Obama Speaks to the AMA June 15

Update 6-15: Watch the video here. 

Obama speaks at 12:15 pm eastern. It might be live streamed at cnn.com or whitehouse.gov/live.

Update 6-11: AMA says it's not in favor of a public insurance option, so this ought to be an interesting speech. 

President Barack Obama will have a homecoming of sorts when he addresses the American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago on Monday.

The theme of his address is the same as his appearance at a "town hall-" styled event Thursday in Green Bay, Wis.: Healthcare reform. The president is pressing Congress for healthcare legislation this summer.

The administration, asked today if it is concerned about criticism that the president is getting the government involved in everything - and now health care, too -- told the television network reporter who asked the question: Don't worry, the White House has no interest in owning a TV company.

On Monday, the president will "start with the recognition that the health care system status quo is unsustainable and he'll outline the case for health care reform,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today. "He'll make clear why we can't afford to wait another year or another administration to bring down costs that are crushing families, businesses, and government.'' The Swamp

Read about his town hall in Wisconsin here.

Obama Heads to Springfield for Lincoln Feb. 12

Obama will attend the annual Lincoln birthday banquet put on by the Abraham Lincoln Association. I'm sure Obama will use the moment to do more than just blow out a few candles for Lincoln.

Swamp: Two years ago this month, on Feb. 10, 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Ill., -- not far from the Abraham Lincoln museum

Next week, on Feb 12., President Obama will return to Springfield to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.

The White House says the president will travel at the invitation of Sen. Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois who helped convince Obama to run for president.

Obama has had plenty to say about Lincoln on his way to inauguration as the 44th president. On Feb. 12, in Springfield, he'll have a chance to say a lot more.

The day he announced his candidacy, in the place where Lincoln delivered his House Divided speech, the city where Obama served as a state senator, Obama spoke of the nation's "unyielding faith, that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.