Obama Dismisses Romney on American Exceptionalism (LA Times)
I covered President Obama’s joint press conference at the White House today with Michael Reynolds for the European Press Agency. The joint press conference was held in the Rose Garden with Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Mexican President Calderon who where in D.C. for the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS). The leaders discussed cooperation on [...]
Covering The State of the Union Address
Covering the President’s State of the Union Address (SOTU) at the U.S. Capitol is pretty cool. The event is full of pomp and pageantry but it is also the worst case example of hurry up and wait. Because of the heightened security surrounding the 9:00 p.m. event, it is best to arrive early and before [...]
A New Birth of Freedom
On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as president just days before the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. His inauguration theme: “A New Birth Of Freedom,” a phrase from the Gettysburg Address, reflected the timing. More than a million people braved freezing temperatures on the National Mall to witness history as [...]
Sleeping Cadets (Redux)
Back in October when I as redesigning my website, I posted a photo I had taken from a graduation ceremony at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. It was a bit of an amusing photo of non-graduating cadets in the audience and some of them had nodded off to sleep. Funny, but not uncommon at [...]
