"Something isn't working," said the unnamed memo writer
WASHINGTON - After a White House-sponsored contest offering him as a high school commencement speaker drew only 14 applications, President Obama announced today that he would also personally provide a free liquor store run for students of schools who submit entries before the extended deadline of March 11.
"Let me be clear, I know that sometimes you lose your ID," said the President at a lightly attended afternoon press conference for high school reporters. "This is why I have proposed this bold new initiative to create a federal-local school partnership to target investments to get the nation's students the extracurricular party resources they desperately need."
The surprise announcement prompted a barrage of questions from the high school journalists in attendance, including a testy exchange between the President and Sarah Buford, Washington correspondent for the Valley High Tiger Tales of West Des Moines, IA.....
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