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Going in the opposite direction.

That’s all.

That’s a lot.

So, less and less jobless with Obama.

That’s good news.

Barack Obama is celebrating today his own birthday (48)

Like reporter Helen Thomas (89)

So he went to White House Press Room where there she was: seating in the front row.

The oldest working journalist in Washington DC told him that her birthday wishes were “world peace and a real health care reform bill.”

Obama carried cupcakes into the room where reporters were with his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, at the daily briefing.

Watch the video here.

As a White House correspondent for the United Press International, Thomas began covering the Kennedy White House.

Thomas resigned from UPI the day after the announcement of its acquisition by the Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Since then she works for Hearst Newspapers as a columnist

Bush didn’t like her, and she didn’t liker him either.

She wrote:

“As he leaves office, President Bush is passing on to his successor two wars and a growing economic debacle. What a way to go!”

Usually dressed in red she is invariably the first or second reporter the president calls upon.

And she is the one that still carries the tradition of closing the White House press conferences by saying, “Thank you, Mr. President”

She is the author of Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times (Scribner, 1999)

Happy birthday fierce Helen!

(Picture by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Right now, Bush is having breakfast in his private dining room at the White House with Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, and U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, plus three special guests: Republican John McCain and Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

What a breakfast!

We need to know about the conversations.

Not about the donuts.

But about the real meat.

UPDATE: Well, this is not real, but it would make a lot of sense.

They need to sit down together.

A war is more important than a presidential race.

Unfortunately, there will be no breakfast, no lunch, no dinner, no conversations.

Too bad.