Obama's Final Easter Egg Roll Video

Obama Family Reads Where the Wild Things Are at Egg Roll 2011

John Lithgow at the White House Easter Eggroll

White House Easter Egg Roll April 25

Eggroll schedule
10:15 AM EDT
Easter Egg Roll Balcony Cam - View the event from the Truman Balcony of the White House. President Obama delivers remarks - The First Family attends the 2011 White House Easter Egg Roll

9:00 AM EDT
Rock 'n' Egg Roll Stage - Live musical performances for all ages.

10:00 AM EDT - Sesame Street
11:15 AM EDT - Greyson Chance
12:10 PM EDT - Greyson Chance
12:50 PM EDT - John Lithgow
1:25 PM EDT - Colbie Caillat
2:20 PM EDT - Colbie Cailat
3:00 PM EDT - John Lithgow
3:35 PM EDT - Willow Smith
4:30 PM EDT - Willow Smith
5:10 PM EDT - Little Beats and DJ Willy Wow
5:45 PM EDT - Mindless Behavior
Storytime Stage - Celebrities bring books to life.

10:00 AM EDT - Katrina Adams
11:15 AM EDT - Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos
12:00 PM EDT - Carla Hall
12:20 PM EDT - Gordon with Abby & Rosita of Sesame Street
12:55 PM EDT - Kristi Yamaguchi
1:30 PM EDT - John Lithgow
2:10 PM EDT - Carla Hall
2:30 PM EDT - Kristi Yamaguchi
3:05PM EDT - John Marciano
3:40 PM EDT - John Lithgow
4:40 PM EDT - Geena Davis
5:15 PM EDT - Derrick Dockery
5:50 PM EDT - John Marciano
Play With Your Food - White House chefs and celebrity guest chefs prepare healthy cooking demonstrations.

9:50 AM EDT - Howard Helmer
10:45 AM EDT - Jacques Pépin, Kelly Ripa & Claudine Pépin
12:00 PM EDT - Howard Helmer
12:30 PM EDT - Marcela Valladolid & Kelly Ripa
1:05 PM EDT - Art Smith & Az Ferguson
2:10 PM EDT - Howard Helmer
2:45 PM EDT - Jacques Pépin & Claudine Pépin
3:15 PM EDT - Carla Hall
4:20 PM EDT - Spike Mendelsohn
4:50 PM EDT - White House Chefs
5:25 PM EDT - Carla Hall

Obama's Schedule April 25

Times are eastern.
9:30 AM
Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:15 AM
The first family attends the 2011 White House Easter Egg Roll; Obama delivers remarks. LIVE STREAM

11:30 AM
Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan; Biden participates via teleconference.

12:30 PM
White House press briefing.

2:35 PM
Obama meets with Attorney General Eric Holder.

White House Easter Egg Roll April 25

The President and First Lady announced today that this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will be held on Monday, April 25, 2011 with the theme of “Get Up and Go!” promoting health and wellness. The event will feature live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling and, of course, Easter egg rolling. All of the activities will encourage children to lead healthy and active lives and follow the First Lady’s ‘Let’s Move!’ initiative, a national campaign to combat childhood obesity. The White House will open its South Lawn for children aged 12 years and younger and their families.

White House Easter Egg Roll tickets will be distributed through an online lottery system, allowing guests from across the United States to participate in a tradition that dates back to 1878. The lottery will open for entries on March 10th at 12:01am and close on March 13th at 11:59pm. Tickets are free of charge and are non transferable. Full ticketing details can be found at www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll.

Highlights of 2010 egg roll:

Easter Egg Roll 2010 Video Highlights

Other not to be missed videos from the Egg Roll, Obama reading Green Eggs and Ham, the cast of Glee, and J.K. Rowling reading Harry Potter.

Michelle Obama Reads at the Easter Egg Roll Video

See Obama read Green Eggs and Ham here. He really gets into it.

Michelle's mother, Marian Robinson, reads Stretch:

J.K. Rowling Reads at Easter Egg Roll Video

J.K. Rowling asks: "has anyone read this book?"

Betty DeGeneres reads:

Apolo Ohno reads Green Eggs and Ham.

Yo Gabba Gabba's DJ Lance:

Watch Cole & Dylan Sprouse read to the kids here.
Tennis player Katrina Adams reads here.
Chef Art Smith reads here.
Reese Witherspoon reads here.

Glee Cast Performs at White House Easter Egg Roll Video

Somebody to Love, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Sweet Caroline. Watch for Michelle and the girls near the end.

Here's Don't Stop Believin':

Obama Reads Green Eggs and Ham Video

The whole Obama family gets into it. "Very nice," says Sasha at the end. "Good job," she says grabbing her father's hand.

Obama Shoots Hoops With Kids at Easter Egg Roll Video

The Obamas Kick Off White House Easter Egg Roll 2010 Video

Obama coaches the egg roll:

Obama shoots hoops at Egg Roll:

White House Easter Egg Roll 2010 Video

Update: Watch video of the Obamas kicking off the egg roll here.

Here is a live stream of the storytime stage, where J.K. Rowling will be reading at 1:30pm to 1:45pm ET and at 2:00pm to 2:15pm ET. See more at WhiteHouse.gov

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J.K. Rowling to Read at Easter Egg Roll April 5, 2010

Obama coaches a little girl in last year's Egg Roll

Update April 5: See video of J.K. Rowling reading from the first Harry Potter book here.

This year's Easter Egg Roll starts at 7:45 am eastern and ends at 5:45 pm. Last year the Obama family kicked off the event and this year, they will do the same. In the afternoon, Obama is also slated to throw out the opening day pitch at Nationals Park. The Egg Roll festivities will be live streamed at WhiteHouse.gov:

It has just been announced that J.K. Rowling will be reading at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 5...LIVE from Washington, D.C.!

The White House hosts an Easter Egg Roll each year on the White House lawn, bringing families together for storytelling, music, sports, cooking, and of course, egg-rolling. And speaking of rolling…Rowling will be reading to the lucky families in attendance (really, really lucky!), and you can follow @Scholastic to stay in the know!

Rowling will be reading from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at two separate times (1:30pm to 1:45pm ET and again at 2:00pm to 2:15pm ET) on Monday, and will be answering questions from kids. The whole event will be streaming live on whitehouse.gov, and we’ll try to bring you as much info as we can as it happens. Read more at Scholastic

Others reading at the Storytime Stage, according to Lynn Sweet, include: Reese Witherspoon, Apolo Ohno, Mariska Hargitay, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Elmo and Maria of Sesame Street and Betty DeGeneres. You can read the whole press release from the White House on the day's events here.

The AP has a good story about the history of the Egg Roll here.

Photo: White House pastry chef Susie Morrison decorates chicks for the Easter Village at the Egg Roll

The IRS is NOT Hiring 16,500 ARMED Agents to Enforce Health Law

It's amazing to me how gullible people are. Don't they see they're being used as political tools to serve the agendas of various strains of republicans? Why would anyone want to be someone's tool?

Ron Paul, who exacerbated this rumor of armed agents enforcing health insurance laws, makes some good points occasionally, but too often he lets his extremism off the leash. Armed agents coming after you because you don't have health insurance--Really? See the fact check below.

Isn't that just fear mongering to get your way? What irks me is that some people know the truth and yet they manipulate it for their own benefit.

The problem is fear mongering works, especially on older people.

This rumor is just like other rumors we've heard, Obama was born in Kenya, Obama chowed down on lobsters in Montana, and the latest says Obama isn't allowing Catholic or private school kids into the Easter Egg Roll on April 5. Yet, people believe it without questioning. The facts are that 3,000 free tickets were given to DC school districts. Children from other schools could've gotten free tickets--27,000 were given away-- through the lottery system, which has always been in place, though starting last year, the White House put the system online instead of making people wait in line outside.

The argument could be made that those 3,000 tickets should've been available to all kids, but that's not what the rightwing is saying. They're saying Obama is banning them outright.

And now for the silly little rumor that IRS agents are going to be armed and dangerous:

Q: Will the IRS hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the health care law?
A: No. The law requires the IRS mostly to hand out tax credits, not collect penalties. The claim of 16,500 new agents stems from a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumptions, and compounded by outright misrepresentation.
FULL QUESTION
Can you explain if … the IRS will hire 16,500 new agents and spend $10 billion/year to audit who has [health care] coverage. I can not find any coverage that is not from the right on this … and I have been searching for a while. Thank you.
Hello,
I’d like to request a fact check on Ron Paul’s claim regarding the enforcement of the health insurance mandate, "16,500 ARMED bureaucrats coming to make this program work." at 3:53 of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0lA6XCt3gM
I did a google search for "16,500" and there were a lot of hits on conservative websites stating something along the lines that the health care bill sets aside $10 billion for the IRS to hire up to 16,500 agents to enforce the mandate, but ARMED agents are another matter. Anyway, I couldn’t find anything about this from the national news outlets, so I’m just curious if this is just a scare tactic.
FULL ANSWER
This wildly inaccurate claim started as an inflated, partisan assertion that 16,500 new IRS employees might be required to administer the new law. That devolved quickly into a claim, made by some Republican lawmakers, that 16,500 IRS "agents" would be required. Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas even claimed in a televised interview that all 16,500 would be carrying guns. None of those claims is true. Read the rest at FactCheck

But a good fact will never stand in the way of irrationality.

Obama to Throw Opening Day Pitch April 5

UPDATE April 5: Watch Obama's pitch here.

President of the United States Barack Obama will throw the ceremonial first pitch at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. prior to the 2010 season opener between the Washington Nationals and the defending National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, April 5 at 1:05 p.m.

"Opening Day of the baseball season is a special event for our country and its importance has been reinforced by the 100-year history of Presidential participation," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig, who will be in attendance for the historic First Pitch. "I am proud that President Obama will continue the long Presidential tradition of throwing out the first pitch of Opening Day in Washington D.C." Washington Nationals

That's the same day as the White House Easter Egg Roll:

The President and First Lady have announced that this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will be held on Monday, April 5, 2010 with the theme of “Ready, Set, Go!” promoting health and wellness. The event will feature live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling and, of course, Easter egg rolling. All of the activities will encourage children to lead healthy and active lives and follow the First Lady’s ‘Let’s Move!’ initiative, a national campaign to combat childhood obesity. The White House will open its South Lawn for children aged 12 years and younger and their families. Full ticketing information is below. We hope to see you at the White House! More at WH

White House Egg Roll Set for April 5

The annual Easter Egg Roll will have an healthy theme. From the White House:

The President and First Lady have announced that this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will be held on Monday, April 5, 2010 with the theme of “Ready, Set, Go!” promoting health and wellness. The event will feature live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling and, of course, Easter egg rolling. All of the activities will encourage children to lead healthy and active lives and follow the First Lady’s ‘Let’s Move!’ initiative, a national campaign to combat childhood obesity. The White House will open its South Lawn for children aged 12 years and younger and their families. Full ticketing information is below. We hope to see you at the White House!

For tickets, visit here.

Gay and Lesbian Families on Being Invited to Egg Roll

It was the first time that gay and lesbian families were invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll.

Fergie Performs at Easter Egg Roll

Fergie sings the National Anthem: