Contrast that with one of John McCain's finer moments as a presidential candidate in 2008, when a woman at a Minnesota town hall meeting asserted that Mr. Obama was a closeted Arab.
The President and his advisers, who were returning from a trip to Europe aboard Air Force One, prepared a misleading statement about the purpose of the meeting, asserting that it had been a harmless discussion of adoption policy.
Abbott used a press conference following the cabinet meeting to assert a definitional stance on "corporate welfare".
Tehran is clearly eager to use the meeting to assert its rising influence and claim the respect it insists it has been too long denied.
So our engineering teams get together every day and they stand up in a 15-minute meeting and assert: this is my plan for the day, this is what I'll get done tomorrow, this is where I stand with respect to the stuff I said I would do.
As one minister after another got up at the Asean meeting to assert claims in the South China Sea or argue that any territorial disputes must be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law, the Chinese foreign minister grew increasingly agitated, according to a participant.
The chief Iranian negotiator, Saeed Jalili, called this week's meeting positive, asserting at a news conference that the six powers, representing the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, had offered a revised proposal that was "more realistic" and "closer to the Iranian position".
It concluded that there never was a meeting in Prague between an Iraqi intelligence officer and Mohammed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers; in an interview with National Public Radio in January, Mr. Cheney cited intelligence reports about the possibility of such a meeting in asserting that there was not confirmation "one way or another" about links between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks.
At the meeting, officials asserted that district staff had descended immediately on Jefferson to help out after the initial fiasco, working overtime to create a new master schedule and get all students a full program within two weeks.
In a video message to the Emirates on the eve of his trip, Francis paid homage to his "friend and dear brother" el-Tayeb and praised his courage in calling the meeting to assert that "God unites and doesn't divide".
