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Obama’s Global Reach via Movie Theaters, Bikes Messengers, Text and Mobile Networks

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Hoping to engage a “non-traditional” global audience the tech-savvy Obama administration has crafted a new strategy to disseminate President Obama’s foreign speeches. Using SMS testing, social networking sites, free move theater screenings and yes, even bike messengers the administration has strategies how best to distribute speech like Obama’s high profile speech in Cairo, Moscow and the most recently this past Saturday in Ghana, to an audience who normally would not be able to watch.

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Today’s Qs for Os WH – 7/15/2009

We were joined at the top of the briefing by Judith McHale, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, who talked about the Obama administration’s outreach efforts surrounding his trip to Russia, Italy, and Ghana. (We’ll have more on that in a separate blog post.)

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POTUS on Health Care Reform: You'll Save Money

President Barack Obama kept up the drumbeat on health care reform, with a short speech in the Rose Garden this afternoon. With nurses from the American Nurses Association by his side, some in signature scrubs, the President said that lawmakers can no longer "kick the can down the road."

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Grassley Says Colleagues 'Beating a Dead Horse to Death' on Sotomayor 'Wise Latina' Comments

This week's ABC News Shuffle podcast interview is with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who took a few minutes from the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to talk to us.

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