Obama's week in review - the 1980s hit radio version
What does President Obama's week-in-review look like in the eyes of a 1980s hit radio station?
It's like a totally tubular marriage (don't tell Miss California) of hits from the 80s (complete with big hair and YouTube videos) and some of the week's raddest political stories.
Let the awesomeness begin...
President Obama could begin the week with a even before Vice President Biden boarded that from Delaware to DC. Poll numbers were up. . A 66 percent approval rating.
Despite the polls, the White House was by many on the right for some of the jokes Wanda Sykes told at the White House Correspondents dinner on Saturday night. It was a .
In the was a joke about Limbaugh being a terrorist. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said "" when asked about the joke.
Sykes responded that and critics should .
This was the beginning of a for the president. His first public event focused on health care. Obama did not say he or address the problems associated with . Rather, he told , and nurses that it was possible to $2 trillion over the next decade by cutting -- -- the annual growth in costs.
After Monday's press briefing there was wild speculation that Obama would be next month as Gibbs announced a trip to that country on June 4.
It wasn't that we found out that that , Prejean would keep her Miss California crown. Now, and all, but pictures of the could have meant she'd lose her title. It wasn't like she was a or anything and Donald Trump didn't see a problem but said her answer on was the same as President Obama's.
Gibbs didn't say anything about it, but Obama probably wondered, " - why?"
Palin was back in the news Tuesday with in Alaska that she'd be writing a book. Not that she can see from her house, but that could be a chapter. Also, perhaps a chapter on how got started that she didn't know was a continent.
Meanwhile, Dick Cheney was on the network. His message to Republicans? ' in conservative principles. Some Republicans -- but all off the record -- said they wished the former veep would say "."
It was like the in the press briefing room on Wednesday when cell phones kept ringing off the hook. Was it ? Perhaps it was someone . Maybe it was . Whoever it was, it bothered Robert Gibbs. He acted like an annoyed professor demanding the offending phones. Although no one seemed to be .
More chaos on Wednesday when Obama announced he changed his mind on releasing additional abused detainee . He told his lawyers to to keep the photos .
Gibbs was trying to that there was no change of . Regardless, the ACLU said and vowed to continue to fight like a .
Dick Cheney reappeared in the news when the CIA told him that regarding the release of certain memos he's requesting. " for months just to hear this?", he likely wondered. He vowed to .
Later in the day, Air Force One was . This time to Arizona State University where graduating students told the president that .
He was also told he couldn't have an honorary degree. Gibbs said it . And that's , said the ASU president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday when she said the CIA lies to Congress .
Leon Panetta disagreed sending out an email saying, " should not ." Pelosi sent out a clarifying statement later in the day which sounded like her first remarks were a .
As the weekend neared, controversy continued to simmer over Obama's trip to a in Indiana -- not , but South Bend. The president will give a speech to and others Sunday at Notre Dame.
Meanwhile First Lady Michelle got into her own -like jet as her office announced she was to give an address at UC Merced.
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