[REUTERS] President Barack Obama Because I won... likes burgers, hot dogs and such, but when it came time to answer a kid journalist's question about his favorite food, broccoli was the first word that sprang from his lips.
This revelation came on Tuesday at a White House event that recognized children who won a healthy recipe contest, as part of first lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign.
Having fun with the children, Obama agreed to take two questions from the journalists among them. The first asked what was Obama's favorite food. Broccoli was the presidential reply, according to a White House aide.
This from a politician who has literally eaten his way across the country: Burgers in a Washington suburb with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev; ribs in Asheville, North Carolina; hot dogs at a basketball game in Dayton, Ohio; and a tasty pastry called a kringle in Wisconsin.
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D *** NG IT, BUSH 41 ["H" = Herbert] was POTUS of these United States = World's #1 Superpower, + iff he doesn't like Broccoli neither his Mom nor the FLOTUS can make him eat any!
So there!
FYI on Fox's "The Five" Michelle's yogurt diet was discussed - the Babes went for the yogurt while Beckel + Boyz went for McDonald's Double Cheeseburgers.
President Obama on Tuesday nominated two major campaign bundlers to two of the most prized ambassadorships available anywhere -- London and Rome -- part of a pattern that has seen him reward at least 18 top fundraisers with plum diplomatic positions since 2009.
The White House said the post of ambassador to the United Kingdom will go, subject to confirmation, to Matthew Barzun, an Internet pioneer and investor who served as the Obama campaign finance chairman in 2008, as ambassador to Sweden from 2009-2011, and then again as finance chairman for the president's 2012 campaign.
The ambassadorship to Italy will go to John R. Phillips, a Washington lawyer who chairs the president's commission that selects candidates to be White House fellows. Phillips is the husband of Linda Douglass, a former network journalist who served as communications director for the Obama White House's Office of Health Reform.
According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, Barzun bundled at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign in 2008 and at least $500,000 again in 2012; Phillips bundled at least $500,000 for Obama in 2012 and between $200,000 and $500,000 in 2008.
It's not unusual for presidents to reward their large campaign bundlers with ambassadorships. As long as the new ambassadors don't solicit hookers openly I think we're okay...
From what, swksvolFF? An ambassadorship, or soliciting hookers?
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One of the big problems in US Foreign policy is the way we choose ambassadors based on the size of their donations.
On the other hand the state department lifers probably aren't much better, but still, the whole thing reeks of third world oligarchy and has for a long time.
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Well, once the post-acquittal,riots start, this should make it easier to hang the albatross around "Choom-daddy's" neck. Not that that the lame-stream media will ever do such a thing.
[NationalJournal] Last week, it scaled back several required provisions. They aren't the first. And probably won't be the last.
"It's the joyous, simultaneous, nonlinear equation from hell," said Kip Piper, a former top official at HHS and OMB who is now a consultant in close contact with IT vendors. Piper said it's no surprise that the administration has given up on certain functions given the technological complexity needed and the short time-frame.
The struggles with technology and administrative complexity have not come as a recent surprise to administration officials; they've been negotiating them for months already. By eliminating non-essential tasks, they may be violating the letter of the health reform law, with its rigorous timetables and multiple requirements, but they may be more likely to get the core functions right.
Lots of weaseling in that final may coupled with more likely... Also a cute little flow chart, for those who like such things.
Mr. Casey has more than 30 years of experience as a growth-oriented business executive, financier, and entrepreneur. Beginning his career in investment banking, he specialized in merger and acquisition transactions at The Blackstone Group and was a managing director at UBS Warburg LLC, where he provided investment banking services to large capitalization companies. He was founder and president of Lowell Partners LLC, a private investment firm specializing in energy projects and providing growth capital to small businesses. He also was a managing partner of the Fremont Group, where he was responsible for private equity investments focused in the communications, energy and infrastructure sectors.
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Known from INCEPTION it wouldn't work. Was never intended to work. It was intended as a 'foot in the door' to make the 'only alternative' a full government health care system.
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I use the Fox at home, but when I visit from the office...
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Serco has many government accounts. I used to work for them after they bought out a company that I was a part of. Besides their corporate culture being Dilbertish, they are decent enough for a huge company. The North American division has been working Air Force, Marines, Navy, DHS, DOE and others for decades.
[REUTERS] Mental health advocates are worried that the privacy of people who have received treatment for their illnesses could be jeopardized by a White House push to expand a database used to run background checks on gun buyers. That's what we need, by Gum! Another B.O.-controlled database!
President Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... said he wants to see state governments contribute more names of people barred from buying guns to the database, part of a sweeping set of executive actions he announced after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December.
The database, called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is used by gun dealers to check whether a potential buyer is prohibited from owning a gun.
States are encouraged to report to the database the names of people who are not allowed to buy guns because they have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, or have been found to have serious mental illnesses by courts.
Many states do not participate. So the administration is looking at changing a health privacy rule - part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - to remove one potential barrier.
The Health and Human Services Department has not released a detailed proposal outlining possible changes to HIPAA. When it asked for comments on the idea, it was flooded with more than 2,000 letters and e-mails.
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Perhaps there is some centrally located camp where we could all go by train and simply be screened for everything at the same time.
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This from the same man who has sealed every possible aspect of his own personal life, from his birth certificate, to his education records, to his involvement in the Benghazi scandal, ect.
I wonder if Obama himself could pass the background check necessary to purchase a firearm.
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you".
.... Michael Moncur
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Note that with Obamacare the IRS will have access to your medical records/provider. May as well put it in the same database; after all the GIVERnment needs to be efficient as well as effective.
Not that he personally gives a damn, but hopefully there will be some 2014 election year negative carry-over for the larger democratic regime. "You gotta believe, boyz and girlz! If you don't believe, the unicorn will die!"
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I didn't say I approved, I think he's a loudmouth liar.
Who doesn't realize we're on to him, (He Can't, it's his methodology, all is well, everybody's snowed, BULLSHITi
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Regardless, the basement is something like 30-35 percent who care far more for power than ethics, the Constitution, integrity in law, etc. While its doubtful that full 30-35 percent are willing to die (give the last full measure of devotion) for that power, they will expect you to.
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[NationalJournal] Last week, it scaled back several required provisions. They aren't the first. And probably won't be the last.
