On Saturday (Oct. 29), President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and her mother Marian Robinson invited local elementary school students as well as children from the Boys and Girls Club of America and children from military families to a special Halloween party at the White House.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama made his fourth appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno during his trip out West. The president discussed last week’s death of Libyan head of state Muammar Gaddafi and how televising it is “not something that I think we should relish” as well as the accomplishments in Iraq following the recent announcement that the troops would be home before the end of the year.
Despite his approval ratings hitting a new low of 41 percent, Pres. Obama says it’s to be expected 
right now:
You know, look, we have gone through the worst financial crisis, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. People are hurting out there, and they’ve been hurting out there for a while. And people were having a tough time even before the crisis. You know, incomes, wages, we are all flat. Costs of everything from college to health care to gas to food, all of it was going up, and so people were feeling a lot of pressure even before this crisis. And so I — every day I wake up saying to myself, “Look, you can’t expect folks to feel satisfied right now”.
With the 2012 presidential election just over a year away, President Barack Obama should be focusing his efforts on his re-election campaign. However, the president is instead concentrating on getting the American Jobs Act passed, which he unveiled to Congress in September, and has hit the road to stress that “we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job”.
On Monday, Pres. Obama traveled to Las Vegas to kick off his new effort to convince Congress, namely Republicans, to put country before party and pass the Jobs Act. He also did a bit of campaigning before heading to Los Angeles later in the day, where, on Tuesday, he’ll make his fourth appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
On Sunday (Oct. 16), President Barack Obama dedicated the Martin Luther King Memorial after touring the monument with First Lady Michelle Obama, their daughters, Sasha and Malia, and family members of Dr. King.
The event included speeches from noted individuals including Congressman John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, among others. Musical and spoken tributes were also made by Mary Mary, Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin (SEE PERFORMANCE VIDEO BELOW) and more.
“An earthquake and hurricane may have delayed this day, but it was a day not to be denied,” the president said, opening his dedication:
For this day, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s return to the National Mall. In this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it; a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect. Continue
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