White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, May 14, 2013. Jay Carney said the White House had nothing to do with the operation to comb the AP's phone records -- as part of an apparent case targeting national security leakers. "We are not involved in decisions made in connection with criminal investigations, as those matters are handled independently by the Justice Department," said Carney. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Jay Carney (Photo credit – SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
You know it was all political. Donald Trump’s visit to the flood areas of Baton Rouge last week had nothing to do with the truckload of supplies he brought, but everything to do with the upcoming election and the fact that the sitting president, Barack Obama, had not made a personal visit to the Louisiana.
Yes, the President has sent other members of his administration to inspect the damages and yes, Mr. Obama has made the necessary emergency declarations, thus clearing the way for federal funds to the state. It should also be noted that the decision to postpone the president’s visit to a later date was done by the local government. But Trump’s political stunt worked and the uninformed people began asking, where is Obama? Why isn’t he here?
That question even made its way into the White House briefing. Asked if President Obama decided to go to Baton Rouge because of Donald Trump, Jay Carney appeared flustered as he shut down the reporter and his dumb question.
Chris Christie has a BIG mouth, but he might have bitten off more than he can chew here.
Christie has been busy lately trying to climb out of the poll-hole his campaign started in, and he figured attacking the President would get him out of that hole. But I’m not sure Christie expected the President and the White House to fight back!
Christie’s attack on the president says that Mr. Obama is responsible for whatever anti-police sentiments in America today. Yes, that attack plays good with the Republican base that hates everything Obama, but it is not based in reality. In an interview on MSNBC, Christie said, “We have liberal policies that tie the hands behind the backs of police officers and then when incidents happen, accuse them of misconduct first and then do the investigation later,” Christie said Monday. “And you’ve got a president of the United States who does not support law enforcement. Simply doesn’t.”
But the White House shot back.
Press secretary Josh Earnest called Christie’s claim that Obama does not support police “particularly irresponsible,” suggesting it’s an attempt to “turn around” his struggling presidential campaign.
“They’re not surprising for somebody whose poll numbers are closer to an asterisk than they are double digits,” Earnest said.
FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement regarding the budget fight in Congress and foreign policy challenges, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. As Iran's diplomatic profile rises with attempts to recalibrate its dealings with Washington, the Gulf rulers will have to make adjustments, too, and that's not such an easy thing for the monarchs and sheiks to swallow. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Absolutely Mr. President. And if I wereyou, I would have added, “… and if you don’t shut up, I’ll just run for a third term!” He would get my vote! 🙂
As Obama was speaking at a White House event honoring LGBT Pride Month on Wednesday, an accented voice rang out from the crowd. Obama wasn’t amused.
“Shame on you,” he told his heckler, who was protesting deportations under the Obama administration.
Obama responded, “Listen you’re in my house … it’s not respectful.”
The interruption persisted, however, and Obama asked for the heckler to be removed from the East Room.
“As a general rule I am just fine with a few hecklers. But not when I’m up here in the house,” he said, as Vice President Joe Biden clapped him on the back.
Obama said later if guests are “eating the hors d’oeuvres and drinking the booze,” they’re typically expected to listen respectfully.
The president couldn’t calm the children down as they screamed in horror at the president’s event.
“Hold on! Hold on! You guys are wild things!,” Mr.Obama said,as he continued his efforts to sooth the children. “You’re not supposed to be scared of bees when you’re a wild thing!”
“They won’t harm nothing. They won’t sting you,” Mr. Obama said on Wednesday as he read “Where the Wild Things Are” at an Easter event. The bees are kept at the White House and their honey is used in White House recipes. But on Wednesday, the kids were apparently on the menu.
Joined by President George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush Hager, the First Lady of The United States surprised shocked visitors to the White House with her presence, welcoming them with arms outstretched.
A woman with a gun was arrested Thursday night outside of the White House, officials said, just minutes after the President delivered his speech on sweeping immigration changes he’ll make by executive order.
The Secret Service arrested April Lenhart, a 23-year-old Michigan resident, at about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday on Pennsylvania Avenue near the North Lawn of the White House after she was spotted with a gun holstered under her shirt, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said.
The incident occurred as dozens of people were demonstrating outside the White House after the President delivered his immigration speech at 8 p.m.
The people rallying outside the White House were moved off of Pennsylvania Avenue as the arrest was made, Donovan said.
Lenhart was not responding to Secret Service agents’ questions as of 10 p.m. Thursday.
According to reporting by Buzzfeed, Secret Service identified the suspect as 23-year-old Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland. Adesanya was taken into custody by agents after being stopped by guard dogs on the White House lawn around 7:16 p.m. ET. Video from the scene showed a man kicking and punching a dog.
Adesanya was transported to a hospital with injuries after he was taken into custody.
The cause of the incident was not immediately known, and comes in the wake of an incident last month where 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez scaled the fence and made it inside the White House before being apprehended. The security breach ultimately resulted in the resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pearson.
The man who ran all the way into the White House last Saturday was ready for war with White House security. He has a record and has had numerous run-ins with the police.
According to information that came out in his first court appearance on Monday, Omar J. Gonzales, who did multiple tours in Iraq, was stopped by police in July. When he was searched, authorities found a map of the White House and a machete on him. Then again in August, Gonzalez was spotted walking in the vicinity of the White House with two ratchets on his possession. He was questioned and allowed to go on his merry way. Then On Saturday, he made his way into the White House with a knife in his pocket and 800 rounds of ammunition in his car.
According to court proceedings, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Mudd, said Gonzalez was a danger to the President.
Asked by reporters if he has confidence in the Secret Service, President Obama said that he is grateful for the sacrifice they are making on his behalf and the behalf of his family.
Sacrifice? A man who had 800 rounds of ammunition made his way into your home with a knife in his pocket. Sacrifice? Really?
It’s refreshing to know that there are some in Congress who are demanding something be done to make sure the this doesn’t happen again. Peter King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, spoke on Fox News Sunday and called the total lapse by the Secret Service “absolutely inexcusable,” and he suggested a congressional hearing into the breach of security be done.
“This is absolutely inexcusable! This demands a full investigation, an investigation as to what happened, why it happened and what’s being done to make sure it never happens again.”
“He could have had a body bomb; he could have [had] a vest on! There can be a lot of conspiracies against a president, a lot of complex assassination plots. This is the most basic, the most simple type of procedure, and how anyone, especially in these days of ISIS, and we’re concerned about terrorist attacks, someone could actually get into the White House without being stopped is inexcusable.”
Needless to say, I disagree with just about everything Peter King has to say. He’s a Republican, so there. But in this case, I am in agreeance with the man. I am pretty shocked!. That someone can jump the fence and be allowed to go on a Sunday jog casually across the North Lawn, up to the doors of the White House and then enter the building is freaking mind-boggling!
According to the response from the Secret Service, the man wasn’t taken down because he didn’t appear to have a weapon. Huh? So that allows him free passage into the most secure place in the nation?
The man, later identified as 42 year old Omar J. Gonzales from Texas had a knife in his pocket when he entered the doors of the White House. Can you imagine if he was a suicide bomber?
Really? In the greatest nation on earth we have to put up with nut jobs jumping the White House fence and running all the way into the symbol of American exceptionalism? How the… what the… why was this man able to not only jump the fence, but allowed, yes allowed to run across the North Lawn and bust into what’s easily considered the most secure place in the country, probably on the face of the earth?
Who was asleep at the wheel? That is the question the Secret Service is asking themselves today after the stranger was arrested inside, yes… dude made it all the way inside the White House.
Now I’ve been inside the White House. It is a place where you must submit to a month-long background check, just to get in the side door. Who would have thought that the way to bypass all that security and still make it into the building was just to jump the fence for a short jog to the front door?
The incident happened on Friday. The video shows the man sprinting across the White House lawn as if on a mission, as if trying to prove that it could be done, that it was possible. He bust through the front door to the building and at that point, was apprehended by Secret Service. As fate would have it, the President and his family had left the building for their trip to Camp David just minutes earlier.
The man, identified as 42-year old Omar Gonzalez of Cooperas Cove, Texas, was taken to the hospital for a mental evaluation and analysis. But I’m sure there will be more analysis among the Secret Service tofigure out exactly what happened.
With all the threats being made to the president and the whole ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State… whatever thing going on, we should all expect a more proactive response from the people hired to protect the president. It is called the most secured place in the nation for a reason, and sitting back and waiting for a potential crazed maniac to break through the front doors of the White House is definitely not proactive. Heads should roll because of this incident.
This is the headline one of the local papers here in New York, the WestView News, ran.
Now they claimed that this headline and the article that goes with it was actually written in support of the president, mocking the blatant racists who oppose the president simply because he is black. But to me that doesn’t matter. There are just certain things that should not be said and this is one of them.
Police have arrested a man in front of the White House after he reportedly got naked and tried to hop the fence, reports say.
Photos of the arrest show at least four Secret Service agents pinning the nude man to the sidewalk after he tried to get by security and assaulted an officer on Friday afternoon.
The unidentified man left nothing to the imagination as he stripped all the way down to his socks at one of the security gates at about 3 p.m. after he was denied entrance to the White House, according to the Daily Caller.
The man was adamant that he had an appointment with the President Obama as he yelled and removed his boxers, the Caller reported. That was seconds before his naked body was tackled to the ground.
The officers clothed him with a simple blanket and packed him away into the back of a van.
The man was taken to a local hospital for minor injuries, reported the Washington Post.
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