Posted on 03/07/2011 1:17:31 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.
An internal White House memo indicates that the White House is facing a shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline.
The competition was extended from the February 25 deadline until Friday, March 11 after few schools met the original application deadline. CBS News has learned a White House Communications Office internal memo dated February 22 noted "a major issue with the Commencement Challenge."
"As of yesterday we had received 14 applications and the deadline is Friday," the memo said. The memo also urged recipients to, "please keep the application number close hold."
A follow-up memo on February 28 reported receipt of 68 applications. Noting the competition among more than 1,000 schools last year, the memo said, "Something isn't working." It called on staffers to ask "friendly congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral offices" to encourage schools to apply.
"We should also make sure the Cabinet is pushing the competition out to their lists," the memo said. The note reiterated, "We do not want the actual application number out there (we didn't release the number of applications we received last year until after the submission period)-so folks should not use it in their pitches."
On Monday, officials declined to cite the number of applications received so far.
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Eyes are opening & things are lookin’ up.
Isn't that one more than the amount of Nissan Leaf Electric cars sold in the US in February? Well, that's not THAT bad...../s
On a related note, the White House did confirm that there have been 384 requests for the TOTUS only to speak. (for those newbies...TOTUS = Teleprompter Of The United States)
Maybe they should open up the applications to Day Care Facilities too - might get more that way, just trying to help...
They should just award the “honor” to one of the timely applicants and get on with life. What’s the point of collecting a pile of rejected applications?
“Something isn’t working.”
ROFLOL And they have no clue what it is.
Perhaps he would do better if the contest was for him to speak to “his people”.
Maybe even Muslim schools.
School A “Here’s a $1 stay away”
School B “No take our 2 $s Dont come here”
School C “Heres an essay on why you should stay home ...and 3 Kenyan $s”
From 1000+ schools last year to less than 70, only 1 year later....And I wonder how many of those 68 schools are inner city schools, “historically black” colleges, extreme leftist liberal arts campuses, and other venues where BHO’s race will always trump his performance.
Yes, POTUS Obama is both a detriment and disgrace to our great country!! Shame on the American voters for putting this absolute anti-American, empty suit into the White House!!!
Oh the is too good! Tanks for posting it.
Maybe Satan would like to hear his BS...glad to hear it, he truly is a dumb ass..
They see him so often on the tube blabbering away anyway, it’s not like it’s a special thing to see Obama talking and saying the same crap and cliches he always does.
Bet they’d get thousands of applicants if they had a contest to get mosques to get him to speak there.
He needs to hire Jerry Seinfeld’s agent.
She can get him an Assembly. That’s 6th. grade,
7th. grade, 8th. grade...
Maybe some federal prison somewhere could have him talk to the inmates after they graduate from High School Equivalency classes.
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