Palin "crib notes"

Sarah Palin's hand crib notes mocked by White House aide

Press secretary scrawls grocery list on hand after ex-Alaska governor uses 'palm-o-prompter' at Tea Party convention

It is the golden rule of Washington politics: don't engage with your critics. But Barack Obama's political staff could not resist the chance to hit back at Sarah Palin after she wrote crib notes on the palm of her hand at a gathering of conservative activists.

Speaking at a question and answer ­session on Saturday, the former US vice-presidential candidate and ex-Alaska governor inadvertently revealed that she had written the words "energy", "budget cuts", and "lift American spirit" on her palm. The word "budget" had been crossed out and replaced with "tax".

At yesterday's daily briefing, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said he also had written some things down on his hand. Breaking off from a question on healthcare reform, he said he planned to make pancakes for his son if the snow in Washington continued. "I wrote 'eggs', 'milk', 'bread', but I crossed out 'bread.' Then I wrote down 'hope' and 'change', in case I forgot."

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Kliphnote: Why do they worry about Palin? Unless the Obamabots are afraid of her.

Who cares about her "crib notes" on her palm. 

Obama has to have a Teleprompter with him everywhere he goes.

Just your typical Liberal whining. Bush haters. 

I do get a kick out of them.

They would be funny if they were not so obtuse.

Saw a car with an Obama sticker and a sticker that said "I'm for the public option".
The car was a foreign car. Why do so many Obama lovers drive foreign cars?

PS.  I'm still waiting for Obama to meet with Iran with "no pre-conditions".

The White House press room was a jovial place to be in the early days of President Barack Obama's presidency. But times have changed.

Back in May, POLITICO analyzed the press briefings and found that the instances of laughter — as indicated by "(Laughter)" being noted in the official transcript — occurred more than 10 times per day during press secretary Robert Gibbs's briefings.

But the laughter has been reduced by half in recent months: In the first six months of the Obama administration, briefings produced an average of 179 laughs per month. Over the past six months, the average has dropped down to 89.

Chalk it up to the close of any administration's initial honeymoon — and the Obama administration's tough second half of 2009, as it wrestled with health care and saw the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat filled by a Republican.

"The tone is one reason for less laughter," says American Urban Radio's April Ryan. "There are lots of serious questions begging for serious answers. Those questions do not meld with laughter and light banter." 

WASHINGTON – It's a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won't create many jobs.

Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation's centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers — would work only on the margins.