Gibbs: Obama Has Not Called Packers Yet To Congratulate Them

(CNN Politics) In 2009, Obama had no problem calling Pittsburgh Steeler team's owner Dan Rooney to congratulate winning the Super Bowl. In fact, Obama was rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers and threw a bipartisan Superbowl party for the occasion.

but..............

White House press secretary says President Obama hasn't called anyone from the Packers team after they won the Super Bowl on Sunday.

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Since Obama gave the owner of the Steelers the ambassadorship to Ireland, it seems that Obama is showing some favoritism...........

Obama Appeared Ticked Off at Bill O'Reillys Question About Football

In the interview with Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, Obama kept a calm demeanor while O'Reilly challenged the president with questions. However, when the topic came to football, the president appeared to be extremely annoyed by O'Reillys question.

Bill O'Reilly bluntly asked if Obama really watch football games.

Obama's response,

"Bill, I know football,man. I schmooze with everybody when they come in, but when the game starts, I don't want them chitting and chatting."

I wish Obama used that intensity that he has for sports and use that to fix the economy and foreign affairs.

O'Reilly Interviews Obama During the Super Bowl

From the O'Reilly interview, we know that Obama wants President Mubarak out of office immediately, wouldn't mind if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt, didn't get the memo that majority of American don't want Obamacare, and surprised that many American aren't too crazy about the president. In other words, Obama lives in a bubble.

(Washington Post) President Obama sat down with FOX News host Bill O'Reilly on Sunday for a live interview that aired during pre-game coverage of the Super Bowl on local FOX broadcast stations.

The interview, which was preceded by a series advertisement-programming hybrids sponsored by E-Trade and Pizza Hut, showed the "O'Reilly Factor" host and the president sitting in the White House, one-on-one.

O'Reilly started with Egypt, asking the president when embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would leave office.

"Only he knows what he's going to do," Obama said. "Egypt is not going to go back to what it was. The Egyptian people want freedom. They want free and fair elections ... and so what we've said is you've got to start a transition now."

O'Reilly pressed the president to say, if he knew, when Mubarak would leave. "We can say that the time is now for you to start making a change in that country," Obama said.

"He has been a good partner when it comes to the peace with Israel," Obama said, adding that Mubarak was aware of certain U.S. foreign relations plans.

"He knows a lot of bad things about us," O'Reilly said. "So I'm just worried that he might go off the reservation. "

The conversation then turned to the question of the Muslim Brotherhood, a non-secular faction that is currently involved in talks with the Egyptian government. "I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt," Obama said. "There are a whole bunch of secular folks in Egypt...educators, civil society in Egypt that want to come forward as well.

"What I want is a representative government in Egypt," Obama said, when pressed as to whether he would want the Muslim Brotherhood becoming the leading political party.

Discussion then turned to the health-care reform law and a recent decision by a Florida court judge to strike down the president's signature reform effort. "I think the judge in Florida was wrong," said Obama, citing 12 other judges who had thrown out suits challenging the law. When O'Reilly said it would go to the Supreme Court, Obama countered that legal challenges still had other levels of the judicial system to go through.

"I'm not prepared to go back to a day when," if you have a pre-existing condition you "can't get help."

O'Reilly then read an editorial from the Wall Street Journal that described the president as being open to a re-distribution of wealth.

"The Wall Street Journal would probably paint you as a pretty left-wing guy," Obama said, when O'Reilly finished reading.

O'Reilly then claimed a majority of Americans disapproved of the health-care law, asking the president for his take. "Actually, I think it's pretty evenly divided, Bill," Obama said.

Obama and O'Reilly continued to spar over the nature of the health-care law, with O'Reilly claiming that many Americans feel that the president was intruding on their freedoms, "I give you credit, you've got a pretty big viewership," Obama said, again countering the claim that a majority of Americans did not support the law.

O'Reilly then asked whether the president was moving towards the political center, joking, "We were set up over there and they moved you a little bit to the center."

"Now, our focus is not on re-fighting the battles of the last two years," Obama said. "I'm the same guy and my practical focus...is how do we out-innovate...out-compete the rest of the world."

Asked about the worst part of the job of being president, Obama joked, "First of all, I got the jacket on on Super Bowl Sunday," later saying that the biggest problem was "being in the bubble."

"Over time you feel like you're not able to have a spontaneous conversation with folks," Obama said.

"I'm a lot grayer, that's for sure," the president continued when O'Reilly said others had told him Obama had changed.

"I think they'd say I'm basically the same guy as when I came in," said the president.

"Can I tell you what they say?" asked O'Reilly, "You're much more guarded."

"There's no doubt that the weight of the office has an impact," said Obama going on to say that the more he was in the job the more he enjoyed it.

"Does it disturb you that so many people hate you?" O'Reilly said.

"The people who dislike you don't know you," said Obama. "The folks who hate you they don't know you. What they hate is whatever funhouse mirror image of you that's out there. So you don't take it personally."

O'Reilly ended by turning back to the night's main event and the question of who would win.

"Once my Bears lost, I don't pick sides," Obama said. O'Reilly then asked if the president cared about the game. Obama said he did and that he wanted "a good game."

"I have to get out of here, because I'll frighten [J. Lo]," O'Reilly said, referring to singer Jennifer Lopez who was attending the White House Super Bowl party.

"I schmooze with everbody once they come," said Obama, insisting that once the game started he would focus and not allow guests to interrupt.

O'Reilly then plugged a longer, taped interview to air Monday.

Beer and lots of Fatty Food at the Obama Super Bowl Party at the White House

Did anyone ask Michelle Obama if it met her requirements?

(Yahoo) President Barack Obama is turning again to fermented alcoholic beverages to find common ground between antagonists, this time fans of the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

For his Super Bowl party Sunday evening, Obama is offering Yuengling Lager and Light, brewed in Pennsylvania, and Hinterland Pale Ale and Amber Ale, all the way from Wisconsin. Independents can pour down some White House Honey Ale if they like.

The rest of the menu for the 100 or so guests at the White House bash is tailgate-friendly even if served inside the Executive Mansion: bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips and dips.

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY RONALD WILSON REAGAN

It doesn't matter if Obama carries a book about Reagan or reads it because Obama will never be the man Reagan aspired to be!

Reagan birthday centennial to be noted at Super Bowl

Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Wilson Reagan! Your achievements will forever be emblazons upon this great country that you loved. Thank you!!!

(Star Telegram) WASHINGTON -- Ronald Reagan admirers wanted to go all out to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 40th U.S. president's birth on Feb. 6 -- a fighter jet flyover, a 21-gun salute and a Beach Boys performance are among the commemorations. But the Great Communicator's centennial birthday conflicts with another great American megaevent: Super Bowl Sunday.

Yet Reaganites, true to the Gipper's attitude, saw an opportunity.

Just before kickoff, a tribute to Reagan will be displayed on the Jumbotron at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, perhaps fitting for this larger-than-life persona.

It's one of the scores of centennial events planned through the year for Reagan -- from his birthplace in Tampico, Ill., to his final resting place in Simi Valley, Calif. -- in a celebration that has taken on greater significance after Republican gains in Congress.

Although many events are being organized by or with help of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, activities large and small are being planned by others, including GOP clubs, former Reagan aides and admirers.

In Valparaiso, Ind., Chuck Williams, a Board of Public Works member and former county GOP chairman, was so fond of the former president that he named his daughter Reagan. Now he's seeking to name a street in town after him.

"He was an inspirational president," Williams said. "We've got Roosevelt Road. We've got Garfield Boulevard. We've got Lincoln Way." Why not Ronald Reagan Parkway? he asked.

Congress created a bipartisan Reagan Centennial Commission to help plan events, but no federal funding was provided. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., didn't believe that such spending would be very Reagan-like. Instead, many celebrations are privately funded.

"The centennial celebration is about more than just one day and one man," said John Heubusch, the Reagan foundation's executive director. "It's a yearlong historic occasion for people to remember an extraordinary man who restored pride in America and spread freedom throughout the world."

Reagan's wife, Nancy, 89, is expected to attend many events.

Reagan's boyhood home of Dixon, Ill., will premiere a 25-minute musical composition, Reagan of Illinois.