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Presidential Seal Falls as Obama Boosts Workplace Changes at Women's Summit
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIntroduced as a man who is comfortable with strong women, President Obama told the "Most Powerful Women Summit" Tuesday that the move toward mobile workplaces and flexible hours is more than a gender issue because it also helps make American businesses more competitive. Many companies led by women attending the conference in Washington are already embracing "things like telecommuting and flextime and on-site childcare," the president said. The Obama administration is doing its part by investing in paid leave programs and child care tax credits and by "making the federal government a model ...
The Next White House Chief of Staff: Tom Donilon, Peter Rouse on Short List
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAmid the reports that Rahm Emanuel will likely step down as White House chief of staff -- possibly as early as Friday -- to run for Chicago mayor, the question all of Washington is waiting to have answered is: Who would get his job? Senior adviser Pete Rouse is expected to step in on an interim basis, and in so doing could increase his chances to become the permanent chief of staff. But other names have popped up, including Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Ron Klain, Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff. Rouse, a longtime aide to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle ...
Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton to Speak at Clinton Global Initiative
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFor those who hoped, in vain, to see a Clinton-Obama reunion this summer at Chelsea Clinton's nuptials, all is not lost: On Thursday, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced that First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the closing remarks at the organization's meeting this year on Sept. 23. Founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2005, CGI is a veritable who's who of kingmakers, power brokers and political pooh-bahs who convene yearly in New York City to tackle the world's most pressing issues. According to the CGI website, attendees "create a 'Commitment to Action' -- a detailed ...
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 ...
Obamas in Hawaii: No Christmas Church, Accident Scare, Flight 253, Tennis and Golf
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySince the last Daily Flotus raised the question of whether the Obama family would attend church services on Christmas while vacationing in Hawaii, an answer is in order: No, they did not, a White House staffer told me. The vacation has been eventful in other ways, interrupted by the Northwest Airlines Christmas Day terror incident and a scare Monday when the child of one of the Obamas' Chicago pals suffered a minor injury while surfing. ...
Valerie Jarrett on Going to Extremes, and 'Seedy Chicago Politics'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyValerie Jarrett is a match for her boss when it comes to a placid public demeanor. But she flashed her low-key version of high dudgeon in a year-end discussion with Politics Daily about pressure from the "extreme" left and right, and Sen. Lindsey Graham's charge that the White House engaged in "seedy Chicago politics" to get its health reform bill passed. "It was definitely a cheap shot and completely unwarranted," Jarrett, one of several Chicagoans who came to Washington with President Obama, said of the South Carolina Republican's recent remark on CNN. "I think what people ought to do is to ...
The Obamas Hawaii Christmas: Will it Include Church?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe Obama family is spending Christmas and New Years in President Obama's native Hawaii and the schedule for the next few days has no public events. Obama has no "home" church in Honolulu from his youth, and the Obamas have only attended church services in Washington three times in the past year. The Obama family quit Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ during the presidential campaign because of the controversies surrounding the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. So you may wonder, will the Obamas attend church services on Christmas? What will he be doing in Hawaii between now and Jan. 3, when the ...
Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Owens Over Conservative Hoffman
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava threw her support to Democrat Bill Owens a day after dropping out of the race to fill former GOP Rep. John McHugh's upstate New York House seat. ...
White House Goes After Glenn Beck 'Smear' and Fox News 'Lies'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe ill will between the White House and Glenn Beck is no secret. The popular Fox News host has said he believes President Obama of having "a deep-seated hatred of white people" and mounted relentless on-air campaigns against two administration officials. After he took Van Jones, the "green jobs czar," and Yosi Sergant, the communications director at the National Endowment of Arts, to task for what Beck said was inappropriate political work, both men quickly resigned. But the Obama-Beck battle could become a full-scale war as Beck trains his sights on White House confidante Valerie Jarrett and ...
Documents Show Barack Obama Misled on Blagojevich Contacts
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyJudicial Watch, the conservative open government advocacy group, says it has obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request from the office of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) which show that there was some contact between President-elect Obama and Blagojevich in the days before the governor was arrested on charges of attempting to auction Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. The documents, a December 3rd letter signed by Obama, and a letter from Obama transition team co-chairmen Valerie Jarrett and John Podesta, are in themselves not damning; but ...
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