Obama gets clean bill of health![]() President Obama is “fit for duty,” his doctor concludes in a medical report released Monday by the White House. According to the report by Dr. Jeffrey C. Kuhlman, the president was found to have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels. He also tested negative in colorectal and prostate screening exams while his vision is 20/20. “The President is in excellent health and ‘fit for duty’. All clinical data indicate he will remain so for the duration of his Presidency. The President is current on all age-appropriate screening tests. He is ‘fit at fifty’ and ‘staying healthy at 5+’,” wrote Dr. Kuhlman, who is also a Navy captain.
Dr. Kuhlman recommends the president undergo another physical in December of 2012. Ashley Biden engaged to be married![]() While speaking in Wilmington, Delaware last week Vice President Joe Biden referred to his “future son in law” several times, but no one knew yet if his only daughter Ashley was actually engaged. Well, now it’s official. "Ashley recently got engaged and the Vice President, Dr. Biden and their entire family are thrilled," said Jill Biden’s communications director, Courtney Diesel O’Donnell. Ashley has been dating Dr. Howard Krein for a little over a year and the couple officially got engaged in September. Ashley is a social worker and Krein is a physician specializing in Otalaryngology and Facial and Reconstructive Surgery.
Second clean energy loan company files for bankruptcy![]() A second clean energy company that received a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy has filed for bankruptcy. According to their website, Beacon Power received $43 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy. The company was working on a new technology that would allow the nation’s electricity grid to store energy by constructing what, on the company’s website, they call “a state of the art energy storage facility in Stephentown, New York”. The company also received $26 million in stimulus grants from the Department of Energy. A White House official says Beacon’s finances protections will be part of the outside review of all the administration's clean energy loan guarantees, which was ordered by White House Chief of Staff on Friday. Heating up between Obama, Romney campsA day after senior Obama adviser David Plouffe denounced Mitt Romney as a man with “no core,” two other Obama aides added their own stinging criticisms against the Republican presidential hopeful - the latest sign the president’s advisors have zeroed in on Romney as the likely GOP nominee. As anyone who's watched [Mitt Romney], it’s always a question as to where he was and where he is and where he might be on any given issue,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters in an off camera briefing Monday morning. Carney has previously held back direct attacks against Republican presidential contenders. Carney’s comments came a day after Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager in 2008 and now a senior adviser in the White House, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Romney's national poll numbers, which are consistently in the low 20% range, showed that most Republican voters were looking elsewhere for a candidate. “You get the sense with Mitt Romney that, you know, if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he'd say it," Plouffe said. Romney's campaign said Plouffe's comments were an attempt to distract from what it called "the historic loss of middle-class jobs that has occurred" during Obama's presidency. But Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt called that a “false attack.” “While the President is fighting for an economy that’s built to last where we outeducate and outinnovate the rest of the world, Mitt Romney has been busy telling Americans what he believes our nation can’t do,” LaBolt said. With the general election now a year away, the early back-in-forth just might be a first glimpse of the sharp elbows from both sides in the months to come. UPDATE: The gloves are still off - Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney's campaign, issued a statement Monday afternoon saying the president's advisors are going to run "a campaign of personal destruction to ‘kill’ Mitt Romney because they are intimidated by his candidacy." "President Obama knows he can’t run on the failed policies that have brought higher taxes, exploding deficits, and record unemployment, so his allies have no choice but to launch false and personal attacks. Americans know that Mitt Romney is a fiscally responsible businessman who will put in place pro-growth policies that will create jobs and undo the damage caused by the failed Obama presidency," Saul also said in the statement. - CNN's Jessica Yellin, Alex Mooney, and Tom Cohen contributed to this report POTUS's Halloween Schedule for October 31, 2011![]() Over the weekend, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama and First Mother-in-Law Marian Robinson braved the rain to hand out candy and dried fruit to local school children. But today, he'll keep his attention on official business at the White House with a meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other regular briefings. This afternoon, he focuses on his "We Can't Wait" campaign by signing another executive order in the Oval Office. For full details on the president's schedule, click below. FULL POST ![]() President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and her mother, Marian Robinson, handed out treats to Washington-area kids Saturday (AFP/Getty Photo) Kids brave soggy weather for White House tricks and treatsWASHINGTON (CNN) - Some children in Washington braved cold and soggy weather Saturday for an early Halloween treat - a brief visit to the White House. President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and the first lady's mother, Marian Robinson, emerged from the North Portico of the White House Saturday afternoon to hand out goodie bags to the children. "Let's give out some candy," President Obama said as he walked outside. "I know it's cold here, you guys doing alright? It's not ideal out here." White House Week in Review![]() President Obama spent much of the week out west, touting parts of his jobs plan and raising cash for re-election. Check out this week's Week in Review for this week's top moments. Briefing Bites: Daley's 'candid and clear' language![]() From Bill Daley to congressional Republicans, here's the best sound from Carney's end of the week briefing: On Chief of Staff Bill Daley, during an interview with POLTICO, calling conditions during the first three years of the Obama presidency “ungodly”:
On Bill Dailey’s apparent suggestion that Democrats have also made things difficult for the president:
And Carney’s latest slap against congressional Republicans:
Presidential Op-ed![]() President Obama pens an op-ed in today's Financial Times laying out his goals for the G20 meeting taking place next week in France. It all seems to boil down to these four things:
You can read the whole op-ed here, but a warning if you're not a FT registered user, you'll have to go through the free registration process first. Morning Briefing: Obama campaign using lobbyists as bundlers?![]() One article we know the Obama campaign is reading today comes from the New York Times on the close connections many of the president’s big-dollar fundraisers have with the lobbying industry. This seems to be the crux of the article:
Ben LaBolt, spokesman for the president’s reelection campaign, posted a blog post early this morning, saying that the New York Times story “misses the forest for the trees,” in its reporting, “obscuring the President's long history of advancing ethics and government reform and brushing right past his opponents' records with nothing but a shrug.” Here’s some more from his response:
The New York Times makes a nod in LaBolt’s direction in this paragraph by acknowledging the Obama campaign’s efforts to keep lobbyists away:
Here are some other articles the White House may be reading today: Election worries give momentum to deficit talks [Reuters] US Stock Futures Pull Back Ahead Of Spending, Sentiment Data [Dow Jones Newswire] Consumer spending up in September on savings [Reuters] JPMorgan won't charge debit card fee as big banks back away from idea [Wall Street Journal] Rise in Medicare premiums less than feared in 2012 [BusinessWeek] Justice Dept. memo writer is mum on pot crackdown [BusinessWeek] |
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