Olivier Knox, formerly a congressional correspondent for Agence France-Presse
Posted on 07/07/2014 11:42:28 AM PDT by mojito
On May 29, President Barack Obama had lunch at the White House with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The likely 2016 presidential contender has been to hundreds of West Wing meetings, first as first lady, then as senator, and finally as the top American diplomat.
But this face-to-face was unusual. Unlike dozens of presidential meetings every week — and a similar Obama-Clinton meeting in July 2013 — it was not announced in advance.
Instead, reporters who cover Obama learned about the secret visit from a People magazine tweet, and ultimately managed to wring a terse sentence from an anonymous White House official grudgingly confirming that the world’s most powerful person had met with the woman who is arguably the front-runner to succeed him. The topic of their discussion was not revealed.
This is how the White House works. A week before the secret lunch, the schedule failed to mention that the president was hosting a bipartisan delegation of senators for what one Republican attendee later described as a “bizarre” foreign policy meeting....
All of those meetings fall well within the president’s duties. But not one appeared on the public presidential schedule posted online the night before and distributed to the press. Instead, all were on the only White House schedule that really matters: the president’s private schedule.
It’s a document so closely held that Obama aides...are expected to dispose of it at day’s end in “burn bags” typically reserved for documents so sensitive they cannot be consigned to mere shredding.
Where the public schedule blares “for immediate release,” every page of the private schedule warns: “This schedule contains sensitive information and is provided for your information only. It may not be distributed, forwarded, or printed without the express written permission of the Director of Scheduling.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
All of a sudden, this most secretive WH plants a story with a friendly reporter about how "busy" the POTUS is. Only you just don't see it.
More a story about 0's schedulers than what 0 is really doing with his time.
On Rush this morning, he said that Ed Klein’s (”Blood Feud” author) sources have told Klein that Obama’s been meeting secretly with Senator Elizabeth (authentic Native-American) Warren to discuss her running against Hillary in Dem primary races in 2016. Those meetings are also not on Obama’s public schedule.
It is amazing who meets with Obama at the White House on his private schedule.
In January 2010: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35159137/ns/politics/t/hw-bush-visits-obama-white-house/#.U7rwnlZF2D4
In January 2012: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/obama-hosts-george-hw-and-jeb-bush-at-white-house-112638.html
I wonder what Jeb, George H.W. and Barack needed to discuss in private. The timing of the meetings is also interesting (beginning of election years).
most transparent administration ever.
/s
Burn bags, wow.....
The title of this piece s/b “0bama is not lazy he’s our brother.”
5.56mm
Olivier Knox, formerly a congressional correspondent for Agence France-Presse
Don’t you know the Clintons’ heads are about to explode!
11:00 am: Obama wakes up
11:15 am: He gets breakfast in bed.
11:45 am: Shower with Reggie.
12:00 pm: Pray towards Mecca.
12:30 pm: Smoke Crack.
1:30 pm: Check basketball Scores
2pm-4pm: Blame something on the Republicans.
5pm: Meet with members of Muslim Brotherhood.
6pm: Dinner/Jayzee Concert
8pm: Goes to bed with Reggie.
LOL you’re right.
But in my view the Clinton Crime Family is like triple A ball compared to the Chicago Mob.
Bm
Being Chairman of the Central Committee as well as head of the Political Bureau is a very big job. It requires frequent conferences with revolutionary communist and radical Islamic leaders, and long planning sessions to further the destruction of America.
You don’t REALLY think he’s playing golf, do you? Have you seen him bowling or throwing a baseball?
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