west wing week: “the new electrification” (february 11, 2011)

goodbye gibbs …. for now ;-)

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs with Vice President Joe Biden and his Communications Director Jay Carney in a photo from October, 2009. Gibbs is leaving the White House this month and will become an outside adviser to the administration – Carney will replace him in the role of Press Secretary.

President Obama with Ethan Gibbs, son of Robert

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, in his final week on the job, is beginning to share some of his thoughts on what it means to speak for the president of the United States.

Asked what advice he has given his successor, Vice President Biden’s communication director Jay Carney, Gibbs told reporters that he shared what his predecessors told him: “First and foremost, regardless of what you know and what you’re asked, your solemn obligation is to always tell the truth.”

Gibbs took his final official flight on Air Force One on Thursday.

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I’ll love this guy forever for taking on the “Professional Left” 😉

hold on guys, just checking today’s only adult in the room mishmash

President Barack Obama edits his remarks before addressing an audience at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich., Feb. 10, 2011. Pictured from left are: NSC Executive Secretary Nate Tibbits, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and Presidential Speechwriter Cody Keenan. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

You should check the Mishmash too – just click here

😉

i ♥ newt

Today he said the loveliest thing imaginable about the President, the ultimate tribute:

“I knew Ronald Reagan – Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan.”

Thank you Newt for being so generous to 44, love ya 😉

flashback ….. in a class of his own

Barack Obama in 1995 in his office at the University of Chicago Law School

♥ apples & bananas

back to the office

President Barack Obama walks back to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington after a trip to Michigan. Obama was scheduled to meet with members of his National Security team to discuss the events in Egypt.

double vision

President Barack Obama watches screens during a video teleconference as he participates in a demonstration of the WiMAX network, Feb. 10, at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan

there’s always hope

Supporters of President Barack Obama wait outside Doncker’s, a small diner in Marquette, Michigan

and the winner is….

President Obama gestures during his speech at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, Feb. 10

The text of the President’s speech here