From President Obama's four town halls
--TOUGH CROWDS: According to White House transcripts, the president received applause 217 times over the four town halls (not counting applause for several questioners). The president drew laughter 48 times.
THE PRESIDENT'S DAY: "In the morning, the President will meet with Senior Economic Advisors in the Oval Office. ... Later in the morning, the President will meet with his National Security Team in the Situation Room. ... the afternoon, the President will travel to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. ... Following the arrival at the Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, the President will travel via Marine One to Martha's Vineyard."
OBAMA'S JOBS PLAN - Glenn Thrush, in Alpha, Ill.: OMB Director Jack Lew Jack Lew, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and top economic aides Gene Sperling and Jason Furman have been trying to come up with new ideas in collaboration with outside experts and executives ... The new plan, ordered up by Obama right after the debt ceiling debacle, will be revenue neutral and the administration 'plans to pay for every penny of it' with offset savings, a senior administration official said." http://bit.ly/mRhNLa
--President plans address on ideas for job creation and deficit reduction" (WashPost, A4, today)
--WashPost 2-col. lead, "Obama to push stimulus plan"
--POTUS, at a town hall in Atkinson, Ill.: "I will be presenting before this joint committee a very detailed, specific approach to this problem that allows us to grow jobs right now, provide folks who need help the help they need, and still gets our deficit and debt under control."
--Chicago Tribune lead story, "Obama's jobs blueprint aims to hire and rewire: President said to be mulling billions for school refits, tax breaks." http://trib.in/nEWD71
"Obama, waving from an armored Secret Service bus, rolled into the fray for the first time for real this week, though the White House rejected claims the jaunt through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois was a taxpayer-funded junket. After seeing his authority splintered by Republicans in a debt showdown, Obama appeared to draw new energy outside Washington ... [p]opping into coffee shops, licking ice creams and halting for wholesome heartland photo-ops."
CABINET MEMBER TAKES SWING AT PERRY - "Obama's Education Secretary Says Perry's Schools Left Behind," by Bloomberg's Margaret Talev: "Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas's school system 'has really struggled' under Governor Rick Perry, a Republican candidate for president, and the state's substandard schools do a disservice to children. 'Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college,' Duncan said on Bloomberg Television's 'Political Capital With Al Hunt' airing Aug. 19-20. 'I feel very, very badly for the children there.'"
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAY: "In the morning, the President will meet with Senior Economic Advisors in the Oval Office. ... Later in the morning, the President will meet with his National Security Team in the Situation Room. ... the afternoon, the President will travel to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. ... Following the arrival at the Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, the President will travel via Marine One to Martha's Vineyard."
OBAMA'S JOBS PLAN - Glenn Thrush, in Alpha, Ill.: OMB Director Jack Lew Jack Lew, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and top economic aides Gene Sperling and Jason Furman have been trying to come up with new ideas in collaboration with outside experts and executives ... The new plan, ordered up by Obama right after the debt ceiling debacle, will be revenue neutral and the administration 'plans to pay for every penny of it' with offset savings, a senior administration official said." http://bit.ly/mRhNLa
--President plans address on ideas for job creation and deficit reduction" (WashPost, A4, today)
--WashPost 2-col. lead, "Obama to push stimulus plan"
--POTUS, at a town hall in Atkinson, Ill.: "I will be presenting before this joint committee a very detailed, specific approach to this problem that allows us to grow jobs right now, provide folks who need help the help they need, and still gets our deficit and debt under control."
--Chicago Tribune lead story, "Obama's jobs blueprint aims to hire and rewire: President said to be mulling billions for school refits, tax breaks." http://trib.in/nEWD71
"Obama, waving from an armored Secret Service bus, rolled into the fray for the first time for real this week, though the White House rejected claims the jaunt through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois was a taxpayer-funded junket. After seeing his authority splintered by Republicans in a debt showdown, Obama appeared to draw new energy outside Washington ... [p]opping into coffee shops, licking ice creams and halting for wholesome heartland photo-ops."
CABINET MEMBER TAKES SWING AT PERRY - "Obama's Education Secretary Says Perry's Schools Left Behind," by Bloomberg's Margaret Talev: "Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas's school system 'has really struggled' under Governor Rick Perry, a Republican candidate for president, and the state's substandard schools do a disservice to children. 'Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college,' Duncan said on Bloomberg Television's 'Political Capital With Al Hunt' airing Aug. 19-20. 'I feel very, very badly for the children there.'"
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Thanks for this posting Jen. (smile)