This and That

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama look out at the Chicago skyline, June 15

President Obama and Vice President Biden talk with Zachary Atala, son of Dr. Anthony Atala, M.D., Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, June 5

First Lady Michelle Obama waits to greet President Barack Obama upon his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, N.Y., June 14

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama present a birthday cake to Assistant Usher Reggie Dickson outside the Usher’s Office of the White House, following a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony and dinner honoring President Shimon Peres of Israel, June 13

President Obama with Bo in the Oval Office, June 21

Brian Mosteller, Director of Oval Office Operations, sits with Bo in the Outer Oval Office, June 20 😎

A young boy salutes President Obama as he greets audience members following his remarks at the NALEO Conference in Orlando, Fla., June 22

President Obama talks to a group of kids from Lenora Academy in Snellville, Ga., during a stop at the Varsity, a restaurant in Atlanta, Ga., June 26

President Obama talks to kids during a stop at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland on Broadway Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, June 14

President Obama talks on the phone with Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy aboard Air Force One, June 6

 All photos by Pete Souza – more here

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President Obama greets 11-year-old Haley Klepper during a ceremony honoring the 2012 NCAA Women’s College Basketball Champion Baylor Bears in the East Room of the White House. The team’s so-called biggest fan, Klepper, who suffers from a rare Mitochondrial disease, attends all the games and has a reserved spot in the locker room

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Thursday

10:45: President Obama departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews

12:45: Arrives in Jacksonville, Florida

1:15: Delivers remarks at a campaign event

3:05: Attends a campaign event at Prime Osborn Convention Center

4:35: Departs Jacksonville en route West Palm Beach

5:35: Arrives at West Palm Beach

6:20: Delivers remarks at a campaign event

7:35: Attends a campaign event at Century Plaza

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A crowd of residents wait to get tickets for Friday’s visit by Michelle Obama in Fredericksburg, Va.

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Cagle

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Hey everyone, I’m waaaaaaaaaay behind on the news today, will try to catch up tomorrow.

‘Betting on America’

Heads up for the Baylor Bears

White House live

CNN live streaming

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….. with Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker

… with Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

First Lady Michelle Obama at a Let’s Move! event at the Lenfest Police Athletic Center in Philadelphia

Coming up

11:50: Michelle Obama joins elected officials to announce public and private sector commitments for her Let’s Move! initiative in Pennsylvania (CNN live streaming)

12:30: Jay Carney briefs the press (White House live)

2:25: President Obama honors the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion Baylor Bears (White House live)

4:15: Michelle Obama is briefed on tornado recovery by local officials in Birmingham, Alabama and meets children affected by the storm (CBS live streaming)

5:40 President Obama attends a campaign event at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Closed press)

6:00: Michelle Obama delivers remarks at a campaign fundraising event in Birmingham

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Steve Benen: In 2008, Latino voters overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama over John McCain, siding with the Democrat by a 36-point margin, 67% to 31%, according to exit polls. The president won’t be able to improve upon this, will he?

Actually, he might. Latino Decisions released a new poll this morning, pointing to an even larger gap between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, with the president leading 70% to 22%. It’s the first time in nearly two years of Latino Decisions polls that Obama has reached this level of support.

More here

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Washington Post: The political pressure on Mitt Romney to release more of his personal income tax returns is causing some divisions inside the GOP presidential candidate’s camp, according to a Republican strategist close to the campaign.

Although some advisers are arguing privately that Romney needs to release additional filings to curb the political fallout, others are resisting that suggestion, reflecting the candidate’s longtime reluctance to publicly disclose information about his personal finances.

….. Late Tuesday, after the interview with Romney, the editors of the National Review wrote an editorial arguing that the only question for Romney is “whether he releases more returns now, or later – after playing more defense on the issue and sustaining more hits.”

The editorial adds to a growing chorus of Romney allies urging him to make the additional information public …. Many Republicans say Romney’s refusal to release the tax returns is beginning to cost him politically.

More here

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Paul Krugman: And so, predictably, Romney is accusing Obama of “attacking capitalism” and “dividing America” by raising questions about Bain and those hidden tax returns….

The special Romney twist – aside from the willful misrepresentation of what Obama actually said about business success — is Mitt’s desire to have it both ways. He’s proud of his business record and his success, he says, but at the same time wants us to believe that he had nothing to do with Bain’s actions over a three-year period when he was still its CEO, and is completely unwilling to let us see the tax returns that would tell us something about exactly how he achieved his current wealth. (There are two competing theories about his tax stonewalling. One is that he had one or more years of zero taxes. The other is that he actually made a lot of money in 2009, because he shorted the market. We may never know which is true.)

….. So Romney wants us to celebrate the success of people like him, even though their success doesn’t seem to have benefited ordinary families, and even though he stands for policies that would aggravate the gap between a fortunate few and everyone else. And then he accuses Obama of dividing America.

Full post here

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11:50: Michelle Obama joins elected officials to announce public and private sector commitments for her Let’s Move! initiative in Pennsylvania

12:30: Jay Carney briefs the press

2:25: President Obama honors the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion Baylor Bears

3:15: Michelle Obama is briefed on tornado recovery by local officials in Birmingham, Alabama and meets children affected by the storm

5:40 President Obama attends a campaign event at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel

6:00: Michelle Obama delivers remarks at a campaign fundraising event in Birmingham

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Morning everyone 😉