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To: FJB who wrote (704355)	3/15/2013 8:55:37 AM
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Definitely unwinnable with Valerie Jarrett heading the US armed forces.

To: FJB who wrote (704355)	3/15/2013 9:23:30 AM
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Obama Mocks House Dem -- But Ends Up Looking Like Jerk... A Kildee Comeuppance? Or More Obama Aloofness? By Jonathan Strong March 14, 2013 www3.hoh.rollcall.com Michigan Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee has been in Congress for a little more than two months, and today the leader of the free world gave him a gentle ribbing about just how new he is to Capitol Hill. At a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and House Democrats, Kildee introduced himself as a freshman, to which Obama said, “Wow, you’re really classing up the place then.” Kildee then proceeded to ask what one person described as a somewhat “long-winded” question about the importance of creating jobs for his economically distraught district. “I can tell you’re a freshman because you didn’t pay much attention to the State of the Union,” Obama joked. “I talked about that.” Amid the resulting laughter, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra of California then offered to provide Kildee a printout of the speech. Obama was referring to his $1 billion proposal for 15 manufacturing “innovation centers,” the details of which are still somewhat hazy. Actually, though, the joke was on Obama: On Wednesday, Kildee had met with the White House legislative affairs team about the innovation centers proposal, so he was quite familiar with it. And his question was broader, about what types of reforms are necessary to reform decaying urban centers like Flint, Mich., which Kildee represents. “Dan wasn’t specifically talking about innovation centers in his question,” a spokesman said.

To: FJB who wrote (704355)	3/15/2013 9:28:59 AM
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Obama couldn’t eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’ [AUDIO] 03/14/2013 by Nicholas Ballasy dailycaller.com WASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present. “ University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad — I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants, see this was a healthy lunch as well. We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received,” Collins told reporters on Thursday after the meeting at the Capitol. “Unfortunately, you know, the president can’t,” said Collins when asked if Obama ate at the lunch meeting. “He looked longingly at it,” Collins continued. “He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.” According to a 2009 AFP report, the U.S. Secret Service has “always refused to confirm that US presidents travel with a food ‘taster’, in line with their policy of discretion on all security related issues.” Read more: dailycaller.com