Geithner Plan, 3/23/09

We won't call them "toxic"
But "legacy funds"
Remember
The bankers
Holding the guns:
Equivocovery

Clean Energy Future, 3/23/09

The choice: we keep digging
Our fuel from the ground
Or we turn to new sources
And a future
That's sound:
Greenewable

On France's Return to NATO, 3/21/09

I welcome back France
and Nicolas Sarko
Zy to the En
Ay Tee
To the O:
Cornerstalliance

Weekly Address, 3/21/09

This budget must
Be green and healthy,
Teach kids
And make us
Long term wealthy:
Fourprinciples

Message to Iran, 3/20/09

We seek a future
Including Iran
Nowruz New
Year new
Yes we can
Eidehshomamobarak

With National Conference of State Legislatures, 3/20/09

We'll spend the funds
For many uses
But wasters
Will have
No excuses:
Meetthetest

Tonight Show, 3/19/09

The problem's grown
Through many years
It takes some
Time to
Change our gears:
Cultureshift

Costa Mesa, CA, 3/18/09

To heave the country
From its rut
I've had to
Go against
My gut:
Bonusymptom

With Irish PM Brian Cowen, 3/17/09

The Taoiseach and I
Just may be related
His county's
My county
Distantly dated:
Offalysons

Department of Veterans Affairs, 3/16/09

Our obligation
Binds our fates
To those who
Passed beyond
These gates:
Debtofhonor

On Small and Big Business, 3/16/09

That AIG's sure
Got some stones
Yet smaller
Merchants still
Need loans:
Compensizing

Meeting with Lula da Silva, 3/14/09

On biofuels
I need to mention
We need to
Ease the
Excess tension:
Followthelula

Weekly Address, 3/14/09

Protections of
The nation's plate
Are long
Beyond their
Sell-by-date:
Publichazard

Accountable Recovery Conference, 3/12/09

Is wiser spending
Too much to ask?
I think you're
Ready for
The task:
JoeBiden'swatching

Budget Signing and Earmark Reform, 3/11/09

I'm signing this
To keep things going
But future
Pork needs
Public showing:
Transparaspend

White House Council on Women and Girls, 3/11/09

We carry forward
As a team
To help
Fulfill all
Daughters' dreams:
Forthemomstoo

Speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 3/10/09

Recruiting, preparing,
And rewarding outstanding
Teachers allows
The kids a
Safe landing:
Counterparty

Memo on Scientific Integrity, 3,9/09

The policies good
Science supports
Must be kept
From political
Kangaroo courts:
Harnessthepower

Executive Order on Stem Cells, 3/9/09

The limits of
The past eight years
Will now give
Way to new
Frontiers:
Fundingcoming

Weekly Address, 3/7/09

Each generation
Tests its fate
In crises
Chances too
Are great:
Opportunize

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White House Link

Columbus, OH 3/6/09

The plan puts more cops
On the beat
Puts jobs on
Main before
Wall Street:
Keepingpeace

Healthcare forum, 3/5/09

Can costs be kept
Under control
While boosting
Healthcare
For the whole?
Squarethecircle

On Contractors, 3/4/09

In private contracts
We have trusted
Too much
Now the budget's
Busted:
Nomorenobid

Department of Transportation, 3/3/09

Sometimes the people
Have to seize
The chance to
Spend us off
Our knees:
Obamapave

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White House Link

Presser with Gordon Brown, 3/3/09

1.

What threats we faced
Were not the Russians
The letter
Just began
Discussions:
Quidprono

2.

Great Britain and the
United States
Share common
Laws and
Common fates:
Specialfriends

3.

The day to day
Gyrations and
The fits and starts
Will lead
To land:
Eventually

4.

The global system's
Sure outdated
It's time
We got it
Regulated:
Capitalflows

HHS Nomination, 3/2/09

She has the wisdom
To compose
A tune
To soothe
Our health care woes:
Sebelius

Camp Lejeune, 2/27/09

Six years and now
The end is starting
We'll still
Engage while
We're departing:
Carefuldemob

Address to Congress, 2/24/09, in fourteen stanzas

1.

You don't need numbers
To see the truth
Of this
Recession's
Azimuth:
Pointingdown


2.

The answers lie
Within our reach
With those who make
And those
who teach:
Imagipreneurs

3.

It's time we come
To recognize
That short-term
Thinking
Isn't wise:
Agendaset

4.

I know the skeptics
Don't believe
But I've got
Nothing
Up my sleeve:
It'sontheweb

5.

We'll break the cycle
Re-start the credit
We'll do it
Just the way
I said it:
Accountable

6.

The Wall Street traders
Start to sing
A sad song
When they see
The strings:
Notaboutthebanks

7.

We must acknowledge
Bigger facts;
We can't let
Anger guide
Our acts:
Solvetheproblem

8.

History teaches
That the nation
Responds
To crisis
With transformation:
Conditionate

9.

We're oil addicts
To get off it
Green energy
Must turn
A profit:
Reimagine

10.

Though it might
Be tempting fate
Health care
Reform
Cannot wait:
Consciencecause


11.

For schools to offer
Better courses
They need more
Than a few
Resources:
Togethernow

12.

In the long run
We'll have to get
Our children's
Children
Out of debt:
Inheriburden

13.

I think about
Leonard Abess
Ty’Sheoma Bethea
Greensburg
Kansas:
Noquitterswe

14.

We may not always
Have agreed
But want
Our country
To succeed:
Godblessetc.


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White House Link

Weekly Address, 2/28/09

So special interests
Left high and dry
Are prepped
To fight?
So am I:
Startthechange

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White House Link

Weekly Address, 2/21/09

The plan's just one step
On the journey
To wheel
The economic
Gurney:
Readyshovels

NBA All-Star Game message, 2/15/09

The greatest players
Win most respect
By what they do
When they connect:
Servicecall


*

Link: USA Service

Weekly Address, 2/14/09: Burmashaved!

We'll make a website

*

So everyone knows

*

Just where that

*

Recovery

*

Money goes:

*

Stimutrace




White House link

Lincoln Association Breakfast, 2/12/09

Among the things

*

Abe Lincoln knew

*

Some only

*

A union

*

Can do:

*

Rediscovery

Caterpillar plant, 2/12/09

Recovery has

*

Many factors

*

One involves

*

Our building

*

Tractors:

*

Peoria

Fort Myers, 2/10/09

No time for politics

*

Or poses

*

You see a fire

*

You grab

*

Some hoses:

*

Togethernow

Nightline Interview, 2/10/09

Wall Street views

*

My plan with doubt

*

Because

*

It wants

*

An easy out:

*

Bankerbabies

Press Conference 4: to Jake Tapper

Metric 1, job creation

*

Metric 2, credit's back

*

Metric 3, housing markets

*

To get on

*

A proper track

*

Grownupsplease

Press Conference 3: To Jennifer Loven

It's not the truth

*

That brings us down

*

But the politics

*

That runs


*

This town

*

Nonononono

Press Conference (2), 2/9/09

We can't afford

*

To wait and see

*

If crisis

*

Becomes

*

Catastrophe

*

Barackolyptic

Press Conference (1), 2/9/09

The people didn't

*

Make this mess

*

But bankers'

*

Reckless

*

Greediness:

*

Barackdown

Elkhart, Indiana, 2/9/09

The bill isn't perfect

*

But it's sized about right

*

We're not gonna fix

*

This big mess

*

Overnight

*

Baragitate

Weekly Address, 2/7/09

The people are watching

*

Republicans smirk

*

Do they want

*

To trade insults

*

Or put people

*

To work?

*

Partisnore


White House link

Economic Recovery Advisory Board, 2/6/09

We need more than echoes

*

And thinking by group

*

Though we're all drinking

*

From the same thin

*

Bowl of soup:

*

Econogruel

Williamsburg Speech, 2/5/09

These aren't just statistics.

*

This isn't a game.

*

They didn't just vote

*

for more

*

of the same:

*

Oburnitup

New Rules, 2/4/09

We must ensure CEO

*

Payscales are just

*

Or risk what remains

*

Of the frayed

*

Public trust:

*

Halfmillionbucks

On Daschle withdrawal, 2/3/09

He made some mistakes

*

And did no excusing.

*

I tried, but

*

The Tom-bomb

*

Needed defusing:

*

Obombinee

What recovery means for you, 2/2/09

Please take a moment

*

As the economy's bleeding

*

And send a question

*

To your local

*

Recovery House Meeting:

*

Transparaplan

On TD, 2/2/09

Those who think my nominee

*

For HHS will crash'll

*

Find the club's still soft

*

For former

*

Senator Tom Daschle:

*

Potkettlevote

Pre-Superbowl Interview, 2/1/09

Though it may be hard

*

I'd like to see

*

Most troops out of Iraq

*

by Bowl El

*

Ex Eye Vee:

*

Withdrawabowl

Middle Class Task Force, 1/30/09

Our plan to spark

*

Recovery

*

Puts folks to work

*

Starting with

*

The V.P.

*

Bideputized

Alfalfa dinner, 1/31/09

My man Rahm E

*

Thinks every day's

*

A chance

*

To swear in

*

Different ways:

*

Obamaburn

Weekly address, 1/31/09: Burmashaved!

To heal our nation's credit mess

*

Will take not months but years.

*

I tell you this so you can help

*

To bend

*

The Senate's ears.

*

Recovaplan

Pro-labor executive orders, 1/30/09

After eight years favoring

*

Corporate perks

*

It's time to write rules

*

For the person

*

Who works:

*

Laboright

On Ex-Gov Rod, 1/29/09

Now he's gone from Springfield

*

I wish him all the best

*

And ask him not to call me

*

As he takes his

*

[Bleeping] rest.

*

Blagojegone.

On Wall Street bonuses, 1/29/09

Now's not the time

*

for those who bank

*

to draw on checks

*

they mistake

*

for blank:

*

Citishame.

Signing the Fair Pay Act, 1/29/09

The first bill I sign

*

is an open letter

*

to daughters

*

everywhere

*

from Lilly Ledbetter

*

Equalify

After meeting with business leaders, 1/28/09: Burmashaved!

If we will enter

*

a better era

*

we'll have to

*

give our

*

equal share-a

*

Econosave

Al-Arabia Interview, 1/27/09: Burmashaved!

It's time to turn

*

A newer page

*

And start to

*

Truly

*

Re-engage

*

Obamsalaam