I don't blame Obama in the least for the partisanship. Republicans set out to tear the administration apart at the start. Jim DeMint announced it as "waterloo." I also don't blame Obama because he's been mopping up the republican mess--the wars, the economy--as they try to blame it all on Obama. Republicans are good at what they do. They are clueless on governing, have few ideas, but they're great at politics and dividing people.
Obama's interview with People magazine, which will be on sale Friday:
Not allowed: "That's what's been lost this year ... that whole sense of changing how Washington works," Obama said in an interview with People magazine.People also has a story about Malia and Sasha's allowed TV programs:
The president said his second-year agenda will be refocused on uniting the country around common values, "whether we're Democrats or Republicans."
"We all want work that's satisfying, pays the bills and gives children a better future and security," Obama said in the interview, which the magazine conducted with the president and his wife, Michelle Obama, at the White House last Friday. More at MSNBC.
President and Mrs. Obama reveal to PEOPLE in a new interview that the girls – Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8 – are limited to Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel.
"They can only watch the kid-TV channels for the most part, because you just never know," says Mrs. Obama. The president, however, does make an exception: "Unless they want to watch football with me, which they're always welcome. But somehow they haven't been drawn to that yet."
Also, the girls aren't allowed to watch at all during the week. "We're pretty strict about that," says the president.
One show that's not on the menu? MTV's Jersey Shore. "I've heard about it," says Mrs. Obama. "Not seen it."Obama also said Tiger Woods can make a comeback:
With their TV intake limited, Malia and Sasha have been honing other skills. "We found over the [Christmas] break that they are both very good Taboo players," says Mrs. Obama. In the game, one partner tries to prompt the other to guess a word, without using the word itself or any of five related words on the card.
The president said Tiger Woods, the champion golfer who has fallen into disgrace amid reports of extramarital affairs, can be "rehabilitated," as his interviewer put it. "Absolutely," Obama said. "I don't want to comment on his personal relationship with his wife and family, but I'm a strong believer that anybody can look within themselves, find their flaws and fix them."
