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Courtesy of Our Luiza, who’s on all the right email lists, here’s a transcript of the 29-minute briefing the White House press corps received yesterday aboard Air Force One, even as it hurtled through the skies between Ottawa and Washington. I’m struck by the bits about Canada and the 2011 Afghanistan deadline. But I’ll leave it all to you to parse and ponder.

From the CBC’s interview with the Prime Minister.

Acknowledging all of the other obvious reasons, is the public’s seemingly genuine affection for Barack Obama at least somewhat attributable to Barack’s Obama seemingly genuine affection for the public?

The Obama visit left us with a lot of new questions on the file

Everybody agrees that President Barack Obama didn’t put any pressure on Canadian politicians today to rethink Canada’s planned withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2011.

The 17-year-old girl who served the President his beavertail.

Yoyoyo, ITQians! We have one more Obama-related event to get through, and then I promise it’s back to business as usual, whatever that means. Anyway, apparently the Ignatieff-Obama chinwag went slightly longer than usual — careful, Mr. President, you’re going to miss your flight! — so the presser that was originally scheduled for 5pm will be slightly delayed. I’ll keep y’all posted, so check back regularly.

Pool report #3.

Obama’s day in Ottawa was bewildering and remarkable, poignant and underwhelming

As you might have just noticed, neither of the press gallery’s two questions concerned Omar Khadr.

Pool report #2.

Reports are indicating the leader of the free world and President Obama will announce an accord “to work together on clean energy technology,” in the words of one of my colleagues’ source. “It will include elements like carbon capture and sequestration and the smart grid.”