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Barack Obama, First Family Attend Oregon State-Howard Basketball Game
By Evan Hilbert - AOL NewsThere aren't many households for which Oregon State-Howard is a must-watch event .However, the White House is one of them. Barack Obama and the first family are in attendance at Burr Gymnasium on the Howard University campus for the showdown between the local team and the Beavers, who are coached by Craig Robinson, Obama's brother-in-law. Obama, his wife Michelle and their two children are at the game, along with the First Lady's Mother, Marian Robinson and the children of the Oregon State coach. The First Lady, her mother, and the Craig Robinson's infant daughter are all decked out in ...
Michelle Obama's Handshake, and Other Cultural Pitfalls in the Muslim World
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyThe brouhaha over the Indonesian information minister who blamed Michelle Obama for leaving him no choice but to shake her hand -- in violation of his own Muslim rules to avoid contact with women not related to him -- reminded me of the "ugly American" scene in the movie "Sex and the City 2." There was Samantha, struggling with hot flashes while walking amid the throngs at a spice market in Abu Dhabi, when a group of religious men took exception to her exposed cleavage. Samantha being Samantha, she reached into her purse for her condoms and threw them at the men. Certainly, there must be a ...
Michelle Obama, Laura Bush Laud Heroism of United 93 Passengers
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyMichelle Obama, speaking Saturday morning at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., said she came there as an American "filled with a sense of awe of the heroism of my fellow citizens." The first lady was joined by her predecessor, Laura Bush, at the site where 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 died when their hijacked plane crashed in a field. The passengers have long inspired admiration and respect for their heroism in trying to overpower the hijackers, who apparently planned to crash the plane into either the White House or the Capitol. Mrs. Bush recalled that on 9/11 ...
Live From AOL Health: Michelle Obama Talks Childhood Obesity
By not in system - AOL NewsAOL Health talks live with first lady Michelle Obama about "Let's Move," her campaign to combat childhood obesity, Tuesday July 13 at 10 am. ...
Michelle Obama and Her Exercise Surprise for Me
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama added a little surprise on Tuesday to a White House South Lawn event with 84 kids from Washington schools designed to encourage them to get lots of exercise this summer. "What I want you guys to do is make a commitment that you will do your best to get that 60 minutes in every single day, and that you will find other people in your family and your schools and encourage them to do the same thing. Will you promise me that?" Mrs. Obama asked. The kids -- between the ages of 8 and 10 -- all said yes. Mrs. Obama was joined by Shellie Pfohl, the executive director of ...
Valerie Jarrett: Obama Aide Knows First-Hand a Single Mom's Struggles
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyIt's hard to quantify Valerie Jarrett's role in the White House, other than to say she has walk-in privileges to the Oval Office, and is perhaps the only top aide who feels it's her duty to relay bad news to the president. Her portfolio is broad enough, and when she was made head of a new White House Council on Women and Girls, the media elite greeted the news with a collective yawn. The women's outreach office created during the Clinton administration had lapsed once the Bush administration took power, and nobody was quite sure what the office did anyway. The goals outlined by President Obama ...
Michelle Obama Hears Immigration Plea From Girl Worried About Deportations
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst lady Michelle Obama and Margarita Zavala, the wife of President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, were visiting a Washington-area elementary school Wednesday when they heard unexpectedly from a little girl worried that some people -- maybe, just maybe even the youth's mother -- could face deportation one day. It was an extraordinary moment. The child told Mrs. Obama, "My mom said -- my mom said that -- I think that she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn't have papers." Replied Mrs. Obama, "Yeah, well, that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that ...
Michelle Obama Unveils Anti-Childhood Obesity Action Plan
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama unveiled her "Childhood Obesity Action Plan" on Tuesday, and the blueprint for ending the problem within a generation calls for more infant breastfeeding, building more sidewalks, curbing time with digital media and getting deep fryers out of schools. But the proposals, issued by a task force led by White House Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes, stays away from any firm recommendations on controversial matters pending in Congress, state legislatures and city councils, such as taxes on junk foods and sodas. Instead, there is a recommendation to "analyze the ...
Obama, Michelle Criticize Media and Popular Culture in Graduation Speeches
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama zinged the media and popular culture in separate graduation speeches delivered over the weekend at historically black universities, where both paid tribute to U.S. civil rights icon Dorothy Height, who died April 20 at the age of 98. Obama told students at Hampton University in Virginia that not everything "on blogs, and on cable, on talk radio" would pass a truth meter and Mrs. Obama urged graduates to not be seduced by a culture that celebrates "fleeting reality show fame rather than the hard labors of lasting success." (Read the transcript of ...
Michelle Obama's Mothers Day Tea with Rosalynn Carter, Sex and the City Cynthia Nixon
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama lavished emotional praise on her mother, Marian Robinson, at a White House Mother's Day Tea Friday, where the invitees included First Lady Rosalynn Carter and her granddaughter; also President Nixon's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Anne and Susan Eisenhower, President Eisenhower's granddaughters. Also at the tea (where three selections were served, Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Bolivian) were "Sex and the City" actress Cynthia Nixon, her partner, Christine Marinoni, some of the young women Mrs. Obama has been mentoring, also military spouses, and a diverse group of women ...
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