Politics. On Point.

After Romney's traveling press secretary, Rick Gorka, had a few choice words for the media this week, the campaign is acknowledging the error of their ways and has decided to become more 'press friendly', the Hill Overnight is reporting. Fewer than 100 days out from the election, the campaign is expected to provide more press briefings and heightened access to the candidate in the coming days, and to make changes to the travel pool that will make it more media-friendly. The changes would represent a major shift for the Romney campaign, which so far has offered only extremely limited access to the presumptive Republican nominee, and usually only to favored outlets like Fox News. A senior Romney aide said the campaign would work to find a balance between respecting the role of the press and telling the story it wants the public to hear about Romney. “The press's job is to cover every single angle and inch of this campaign, and I think that any campaign operation h...

First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a first ever White House State Dinner for children who submitted their favorite, healthy kid recipes to the White House in support of the First Lady's Let's Move healthy eating initiative. We have some real color commentary (too informative and extensive to waste) from a White House pool report that sums up the event quite nicely.   (Thanks to Eddie Gehman Kohan, Executive Editor of ObamaFoodorama , a web site she started that highlights the food events surrounding the The First Lady's Let's Move! initiative and the The Food Archive of the Obama Presidency). Before we get to that though, let me also add that we thought White House chef, Sam Kass, did a fabulous job working the 'Red Carpet' as the winners arrived through the part of the White House known as the Booksellers area.  Kass interviewed each winner before they entered the East Room of the White House getting reaction from them all on bein...

“Look at what they [Republicans] value, and look at their budget. And look what they're proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules -- unchain Wall Street. They're going to put y'all back in chains." - Vice President Joe Biden, August 14, 2012 White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked about Vice President Biden's remarks where he told a crowd of African American, Democratic supporters in Danville, VA earlier this week that Romney plans to put African Americans "back in chains". Obviously, when you read about this story, or watch the Vice President's speech, an immediate reference to Africans and slavery came to mind. Carney defended that reference saying "no one thought that." We did. Here's the exchange that took place during yesterday's press briefing. Reporter's question :   What are you saying to Republicans who say that the Vice Pr...

In order to create an economy built to last, America needs to make more things the rest of the world wants to buy.   - President Obama The Obama Administration announced today a new Public-Private Partnership to support manufacturing innovation and to encourage investment in America Consortium of Businesses, Universities, and Community Colleges from as far across the country as Youngstown Ohio, to West Virginia and Pennsylvania as part of its ongoing efforts to help revitalize American manufacturing and encourage companies to invest in the United States.  The new partnership, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), was selected through a competitive process, led by the Department of Defense, to award an initial $30 million in federal funding, matched by $40 million from the winning consortium, which includes manufacturing firms, universities, community colleges, and non-profit organizations from the Ohio-Pennsylvania-West Virginia ‘Tech Belt.’...