Posted on 01/30/2011 7:42:11 AM PST by kristinn
As thirty years of United States Middle East strategy teeters on collapse, Barack Obama spent Saturday night at a going away party for David Axelrod who is leaving the administration to set up Obama's reelection campaign in Chicago. The party was held at the Dupont Circle condo of former Obama aide Linda Douglass.
Douglass, who is now with the National Journal, played host to a gathering of cabinet secretaries including Arne Duncan (Education), Timothy Geithner (Treasury) and Steven Chu (Energy) and prominent reporters including Major Garrett (National Journal), Jake Tapper (ABC), Chuck Todd (NBC) and John Harwood (CNBC/New York Times).
Obama spent nearly two hours at the party.
Greta Van Sustern appears to be the only one in the media to report on Obama's party with her colleagues. Were it not for her posting the pool reports by the National Journal's Rebecca Kaplan at Fox News' GretaWire, the public would not know that Obama spent Saturday night partying with the media while Egypt burns.
And we have the nit-wit Jimmy Carter in drag in the WH.
Jake Tapper @KristinnFR have also attended social events thrown by GOP officials. Doesnt impact reporting except as way to meet potential sources
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Yes, but was another country burning while the GOP officials partied?
Thats just bull from Tapper. Of course, it affects their reporting. They want to stay on Obamas good side so they do favorable stories on him.
Still more laser-like focus and “not resting until”.
This morning he went to the church of the hoops praying for 3 point shots or something.
0bama must’ve created 2 or 3 jobs in the hors deoeuvre industry, so it wasn’t a complete waist! (Whoops, there went M00chelle!)
I thought I smelled something funny.
Oops. Sorry. Posted to the wrong thread. Disregard.
There Obama stunned guests* by lingering for nearly two hours and mingling easily. With a glass of champagne, he toasted his adviser for taking a chance on him back in '04.
SNIP
* You want names? Arne Duncan; Steve Chu; Tim Geithner; Julianna Smoot; Bill Burton; Jay Carney; Carol Browner; Axelrod's assistant Eric Lesser, who presented his boss with an autographed picture of Arnold Palmer (because apparently Axelrod drank Arnold Palmers all day instead of coffee); Jon Favreau; Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein; Stephanie Cutter; Reggie Love; Dan Pfeiffer; David Plouffe; Maureen Dowd; E.J. Dionne; Ed Henry; Gwen Ifill; Judy Woodruff; many, many others...
Rush talking about this now.
The media is part of this charade. Probably most of them were at the party.
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