Press vs. Press Secretary

Apparently the White House isn't giving photographers the access they want.  This isn't a full on press revolt, but there are a couple of clearly unhappy people on the opposite side of the podium from Jay Carney.  Give the media another 100 years and they will all have turned on the president's administration.  500 years and the president himself may have to start worrying.

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Feel Good Video - Pelosi At a Disadvantage on Facts

Want to feel better about Obamacare? Actually you can't.  But seeing this fairly recent spot of Nancy Pelosi on Meet The Press might offer some temporary relief of the acute Obamacare cramps you are now experiencing.

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Thursday Hillary Bash - The Also Rans

If you missed it, there are some interesting Hillary-related implications of Obama's inclusion of John Podesta in the White House team.

Hey, what about me?

It's looking like it's Hillary or bust for the Democrats in 2016.  Recent polling indicates that Elizabeth Warren may be the one to challenge Hillary for the Democrat nomination for president in 2016.  Because even Democrats don't believe Obama when he says Joe Biden is one of the best VPs ever.  But the recent poll with Warren gaining on Biden looks as if it will be two women fighting for top spot:

“There is no strong contender against her,” he said. “She doesn’t want to use the word inevitable, but these numbers are as wide as they can get. She’s jogging around the track by herself.”

The former first lady, senator and secretary of state enjoys lopsided support among Democrats and Democratic-leading independents:

Clinton, 65 percent.

Vice President Joe Biden, 12 percent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, 9 percent.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, 3 percent.

Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, 1 percent.

But if that's true, Warren, viewed as further left leaning than Hillary isn't buying into it - or wasn't as recently as last week: (emphasis added)

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren did the convenient thing yesterday. She fell on her presidential sword, and took herself out of contention for 2016.

It’s highly probable that if she didn’t get her marching orders directly from President Obama or Hillary and Bill Clinton, then some intermediary made their desires known to her.

At the highest levels of the party, there is no desire for a Democratic primary bloodbath that would serve only the 
Republicans. Hillary Clinton sees 2016 as her year, and Obama, while personally closer to Warren, doesn’t want to run afoul of his [sic] own party’s most powerful couple in their quest to return to the White House.

Doesn't that seem a little ominous?  What the United States clearly needs right now: more autocracy... 

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While we're on the subject of Obama at a funeral

(Original Obama funeral issue here)

Specifically, Nelson Mandela's funeral, everybody is making note of the fact that he shook hands with Cuba's Castro, but Brietbart has the real story about shaking hand with Obama:

Earlier Tuesday, NBC News reported that President Barack Obama had shaken hands with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. However, the UK Telegraph's Josie Ensor reported that Obama "was asked to take his seat just before reaching Mugabe." Complicating matters, another article in the UK Telegraph also claimed that Obama had shaken hands with Mugabe--in very similar terms to those used in the NBC article.

Breitbart News caught the discrepancy--and suddenly the NBC News article was corrected, with no notice.

Mugabe, in case you didn't know is not a nice guy.  

I'm not sure where the Obama handshake with Mugabe story goes, given the concerted attempt by the media to focus on what is perceived as the lesser of two evils to focus attention on the Castro handshake but I'm sure he hopes it just goes away.  It's not good for his brand.  And maybe this is nothing more than an editorial mix-up or incorrect information, but if that's the case a correction for the discrepancy should be made. Mugabe offends many in Obama's base as well as people's sensibilities in general.  that handshake has no upside while the progressives within the Democratic party might secretly cheer a Castro handshake.

In Obama's defense, maybe he just didn't know who this Mugabe guy was...it might have been 3 a.m. Eastern Standard Time

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Obama's Mandela funeral selfie

There's a word I thought I'd never use and certainly not with respect to the POTUS, let alone at a funeral for Nelson Mandella. This is really not appropriate.  No matter what you think of Mandela (communist, healer, freedom fighter, supporter of violence, whatever) it's the man's funeral.  Not cool.

As captured by OpieRadio (who noted MichelleObama's reaction):

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