That's the number of press credential requests received by Team Obama to cover Obama's Berlin speech Thursday.

The McCain campaign has put out the following video today, called "Obama Love." The video mocks the media for fawning over Sen. Barack Obama.

In its email blast to reporters about the video, the campaign says: "The video highlights the media's love affair with Barack Obama -- or as MSNBC's Chris Matthews says, 'that thrill going up my leg.'"

The results are in from the White House Correspondents' Association. Officers are elected for three year terms.

President, 2010-2011

David Jackson 99
Jon Ward 40
Elizabeth Bumiller 1
Blank 2

AT-LARGE

Steve Scully 94
Stephanie Smith 42
Jeff Goldman 1
Jon Garcia 1
Alexis Simendinger 1
Blank 3

Newspaper Seat

David Jackson 93
Jon Ward 47
Elizabeth Bumiller 1
Blank 1

Photographer

Doug Mills 126
Larry Downing 3
Ron Edmonds 2
Khue Bui 1
Brian Haefeli 1
Blank 9

The new president come August 1 is the AP's Jennifer Loven. VP = Bloomberg's Ed Chen (who will assume the presidency in August 09).

There are so many journalists eager to join Sen. Barack Obama on his European trip that the campaign simply can't accommodate all of them on the plane.

Lynn Sweet blogged a few days back:

The Obama campaign plane, a 757, will have only about 40 journalists on the manifest. More reporters wanted to travel with the Obama campaign; some have been told not to pack their bags, one notified to be on standby. I'm told hundreds of news outlets were interested in making the trip with Obama, very popular in Europe. There are fewer seats available for reporters than usual because the campaign is taking on more staff than routinely flies with Obama. Secret Service agents also travel on the campaign plane. Two U.S. based reporters for foreign newspapers who I talked to today said they were told no foreign journalists--even from the countries Obama is visiting--will be on the plane.

We hear that there are some upset journos, because some regular reporters have been kicked off the plane for this trip, with the campaign citing space reasons. The Washington Times wasn't given a seat. Neither was The New Yorker (pissed about the recent cover?). Or the Sunday Times of London. Of course, space is especially tight because of all the superstar reporters interested in this trip.

As a result, some reporters are doing portions of the trip on their own, not in the campaign bubble.

Among the outlets on the plane: ABC, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, AP, USA Today, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, McClatchy, Sun-Times, Politico, Time, Newsweek (and various network embeds).

Who you might see on the plane: Candy Crowley, Jake Tapper, Major Garrett, Karen Tumulty, Margaret Talev, Jeff Zeleny, Lynn Sweet, Mike Dorning, Dan Balz, Caren Bohan, Julianna Goldman, Carrie Budoff Brown, Richard Wolffe, Sunlen Miller, Don Gonyea, Chris Welch, Maria Govrolic, Bonney Kapp, Athena Jones, David Espo, Lee Cowan, Mark Hudspeth, David Wright, Glen Johnson.

Playbook says that over 200 requests were made by reporters to the campaign.

In a Washington Post op-ed Sunday, Der Tagesspiegel D.C. bureau chief Christoph von Marschall says "he has almost completely refused to answer questions from foreign journalists. When the press plane leaves tonight for his trip, there will be, as far as I know, no foreign media aboard. The Obama campaign has refused multiple requests from international reporters to travel with the candidate."

On the trip, Carrie Budoff Brown talks about the new dress code issue by the Obama campaign.

Newsweek's Holly Bailey also looks at media coverage of Obama/McCain trips abroad.

Rachel Sklar: "Anchors Away! (On Obama's Overseas Adventure)"

AP's David Bauder asks: "Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?"

After the jump, the first pool report from the trip (from Chicago Tribune's John McCormick)...

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From Reuters:

From Star-Ledger:

Don't call Bush a lame duck. Call him "first among equals". More of the week's adventures in the West Wing after the jump...

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In President George W. Bush's press conference today, he dodged a question by CNN's Ed Henry about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's book "What Happened."

I have had no comment, and no comment now on Scott's book.

>UPDATE, from TVNewser:

One person not in attendance: the dean of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas. Insiders tell us 87-year-old Thomas, who has covered every president since Kennedy, has not been feeling well the past few weeks. Her seat in the front row will be empty.

Today, President George W. Bush visited the home of the late Tony Snow, who passed away on Saturday.

From a pool report just filed by the New York Times' Steven Lee Myers:

After the president made his statement in the Rose Garden, he boarded the motorcade with Laura Bush and departed at 1:23. At one point the presidential limousine, with an escort but in normal traffic because this was an "off the record" trip, pulled beside a Tourmobile but just at the moment most of those aboard seemed concentrated on the Jefferson Memorial. The motorcade proceeded uneventfully down the George Washington Parkway, drove, stop and go, through Alexandria and passed the Beltway before turning off and winding to the Snow home. The press office asked the pool not to make public the address. The motorcade arrived at 2:10, and the pool is now holding in the vans.

In addition, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino addressed the passing of her predecessor during today's White House press briefing:

MS. PERINO: Hello, everybody. First I'd like to spend a moment just sharing a word about our friend and former White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow. We appreciate all of the emails and outreach that you did to me and for Jill and the children this week -- this weekend, after we got the terrible news about his death on Saturday morning. President Bush always says that you never know what sort of hand you're going to be dealt with, and sometimes you're dealt a hand that you didn't expect and that you don't want to play, but that you have to play it. And I think all of us can agree that Tony Snow played his cards to the best of his ability and in a way that we would all aspire to. During his first White House press briefing on May 16, 2006, Tony said, "I feel every day is a blessing," and throughout the next 16 months people around the world witnessed him live up to the statement. At this podium, Tony was a passionate advocate of the President's policies, a devoted public servant, and a true gentleman. He was also a lot of fun. He greeted each day with enthusiasm and each question with a smile -- but I think he usually won out in the arguments. During his last briefing on September 12, 2007, Tony said, "This job has been the most fun I ever had." And most importantly, Tony always made clear that his family came first, and that's why today our thoughts and prayers are with Jill and his three lovely children, Kendall, Robbie and Kristi. And as I announced this morning, the funeral service will be on Thursday, July 17th, at Catholic University, at the Basilica. The President and Mrs. Bush will attend.

After our post yesterday -- "WHCA: Sticking With New Pool Report Policy" -- Houston Chronicle D.C. Bureau Chief Rick Dunham sent in the following note:

Thanks for your most recent item. A couple of thoughts here.

Ann Compton is correct on all of the factual points. Since I am the de facto leader of the Gang of Eight, as Ann has dubbed us, I would argue with just one thing. We are not "smaller" newspapers. (I guess you could argue that almost every newspaper is smaller than it was a year ago, both in circulation and page size.)

USA Today, one of our newspapers represented, is #1 in circulation among U.S. dailies. The Houston Chronicle, my paper, is #9. The Chicago Tribune is #8. The others at the meeting were Dallas (#13), San Diego (#24), Cox Newspapers (#18 Atlanta, Austin), Hearst (Houston plus #12 SF, San Antonio and Seattle) and McClatchy (Miami, #19 Minneapolis, #25 Sacramento and much more).

The three papers on the other side of this are the NY Times (#3) and Wall Street Journal (#2), which attended the meeting, and the Washington Post (#7), which did not.

The ten largest papers in the country are divided on this, with three favoring the WHCA action, four opposed (if you include Gannett’s Arizona Republic) and three (LA Times, NY Post, NY Daily News) not having taken a public position, to my knowledge. If “smaller papers” means those outside the top ten, I think they would be close to universally negative on the policy.

Ann is right: Our recent discussions have been productive. She and we want to work toward a solution to the dual issues of (1) declining press travel caused by newspaper economics and rising costs of White House travel and (2) what kind of right the public has to information from inside the presidential bubble and who has the right/responsibility/power to make those kinds of decisions. I give Dean Baquet a lot of credit for coming to this with an open mind and understanding the nuances of a WHCA policy that the vast majority of his newspaper colleagues in Washington view as unacceptable and unsustainable. Issues remain, but I think that all of us are working to see if we can reach a consensus solution without shutting down or limiting pool access.

Happy Birthday POTUS! Nothing says 62 like a wooden box. How so?

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