The president and vice-president, along with their wives and the Clintons, attended a national prayer service at the Washington Cathedral this morning. I know what you’re thinking–good Lord, enough with the religion already! Can’t we manage a strictly secular transfer of power in this country? Which is why I urge you to watch the service if [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE — Joe Biden hasn’t lost his step. Just moments ago, at the Old Executive Office Building, it came time for the vice president to issue the oath of office for the senior staff. Biden had to stop the proceeding to ask for a copy of the oath. “My memory is not as [...]
A Rove’s eye view of yesterday’s departure party at Andrews AFB. (It has music, and a little dancing.):
A mystery has been solved. The image that has come to define Barack Obama’s remarkable campaign–a lithograph created by the artist Shepard Fairey showing the president gazing up into the middle distance–has been traced to its origins, a photograph taken in April of 2006, when Obama appeared at the National Press Club with the actor [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 21, 2009 Below is a statement from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. At 8:35 AM, the President arrived in the Oval Office and spent 10 minutes alone in the office. He read the note left to him by President Bush that [...]
Over at the Inauguration Liveblog yesterday, Mike and Jim (read their very first posts) were discussing the fact that television coverage of the event was focused almost entirely on the historic first of a black president being inaugurated. But while that’s certainly what drew a lot of visitors to Washington this week and it’s the [...]
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A few faith-based thoughts on Inauguration day: – Joseph Lowery just made everyone forget about Rick Warren. And in a good way. – Obama’s shout-out to “non-believers” was, as far as I can tell, the first such acknowledgment in an Inaugural address. It’s not unusual for him (see his 2006 speech at the Call to [...]
Crossposting what I just wrote for our liveblog: At the Capitol lunch in his honor, President Barack Obama confirmed the reports that Ted Kennedy—who had looked so hale at the inaugural ceremony—had collapsed. Kennedy, who is suffering from brain cancer, had given Obama’s presidential campaign a crucial boost a year ago, when he had endorsed [...]
