Black Prez (elect) Meets Brown Neighbor Over Tortilla Soup
Comments (3) So for the most ignored story of the day: Felipe Calderón is 3 feet tall.
Let me rephrase that: He is shorter than the American flag
APHe also had tortilla soup and looked at some paintings with Obama.
The topic of Mexico is so important that this is what pool reporters were concerned about:
1:53 addressed reporters just before in a large upstairs room decorated with rugs and tapestries. Each made a statement and took no questions. Obama also made a statement about TARP. Will send verbatim shortly and lunch details.
On TARP, Obama said he will refocus the second half of funds to do more on home foreclosures and for small business and consumer credit and increase accountability and transparency. He said he called President Bush to trigger the second half because it would be “irresponsible” to enter the White House without doing so and that “many of us have been disappointed with the absence of clarity,” lack of transparency and failure to do enough so far on foreclosures.
For those of you who have nothing better to do, here is the rest of their bilateral non-binding encounter:
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