August 11, 2026

What can be learned from the White House visitor lists?

I wonder: what can we learn about the Obama White House from his visitors?

Does it matter who the President invites into the West Wing for a personal visit with himself, staff, and policy makers? Democrats sure thought it did when the Bush Administration was meeting with oil executives, and the Obama Administration has been slow to release the visitor logs during their own tenure in the White House. That tells me that they care, too, who they are seen with in their offices.

So here are the visitor logs, released over the weekend. What do you find interesting in them?

 

I haven’t had time to look through these very much yet, but I did notice a couple of things: if you organize by oldest entries first, two names (among others) that pop out are Jeffery Imelt and Bill Ayers.

What did you notice when you looked through the list?

[Michelle Malkin]

About Daniel Burton

Daniel Burton lives in Salt Lake County, Utah, where he practices law by day and everything else by night. You can follow him on his blog PubliusOnline.com where he muses on politics, the law, books and ideas. He is active on social media, Republican politics, and has been named to PoliticIt’s list of the “Top-50 Utah Political Opinion Leaders” on Twitter. You can reach him directly at dan.burton@gmail.com