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Robert Gibbs' Successor: How About a Woman as White House Press Secretary?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe White House is looking for a successor to departing press secretary Robert Gibbs, and the top prospects -- as usual -- are men. But Politico's Mike Allen says new chief of staff Bill Daley would like a woman in the job. A woman as the face of this administration -- why, that would be something new and different. The most important qualities in a press secretary include access to the president, clarity of expression, ease on camera, and good relations with reporters. The names in the mix so far are deputy press secretaries Bill Burton (who'd be the first black press secretary) and Josh ...
Robert Gibbs Leaving Press Secretary Post at White House: 3 Possible Successors
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsAfter two years as President Barack Obama's White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs will be stepping down in February to take on a new role with the administration as an outside political adviser. Now White House watchers are dying to know: Who will be the new press secretary? Obama hasn't made any decisions yet. After all, the man just got back from a Hawaiian vacation and has lots of other job vacancies -- like the chief of staff role -- to fill as the White House undergoes the traditional midterm shuffle. But the top candidates to replace Gibbs, according to The New York Times and USA ...
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs Bashes 'Liberal Naysayers' who Fault Obama
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn an interview published Tuesday in the Hill newspaper, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let rip his frustration at "liberal naysayers" who have criticized President Obama's policies as being insufficiently left wing. "I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it's crazy." The Obama administration has been faulted by the left for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lack of a public option in the health care reform package, not yet having closed the prison at Guantanamo Bay, a financial regulation reform bill ...
Barack Obama's Beach Reading List
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs the Obamas enjoy their week-long vacation on Martha's Vineyard, we've learned from White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton what will be in the president's book bag when he heads to the beach. The official presidential reading list has a little fiction, a little non-fiction, some history and a close look at the global environmental crisis. Here's what President Obama will be reading, along with links to the Amazon page and the "Publisher's Weekly" blurb if you want to read along for fun. ...
White House: Obama Teleprompter Story Not True
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAfter Barack Obama's first prime-time press conference, there were stories circulating among the right-o-sphere/PUMA-ocracy about Barack Obama's teleprompter. The story went, in part, that he used the prompter during the Q&A, not just his opening remarks. (Not true, you can see on any broadcast that the screens lowered into the floor at that point.) The other part of the story was that the White House is in the process of installing a video screen into the podium, so the President can get "Cliff notes" during press conferences. I asked Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton about it today. He ...
To Fox News' Megyn Kelly: Pipe Down
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMy buddy, Caleb Howe, just sent me this clip from earlier this week, in which Fox News' Megyn Kelly gets her outrage on against Obama spokesman Bill Burton. At issue is Fox's and John McCain's deliberate misreading of a 2001 Obama interview.Megyn gets really angry when Burton calls Fox out for their McCain shillery, at one point telling him to "pipe down." Check it out.Burton, of course, doesn't back down, but he also didn't have a clip library handy. If he had, he might have played this "Fair and Balanced" clip, and told Megyn to "Pipe down!" Allow me to do so now. Isn't that you, Megyn, ...
New Yorker's Obama Cover Touches Nerve
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThis week's cover of The New Yorker magazine portrays Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, standing in the Oval Office after winning the presidential election. Of course, that vision alone is enough to get some people worked up. But the illustrator, Barry Blitt, has pulled out all the stops in his portrayal of the would-be first couple. Barack wears a turban and tribal Muslim attire. His wife, who has combed out her afro, wears a semi-automatic rifle on her back and gives her husband a "terrorist fist-jab" beneath a painting of Osama bin Laden that hangs above a fireplace aflame with the ...
Headscarf Hullabaloo at Obama Rally
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyBen Smith at Politico is reporting that two Muslim women wearing headscarves at an Obama rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium - in full view of TV cameras and photographers - by campaign volunteers.Big 'oops.' The campaign has apologized to the two Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed. Michigan is home to one of the largest Arab and Muslim populations in the U.S."I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change, who I could really relate to," said Hebba Aref, a ...
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