BARACK OBAMA'S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS

Day 11 - January 30, 2009

The White House announced that President Obama finally got his luggage back from his summer campaign trip to Europe.

The President acknowledged that the price of milk, which has shot up to four dollars a quart, is a problem.  Mr. Obama said there were no short-term solutions.  "The long-term solution is fewer children," he said.  He went on to pledge that his administration would end American dependence on cows.

President Obama said the plan to build the Obama Memorial on the national mall should wait until his death, but that he would pose for the statue, "in the interest of art."

The president met with the Israeli foreign minister and said that military action against Iran is "on the table."  An hour later Mr. Obama told the Council on Foreign Relations that the United States would never consider military action against Iran.  When asked to explain the contradiction, Mr. Obama said that the hour between the statements allowed him to "evolve."

The White House said that President Obama's speech to a civil rights group that began, "Fourscore and seven years ago," wasn't plagiarism, but "an homage.  They do stuff like that in Hollywood all the time."

The president said that the interception of a freighter off the coast of California, and the discovery of a nuclear bomb aboard marked "made in North Korea," was something he'd put on the agenda when he meets with North Korean officials next week.  He said North Korean officials assured him the bomb had been sent to the wrong country after a clerk made out the FedEx slip incorrectly.

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