Me too, theo67. Children know, There is something so beautiful, trusting and genuine about children, they sense so much in a touch. The kindness and gentleness of our President’s holding must have radiated his calmness through the child. I just love this so much. I know I will go back to watch this over and over. It just warms the heart to watch. Mrs. Obama iseems shocked the child stopped crying when President Obama took her.
This is my six time watching the video, and I know I am not through yet. I can’t help it, I just love it. I just love POTUS and FLOTUS . POTUS will never let FLOTUS forget this.
I think we can start calling our Pres the “baby whisperer”. He’s got that touch with babies and kids, that’s for sure. I have said before and I’ll say it again, kids sense they have a friend in President Obama, a safe and loving presence.
I watched the beginning of The word and Dan Choi was on and he has a big hate on for Obama because of gay marriage issues. Not once did Larry defend Obama. Then he had that fool Adam Green on to say, that young people will not volunteer for Obama or vote for Obama because of gay marriage.
Larry did not offer a word of challenge to either one of them. The whole segment was about how many obama haters there are in the netroots. I just sent him a scathing email. Please help. Sent him an email and support the president.
Thank you for posting this segment so we can watch it over and over! Plus the picture from Pete is perfect! Yes — that baby knows she is in good hands, just like America is in good hands and we will re-elect President Obama.
To answer your question halo: FLOTUS probably told POTUS: You know you’re my man, my one and only. Then that big smile wonderful appeared on POTUS’s face. And they walked upstairs to see their kids. Just me thinking out loud.
Good luck Florida. Even the dope here in MI isn’t dumb enough to give back the stimulus cash, in fact he’s pushing to build a second bridge to Canada. The President is right. We can create more jobs by improving our infrastructure.
Hope its okay to post this here as an open thread kind of thing.. an email from “J Street” which I hope you all will check out and support:
Sheri —
As the summer heat hits, J Street’s proud to officially launch our “Two-State Summer” campaign to generate political support across our communities for the President’s vision for Middle East peace – and we need your help.
With Tea Party activists like Glenn Beck holding provocative rallies in Jerusalem to oppose any serious peace effort, rapid changes sweeping through the Middle East, and an upcoming UN vote on Palestinian statehood, this is game-time for the future of the two-state solution.
I’ve laid out our “Two-State Summer” campaign strategy in a special video message to J Street supporters like you.
Click here to watch the video and pledge to get involved.
Whether it’s hosting a house meeting in your community, spreading the word to your friends or just signing a postcard to your Representatives, we need you to stand up for a two-state solution and a democratic, secure, Jewish Israel.
Join me in showing our elected officials how many of us support the vision of President Obama, Prime Ministers Rabin, Barak and Olmert, and countless others – and reject the unrealistic and dangerous rhetoric of those opposing sensible moves to achieve a two-state solution.
For tools to help you get equipped to spread a message of urgency around the two-state solution – including statements, FAQs, commentary, and more – click here to visit our resource page on standing with the President.
Thanks for all that you do,
– Carinne
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June 17, 2011
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That video is so cute. As soon as POTUS took the baby she stop crying, and the look on FLOTUS face. These two are so precious. I just love them, POTUS and FLOTUS. Just show you POTUS is a great father, ( of course FLOTUS is a great mother). But Sunday is Father’s Day, so I will give POTUS a pat on the back. Love that video.
I had a little time so I perused some of the blogs. I am shocked at the outrage from the left. The word out there is that the democrats are going to pay in 2012 for what has happened to Weiner. So the country will punish the president because Weiner had freaky sexual encounters?
I was up-set Weiner had a press conference to announce his resignation. I kept saying he sure loves the camera. So back to the issue; since when does the party take the blame for a government official’s heinous behavior?
I am happy to say this is my last statement on Mr. Weiner unless he shows up with his own cable show.
Don’t be shocked at the outrage, be shocked at their ignorance and complete overestimation of Weiner, his importance and how much people care about the whole thing.
Yeah, that’s just silly. Apropos for the silly season. These people seem to think they have way more power than they do. Come Nov. 2012, voters will have completely forgotten about that weasel.
Aside from being legends in their own minds, they thrive on this crap because it is a money making venture. Whip up a frenzy for some who are easily swayed and viola. As much as they jump from one issue to another, one has to wonder if they don’t have a problem with whiplash.
The PL lost touch with anything resembling reality a long time ago. I’ll bet a poll would show the Democrarts are relieved he quit, and this will have no bearing on the election. It may not even have impact on his own district.. The PL is certifiable. (I used to work with people with mental illness, so do not use the “off meds” expression. I LIKED my clients, the PL, not so much)
The PL likes ventriloquist’s dummies. They sit, keep their mouths closed, and the words heard are straight from the donkey’s mouths. And when I’m feeling really bitter, I wonder if they would also prefre if the dummies have light pigmentation.
Hopwever should the dummy come to life, like in the horror movies, and go off script – firewood.
I still don’t get why the President and democrats should pay for Weiner lying to his wife? Nobody forced him to show his privates to strangers while married and to lie his ass off about it for the world to hear.
I swear I worry for the sanity of those democrats.They simply don’t make sense at time.You’d think they’d turn their anger on Weiner the culprit instead of everyone else 🙄
I don’t care about Vitter and his prostitute;well I take it back.I do.Just like I thought Weiner should have left;days ago;Vitter (not too late imho) has got to go just as well 😡
Most of these idiots making threats are former Republicans-turned-Democrats for profit – or keyboard warriors who’ve never done an honest day’s work in their lives.
So the Dems are going to suffer in 2012 . . . Someone should remind them what they got in 2010! Michigan, Florida, NJ, Ohio, etc. are so unhappy right now. Union busting, voter suppression, education cuts, food programs cuts, etc. As the saying goes, “don’t cut off your nose to spite your face”!
PSYCHO. You mean nothing else in the whole world matters except Wiener? That’s some serious crazy talk there. I guess if they love liars so much they must be dying for the nutcase Republicans to take over again.
The little smirk on his face and the reaction of Michelle is just too real. That is just too precious. OK, so I had to watch it a few more times… sue me.
Do you know what MoObama, if these people are that darn stupid, that they will allow the Republicans to take even more control, to destroy Medicare, to finish destroying the Unions, to destroy education, to repeal DADT, to repeal Health care, and on and on and on, over Anthony Weiner then they are a bunch of stupid stupid idiots. And they all can go straight to you know where.
😆 😆 Pooooor Chipsticks! Here we are tapping our toes, looking out the window, literally clocking her ‘time off’. I wonder if she knew what she was letting herself in for? 😉
This is just too cute. I love the little sly look on his face. POTUS and FLOTUS are just adorable. And I totally get a kick out of how he calls her “baby”, like it’s her actual name. Elmo does that!! LOL
That was a great video. The look on FLOTUS face when the baby stopped crying for POTUS was priceless and so was the look he gave her. FLOTUS “How did you do that?” POTUS:: “Yea, I got this.”
Exclusive: The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget. Daniel Stone reports. 😯
I like how Christie, before answering goes: “what’s her name.” then after his interviewer takes the the find out, Christie goes:
“Hello Gail, well first of all, it’s none of your business.”
This guy is such a total and absolute Putz. The repugs figure if you can’t find a black repug version of PBO( case in point why Herman Munster is so high in the repug polls), use an idiot white wanna -be copy : Mittens, and if all else fails, go for the fat-ass bully. “If we can’t fight fire with fire, we’ll cheat and use our version of an extinguisher”. What, dodo heads 🙄 The republican party: getting stupider and stupider all the time. 😕
He really is a bully. And a dangerous one, at that. Imagine what he’d do if he was leader of the free world – he certainly wouldn’t be nearly as responsible as Presiden Obama, that’s for sure.
Rotfl @ POTUS smirking at FLOTUS when he soothes the baby and she ceases crying!! The open mouthed look from Michelle is priceless and so is POTUS’ ..” i got this’ smirk!! lol lol
That is one of the things that I have found so striking about photos of them lately at formal events as they wait, you will see photos where they both have identcal expressions on their faces, which conveys just how much in tune their spirits are and how emotionally aligned they are.
It says over and over ‘nothing but love here’.
Our nation is so blessed to have a couple who genuinely revel in their love and intimacy openly.
Never get tired of it.
This baby picture captures that so beautifully.
They are one dynamic loving couple each a pillar of strength individually and just unstoppable as a unified couple!!
I just love that video. The President really has the touch!!!!
SueDuvall Smith, I with I could send you some of our cool Montana weather. We are tired of it. The rivers are flooding and We still are getting snow in the mountains. I would like to see the sun sometime.
Thank you Chips and everyone here for all the news you bring. I look alot and haven’t had time to post this week. This Sunday is our 40th Wedding Anniversary, so we will be having a big party and lots of company. I have been cleaning and cooking. I am to young to have been married for 40 years. Use to think you were so old by this time. I just know I am married to the most wonderful man in the world, next to the President.
I will check in to get my daily dose of reality from Chips and everyone here, I know I won’t be posting.
I want to wish all the Father’s here and our wonderful President a great Father’s Day.
Oh MTmarilyn, I was just thinking about you . I am just catching up on the comments. I am slow. However, I am so elated for you and your husband for 40 lovely years. May this celebration on Sunday be a joyous one, a sweet one, and a blessed one. May your love continue to be sweet for each other to last another 40 more years. God grant you both wonderful blessings. Have a great party of great loving celebration throughout the day. Be Happy.
Actually I think it’s good that he went. It shows that he’s the adult in the room. Let the NUTROOTS act like spoilt children if they want do. Doesn’t earn them any brownie points with the rest of the public. The majority of true progressives support this administration. The NUTROOTS is a preponderance of rich, over-indulged Libertarian brats who take up superficial “causes” to fill the bottomless hole that exists within their hearts and souls.
TPM is a crappy excuse for “progressive”!!!
When you use right wing Rasmussen daily polling numbers for President Obama on your site, it begs the question WTF!!!
Thank you for the shorter clip. Watching it makes me really laugh so loud that my grandson just comes in and watches me. I needed that after trying to watch nutroots today and all the repubs on cspan.
Does anyone with a sane brain really think that a year and a half from now anyone is going to care about what happened to Wiener? Just like the fringe right, these people are loud, but they are even smaller in number than the right fringe. It’s good that people are contacting them and pushing back. They can go off by themselves and pout, while the rest of us are being productive.
…that’s what I’m sayin’…everytime I hear these/those fools go on and on about anything (including Wiener) relative to the 2012 election I want to jump through the tv and hit them upside their heads…OMG, anything and everything can and will happen over the next year and a half and some of it will be good and maybe even great…MY GOD IS A MIGHTY GOD.
Just saw a clip of Bigheaded Bachmann in a speech saying that PBO has failed the Hispanic and the AA community and as prez she would work hard on creating jobs for them WTF? Is she stupid? Blacks and Hispanics for Barack, heifer!!! 2012 and beyond. She is such an ass. How does she think she’s credible to blacks after calling PBO a “gangster government,” WTF?!!! Hasn’t she heard of the interwebs and Debbie-WS head of the DNC? 🙄 🙄 🙄
she sure as hell ain’t talking for me;I get my daily dose of insults by Backmann when she calls the President and his Administration “thugs” and such and she doesn’t realize that WE folks pay attention to that kind of crap and we don’t forget.
What has the GOP ever done for AA and Hispanics;all folks got was Ronald “welfare Queens” Reagan 🙄 She should stfu about stuff she does not know and never will 😡
They will, any day soon now Corny and Tav-tav will bring the ‘blacksploitation brigade’ to the repugs.
“blacksploitation brigade”- (Noun, Adjective). A minutia of the black populace who are highly elitist and do not really give a damn about black struggle but will willing make oodles of dollars writing and talking about the unfairness and inequalities associated with being black in America. These people drive fancy cars, eat and drink fancy meals and wouldn’t know where to find a “ghetto” if it hauled off and kicked them in the ass. Blacksploitation brigade: Synonym: Assholes.
I call them Cornball and Travesty… Travesty is just jealous, because for a while there, he was the only “negro” in town. He’swondering, WHERE did THIS negro come from…. Now, I’m not exactly sure what Cornball’s problem is, maybe he’s just been in the ‘ivory tower’ too long. I don’t always agree with Al, but at least he’s with real people on the regular.
Travesty is all about Travesty and the money. And the reason Cornball wears that afro so big? He’s got to keep his ego covered…
don’t forget Cornball didn’t get an inauguration ticket and he has yet to be invited to the WH if you are wondering why he is still blowing smoke out of his arse after all these years 😉
ooooh, Lisa, you are too much!! LOLOLOL 😆 And Fred, I forgot about the whole inauguration poutrage. 🙄 And I’m the who suggested that someone get him a pacifier.
OH, PLEASE. She has ZERO appeal to anyone with a brain and she thinks she can pander to people like that after all the ugly insults to PBO and others in Congress? Remember when she said she thought certain Democratic congressmen and the President should be investigated as un-American? UGH. She’s a creep.
All I need to know about her racist attitudes towards minorities is the fact that she started the “tea party” caucus in the House – and the tea party is made up of a bunch of racists who want to take their country back to the time of the Confederacy and slaves. Anything after that fact is useless.
Yeah and remember that she invited those tea-party people to Congress- who then proceeded to spit on our African American Congresspersons.. this is how she ‘cares’ about AA folk in America. This puts me in mind of Arianna Huffington hooking up with Tavis Smiley and starting a blog geared supposedly to African Americans… anyone know whatever happened to that little endeavor? I’ve heard nothing about it recently. But I had no doubt it was one more way of attempting to turn Black voters against POTUS.
There is going to be so much divisiveness in this election, I honestly believe it will be one of the dirtiest elections in our history.. especially when we see who’s running for the repubs and when we have such creatures as Choi, et al playing their little reindeer games.
A chart or graph need to be made of her vote against all of the bills and programs introduced which would help these groups. Suddenly she is going do create jobs for these groups. I am ROTFLMAO!
Why can’t Mrs. Buchmann work hard to produce jobs for the Hispanics and AA community now, today, not over a year and a half months away. This nut think someone is going to fall for her B.S. When in Congress she haven’t done a darn thing for either one of the communities. If I’m wrong show me. 2010 people felt for the Republicans crap, not this time Buchmann.
Anniebella, oh please help me wish Bachmann gets the Republican nomination. I need some serious excitment right about now. I want to see Prez make an absolute fool of her crazy butt and embarrass the Republican/Teabaggers. As of right now, any of the 7 he’s going to put them to shame, anyway. I can’t help myself, I want, I want so badly to see this massacure. Our Prez will kind, gentle and tear them all a “new one”.
Fracking Chris Mathews ended his show tonight talking about how PBO isn’t doing anything for women in politics: how there aren’t in any high rank positions in his admin especially in comparison to Batshit Bachmann who is running for prez. He was like, Dem women will be wondering why the party hasn’t been as good to women as the repug party is. WTF???!!!!!!! Are you kidding me? Repugs are decimating women’s rights left, right and center!!! Sometimes I wonder about Chris. I really do. Fracking idiot!!! And didn’t PBO put 2 women on the Supreme Court. Hasn’t he put alot of women in powerful positions in his admin? WTF?!!! Just because the more visible positions are held my men, doesn’t mean the women don’t exist! You see Holder and Geitner because they HAVE to be seen! What an ass. That shit’s really beginning to piss me off.
By far, this the biggest liar told by Chris. Did he forget Janet Napolitono(sp), Melody Barnes, Valerie Jarrett, and the list goes on and on. Why in the world would he want t end Friday with this big lie?
I like how Pfeiffer was like: “If you get another president, all we just talked about before will disappear…” Truth to power baby. It’s something these a-hole Parasite Losers don’t seem to get. When I was growing up, my uncle would say: “those who can’t hear, will feel.” Since the PL are forcing themselves not to hear, one day, they will feel the consequences. But of course they will blame PBO for it, just like they blamed him for the 2010 shellacking, saying that it was his fault. Not theirs for 2 years of demoralizing the base and advising them not to vote in order to teach PBO a lesson. A-holes, wish they would disappear off the face of the planet 🙄 🙄 🙄
Let them have their catnip. If no one from the WH was there it would have fulfilled their obsession with playing the victim. I can see the headlines now : White House Snubs base! and all that garbage. The White House basically decided between a small headache or a migraine.
Clinton
Napolitano
Sebelius
Solis
Rice
Romer
Duckworth
Sotomayor
Kagan
Valerie Jarrett
Melody Barnes
Nancy DeParle (Health Care reform)
Carol Browner (Energy and Climate Policy)
Lisa Jackson (EPA)
Regina Benjamin (Surgeon General)
Karen Gordon Mills (SBA)
Nancy Sutley (Council on Environmental Quality)
Mary Schapiro (SEC)
Thank you for the list Meta. I was so furious after seeing his “report”, for the first time ever I decided to write to Mr. Matthews using your list. Unfortunately I started on this composition before seeing your additions Margaret Hamburg and Monica Sutphen. I did, however, make the point.
Dear Mr. Matthews:
What in the world are you talking about? Gender imbalance in the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party? What has happened to your memory? Because it must be too difficult for you to fact-check yourself, I will offer you a list of the following top-tier women in the Democratic Party and Obama Administration appointees:
Nancy Pelosi – House Minority Leader and former Speaker of the House
Debbie Wasserman Schultz – Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Sonia Sotomayor – Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Elena Kagan – Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State
Janet Napolitano – Secretary of Homeland Security
Kathleen Sebelius – Secretary of Health & Human Services
Hilda Solis – Secretary of Labor
Susan Rice – US Ambassador to the UN
Christina Romer – White House Council of Economic Advisers
Tammy Duckworth – Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, Veteran’s Affairs
Valerie Jarrett – Senior White House Advisor
Melody Barnes – Domestic Policy Advisor
Nancy DeParle – Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
Carol Browner – Administrator of White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy
Lisa Jackson – Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Regina Benjamin – US Surgeon General
Karen Gordon Mills – Administrator of the Small Business Administration
In this day and age, women are an informed electorate. Thank God we do not just receive our news from what’s merely spoon-fed to us via cable news and so-called mainstream media news shows. We have a world full of media and information via the web. We can watch news and read articles from all over the world. That’s why we know there has been more important news happening in our country and the world than Anthony Weiner exposing himself or Donald Trump overloading the airwaves with disproved gibberish.
As an informed, mature voter, I do not think that the Republican agenda will bode well for them in the end. Their agenda actually attempts to mutilate issues women care about in the name of greed and protection of the wealthiest in this country. Women are actually informed enough and smart enough to see this.
Lastly, these days I sometimes wonder whether I’m actually watching MSNBC or some slowly-morphing version of FOX at work. I am finding it more and more difficult every day to watch MSNBC. Too bad, because I miss the old MSNBC. You know, the one that actually gave us counterpoint news stories we could think about. The one that existed before Comcast bought you out.
This is exactly why I stopped watching Chris Matthews ages ago!!! He is glib and will often play these strange but dangerously misleading political games that he passes off as “astute” political commentary!!!
He plays to every side and speaks from every side of his mouth just to remain “appealing” to a diverse audience; But he ends up losing credibility because he constantly contradicts himself and deliberately ignores facts just to fit his narrative of the day!!!
I’ve always alos thought that anybody who would defer to Pat Buchannan for anything or for any reason has to be as much a lowlfe as Buchannnan and as intellectually dishonest!!!
I hope you don’t take this as an insult, but Chris Matthews NEEDS TO SHUT THE F#&K UP!!!! First, Michelle Bachmann HAS NOT WON THE NOMINATION YET!!!! You get that Chris? Two, just because Rep. Bachmann has a uterus, that doesn’t mean women will all of a sudden abandon the President for her. I thought we would have topically learned this after Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin. Seems not. I would have thought that Matthews would have realized that women care about views whether or not the chief candidate is a woman, but it seems that Matthews is drinking the juice called Beltway Fulloshitness.
I see former aides to Md. Repub Gov. Ehrlich have been indicted on suppressing the vote there in 2008. Robocalls were made on election day to predominantly African American communities saying, ‘We have been successful. Barack Obama and Martin O’Malley have won. There’s nothing for you to do now, no need to go to the polls, just stay home and watch on TV’. (paraphrasing) Get ready for a ton more junk like this in ’12. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/2011/06/ehrlich_aides_indicted_in_elec.html#more
if anyone can send this to DWS and the DNC via twitter or something so that she sends this around the country to get the folks ready for this kind of stunt.Should start talking to churches and Community Centers to get folks registered a few months before the elections so that there are no problems and DWS so be on tv talking about that too
p.s I was banned from twitter for telling Palin to go frack herself one too many times 😉
hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 Can i please tell you how very much i love you Fred?!!!!! There’s no one else like you. I hope we can meet up one day at an Obama event so that I can shake your hand and give you a HUGE fracking hug 😆 😆
Love this clip! As for the PL activtists Rahm was right about them but something is just not right here. They seem intent on destruction of everything. When something isn’t going the way they want it they want the President to quit or doing nothing . The get involve in Democratic primaries only in the end for a Repub to eventually win the seat. They are revealing themselves if you ask me.
Go there now. In the last 30 minutees or so there is a huge influx of postings…directly from the Presdeint’s Facebook page. I think…Pretty cool! It seems to hooked up to facebook now.
Shit!!!! Lawry’s beginning his program by talking about Nutroots! Seriously? BS. He’s also got Choi on. I’m sorry Lawry, ‘m not watching. Gonna switch the station. I guess it’s either Family Guy or All in the Family for me. So disappointed Lawry, 😦
Well they have to find a new attack dog against the President – now that Weiner is out of the picture. But Mr. Choi better watch out – karma has a habit of coming after those who attack the President for nefarious purposes.
Exactly. I’ve thought for a while that upon PBO’s ultimate successes, rethugs saw the cards and had to devise a Rovian strategy to minimize the “apparent” size of our base, and to maximize their fortunes. They found willing people to pass as progressives, had them tear into PBO to fracture his base. Like Malcolm said, you’re being bamboozled. Remember PBO used this same phrase and I know he wanted to break out into full Malcolm X mode on that podium….LOL. So far, everyday working folk are not buying it. If we continue fighting the smears, everyone in the base will be fully knowledgeable to bring a win to PBO in 2012. We have to be “bigger” than the haters, and we can only do that with the cool and drive offered to us by POTUS’s daily example.
Ok I changed the channel after hearing Dan Choi saying he will not endorse this president for reelection. And then Adam green was invited to chime in. What is going on with these losers?
Fuck em. OOps, sorry for the language, but really, you all, who the f— cares who they are? Like we noted earlier, most people neither know them nor care about what they say. A f–king freak who chains himself to a fence? A racist liar who slanders people, and O’Donnell backsliding, again? Anyone who tweets should lay into O’s ass hard. As for tweety, his spitting was enough for me to turn away. These people are all DEMONS; President and First Lady Obama are class acts, and shouldn’t ever have to be defended from the likes of all of these low-class miscreants. The Obamas have my ultimate loyalty.
You have to question Rachel also with her engagements of the likes of Steele and Choi, Weiner and Grayson. She to me is an extremist, and extremists tend to unravel instead of build strong and beneficial social policy. They all have tunnel vision, IMO.
Very true – the fact tha she now goes to Steele, that Cenk guy, Choi – all a bunch of ignorant right wing losers – if she’s the only hope these “so-called progressives” have, then I’ll pass. They do no work, just listen to themselves in the echo chamber. I don’t need it. I’ve completely abandoned Lawrnece O’Donnell and Rachel this week, and it’s been wonderful so far. No high blood pressure, and no throwing things at the TV. I’m now down to listening to Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller on the radio (listening with half an ear) and this blog, plus BWD when she’s around. I catch up on blog entries at the people’s view over the weekends. But that’s it. So much better.
Lawrence pressed him on the Republican alternatives and Choi said Republican candidates opposing gay marriage are the worse thing that ever happened to this country since HIV. Now this guy is officially nuts. First of all his smile really bothers me and am sorry if I insult anyone.
I agree. There is something very disturbing about Choi’s visage. It’s very unsettling to look at him talk. There is a tremendous among of hatred and anger there that is being misdirected unfortunately.
I’m livid……Republican Dan Choi foaming at the mouth and Adam fucking Green…….no rebuttal, nothing…he just let them go on and on………..fuck you Lawrence O’Donnell……
Well Lawrence, Keith Olberman is coming back maybe I will look somewhere else because I have never seen this before. DAN CHOI ENDOSING BARACK OBAMA? what the FLUCK is going on in this guy’s crazy head. I think he is mentally Disturbed.
Olberman is worse, Me4O. Don’t let the fact that he’s been gone for about 150 days fool you. That man is the mouthpiece of the Parasite Losers. I’d rather watch Glenn Beck than Olberman.
You know, after watching Lawrence O’Donnell, I believe he is on to Dan Choi and is going to have him back on the show, but not to give him a license to bash the President, but to challenge him. The fact that O’Donnell took the time to emphasize that he does in fact vote I believe was a message to people like Choi and those PL (Keith Olbermann I’m looking at you) who think that they can get away with sneakily trying to let the Repubs win by sitting home pretending to be unhappy with PBO..
Well he has David Axerold on Monday I trust Lawrence sometimes but today he really let me down. Dan Choi happy that Breitbart was cheered? Why was Breitbart invited? Can someone tell me why?
Well, for one thing, that statement has exposed Choi. He really cannot hide behind the guise of “progressive” much longer. Breitbart is one of the most dispised figures among progressives. So if Choi is openly showing fondness for Brietbart, in what light does that put him? I think O’Donnell is giving him enough rope and soon he will hang himself . These media whores soon get the attention they crave – but not in the way they expect. We just had a very recent example. Choi and his Libertarian advisors need to start taking notes
Isn’t Breitbart the one who apparently “took down” their beloved Weiner? So,why were they cheering him at Nutroots? Sounds like a tea bagger rally, if you ask me.
Hopefruit2, I hope you’re right, because I just above accused O of being a backslider. If he indeed has this as a tactic to a larger strategy, I will be on guard to see for myself. I just don’t trust these yoyo’s called pundits. You never know exactly what they are.
Here’s my letter to Lawrence, didn’t watch the show, don’t care to, regardless of why Lawry invited him, the fact remains: HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN:
Dear Lawrence,
I really love you and your show, and have been a loyal viewer since you started The Last Word when you had the ten o’clock slot. Normally I ignore MSNBC and other republican shill “news” stations, along with Professional Left ideologues like Rachel and Ed. I always know that I can turn to you for sound, clear-cut information, informed by experience and common sense- not so for Rachel & Co. However, tonight I was gravely disappointed when I turned the station and saw that your opening segment was about Nutroots and that Republican shill in Progressive clothing-Dan Choi aka Obama Hater. The professional left, in my and millions of other Democrats and Independents’ humble opinions, are akin to the Tea Party. They are extremists who do nothing more constructive than sit on their lazy asses all day and complain about getting only 85% of what they wanted instead of the 100%. They have done more damage to the Democratic Party than the Republicans and that’s saying alot coming from me because I dislike the Congressional Republicans A LOT. The Professional Left are solely responsible for the 2010 Shellacking. They spent two years cursing and blaming the president, demoralizing the base and threatening and advising Democrats not to show up on election day in order to punish the President. Well, it seems as though they got their wishes, only, it’s not just the president who is being punished, but the American people with Republican voter suppression laws, attacks on Medicare and Social Security, slashes in jobs and social programs, union stripping bills/laws and the attack on women’s reproductive rights. The PL can kiss my ass. They are useless, worthless and full of total and absolute crap. I’m so sorry you wasted your time today doing a report on their self-centered pouting and ungrateful spouting off. Dan Choi is not a credible guest and he is ill-humored and bad tempered i.e.: Tweeting that Harry Reid was a female reproductive organ that bleeds once per month, because Herr Choi didn’t think the Democrats were moving quickly enough on DADT when Choi’s Log Cabin buddies were too busy voting against the Repeal Bill in the House. He does nothing constructive but overcharge people for the illustrious honor of his company and shit advice. He is disgusting and I’m very disappointed that you got your hands dirty tonight with him. It’s my hope that you will refocus on what’s important which is the dishonesty and lazy nature of the republicans and their desire to destroy our social compact with the elderly, the poor and the disenfranchised.
Good night and have a pleasant weekend,
Can someone tell me why Andrew Breitbart got invited to nut roots. Please, if anyone has any clue do educate me on this because I thought the PL where upset that Anthony Weiner resigned and Breitbart was the root cause. OR was it Obama’s fault according to the PL.
Apparently, the PLs and their fauxgressive supporters believe that it is the fault of President Obama that Weiner sent pics of his naked weiner to random women on Twitter. And it’s also President Obama’s fault that Weiner had to resign.
This is what I’m getting from those losers. And I think Andrew Breitbart got invited to Nutroots because like all 2,000 attendees (what a crowd!!), he too is racist and hates the President with the fire of a thousand suns.
I have to wonder is he mentally disturbed? I mean, since the DADT debate, I mean, remember Col. Victor Fehrenbach?
Throughout that whole thing, not once did I hear the Presidents a coward or inept from him. He just wanted to serve openly and after the signing, he felt elated and is now serving the nation he loves. THIS SHOULD BE A PROGRESSIVE HERO!!!!!!!!!!! I see Dan Choi, and all I see is a guy who thinks hes a revolutionary. He was made the face of the DADT debate and is now gunning for the Gay marriage debate, stemming from a position the President held, not in 2008, where this would have mattered, but in 1996, when President Obama was breaking into politics.
Dan Choi is mentally ill. You can see it when you watch an interview. His smile isn’t real, his eyes are dark. IIRC he comes from a devout religious family and his parents, especially his father, disowned him when he came out.
He’s also a terrible messanger given his over-the-top hate of the President. He turns off more to his cause than attracts them. Also notice how quickly he jumped from DADT to Marriage equality – he craves the spotlight. The real activists pushing for marriage equality must cringe everytime this guy has a mic in front of him. He’s vile and it oozes trhough the camera.
Someone like him is unhinged enough to open gun fire in a crowd. Without me having ever heard or watched him, just from reading about him, he is a real psychotic type. When nothing satisfies, what else do you have but fear, loathing, and hatred? Everybody should watch out for this guy.
EDP4BHO, your first sentence resonates – in fact, I’m about to write a diary on DKOS which points to this very issue. I’m extremely concerned about this guy and his Libertarian streak (which includes a liking for guns).
I just watch the video again, for the tenth time and it put a smile on my face every time. I love FLOTUS reaction to the baby stop crying the minute POTUS takes her in his arms.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
I can watch this segment over & over – too cute for words! Our youngest citizen instinctively knows s/he is in good hands.
You are so right.
I am watching the video again and again I have a big smile on my face. The baby knows she is in good hands.
To bad this darn country doesn’t realize that.
I’ve watched four times already…
Me too, theo67. Children know, There is something so beautiful, trusting and genuine about children, they sense so much in a touch. The kindness and gentleness of our President’s holding must have radiated his calmness through the child. I just love this so much. I know I will go back to watch this over and over. It just warms the heart to watch. Mrs. Obama iseems shocked the child stopped crying when President Obama took her.
This is my six time watching the video, and I know I am not through yet. I can’t help it, I just love it. I just love POTUS and FLOTUS . POTUS will never let FLOTUS forget this.
POTUS & FLOTUS ARE SUCH SOOOOO LOVELY TOGETHER!! I’m sooo in love with them!!
I think we can start calling our Pres the “baby whisperer”. He’s got that touch with babies and kids, that’s for sure. I have said before and I’ll say it again, kids sense they have a friend in President Obama, a safe and loving presence.
Sorry, I have something important to tell you.
I watched the beginning of The word and Dan Choi was on and he has a big hate on for Obama because of gay marriage issues. Not once did Larry defend Obama. Then he had that fool Adam Green on to say, that young people will not volunteer for Obama or vote for Obama because of gay marriage.
Larry did not offer a word of challenge to either one of them. The whole segment was about how many obama haters there are in the netroots. I just sent him a scathing email. Please help. Sent him an email and support the president.
thelastword@msnbc.com
Apparently Dan Pfeiffer was treated like a piece of dirt. Those asshats.
Done.
Oh yeahhhhhhhhh 🙂
he just gave Mich a ” told ya I got this” face 😉
THE BABY IS ACTING THE SAME WAY THE REST OF US WOULD IF WE WERE IN THE SAME POSITION….LUCKY GIRL!…HEE-HEE—HEE—OH SIGH!
That is toooooo precious for words. I too could watch it over and over! 😀
TOO CUTE FOR WORDS …THE LOOK ON BOTH THEIR FACES!!!!!!!
Thank you for posting this segment so we can watch it over and over! Plus the picture from Pete is perfect! Yes — that baby knows she is in good hands, just like America is in good hands and we will re-elect President Obama.
THEY’LL SHOW HER THAT PICTURE ONE DAY….AND SHE’LL SAY…”I GOT TO DANCE WITH THE BEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!”
OOOH…IT’S HOT OUTSIDE….GOTTA DO SOME ERRANDS…BLESSINGS AND CATCH YOU ALL LATER! DON’T DROOL OVER THE PRESIDENT ON MY PUTER KEYS WHILE I’M GONE!
POTUS to FLOTUS: “How you like me now?”
To answer your question halo: FLOTUS probably told POTUS: You know you’re my man, my one and only. Then that big smile wonderful appeared on POTUS’s face. And they walked upstairs to see their kids. Just me thinking out loud.
That suppose to be that big wonderful smile appeared on POTUS’s face.
Sky train in Phoenix gets approved, creates 8k new jobs:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/17/20110617phoenix-sky-train-extension-project.html
So what do you guys think Rick Scott will do to the sun rail? Me too:
http://www.wftv.com/news/28249861/detail.html
Good luck Florida. Even the dope here in MI isn’t dumb enough to give back the stimulus cash, in fact he’s pushing to build a second bridge to Canada. The President is right. We can create more jobs by improving our infrastructure.
Love the news about the trains and jobs, Jovie!
Too precious 🙂
Chips…could you please put that clip on youtube so I can download it? Pretty, pretty please?
This will never get old. Very cute.
Adopt me, Barack, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
How old are you?
The look on FOTUS face is priceless
PRICELESS…..
That is so precious! I love the look on Michelle’s face. The video makes the photo even more special.
Oh, too cute. The cute baby acting up for Potus’ attention. lol. Smart baby she is.
That was very cute. Another video that will never get old.
Hope its okay to post this here as an open thread kind of thing.. an email from “J Street” which I hope you all will check out and support:
Sheri —
As the summer heat hits, J Street’s proud to officially launch our “Two-State Summer” campaign to generate political support across our communities for the President’s vision for Middle East peace – and we need your help.
With Tea Party activists like Glenn Beck holding provocative rallies in Jerusalem to oppose any serious peace effort, rapid changes sweeping through the Middle East, and an upcoming UN vote on Palestinian statehood, this is game-time for the future of the two-state solution.
I’ve laid out our “Two-State Summer” campaign strategy in a special video message to J Street supporters like you.
Click here to watch the video and pledge to get involved.
Whether it’s hosting a house meeting in your community, spreading the word to your friends or just signing a postcard to your Representatives, we need you to stand up for a two-state solution and a democratic, secure, Jewish Israel.
Join me in showing our elected officials how many of us support the vision of President Obama, Prime Ministers Rabin, Barak and Olmert, and countless others – and reject the unrealistic and dangerous rhetoric of those opposing sensible moves to achieve a two-state solution.
For tools to help you get equipped to spread a message of urgency around the two-state solution – including statements, FAQs, commentary, and more – click here to visit our resource page on standing with the President.
Thanks for all that you do,
– Carinne
Carinne Luck
Vice President for Grassroots and Field, J Street
June 17, 2011
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Yikes, sorry, heres the link to the video: http://jstreet.org/twostatesnow/
That video is so cute. As soon as POTUS took the baby she stop crying, and the look on FLOTUS face. These two are so precious. I just love them, POTUS and FLOTUS. Just show you POTUS is a great father, ( of course FLOTUS is a great mother). But Sunday is Father’s Day, so I will give POTUS a pat on the back. Love that video.
I had a little time so I perused some of the blogs. I am shocked at the outrage from the left. The word out there is that the democrats are going to pay in 2012 for what has happened to Weiner. So the country will punish the president because Weiner had freaky sexual encounters?
I was up-set Weiner had a press conference to announce his resignation. I kept saying he sure loves the camera. So back to the issue; since when does the party take the blame for a government official’s heinous behavior?
I am happy to say this is my last statement on Mr. Weiner unless he shows up with his own cable show.
Don’t be shocked at the outrage, be shocked at their ignorance and complete overestimation of Weiner, his importance and how much people care about the whole thing.
they are marginalizing themselves with every passing day and every new “outrage.”
Yeah, that’s just silly. Apropos for the silly season. These people seem to think they have way more power than they do. Come Nov. 2012, voters will have completely forgotten about that weasel.
Aside from being legends in their own minds, they thrive on this crap because it is a money making venture. Whip up a frenzy for some who are easily swayed and viola. As much as they jump from one issue to another, one has to wonder if they don’t have a problem with whiplash.
The PL lost touch with anything resembling reality a long time ago. I’ll bet a poll would show the Democrarts are relieved he quit, and this will have no bearing on the election. It may not even have impact on his own district.. The PL is certifiable. (I used to work with people with mental illness, so do not use the “off meds” expression. I LIKED my clients, the PL, not so much)
The PL likes ventriloquist’s dummies. They sit, keep their mouths closed, and the words heard are straight from the donkey’s mouths. And when I’m feeling really bitter, I wonder if they would also prefre if the dummies have light pigmentation.
Hopwever should the dummy come to life, like in the horror movies, and go off script – firewood.
Sorry – I really despise the PL!
I still don’t get why the President and democrats should pay for Weiner lying to his wife? Nobody forced him to show his privates to strangers while married and to lie his ass off about it for the world to hear.
I swear I worry for the sanity of those democrats.They simply don’t make sense at time.You’d think they’d turn their anger on Weiner the culprit instead of everyone else 🙄
I don’t care about Vitter and his prostitute;well I take it back.I do.Just like I thought Weiner should have left;days ago;Vitter (not too late imho) has got to go just as well 😡
Most of these idiots making threats are former Republicans-turned-Democrats for profit – or keyboard warriors who’ve never done an honest day’s work in their lives.
you’re right Theo
“They” are not nearly as big a number as they think they are. It really is smoke and mirrors.
So the Dems are going to suffer in 2012 . . . Someone should remind them what they got in 2010! Michigan, Florida, NJ, Ohio, etc. are so unhappy right now. Union busting, voter suppression, education cuts, food programs cuts, etc. As the saying goes, “don’t cut off your nose to spite your face”!
PSYCHO. You mean nothing else in the whole world matters except Wiener? That’s some serious crazy talk there. I guess if they love liars so much they must be dying for the nutcase Republicans to take over again.
The little smirk on his face and the reaction of Michelle is just too real. That is just too precious. OK, so I had to watch it a few more times… sue me.
Do you know what MoObama, if these people are that darn stupid, that they will allow the Republicans to take even more control, to destroy Medicare, to finish destroying the Unions, to destroy education, to repeal DADT, to repeal Health care, and on and on and on, over Anthony Weiner then they are a bunch of stupid stupid idiots. And they all can go straight to you know where.
I’ve seen the video afew times and I’m getting ready to email it to a few friends and family.
Chips, I want you to remember that a few is 2. Not 12! We don’t want to repeat of last time.
😆 😆 Pooooor Chipsticks! Here we are tapping our toes, looking out the window, literally clocking her ‘time off’. I wonder if she knew what she was letting herself in for? 😉
Gov. Chris Christie Claims Fox News Chief As Confidential Adviser
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/gov-chris-christie-claims-fox-news-chief-as-confidential-adviser.php?ref=fpb
Well, Fox News does run the Republican Party.
But weren’t they up in arms when it was revealed that Fahreed Zakaria had given our President some advice?
I LOVE that video!!! I had to watch it a few times just to be sure…yep, I love it! So, sweet.
Unbelievable!! Too cute. Nice to see my ‘pychic’ powers are intact. 😉 Can’t stop watching the vid.
Not that psychic if I can’t spell it!! – 🙂 We need an ‘edit’ button.
thanks Donna, lovely interview
Here’s some more video from the GMA interview with President Obama.
thanks a bunch Donna 😉
Thank you, Donna! I love this, and it provides a great opportunity to tell you that I appreciate the terrific ‘video job’ you do in our TOD family.
I agree with you, thank you Donna for all your work to get these videos up so quickly here at TOD.
This is just too cute. I love the little sly look on his face. POTUS and FLOTUS are just adorable. And I totally get a kick out of how he calls her “baby”, like it’s her actual name. Elmo does that!! LOL
That was a great video. The look on FLOTUS face when the baby stopped crying for POTUS was priceless and so was the look he gave her. FLOTUS “How did you do that?” POTUS:: “Yea, I got this.”
Obama2012&I’mIn
Ryan’s Shrewd Budget Payday
Exclusive: The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget. Daniel Stone reports. 😯
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/17/paul-ryan-s-shrewd-budget-payday-congressman-could-benefit-from-tax-breaks-he-proposes.html?om_rid=Nsfcpo&om_mid=_BN$0xzB8by7dGP
please spreas THIS on the facebook and twitter;blogs and all but spread it
Fred send to Rachel(get her off of the president) at Rachel@msnbc.com
EXCELLENT catch, Fred. Yes, shine some light on that news.
just sent her this Jovie and Suzanne
Take a look at how Christie spoke to a constituent. And this guy wants to be president. Despicable.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/06/17/its_none_of_your_business.html
I like how Christie, before answering goes: “what’s her name.” then after his interviewer takes the the find out, Christie goes:
“Hello Gail, well first of all, it’s none of your business.”
This guy is such a total and absolute Putz. The repugs figure if you can’t find a black repug version of PBO( case in point why Herman Munster is so high in the repug polls), use an idiot white wanna -be copy : Mittens, and if all else fails, go for the fat-ass bully. “If we can’t fight fire with fire, we’ll cheat and use our version of an extinguisher”. What, dodo heads 🙄 The republican party: getting stupider and stupider all the time. 😕
I just hope NJ remembers all this at the polls next election and send Christie rolling out of office.
you and me both, Proud, you and me both. 🙂
This guy is a pig. What a bully!
He really is a bully. And a dangerous one, at that. Imagine what he’d do if he was leader of the free world – he certainly wouldn’t be nearly as responsible as Presiden Obama, that’s for sure.
Rotfl @ POTUS smirking at FLOTUS when he soothes the baby and she ceases crying!! The open mouthed look from Michelle is priceless and so is POTUS’ ..” i got this’ smirk!! lol lol
That is one of the things that I have found so striking about photos of them lately at formal events as they wait, you will see photos where they both have identcal expressions on their faces, which conveys just how much in tune their spirits are and how emotionally aligned they are.
It says over and over ‘nothing but love here’.
Our nation is so blessed to have a couple who genuinely revel in their love and intimacy openly.
Never get tired of it.
This baby picture captures that so beautifully.
They are one dynamic loving couple each a pillar of strength individually and just unstoppable as a unified couple!!
Great news for my area(front page of local newspaper):
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/article1175710.ece
Solar farm to create 160 new jobs! Yay!
congrats Jovie 😀
Great news Jovie. No thanks to your regressive governor. 🙂
Jovie congratulations u deserve it girl.
I just love that video. The President really has the touch!!!!
SueDuvall Smith, I with I could send you some of our cool Montana weather. We are tired of it. The rivers are flooding and We still are getting snow in the mountains. I would like to see the sun sometime.
Thank you Chips and everyone here for all the news you bring. I look alot and haven’t had time to post this week. This Sunday is our 40th Wedding Anniversary, so we will be having a big party and lots of company. I have been cleaning and cooking. I am to young to have been married for 40 years. Use to think you were so old by this time. I just know I am married to the most wonderful man in the world, next to the President.
I will check in to get my daily dose of reality from Chips and everyone here, I know I won’t be posting.
I want to wish all the Father’s here and our wonderful President a great Father’s Day.
Have a great day.
Marilyn
Happy Anniversary and congratulations to you and your husband and wish him a Happy Father’s Day 😀
Happy Happy, Joy Joy!! Have a blast at your anniversary party (AND DON’T YOU DO ALL THE WORK!!!)
Happy “big 40” MTmarilyn. You are so blessed. May God bless you with many more.
Congratulations Marylyn!!! Many more happy, healthy years!!!
Happy Anniversary, MTMarilyn! 40 years and still clearly appreciating each other – now that’s an accomplishment! Enjoy the party.
Oh MTmarilyn, I was just thinking about you . I am just catching up on the comments. I am slow. However, I am so elated for you and your husband for 40 lovely years. May this celebration on Sunday be a joyous one, a sweet one, and a blessed one. May your love continue to be sweet for each other to last another 40 more years. God grant you both wonderful blessings. Have a great party of great loving celebration throughout the day. Be Happy.
Hey HZ, when you get a chance check your email.
Nutroots yelled at WH communications director today about gay rights(these guys are asseholes):
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/netroots-vs-white-house-on-gay-rights-sort-of-video.php
Why did Dan pfeifer even go to this mess?
I sure hope this is the very LAST time they go
it’s the White House’s fault Jovie.That’s what you get for showing these assholes respect;you get insults in return 🙄
Actually I think it’s good that he went. It shows that he’s the adult in the room. Let the NUTROOTS act like spoilt children if they want do. Doesn’t earn them any brownie points with the rest of the public. The majority of true progressives support this administration. The NUTROOTS is a preponderance of rich, over-indulged Libertarian brats who take up superficial “causes” to fill the bottomless hole that exists within their hearts and souls.
TPM is a crappy excuse for “progressive”!!!
When you use right wing Rasmussen daily polling numbers for President Obama on your site, it begs the question WTF!!!
Thank you for the shorter clip. Watching it makes me really laugh so loud that my grandson just comes in and watches me. I needed that after trying to watch nutroots today and all the repubs on cspan.
I think I will watch it again, now.
Have watched this multiple times today.
Africa here. For some reason I am regestering as anonymous today. Oh, well.
Does anyone with a sane brain really think that a year and a half from now anyone is going to care about what happened to Wiener? Just like the fringe right, these people are loud, but they are even smaller in number than the right fringe. It’s good that people are contacting them and pushing back. They can go off by themselves and pout, while the rest of us are being productive.
…that’s what I’m sayin’…everytime I hear these/those fools go on and on about anything (including Wiener) relative to the 2012 election I want to jump through the tv and hit them upside their heads…OMG, anything and everything can and will happen over the next year and a half and some of it will be good and maybe even great…MY GOD IS A MIGHTY GOD.
OBAMA AGAIN!
Just saw a clip of Bigheaded Bachmann in a speech saying that PBO has failed the Hispanic and the AA community and as prez she would work hard on creating jobs for them WTF? Is she stupid? Blacks and Hispanics for Barack, heifer!!! 2012 and beyond. She is such an ass. How does she think she’s credible to blacks after calling PBO a “gangster government,” WTF?!!! Hasn’t she heard of the interwebs and Debbie-WS head of the DNC? 🙄 🙄 🙄
she sure as hell ain’t talking for me;I get my daily dose of insults by Backmann when she calls the President and his Administration “thugs” and such and she doesn’t realize that WE folks pay attention to that kind of crap and we don’t forget.
What has the GOP ever done for AA and Hispanics;all folks got was Ronald “welfare Queens” Reagan 🙄 She should stfu about stuff she does not know and never will 😡
Amen, Fred, amen.
I’ll add one more thing to this.Where are Roland Martin and Al Sharpton?
Sharpton was on MSNBC bitching and moaning and whining about how we should have stood up for Weiner
They should start letting people know about voters suppression laws being enacted all over this country and such
I am surprised “brothers” Corny and Tavis and their black agenda aren’t endorsing Bachmann 🙄
They will, any day soon now Corny and Tav-tav will bring the ‘blacksploitation brigade’ to the repugs.
“blacksploitation brigade”- (Noun, Adjective). A minutia of the black populace who are highly elitist and do not really give a damn about black struggle but will willing make oodles of dollars writing and talking about the unfairness and inequalities associated with being black in America. These people drive fancy cars, eat and drink fancy meals and wouldn’t know where to find a “ghetto” if it hauled off and kicked them in the ass. Blacksploitation brigade: Synonym: Assholes.
Good luck to her.
Sing it!
I call them Cornball and Travesty… Travesty is just jealous, because for a while there, he was the only “negro” in town. He’swondering, WHERE did THIS negro come from…. Now, I’m not exactly sure what Cornball’s problem is, maybe he’s just been in the ‘ivory tower’ too long. I don’t always agree with Al, but at least he’s with real people on the regular.
Travesty is all about Travesty and the money. And the reason Cornball wears that afro so big? He’s got to keep his ego covered…
don’t forget Cornball didn’t get an inauguration ticket and he has yet to be invited to the WH if you are wondering why he is still blowing smoke out of his arse after all these years 😉
that’s nicer than what I was gonna say. His afro’s so big cause he’s got to compensate for his mangey, runty, nasty little……
please continue Lisa 😉 😆
good evening everyone.See you all tomorrow morning 🙂
thanks Chip for everything
Good night Fred, see you tomorrow 🙂 🙂
ooooh, Lisa, you are too much!! LOLOLOL 😆 And Fred, I forgot about the whole inauguration poutrage. 🙄 And I’m the who suggested that someone get him a pacifier.
She must be desparate(sp). We know she crazy.
OH, PLEASE. She has ZERO appeal to anyone with a brain and she thinks she can pander to people like that after all the ugly insults to PBO and others in Congress? Remember when she said she thought certain Democratic congressmen and the President should be investigated as un-American? UGH. She’s a creep.
All I need to know about her racist attitudes towards minorities is the fact that she started the “tea party” caucus in the House – and the tea party is made up of a bunch of racists who want to take their country back to the time of the Confederacy and slaves. Anything after that fact is useless.
Yeah and remember that she invited those tea-party people to Congress- who then proceeded to spit on our African American Congresspersons.. this is how she ‘cares’ about AA folk in America. This puts me in mind of Arianna Huffington hooking up with Tavis Smiley and starting a blog geared supposedly to African Americans… anyone know whatever happened to that little endeavor? I’ve heard nothing about it recently. But I had no doubt it was one more way of attempting to turn Black voters against POTUS.
There is going to be so much divisiveness in this election, I honestly believe it will be one of the dirtiest elections in our history.. especially when we see who’s running for the repubs and when we have such creatures as Choi, et al playing their little reindeer games.
A chart or graph need to be made of her vote against all of the bills and programs introduced which would help these groups. Suddenly she is going do create jobs for these groups. I am ROTFLMAO!
Gee, I wonder where she got that talking point from.
Let her wide eyed ass try that with us. Crazy as catshit.
Why can’t Mrs. Buchmann work hard to produce jobs for the Hispanics and AA community now, today, not over a year and a half months away. This nut think someone is going to fall for her B.S. When in Congress she haven’t done a darn thing for either one of the communities. If I’m wrong show me. 2010 people felt for the Republicans crap, not this time Buchmann.
Anniebella, oh please help me wish Bachmann gets the Republican nomination. I need some serious excitment right about now. I want to see Prez make an absolute fool of her crazy butt and embarrass the Republican/Teabaggers. As of right now, any of the 7 he’s going to put them to shame, anyway. I can’t help myself, I want, I want so badly to see this massacure. Our Prez will kind, gentle and tear them all a “new one”.
Intrade has the president at 60.4 percent to win re- election:
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743474
I’ll take it!!
Jovie girl I love ya. I will take that good news.
Fracking Chris Mathews ended his show tonight talking about how PBO isn’t doing anything for women in politics: how there aren’t in any high rank positions in his admin especially in comparison to Batshit Bachmann who is running for prez. He was like, Dem women will be wondering why the party hasn’t been as good to women as the repug party is. WTF???!!!!!!! Are you kidding me? Repugs are decimating women’s rights left, right and center!!! Sometimes I wonder about Chris. I really do. Fracking idiot!!! And didn’t PBO put 2 women on the Supreme Court. Hasn’t he put alot of women in powerful positions in his admin? WTF?!!! Just because the more visible positions are held my men, doesn’t mean the women don’t exist! You see Holder and Geitner because they HAVE to be seen! What an ass. That shit’s really beginning to piss me off.
By far, this the biggest liar told by Chris. Did he forget Janet Napolitono(sp), Melody Barnes, Valerie Jarrett, and the list goes on and on. Why in the world would he want t end Friday with this big lie?
Tammy Duckwort
Sebelius
Romers or something;well the lady that work for him on Economy who left last summer
meant to say worked.Now I remember it’s Christina R 🙄 😆
ummmmhow about HILLARY CLINTON!
How about Susan Rice of the United Nation, Hillary Clinton. Matthews is a dam jerk sometimes. I can’t figure him out. So I’ve stop trying too.
So infuriating…I couldn’t believe it…..Chris Matthews is so unpredictable, you never know what the hell he’s going to say….
I made the mistake of not changing channel after as….well this one is predictable….Cenk Uygur…..Obama basher all the time.
How many clips of that damn interview at Netroots Nations with Dan Pfeiffer is he going to show….
Why oh why did he gave that interview….it’s catnip for these haters……anything to bash the president, anything.
I like how Pfeiffer was like: “If you get another president, all we just talked about before will disappear…” Truth to power baby. It’s something these a-hole Parasite Losers don’t seem to get. When I was growing up, my uncle would say: “those who can’t hear, will feel.” Since the PL are forcing themselves not to hear, one day, they will feel the consequences. But of course they will blame PBO for it, just like they blamed him for the 2010 shellacking, saying that it was his fault. Not theirs for 2 years of demoralizing the base and advising them not to vote in order to teach PBO a lesson. A-holes, wish they would disappear off the face of the planet 🙄 🙄 🙄
Let them have their catnip. If no one from the WH was there it would have fulfilled their obsession with playing the victim. I can see the headlines now : White House Snubs base! and all that garbage. The White House basically decided between a small headache or a migraine.
Please forgive Chris mat hews it’s friday, so he might not be thinking straight though I sent him 5 emails blasting him. Huh!
Hellooo….Hillary Clinton.
OK, just off the top of my head:
Clinton
Napolitano
Sebelius
Solis
Rice
Romer
Duckworth
Sotomayor
Kagan
Valerie Jarrett
Melody Barnes
Nancy DeParle (Health Care reform)
Carol Browner (Energy and Climate Policy)
Lisa Jackson (EPA)
Regina Benjamin (Surgeon General)
Karen Gordon Mills (SBA)
Nancy Sutley (Council on Environmental Quality)
Mary Schapiro (SEC)
Margaret Hamburg (FDA)
Monica Sutphen (Deputy COS)
thank you Meta for that list 😀
You are most welcome!
Thank you for the list Meta. I was so furious after seeing his “report”, for the first time ever I decided to write to Mr. Matthews using your list. Unfortunately I started on this composition before seeing your additions Margaret Hamburg and Monica Sutphen. I did, however, make the point.
Dear Mr. Matthews:
What in the world are you talking about? Gender imbalance in the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party? What has happened to your memory? Because it must be too difficult for you to fact-check yourself, I will offer you a list of the following top-tier women in the Democratic Party and Obama Administration appointees:
Nancy Pelosi – House Minority Leader and former Speaker of the House
Debbie Wasserman Schultz – Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Sonia Sotomayor – Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Elena Kagan – Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State
Janet Napolitano – Secretary of Homeland Security
Kathleen Sebelius – Secretary of Health & Human Services
Hilda Solis – Secretary of Labor
Susan Rice – US Ambassador to the UN
Christina Romer – White House Council of Economic Advisers
Tammy Duckworth – Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, Veteran’s Affairs
Valerie Jarrett – Senior White House Advisor
Melody Barnes – Domestic Policy Advisor
Nancy DeParle – Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
Carol Browner – Administrator of White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy
Lisa Jackson – Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Regina Benjamin – US Surgeon General
Karen Gordon Mills – Administrator of the Small Business Administration
In this day and age, women are an informed electorate. Thank God we do not just receive our news from what’s merely spoon-fed to us via cable news and so-called mainstream media news shows. We have a world full of media and information via the web. We can watch news and read articles from all over the world. That’s why we know there has been more important news happening in our country and the world than Anthony Weiner exposing himself or Donald Trump overloading the airwaves with disproved gibberish.
As an informed, mature voter, I do not think that the Republican agenda will bode well for them in the end. Their agenda actually attempts to mutilate issues women care about in the name of greed and protection of the wealthiest in this country. Women are actually informed enough and smart enough to see this.
Lastly, these days I sometimes wonder whether I’m actually watching MSNBC or some slowly-morphing version of FOX at work. I am finding it more and more difficult every day to watch MSNBC. Too bad, because I miss the old MSNBC. You know, the one that actually gave us counterpoint news stories we could think about. The one that existed before Comcast bought you out.
That was on point-so good. Thank you!!!
Meta, you should email this list to Tweety and his bosses!
Gee…I’m sorry…did we all MISS those Supreme Ct appointees???WTF is WRONG with these people?? Someone needs to “tweet” that Twit.
This is exactly why I stopped watching Chris Matthews ages ago!!! He is glib and will often play these strange but dangerously misleading political games that he passes off as “astute” political commentary!!!
He plays to every side and speaks from every side of his mouth just to remain “appealing” to a diverse audience; But he ends up losing credibility because he constantly contradicts himself and deliberately ignores facts just to fit his narrative of the day!!!
I’ve always alos thought that anybody who would defer to Pat Buchannan for anything or for any reason has to be as much a lowlfe as Buchannnan and as intellectually dishonest!!!
Also, lowlife!!!
uh, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of STATE!!??!! Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan– TWO women, back to back, Supreme Court Justices?
Tweety needs to go sit down somewhere.
I hope you don’t take this as an insult, but Chris Matthews NEEDS TO SHUT THE F#&K UP!!!! First, Michelle Bachmann HAS NOT WON THE NOMINATION YET!!!! You get that Chris? Two, just because Rep. Bachmann has a uterus, that doesn’t mean women will all of a sudden abandon the President for her. I thought we would have topically learned this after Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin. Seems not. I would have thought that Matthews would have realized that women care about views whether or not the chief candidate is a woman, but it seems that Matthews is drinking the juice called Beltway Fulloshitness.
For anyone else who shares my love of Stephen Colbert, here is his commencement speech at his alma mater, Northwestern, today. The vid is a little jumpy in the beginning but it is worth sticking with it—-a funny and wise speech:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-colbert-speaks-at-northwestern-commencement-20110617,0,6333149.story
I love Stephen Colbert. Love, love love.
Is he better than that jackass Jon Stewart? Who I can’t stand.
He’s absolutely better. I skip Stewarts crap and go straight to comedy central for Colbert Report.
this was awesome dotster, thank you. It was a great message and a fantastic laugh 🙂
I see former aides to Md. Repub Gov. Ehrlich have been indicted on suppressing the vote there in 2008. Robocalls were made on election day to predominantly African American communities saying, ‘We have been successful. Barack Obama and Martin O’Malley have won. There’s nothing for you to do now, no need to go to the polls, just stay home and watch on TV’. (paraphrasing) Get ready for a ton more junk like this in ’12.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/2011/06/ehrlich_aides_indicted_in_elec.html#more
THANK YOU, dotster!! I remember that incident very well.
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice!
if anyone can send this to DWS and the DNC via twitter or something so that she sends this around the country to get the folks ready for this kind of stunt.Should start talking to churches and Community Centers to get folks registered a few months before the elections so that there are no problems and DWS so be on tv talking about that too
p.s I was banned from twitter for telling Palin to go frack herself one too many times 😉
hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 Can i please tell you how very much i love you Fred?!!!!! There’s no one else like you. I hope we can meet up one day at an Obama event so that I can shake your hand and give you a HUGE fracking hug 😆 😆
please do 😉
I’d love to meet you too Lisa and the rest of the TOD family 😀 and as far as Palin;sorry but I couldn’t resist 😉 😆
Fred, you are too much!!
lisa, I think we’re all supposed to meet up at Ollie’s Pub one day. Do you think Moneygall could handle an onslaught of TODders??!!
No way…Not big enough, but it’s awfully ideal! 🙂 🙂 It should be our headquarters though, that would be totally awesome 😆
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Love this clip! As for the PL activtists Rahm was right about them but something is just not right here. They seem intent on destruction of everything. When something isn’t going the way they want it they want the President to quit or doing nothing . The get involve in Democratic primaries only in the end for a Repub to eventually win the seat. They are revealing themselves if you ask me.
What happened to the OFA website? The OFA blog used to be full of comments, now comments are seldom posted.
Go there now. In the last 30 minutees or so there is a huge influx of postings…directly from the Presdeint’s Facebook page. I think…Pretty cool! It seems to hooked up to facebook now.
Lwarence odenell has Dan choi on. Not watching.
Shit!!!! Lawry’s beginning his program by talking about Nutroots! Seriously? BS. He’s also got Choi on. I’m sorry Lawry, ‘m not watching. Gonna switch the station. I guess it’s either Family Guy or All in the Family for me. So disappointed Lawry, 😦
I just turned the channel. These people get on my nerves. Drama queens. I’m off to the Dual Survival Show on the Discovery Channel. Sweaty Mens! 8)
PLEASE HELP ME TO WRITE TO LAWRENCE oDONELL THAT LT DAN CHOI IS NOT A PROGRESSIVE AND DOES NOT SPEAK FOR DEMS.
just did.
Now this nut job is again all over MSNBC. Why is Dan Choi, now a progressive hero? Now am done with these fools.
Well they have to find a new attack dog against the President – now that Weiner is out of the picture. But Mr. Choi better watch out – karma has a habit of coming after those who attack the President for nefarious purposes.
oH YES! Karma does, I can’t believe this.
Dan choi said he was glad Andrew breitbart had a good reception than Dan pfiefer.
Huh? Did he say that Breitbart had a better reception than Pfiefer and he (Choi) was glad for that reason?
Yes, hopefruit, he said that and what is Andrew Breitbart doing at Netroots?
Choi is a plant and i think it was planned.
Exactly. I’ve thought for a while that upon PBO’s ultimate successes, rethugs saw the cards and had to devise a Rovian strategy to minimize the “apparent” size of our base, and to maximize their fortunes. They found willing people to pass as progressives, had them tear into PBO to fracture his base. Like Malcolm said, you’re being bamboozled. Remember PBO used this same phrase and I know he wanted to break out into full Malcolm X mode on that podium….LOL. So far, everyday working folk are not buying it. If we continue fighting the smears, everyone in the base will be fully knowledgeable to bring a win to PBO in 2012. We have to be “bigger” than the haters, and we can only do that with the cool and drive offered to us by POTUS’s daily example.
All these “plants” will meet their demise shortly. Just wait. No weapon formed against this President shall prosper.
Ok I changed the channel after hearing Dan Choi saying he will not endorse this president for reelection. And then Adam green was invited to chime in. What is going on with these losers?
Fuck em. OOps, sorry for the language, but really, you all, who the f— cares who they are? Like we noted earlier, most people neither know them nor care about what they say. A f–king freak who chains himself to a fence? A racist liar who slanders people, and O’Donnell backsliding, again? Anyone who tweets should lay into O’s ass hard. As for tweety, his spitting was enough for me to turn away. These people are all DEMONS; President and First Lady Obama are class acts, and shouldn’t ever have to be defended from the likes of all of these low-class miscreants. The Obamas have my ultimate loyalty.
I blame Rachel Maddow for unleashing this lunatic to the nation as I blame Mccain for crazy palin.
Yessssssss! Me4obama………..I blame her as well…………how many times was he on??………there’s something really wrong with that guy…….
You have to question Rachel also with her engagements of the likes of Steele and Choi, Weiner and Grayson. She to me is an extremist, and extremists tend to unravel instead of build strong and beneficial social policy. They all have tunnel vision, IMO.
Very true – the fact tha she now goes to Steele, that Cenk guy, Choi – all a bunch of ignorant right wing losers – if she’s the only hope these “so-called progressives” have, then I’ll pass. They do no work, just listen to themselves in the echo chamber. I don’t need it. I’ve completely abandoned Lawrnece O’Donnell and Rachel this week, and it’s been wonderful so far. No high blood pressure, and no throwing things at the TV. I’m now down to listening to Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller on the radio (listening with half an ear) and this blog, plus BWD when she’s around. I catch up on blog entries at the people’s view over the weekends. But that’s it. So much better.
Lawrence pressed him on the Republican alternatives and Choi said Republican candidates opposing gay marriage are the worse thing that ever happened to this country since HIV. Now this guy is officially nuts. First of all his smile really bothers me and am sorry if I insult anyone.
Forgive me if I don’t see a solution to his dilemma here.
I agree. There is something very disturbing about Choi’s visage. It’s very unsettling to look at him talk. There is a tremendous among of hatred and anger there that is being misdirected unfortunately.
I’m livid……Republican Dan Choi foaming at the mouth and Adam fucking Green…….no rebuttal, nothing…he just let them go on and on………..fuck you Lawrence O’Donnell……
Well Lawrence, Keith Olberman is coming back maybe I will look somewhere else because I have never seen this before. DAN CHOI ENDOSING BARACK OBAMA? what the FLUCK is going on in this guy’s crazy head. I think he is mentally Disturbed.
Olberman is worse, Me4O. Don’t let the fact that he’s been gone for about 150 days fool you. That man is the mouthpiece of the Parasite Losers. I’d rather watch Glenn Beck than Olberman.
You know, after watching Lawrence O’Donnell, I believe he is on to Dan Choi and is going to have him back on the show, but not to give him a license to bash the President, but to challenge him. The fact that O’Donnell took the time to emphasize that he does in fact vote I believe was a message to people like Choi and those PL (Keith Olbermann I’m looking at you) who think that they can get away with sneakily trying to let the Repubs win by sitting home pretending to be unhappy with PBO..
Well he has David Axerold on Monday I trust Lawrence sometimes but today he really let me down. Dan Choi happy that Breitbart was cheered? Why was Breitbart invited? Can someone tell me why?
Well, for one thing, that statement has exposed Choi. He really cannot hide behind the guise of “progressive” much longer. Breitbart is one of the most dispised figures among progressives. So if Choi is openly showing fondness for Brietbart, in what light does that put him? I think O’Donnell is giving him enough rope and soon he will hang himself . These media whores soon get the attention they crave – but not in the way they expect. We just had a very recent example. Choi and his Libertarian advisors need to start taking notes
Isn’t Breitbart the one who apparently “took down” their beloved Weiner? So,why were they cheering him at Nutroots? Sounds like a tea bagger rally, if you ask me.
Hopefruit2, I hope you’re right, because I just above accused O of being a backslider. If he indeed has this as a tactic to a larger strategy, I will be on guard to see for myself. I just don’t trust these yoyo’s called pundits. You never know exactly what they are.
Here’s my letter to Lawrence, didn’t watch the show, don’t care to, regardless of why Lawry invited him, the fact remains: HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN:
Dear Lawrence,
I really love you and your show, and have been a loyal viewer since you started The Last Word when you had the ten o’clock slot. Normally I ignore MSNBC and other republican shill “news” stations, along with Professional Left ideologues like Rachel and Ed. I always know that I can turn to you for sound, clear-cut information, informed by experience and common sense- not so for Rachel & Co. However, tonight I was gravely disappointed when I turned the station and saw that your opening segment was about Nutroots and that Republican shill in Progressive clothing-Dan Choi aka Obama Hater. The professional left, in my and millions of other Democrats and Independents’ humble opinions, are akin to the Tea Party. They are extremists who do nothing more constructive than sit on their lazy asses all day and complain about getting only 85% of what they wanted instead of the 100%. They have done more damage to the Democratic Party than the Republicans and that’s saying alot coming from me because I dislike the Congressional Republicans A LOT. The Professional Left are solely responsible for the 2010 Shellacking. They spent two years cursing and blaming the president, demoralizing the base and threatening and advising Democrats not to show up on election day in order to punish the President. Well, it seems as though they got their wishes, only, it’s not just the president who is being punished, but the American people with Republican voter suppression laws, attacks on Medicare and Social Security, slashes in jobs and social programs, union stripping bills/laws and the attack on women’s reproductive rights. The PL can kiss my ass. They are useless, worthless and full of total and absolute crap. I’m so sorry you wasted your time today doing a report on their self-centered pouting and ungrateful spouting off. Dan Choi is not a credible guest and he is ill-humored and bad tempered i.e.: Tweeting that Harry Reid was a female reproductive organ that bleeds once per month, because Herr Choi didn’t think the Democrats were moving quickly enough on DADT when Choi’s Log Cabin buddies were too busy voting against the Repeal Bill in the House. He does nothing constructive but overcharge people for the illustrious honor of his company and shit advice. He is disgusting and I’m very disappointed that you got your hands dirty tonight with him. It’s my hope that you will refocus on what’s important which is the dishonesty and lazy nature of the republicans and their desire to destroy our social compact with the elderly, the poor and the disenfranchised.
Good night and have a pleasant weekend,
Excellent – you have a very direct way with words, Lisa… 🙂
I want Dan choi Far Away From my President. The SS have to be alerted if he goes to the Gay Fundraiser PBO is attending next week. Far, far. Far Away.
Can someone tell me why Andrew Breitbart got invited to nut roots. Please, if anyone has any clue do educate me on this because I thought the PL where upset that Anthony Weiner resigned and Breitbart was the root cause. OR was it Obama’s fault according to the PL.
Nutroots is a repug shill organization. The fact that Choi was there says enough.
Apparently, the PLs and their fauxgressive supporters believe that it is the fault of President Obama that Weiner sent pics of his naked weiner to random women on Twitter. And it’s also President Obama’s fault that Weiner had to resign.
This is what I’m getting from those losers. And I think Andrew Breitbart got invited to Nutroots because like all 2,000 attendees (what a crowd!!), he too is racist and hates the President with the fire of a thousand suns.
I have to wonder is he mentally disturbed? I mean, since the DADT debate, I mean, remember Col. Victor Fehrenbach?
Throughout that whole thing, not once did I hear the Presidents a coward or inept from him. He just wanted to serve openly and after the signing, he felt elated and is now serving the nation he loves. THIS SHOULD BE A PROGRESSIVE HERO!!!!!!!!!!! I see Dan Choi, and all I see is a guy who thinks hes a revolutionary. He was made the face of the DADT debate and is now gunning for the Gay marriage debate, stemming from a position the President held, not in 2008, where this would have mattered, but in 1996, when President Obama was breaking into politics.
I don’t think Breitbart was invited to Nutroots. Here is a video of him getting chased out. He deserved every minute of it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/17/andrew-breitbart-netroots_n_879357.html
Thank you Doris at least they didn’t invite him. Whew. But they are still losers in my book.
Yes they are. The left’s teaparty!
Dan Choi is mentally ill. You can see it when you watch an interview. His smile isn’t real, his eyes are dark. IIRC he comes from a devout religious family and his parents, especially his father, disowned him when he came out.
He’s also a terrible messanger given his over-the-top hate of the President. He turns off more to his cause than attracts them. Also notice how quickly he jumped from DADT to Marriage equality – he craves the spotlight. The real activists pushing for marriage equality must cringe everytime this guy has a mic in front of him. He’s vile and it oozes trhough the camera.
He’s got a problem. I can’t watch him. Too creepy.
Someone like him is unhinged enough to open gun fire in a crowd. Without me having ever heard or watched him, just from reading about him, he is a real psychotic type. When nothing satisfies, what else do you have but fear, loathing, and hatred? Everybody should watch out for this guy.
EDP4BHO, your first sentence resonates – in fact, I’m about to write a diary on DKOS which points to this very issue. I’m extremely concerned about this guy and his Libertarian streak (which includes a liking for guns).
I heard Tweety tonight too, and wrote him and said what all of you have said. Would more of you write him? He needs to hear fro ALOT of us!
I just watch the video again, for the tenth time and it put a smile on my face every time. I love FLOTUS reaction to the baby stop crying the minute POTUS takes her in his arms.
I CAN’T WATCH THIS VIDEO ENOUGH TIMES!!