Attention all soccer fans![]() President Obama will welcome the Colorado Rapids, 2010 Major League Soccer champions,to the White House on Monday, June 27. The President will honor the soccer team and highlight it's effort to give back to the local community. As part of the White House visit the Colorado Rapids will hold a soccer clinic on the South Lawn for children of military families. President main attraction at fundraisersWashington (CNN) - With the end of the second quarter of fundraising closing in, it appears President Barack Obama's picking up the pace. Monday night the president is the main attraction at two fundraisers for the Obama Victory fund which are both being held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the nation's capital. According to a Democratic source with knowledge of the fundraisers, the first event is a dinner with Americans in Support of a Strong US-Israel Relationship. The gathering comes just a few weeks after comments by the president in calling for Israel to consider restoring its pre-1967 borders as part of its discussions with the Palestinians as part of any peace settlement. The proposal received an icy response from bothIsraeland from Jewish-Americans. Obama to start tweeting - himself![]() President Obama's re-election campaign is vowing President Obama will actually start tweeting himself. The @BarackObama account was active throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, but Obama himself did not use it. Obama's first ever real tweet came from the Red Cross twitter feed in January of 2010. From our friends at Mashable:
Briefing look-ahead: War Powers debate, Golf Summit![]() In light of the whole debate surrounding the War Powers resolution and whether U.S. forces are engaged in "hostilities," you can bet the latest news from Libya will dominate today's White House briefing:
We can also be sure Jay Carney will get one or two questions on the so-called "Golf Summit" over the weekend:
What do you want to see answered? Oops! Obama impersonator chased off stage at GOP event![]() His impersonation might have been pretty dead on, but some of Reggie Brown's jokes were deemed over the line when he performed at the Republican Leadership Conference over the weekend. In fact, things got so hairy that an organizer forced the act to come to a close. From the CNN Political Ticker:
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POTUS Schedule, June 20, 2011![]() President Obama has several high profile meetings Monday, but we will not catch a glimpse of any of them - all are closed off to the press. First, the president meets with senior advisors in the morning. Then he has a sit-down planned with Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After that, he will meet with what the White House says is a bipartisan group of mayors. To cap off the day, the president is set to raise money for the Democratic National Committee at an event in downtown Washington, DC. This event is open to a pooled print reporter, but not television cameras. Jay Carney will brief reporters at 1:00 p.m. ET. Full schedule after the jump: |
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