Judge Jeanine Pirro Slashes Obama for Incompetence and Indifference, Dec 7, 2013
Judge Jeanine Pirro Slashes Obama for Incompetence and Indifference, Dec 7, 2013 Judge Jeanine Pirro Slashes Obama for Incompetence and Indifference, Dec 7, 2013 Judge Jeanine Pirro,...
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President Obama swung by tech co-working space Cross Campus during his latest visit to Southern California, stopping to chat with local entrepreneurs and joking about how the "sweatpants and a baseball cap" lifestyle seemed appealing.
In town primarily for a fundraising trip, Obama spent the first part of his Thursday visit to Cross Campus meeting with start-up founders and peppering them with questions about their ideas.
"This guy looks like what you want a start-up guy to look like," Obama said to the crowd as he approached the team behind Santa Monica start-up Enervee. "He's too cool. He looks like he knows how to work technology."
About 100 local tech entrepreneurs, many of whom rent office space from Santa Monica-based Cross Campus, were invited to attend the hour-long event. Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, Kevin Winston of Digital L.A. and Peter Pham of tech incubator Science Inc. were among those in attendance.
After the meet-and-greet with three start-ups, Obama delivered a speech on the economy and the importance of millennials. He touted the innovative spirit among the country's young workers, saying the start-up mentality was "reflective of what is best for America."
"In some ways entrepreneurship is in the DNA of this generation, and a lot of that is taking place all across the country. Obviously California is the epicenter of it," he said, before making one small gaffe in front of the SoCal crowd: "Silicon Valley is the crown jewel of our innovation economy."
Obama also stressed the need to bring more women and minorities into the tech sector. Responding to a question on the issue by Kara Nortman, chief executive of start-up P.S.XO, Obama said his administration spends a lot of time thinking about how to encourage girls at an early age to embrace STEM fields -- or science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"We're doing a lot of research and trying to apply that research to think about the best way to teach STEM to girls, because their learning patterns may be different," he said. "The classic tech nerd is this isolated person. That's the stereotype. Well, it may turn out that girls to a certain age want a more social environment, in which case if you have group learning and projects as a way of teaching math, science, then suddenly you may get more interest."
With so many entrepreneurs in attendance, it was only a matter of time before one tried his luck pitching the president. The last question of the afternoon came from Ariel Jalali, who offered Obama a job at his start-up Sensay.
"I'd have to check out your perks," Obama replied good-naturedly. "Do you have a sushi bar?"
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President Barack Obama, after meeting with military advisers at the Pentagon, said the U.S. and its allies will follow through with the difficult mission to turn back Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria.
Obama met behind closed doors with advisers including Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey today for an update, as fighters with Islamic State infiltrated a Kurdish village despite U.S. bombing.
There is a broad-based consensus that Islamic States barbaric behavior has to be dealt with, Obama told reporters after meeting with senior military leaders and before convening a session with his National Security Council, also at the Pentagon.
Two months after beginning airstrikes on Iraq, which were expanded on Sept. 23 to include Syria, Obama is trying to answer critics who say Islamic State hasnt been pushed back.
While the U.S. plans to train local ground troops at sites in Saudi Arabia, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest today spoke about that training as a future option.
Its going to take some time for us to train and equip fighters that can be the boots on the ground, Earnest said today. The presidents been clear that this is a longer-term proposition. We have succeeded in striking some of these targets.
Critics include Obamas former defense secretary, Leon Panetta, who said in interviews this week that Obama should consider sending U.S. ground troops, a strategy Obama has rejected. Former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, said this week in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that Obama waited too long to act against Islamic State.
Obama has yet to recruit European countries to join the U.S. in airstrikes on Syria. Arab allies are participating in that action, while European countries have conducted airstrikes on Iraq. The White House counts 60 countries as part of the coalition against Islamic State. Obama named retired General John Allen to coordinate the coalition.
Allen, who was at todays meeting, will travel tomorrow to Turkey to discuss the role that nation, which borders Syria, will play in the coalition.
The U.S. Central Command said coalition forces conducted nine airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria today, including four south of Kobani that destroyed vehicles and an artillery piece, and five in Iraq.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. President Barack Obama says he is "unequivocally committed" to keeping the Internet free and open, a concept known as "net neutrality."
Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers shouldn't block, manipulate or slow data moving across their networks.
Obama credits net neutrality with unleashing the power of the Internet. He says he doesn't want to lose that power or "clog up the pipes."
The Federal Communications Commission is working on new rules to govern the transmission of Internet content. That's because a federal court earlier this year overturned key portions of an open Internet regulation the agency adopted in 2010.
Obama says he also remains opposed to paid arrangements between Internet service providers and content providers.
He commented Thursday in California during an economic town hall with "millennials."
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