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] President's Schedule: Friday October 28, 2011![]() There are no open events on President Obama’s schedule on today, but early this morning the president and the first lady headed over to Sidwell Friends School on Wisconsin Ave. in Northwest D.C. where both Sasha and Malia are students. According to the White House they are meeting with their daughters' teachers. When he returns, the president is scheduled to spend much of the morning in the Oval Office, where he will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and then meet with senior advisors – both of these meetings are closed press. At 4pm, the president will hold a closed-press meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also in the Oval Office. At 5pm, President Obama will attend a closed-press Diwali reception in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is adjacent to the White House. Here’s his schedule as released by the White House:
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