MetaFilter posts tagged with whitehouse and obama

Transparency Like You've Never Seen Before

up in the old hotel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:57:59 -0800

You like documents? We got documents:

Ten Letters a Day

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:13:35 -0800

The White House receives over 60,000 letters to the President every day. A new video from the White House briefly shows the process of selecting the ten of them that the President reads, three or four of which he writes responses to, every day.

White House 2.0

pyramid termite — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:23:38 -0800

It's on Facebook. It's also on MySpace. It even has a Twitter page. The White House is in the 21st century.

100 Days of Obama: the Flickr Potustream

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:32 -0800

After one hundred days, the wait is over: Pete Souza's Gargantuan Presidential High-Definition Executive Flickrdump is here. Warning: If you put it on fullscreen you won't get anything else done for a while.

Open For Questions

dersins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:06:20 -0800

Open For Questions. Metafilter's Own™ box and klangklangston "skim the White House's Open For Questions, posting the best and brightest queries the American public can manage." [via mefi projects] NB: "Best and brightest" may be used facetiously.

Grapes we can believe in

Joe Beese — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:59:16 -0800

The first female White House chef, a naturalized Philippina named Cristeta Comerford, was appointed by George W. Bush - who told Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, "I am reminded of the great talent of our Philippine Americans when I eat dinner at the White House." Despite the urging of American food icon Alice Waters, President Obama has left Comerford in charge of the White House kitchens - though he's keeping quiet about it. But on the basis of the wines served at Obama's Inauguration Day lunch, oenophiles are still hoping for change. (more First Food posts here and here )

President Barack Obama

theora55 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:19:17 -0800

President Barack Obama The text of the Inaugural speech will be posted after it's completed. Change.gov is closing up shop; Change has come to Whitehouse.gov.

Sorry, We’re Booked, White House Tells Obamas

Quidam — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:35:13 -0800

NYT: "The White House has turned down a request from the family of President-elect Barack Obama to move into Blair House in early January so that his daughters can start school on Jan. 5." The Obamas were told that Blair House, where incoming presidents usually stay in the five days before Inauguration Day, is booked in early January, a spokesperson to the Obama transition said. “We explored the idea so that the girls could start school on schedule,’ the spokesperson said. “But, there were previously scheduled events and guests that couldn’t be displaced.” The Blair House, situated across the street from the White House, is the official state guest house for the President of the United States. Take a tour of the Blair House. Wikipedia. And where are the Obama girls going to school, anyway? To the Sidwell Friends School, apparently, which has also educated the children of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, as well as the grandchildren of Joe Biden, albeit for as much as $29,442 a year.