the Statue of Liberty in this photo released by the White House. WASHINGTON (CNN)– After nearly six months, President Obama named a replacement Friday for Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office who was responsible for the controversial low-altitude flyover over New York by [...]
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Obama lauds Pelosi but California voters split President Obama wrapped up a whistle-stop visit to San Francisco Friday, hours after he stood beside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her home district and called her his key warrior on Capitol Hill , saying she is "doing battle each and every day" for his legislative agenda. ... Pelosi is an invaluable ally in his fights for health care reform...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
George Mulligan replaces Louis Caldera, who resigned in May after he authorized a photo shoot of Air Force One flying over New York City.
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
This evening, however President Barack Obama is naming George D. Mulligan, Jr. as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Military Office (WHMO). Mulligan replaces his former boss, White House Military Office director Louis Caldera, who resigned on May 8 after the so-called “Scare Force One” incident of April 27, which had an Air Force One aircraft flying very...
Roger L. Simon (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
My PJTV interview with Fred Barnes is up. It was fun doing it in front of Nancy Pelosi’s private jet… scratch that…. Reagan’s Air Force One. But of course whatever is ferrying Nancy about is probably now vastly superior to the dated eighties-era vehicle porting The Gipper. Still, if you’re ever at the [...]
The Plum Line (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Did a reporter really ask a White House spokesman to respond to Glenn Beck’s attack on White House communications director Anita Dunn for supposedly worshiping Mao Zedong? Yes. Here’s the exchange with spokesman Bill Burton during the press gaggle today on Air Force One, per the White House transcript: QUESTION: One more question — have [...]
Liprap's Lament - The Line (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
So Obama spends nearly four hours in New Orleans on the way to the Left Coast... ...he gets some takeout from Dooky Chase's shortly before he leaves... ...and, in-between it all, I can't help but think of all the footballs he probably hauled with him on Air Force One, of how he deflected the boos that came Bobby Jindal's way when Obama intro'd him at the Town Hall held at UNO earlier today, of how...
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