Axelrod: Obama Believes Public Option Would Be Boon to Consumers

By GottaLaff

How to say nothing about something:

"The President embraced the public option because he believes" it would be a boon to consumers, Axelrod told CNN's Ed Henry.

However, he would not say one way or another whether that means Obama will rally for it when he addresses a joint session of Congress next week. "I'm not going to deal with the details of the President's speech," Axelrod said. "Otherwise there wouldn't be any point in giving it."

My takeaway: Prez O sure wishes he had the stomach to blow off the Rushpublics and not pull the public option from his health care plan.

You know it's a slow news day when...

By GottaLaff

... the top of Obama's baseball cap is the topic of a press pool report:

At 9:02 a.m., Obama's SUV pulled out of his driveway bound for the Regents Park apartment complex where his friend and periodic campaign employee Mike Signator lives and where Obama worked out at the gym for 78 minutes from 9:07 to 10:25.

The temperature in the WIndy City is a colder-early-than -usual 27 degrees but Obama was presumably only outside long enough to go from door to car (the line of sight to the building's entrance is now blocked for security purposes) and only his White Sox capped head was visible in the SUV.

His SUV pulled back onto his home street by 10:30 and we are holding nearby.

Film at 11.