So FLOTUS is headed back to the WH and POTUS will be going on to Australia. FLOTUS has a speech planned in front of the Chamber of Commerce re Military veterans tomorrow.
I imagine the people of Australia was hoping FLOTUS would be coming also. But the wonderful Mother that she is, she don’t want to be away from her girls that long. Remember first and foremost she is Mom in chief.
I am putting my hugs with desertflower’s to make the largest vase of Sonia Roses to Chipsticks tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We love you and thank you, Chipsticks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Are The Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HZ
I guess you all saw that all the jack and jill asses were there. There weren’t going to turn down a trip to Hawaii. Since they love the GOP so much they ought to have stayed home and cover those 8 clowns on the other side.
How dare they expect me to make it to work on time?!?! Don’t they know I need my beauty rest after getting up at 2am to follow the President’s afternoon press conference?!?! 😆
Chips…If we feel this…My Lord, I can’t even begin to think.. what you have to go through to bring us world news, regardless of time difference…Bless you Chips…your work is truly a labor of love….and we love you so much for all that you do.
Hopefully…We can all gather in a new place called “TOD’S REHAB CENTER” after 2016…because God knows we need somewhere to go for the Obama withdrawals symptoms.
You know, after he serves his second term, I reckon he’ll be one of the very great international statesmen, so we’ll all be here for many years to come. So, stock up on the coffee, we have work to do 😉
Awwwww! the kitty is so cute. My cat looked just like this when I got him. He’s bigger now and a good mouse catcher but he used to look just like this. Love him! xxxxxxxx
My stray cat pulls that pose when she’s desperately seeking chicken and gravy – her most loved meal. But having built her a luxury (cat) house in the garden, only to see her refuse to enter it (she will only lie on the roof), it’ll be a long time before she’ll get chicken and gravy from me. 👿
I’ve tried that Tien, and she just sits outside with a face that suggests I’m waterboarding her. And I’m not: I don’t believe in torture, even for miserably ungrateful stray cats.
TIME is hosting a poll on who should be Person of the Year and they have President Obama listed with willard, Nicolas Sarkozy, rupey murdock, paul ryan and so on and so and so. Please take a moment to vote FOR our president. Whether they “listen” to what we want, they will know we are reading and watching…… I voted YES!…. 🙂
Just joining you all for a brief moment. Sankofa, if Time has to go through all of that BS for Person of the Year, is it really worth it to value their judgement? I flatly reject their choices, since there is only one for me for all the hell he has had to/does go through, and remains standing tall, confident, still hopeful, and ever so charming…..as well as accomplished. Hell no, Time, the others do not compare. President Obama hands down. Thanks for your vote anyhow, but I gave up on Time once they started being snarky about PBO, and since they decided to keep the dick-head Halperin. I do not play with these creatures.
EDP4BHO….Oh I agree with what you wrote, the others can’t compare, they don’t and will never have President Obama’s attributes at all. I was just sending a message to TIME that WE see what you’re doing. I voted because I won’t them to KNOW people are standing with the president, no matter how assinine they try and present him….. EDP4BHO……..”holding up Girl Scout fingers”… I promise not to play with the creatures anymore…… Scout’s honor….
Last night Mitt Romney was criticizing our President for “thinking that his personal affections (Romney makes a sarcastic gesture)” are the way to deal with folks from other countries.
I’m hoping that he’s letting them ask questions on US soil, and then he’ll ask other reporters in the international press conferences, where the rest of the world will be paying attention. That press conference was brilliant, as usual. I was cheering all the way through. He’s so direct – I think the GOP nominee should be shaking violently in their boots.
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I disagree, but this is my opinion. I think Mr. Lothian is giving President Obama the opportunity to be the sane individual in the room. You don’t ignore your opponents (no matter how out of touch they are), you define them. I’m not just saying this because I’ve met and spoken with Mr. Lothain who is a very nice man, smart and well informed. Same with Mrs. O’Donnell, I appreciate her giving President Obama the opportunity to show our American people how incredibly ill-informed Mittens flippy-floppy Romney really is.
I disagree. This is not t the forum for such questions. This is pure trolling in a foreign policy presser. lothian and norabeing nice persons has got nothing to do with it.
And IMO it’s annoying that these journalists have such an opportunity and they do not have the integrity of purpose or the professionalism to know when to ask what.
Also, the questions these supposed top journalists ask almost ALWAYS originate from the GOP ‘debates’! Right now only two of the GOP candidates are in government, so why is the president being asked repeatedly to dignify their ill-informed opinions? I won’t even mention the fact that the debates are not even legitimate debates.
She replaced Chip Reid and continued his practice of asking snarky, gotcha questions. Her questions are always dripping with sarcasm. She seems to have disdain for President Obama. Very accusatory in her tone.
And did you see that expression on his face when he said it? Priceless. I love my “Stop the foolishness guys and girls. Please ask some intelligent questions, or is that asking too much.? Just tell me, so I can make other arrangements for the American people on what is happening in the real world.”HZ
“And did you see that expression on his face when he said it? Priceless. I love my “Stop the foolishness guys and girls. Please ask some intelligent questions, or is that asking too much.?”
I got that from his body language and response as well.
It’s just so frustrating to me, Lisa. that these guys/gals get the opportunity to clarify issues for the U S populace and they use the time day after day to seek the country’s leader’s take on a bunch of know nothings WHO CURRENTLY HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE COUNTRY!
Do the members of this press corp hold their position right through the next 12 months and beyond, or is there a chance a couple of intelligent journalists might be allowed to join in? Tell me there is a system of rotation for this honour. The thought of being stuck with this moronic, uncreative bunch for another year withers my insides.
Here is another one, BWD. Please lets keep working so the time can pass fast as we work our behinds off, and let him tear up who ever will be running against him. Get it on. So tired of these clowns. HZ
Instead of having the jackals traveling with President Obama, we might as well have the RNC Chairman instead. The jackals are a total embarrassment. All they do is parrot the GOP talking points. We all know the GOP is not a credible opposition party. The jackals can carry water for the GOP but they can not escape the fact that there is no seriousness of purpose with the Republican Party.
Exactly! How do they get away with this uninformed approach? These are the same questions they ask day after day! Why pay for them to travel with the President when they can just wait until he returns to ask their dumb GOP points? Or do they travel for free? Jeez louise, I’m so tired of them repeating the same stuff presser after presser!!!!
we need to get rid of these media mongrels and actually get real reporters, you know, ones with integrity, brains…… degrees in journalism? Not high school drop-outs (Toad boy– so I’ve heard) and beauty school rejects (Norah, girlfriend, I’m talking to you.)
Now you are talking, Lisa. You are so on point. “Degrees in journalism” well versed in the subject matter in context of setting,. This is a messed up bunch of fools talking and writing for the American people with the Leader of the Free World. What the hell?HZ
Yes! Is this possible? Maybe we need to create an Occupy WH Press Corp with the specific goal of having these dolts replaced by a more serious press corp.
JennyLee, I can’t think of any better National reporters. May be some of those local Reporters who interviewed the President could be tapped. I say we bypass so called reporters and look to other nationally recognized people. I nominate Jay Leno and Rev. Al. Sharpton. They asked the President better and more intelligent questions.
Yes, I really did not mind the “jackals” asking the Prez directly on this one. I’m sure Jay is happy that they can STOP asking him to comment. His response was very thoughtful, as I’m sure he’s had time to reflect upon this. The falier of Penn State, and seemingly taw enforcement and the judicial system is enormous. This happens a lot, just this cas is so public and front and center.
Once again PBO is being our country’s moral compass, which is really what a good president does. Does not mean he is not allowed mistakes or bad decisions but we should keep a real sense of decency.
What I find odd about these pressers is that there is never a sense of appropriateness. Some of these questions it is good that they’d ask, but given where and what is happening, and APEC meeting why not more questions about this business. Was that jessica yellin asking the cheap question about the exoticness of the countries over the next few days. Well jessica it’s where the US needs to do more trade in the coming years. And yes Hawaii is one beautiful and exotic state that millions of Americans call home.
THIS is what ticks me off! They follow the President around and never seem to listen or have any awareness of location, always trotting out their stupid GOP comments regardless of the immediate audience. Makes me think of my grandma saying never wash your dirty linen in public. And the disgusting part for me is that there doesn’t seem to be ANY consistent professionalism. They all seem to think that adding the occasional ‘sir’ or Mr. President conceals the snark and legitimizes the question. I haven’t been so mad in a long time!
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Probably because they came at the tail end of my Chips-Obama travel tour which in the past has always been (a) day(s) of HIGH highs!
“What I find odd about these pressers is that there is never a sense of appropriateness. Some of these questions it is good that they’d ask, but given where and what is happening, and APEC meeting why not more questions about this business.”
um ok, so Obama giving a press conference in Honolulu from APEC Summit, ya know, a real foreign policy event that may have some effect on international relations and ALL the questions from US press corps is about the GOP debate, as if POTUS hasn’t kinda been busy with ya know international stuff?
Did Julie not hear PBO when he said he’s not gonna answer anymore of these stupid questions about those stupid repug clowns till they pick a nominee? What an ass!
They really do NOT listen to/hear the answers to their asinine questions. Seems like they each pick up a question sheet on the way to the presser, and each journalist asks the (generally paraphrased) question on the sheet following the one just asked.
Why is it the same worthless reporters get to pose the questions? There is a whole room of them but all we get is Chuck, Jake, April and maybe one or two more.
That was the inevitable ‘OPTICS” question. Unbelievable. Where exactly should the APEC summit been held that wold be acceptable to the jackals. Hawaii is beautiful so this is a problem??
Ah yes, the oft-presented question of “living it up, while ordinary Amurkans are having a tough time”. Who the hell deprives the POTUS the perks and accomodations that come with that office?…..Oh right, I forget…..the “black” guy doesn’t deserve those. He should wear homespun while us po creatures are eatin mush. How dare he have that beautiful scenery behind him like that. These clowns are just beyond disgusting. Now I see, again, why I do not watch these pressers. I just wanted to see PBO in his element….looking gorgeous and speaking profoundly. Gonna say good night to you all. Don’t let them sully your peaceful evening 😀
Apparently, it’s tradition that wherever APEC is, you dress in the traditional garb. Last year when it was announced that APEC would be hosted by America and PBO choose Hawaii, he said they’d all be wearing Hawaiian shirts. He gave them the shirts but gave them option of wearing them.
ps- PBO is on message and on point
love how PBO isn’t letting the GOP disease these so called reporters carry contaminate his good work. These reporters will do anything to overshadow PBO’s work. They are ridiculous.
ps- Oh Chuckie. 🙄
The Super Committee needs to do their job. This is a congressional issue. President Obama has provided his input. Why can’t congress just do their job?
I call him Ed “Cheshire Cat” Henry because he sits in the front row at the press briefings with Jay Carney and smirks the entire time. It’s as if he is in on some private joke. It’s disgusting.
Can you believe it? They treat President Obama’s press conferences like sporting events. I don’t doubt that Don Lemon will ask his guests to RATE President Obama. They might as well give the gasbags cards to hold up with their grade on it like they do at the Olympics.
PBO has gotten FANTASTIC at pivoting off of negative media questions and bringing home HIS own message. If you’ve noticed, every negative question asked, he’s managed to pivot back to his own message. hahahha. In your faces you diseased media mongrels!!! In your faces!!!
Pres. Obama is ever the professor. Always polite, always informative. As my sweet would say ‘he has the patience of a saint’ to answer the dumbest question ever asked of a President, especially when they are at an international summit. What a bunch of whistleheads!!
Ed Henry is worried about Obama’s leadership going into the election without jobs bill passed. Blinders on about the total Repub blockade. I thought Chuck T’s question might be the worst of the night, but I forgot about ol’ Ed Henry and his usual accusatory questions. The only good that comes from these pressers with these poor excuses for journalists and their wasteful, idiotic questions is the chance to put President Obama’s wide base of knowledge on display. His thoughtful, smart responses stand in stark contrast to the basement quality of the questions he is asked.
Just finished watching the press conference…..yes, some of the questions were dumb…..but the President took those as a jumping off point to inform and educate. After a while, the question and the questioner were forgotten, and what he said is what counted. When Norah O’Donnell said “The Rpublicans disagreed with you…..” He said “Shocking!” and smiled, and she couldn’t even continue for a long beat. He’s always on top, and they aren’t. He uses these as wonderful opportunities to talk directly to the people. My husband had turned on FOX…we NEVER watch it, but he was flipping channels and came to the president, and the reception was good. The crawler along the bottom at the end said that Canada and Mexico want to join this Pacific Trade Group and that strengthens president Obama’s stance and leadership of it. Yes, that’s what the crawler actually said.
It’s been a long slow haul, but his patience and confidence are winning.
You know hopefruit2, you are right. I really do believe in my heart and with my brain that Our Beloved and Intelligent Patient President could take the worst s… and (gloves on for sure) make the most out of this world patties you have ever seen or eaten. That is what brilliance and using it will do.
He is so damn brilliant that he takes the fools questions and turn them into an educational moment that is priceless, and educate the entire world with his brilliance with his answers. It is just terrific to see him do that.
That is what I love about our brilliant President. He is like watching a brilliiant pianist, artist, mathematician, educator, scientist, doctor perform with the worst instrument in their profession and make the most brilliant composition, solve the most difficult equation, play the most beautiful solo on the violin, teach the most disruptivd bunch of kids in a classroom,operate in an operating room with precision, and do it front of the whole world. And keep stepping without missing a step.
And there you get what? A Brilliant Masterpiece!!!!!!! He is fricking Brilliant. I love watching him answer questions with these fools. Brillliant, Mr. President!!!!!!! HZ
Net time, president must completely replace the current crop of pathetic press pool that goes with him with some reporters from outside the beltway. I’m sure there are plenty of much more smarter reporters out there toiling for a recognition.
Isn’t it up to the news agencies who they want to send to cover the White House? That’s kind of like separation of church and state: If the White House can choose who it allows to cover the White House, that’s bad. And if they did do it, we’d be screaming foul play.
I’m thinking more along the lines of being able to choose the network or news outlet. Just like he gave unprecedented access to the local stations (last week) he could issue the same invite for travel. Plus Jay called on the news guy from Tampa ( mabe Mark Wilson) at the presser on that Tuesday.
As someone already mentioned plenty of news outlets there, but always the same big 4-cbs, abc. nbc and fox. Mix it up more, and who says they HAVE to get a question in. I think Jay may have once or twice not gone to the front row first. I’d like to see taking more questions from smaller outlets and print and online news outlets.
I love my President. One of the principles of leadership is setting a good example. YES! Thank you. He handled that question so beautifully. And it wasn’t just talk saying we don’t need torture to prosecute the war on terror. He’s got the proof to back it up. We. Don’t. Need. Torture. Period.
Tien Le, I too loved the President’s response on water boarding. And as you said, “He’s got proof to back it up.” If the U.S. does not
re-elect President Obama, the looser will be the American people and not President Obama.
got Dang I love our President.. I’d a slapped the heck outta every single media person for their ignorant rightwinged questions… I get so bloody mad at their foolishness,, but POTUS just takes them to school ever so politely and uses their awfullness to INFORM the world. They are all going down some day.. right now there are young brilliant people preparing to take these jobs away from these loser gop paid “journalists”. Their days are numbered, I’m betting on it. When POTUS and We win in 2012, everything is going to change. every.single.thing.
Hello TOD peeps, I hope you all have had a lovely weekend.. have been tuning in and enjoying all the news & comments, thank you chips.
Hi sherijr, hope you are having a nice one as well. I retweeted some of your tweets tonight during the Press Conference. People were slamming the fools all over the place. The smarts ones knows what is taking place.
Sheriji remember the song, “Everything Must Change.” There you go. We Got This One !!!HZ
Someone introduced that word a few months ago, and has been trying to get it to trend. It’s perfect for these media losers. I love it – but I often forget to use it.
when asked about AJA…I loved his response…Hes’ going to press on, no matter how long it takes…”It may take a new congress to get it done”.
Take that media….
Take that congress! In particular republican congress. He is NOT going to stop talking and “campaigning” about the parts of the AJA. So ya know guess what it’s going to be time to put up- you say jobs are important, then do it. Plus with whatever agreement they reach this month, which I think will have revenue! There will be no excuse not to give a booste to job hiring and pay for the thing with some kind of revenue. Cause PBO is not going to go silent on what we can do to create jobs NOW- and we need infrastructure for the economy we are working towards this 21st century. We need to improve our institutions of education, and we need teachers and first responders. Republicans do ya really want to be the cause of higher taxes for the middile class going into an election year. If you are feeing the heat now, you just wait for what you will be feeling at the end of the year.
What other announcements will the Prez have to make regarding Pacific Eastern trade- how close will we be to doubling our trade by the time of the state of the union address. The president is working to do all that he can do alone, so…what is the republican congress contributing to our economy.
I’ve forgotten already—-who was the fool who asked the Hawaiian shirt question? That’s in the running too for Stupidest Question of the Decade. What a waste.
“A dumbass is a dumbass is a dumbass like the members of our press.” Bravo, Lisa! Sadly these “dumb asses” monopolize the airwaves and help in the dumbing down of the American people. Thankfully, there are sites, like this one, that continue to expose the failure of our so called mainstream media.
It should be tweeted to the US press corpse that they are an embarrassment to our country with their stuipid ass gotcha ???s. And, PBO just exposes them all the more. They’re Jr grade up against the Best in the world.
What I also liked about the Presser was we got to hear about the context of the President’s private conversation with the French President regarding Netanyau.
Chuck Todd is a loser and a back stabber to his press corp team because they all followed the rules and asked one dumb ass question and he asked two dumb ass questions….
Yes, that was a great little piece of news. President Obama took President Sarkozy to task for voting for Palestine at UNESCO, short-cutting the peace talks process. That was more important than talking about gossip of an open mic.
Totally in love with his BRAIN! The APEC Q&A yesterday was nothing short of brilliant.
This man has total command of all subjects thrown at him. And then tonight’s presser.
What meticulous well thought out answers to mostly garbage questions. As lisalovesobama
correctly pointed out above, our PREZ skillfully walks away from the talking points masquerading
as questions and reframes the conversation to drive home his issues. Master and Commander…that he is!
Thank you so much Miss Chips for your great work of covering our PBO’s trip. What would we
do without you . You and the rest of TODville keep me sane and hopeful. THANK you soooo much.
I totally agree – we have to tweet these two video clips far and wide, and put it on Facebook, too. Most people won’t even know this happened. I’m going to also email links to people I know who need to see this President in action.
Press conference was great. The President handles these fools with ease! Very impressive. Listened with my hubby. He’s a great defender of the Pres. among his mostly right wing co-workers. Not much hope of conversion but he doesn’t let the lies go unchallenged. I have been able to give him a lot of information thanks to this site. I am here every day even when I don’t comment. Thanks Chips for everything you do. 🙂
Sweet dreams peeps.
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Chuck Todd should be a cautionary tale for Nate Silver of @fivethirtyeight. You can go from a numbers guy to a douchebag in no time.
Hi everyone. I’ve not been avaiable the last few weeks to come join you but I do try to sneak in and read the threads. I would love to see the twitter brigade go after those poisers who can’t get past “got ya” questions. The President is a wizard the was he can turn the narrative around to get across his points. I hope this posts as Barb.
Night all….though I would love to stay and chat…work comes too soon, and I get cranky if I don’t get enough sleep! See you all tomorrow…PS. LOVE those Tweeted questions for Chuck!
I’m supposed to be in bed but I just want to say this. I am extremely proud of the answer the President gave about waterboarding. I LOVE this man for his decency above all other qualities he may have. God bless him and keep him safe and God please grant that he stay in charge, because the alternatives are truly despicable.
Thank’s for giving the play by play with those sub human dorks. I love the way our President can take that mud pie they throw and turn it into
your favorite flavor. I detest these reporters. Don’t the networks think they are going overboard with such nosense?
I hope this posts for me. I’ve tried at times today to sign in without any luck. In case is does I’m Barb and love all of your input with a big thanks to Chips for keeping this going all hours. I think Ireland took the prize for times we watched it nonstop… but this week isn’t over yet.
I have a question about last weeks press conference and Jake. What did he say? When he appeared again at another conference the speaker, not Jay, told him not to think that the government isn’t protecting him and there are several press briefings missing at the WH?
Thanks elo4obma/bide. I watch him like a hawk, that Tapper. He is getting worse. When he was pounding on Jay for answers, he said “do you mean our harvard graduated constitutional lawyer doesn’t know?” That is what caught me. Is anyone fighting back with these idiots on Twitter? I’d love me some Twitter.
Off topic somewhat, but what is happening with the Elizabeth Warren campaign is simply amazing! The last time I remember seeing turnout like this so early in a Senate campaign was you know who… http://twitpic.com/7dxg2w
Every event just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and Warren keeps getting better and better at each one. We’re really onto something here…
This is why the Big Bank front organization American Crossroads is already running attack ads against her. Nothing scares the Big Banks and GOP more than the Democrats having another candidate in the pipeline that inspires us and gets us to show up in droves to volunteer. They want to get ahead of this next freight train headed down the tracks.
Were Elizabeth Warren to be elected the first woman US President, what do you want to bet that the exact same people who went ballistic about her not getting nominated to head the CFPB will trash her as bad as they do the PBO?
I’ve thought the same thing, Tien Le. They are all for the chase, never about rolling up sleeves and doing the realistic work of making difficult change. They’re the same people who hyperventilated over President Obama, and are now calling him “Bush-lite”. I choose to ignore them as much as possible. If Elizabeth Warren gets to the Senate, I(which seems likely), then I wish her good luck. I won’t start putting great expectations on her for 2016 until I see how effective she is in the Senate – but she is a hard worker for the middle class, and if she can stomach the political environment, would be interesting to see as a political operative – maybe even vying for the White House. At this time, I’ve got my eye on Governor O’Malley for 2016.
That is OK, she’d be in office then. She would have to be as determined, smart and as couregeous as PBO to be the “first.” Yes there are those out there with a short attention span, no sense of how government works and a real laziness to be all “I’m dissappointed” but you know our President presses on, keeps his eye short and long term. honestly he is zen like water flowing over and under and around a rock ( the obstructionism of the republican congress and their corporate masters). You’ve got to be tough, and maybe also have the mindset to give it your all, and hope the American people are smart and sensible enough to “buy into your vision” and patient enough to see the baby steps taken at times to get us there- a stronger more vibrant middle class, a 21st century economy, 21st century fuel and the kind of relationshiip bridges needed for this more complex and ever changing world.
None of the republican candidates have any kind of a moral core, they are all morally bankrupt or lack the courage to take on the crazies of their party. Any time 1 of them half way makes sense, they get cowarded down to walking back their position, and they say any ole silly thing to please the RWN part of their base. Ew, goodnight!
I would bet all my money that the PL would go ” ballistic” the moment she opts for a practical solutions to problems that may not be 100% of the solutions she wanted.
HONOLULU (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told China on Sunday that the United States was fed up with its trade and currency practices, as he turned up the heat on America’s biggest economic rival at an Asia Pacific summit.
“Enough’s enough,” Obama said bluntly at a closing news conference at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting where he scored a significant breakthrough in his push to create a pan-Pacific free trade zone.
C-SPAN is re-airing PBO’s APEC press conference right now and no matter how many times one watches the jackals; their stupidity levels never decreases. My goodness!
This is an interesting development. I heard last week that Chelsea may be seeking a Senatorial position. Not sure where she’s headed. She seems to have a decent head on her shoulders. But, she also seems to be getting some silver spoon treatment. She’s been named to a board of directors position, yet, has no real experience. She’ll be an interesting one to watch, because I have a lot of admiration for her mother.
Oh, I can’t go to bed without asking about our beautiful and thoughtful Sue. She has been on my today, and I have not seen Sue lately, Chips. I hope and pray that Sue is doing fine and healing properly.
Let us know how you are Sue when you are able to do so. However, know that you are in my thoughts and your entire TOD family also has you in their thoughts. Love, hugs, and prayers, beautiful thoughts in meditations coming your way. Sue. Love you so much, Sue. HZ
Hey HZ, we are on the same page! I DM-ed a4Alice earlier to ask if she’d been in touch with Sue in M because I noticed her absence. She hadn’t. I also Dm-ed Sue. Yes, Sue in M, you are in our thoughts, and we trust you are just resting up while you wait on your computer repairs.
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Joan K Shaw, you are also in my thoughts, and I trust that your recovery is moving along nicely.
THANK you for another great weekend travel experience! 😆 😆 My first voyage on the SS Vinton was terrific, as I loves me some ship only when it is stationary. My first college basketball game was fun, and being able to relax in Hawaii, AND enjoy a fashion show was the icing on the cake for me. The poise, beauty, and charisma of your First Model just shone through. You made an excellent choice of model to headline your show! Kudos to you. You sure know how to keeps your clients on the edge of their seats. 😆 😀 Thanks again!
May you have a “Mah-ve-lous” Monday when you wake up!
Good night, everyone. I just want to thank you Chips for keeping me informed this weekend with all the important events of our beloved POB and his lovely wife, FLOTUS. Volunteering duties of phone banking keeps me quite busy. But I just had to let you all know that I thank you for all the information. You do not realize how it helps me to educate and re-educate voters. I thank the brave TOD ers who have the stomach to watch the clown debates. I just refuse to subject myself to their ignorance. I will not allow myself to go to bed with that nonsense. Thanks to you, Chips, I rather look at some of our President’s speeches to help me wind down for the evening.
I agree with the comments concerning the WH press. When will their terms expire? Please tell me we will not have to deal with them another four years……..gee whiz. My five-year-old grandson’s questions are much more thought out and intelligent than those idiots. Grant, it our President and Jay make them look like fools, but once….just once I would like to hear questions of what the people may be thinking and not what the repubs sent them to ask. It is so annoying and very unprofessional. Especially the ones who sit in the front seats. They ask their questions and sit there as if they are doing everyone in the room a favor by just being there. So disgusting to watch.
Thanks again. I must come here every day to be informed. I do not trust the “mediarazzi”. I like that term a lot……..
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Anyone doubting that repeal of Glass-Steagall is a consequence of the failed leadership & compromised Presidency of Bill Clinton is a fool.
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Dear #PresObama we call them #Newstainers for a reason. Why you tolerate them is answered by realizing how empathetic of the lane you are.
“But when voters were pushed to pick between Obama and the GOP front-runner, Mitt Romney, the president took a 6-percentage-point lead. Obama beat Herman Cain by 9 percentage points in the survey, conducted last week as new revelations about sexual harassment allegations against the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO continued to trickle out.
Those fresh numbers highlight the circumstance that will determine who wins next year’s election: The more that the 2012 contest is a referendum on Obama’s job performance, the more likely he is to lose. …
The president’s job approval rating is at 44 percent, with a dangerously high 51 percent disapproval. Of those who disapprove, 41 percent say they feel strongly. Worse, in a sample of the 19 states that could swing to either party next year, Obama’s job approval fell to 40 percent and his disapproval increased to 57 percent. These numbers are on par with Obama’s standing on the eve of last year’s Democratic shellacking in the midterm elections.”
LOOKS LIKE GOPOLITICO CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH WITH OBAMA BEATING BOTH HERMAN AND WILLARD SO THEY HAVE TO SAY HE’S DOING SO BADLY
WTH is a generic republican? They kill me with this garbage. MITT is the nominee…if they don’t like him now, they won’t like him later. You see most are leading with this generic nonsense..and not Romney v Obama. Hello, Iowa is in two months, we’ve had a gazillion debates, there is NO GENERIC REPUBLICAN:(
The issue with approval/disapproval is some from the left disapprove, but that doesn’t mean they won’t vote for him or will vote for Republican candidate.
WATCHED PBO LAST NIGHT…AS AN EX-NEWS REPORTER…I AM EMBARRASSED AND SADDENED BY THOSE REPORTERS WHO DISRESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. HOW DARE THEY CRITIQUE PBO’S JOURNEY THIS WEEK WHEN REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT SQUANDER AND DESTROY THE MORAL VALUES WE HOLD SO DEARLY IN AMERICA’S BIRTHING! AND…NO…TORTURE IS NOT OKAY! MAY GOD DEEPLY BLESS YOU MR. PRESIDENT AND GIVE YOU STRENGTH AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND FACE THE CHALLENGES FOR THIS NATION. YOU ARE LOVED!
Sue – watching those “reporters” on tv . . . they make the case that journalism is either dead and buried or in a deep coma with minimal chance of recovery.
Good morning TOD family. Love, love, love the President’s response to the Republican Circus. “Waterboarding IS torture. . .that’s not something we do. Period.”
Posting the candle link for those who wish to light a candle for the continued success and safety of the President’s trip.
Here’s a link to FLOTUS’ event yesterday. There’s also coverage of the event at http://www.khon2.com but I couldn’t get the link to show up if you want to check that one out as well (in that one there’s a short clip of the boys choir singing).
Also, msnbc will be propping up Romney all day, as they re interviewed Republicans after the Cain scandal and Perry Oooops!
Romney has 32% of the republican vote now. Of course, the media is giving Romney a free pass.
Good Morning Hope. After Perry’s brainfreeze and Cains fiasco NBC decided to go back and re-poll the same people they had polled the week before to see if their views had changed about the candidates. Perry fell off the map and Cain started to decline and Romney’s numbers went up.
Thanks Donna. And yes I’ve noticed not just MSNBC but GOPolitico and others propping up Romney – as Jovie said. The same Politico article that has President Obama beating Romney – even among Independents and Seniors (who McCain won by 8 points in 2008), has a headline: “Obama Vulnerable.” I mean couldn’t they be a little less obvious in their narrative building?
It’s getting bad, because they read the polls and realize that in a general election, mitt Romney will be getting scrutiny on his record. Snd they all read the polls, in which the Presidrnt beats him consistently!
“King Abdullah of Jordan calls on Syrian President Bashir Assad to step down in a BBC interview – @BBCBreaking”
The times are changing. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and even Iran, which was briefly touched by a Green Revolution, should provide ample evidence that the day of the strongman is over.
Assad, like every other delusional dictator before him, thinks he is exceptional. The Arab Spring is other countries, not his people. How many of his fellow countrymen will he slay before he accepts the inevitable?
Meep Meep….once again, the PEOPLE of that area have spoken. I am concerned of all those that have died, but more bloodshed would have come if the WEST decided to cowboy this one…
Yep it’s the people within the country calling for regime change, not our President.
The Syrian leadership is seriously out of touch:
“Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem says Arab League suspension an ‘extremely dangerous step.’ – Reuters”
They’re threatening the Arab League? What are the going to do them? Or is that a threat that they’ll escalate violence against their own people, if suspended from the Arab League?
Assad is starting to mimic Ghaddaffi. As he was rapidly losing his grip on power, he also was losing his grip on reality and sunk into a seige mentality like a suicidal cult leader.
Watching Morning Joe because CNN is talking about the dinner and the 99% singer….Major Garrett just said that after the GOP debate he is terrified of the GOP foreign policy…..Morning Joe alluded to the same position.
CNN is obsessed with that story about the 99% singer. Clearly they think it was to the President’s embarrassment. But as I indicated on a thread at Old Orange (where they also seemed super gleeful about that story), what if the President knew that this guy was going to sing protest songs and had given the singer his okay. According to the singer “President Obama did not appear to notice.” Well I think that was the role that PBO might have had agreed to play. And the singer knew that as well.
The next sector to be targeted by President Obama’s campaign to help the economy without Congress is the health care industry, The Washington Post reports.
Up to $1 billion will be made available to hire health workers, the paper details:
Grants can go to doctors, community groups, local government and other organizations that work with patients in federal health-care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The funds are for experimenting with different ways to expand the health-care workforce while reducing the cost of delivering care. There will be an emphasis on speed, with new programs expected to be running within six months of funding. …
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, created as part of the Affordable Care Act, will administer and oversee the program, called the Health Care Innovation Challenge.
ZOMG Can you believe this BS from POLITICO….”Kids obsession with President Obama fades”..Yesterday’s story was ridiculous but this BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Kids were never “obsessed” with President Obama. They liked and respected him and that is STILL THE CASE. It’s the GOPMEDIA that has been obsessed with making Obama fail, making him be a one-term president. They are ratcheting up their anti-Obama campaign.
Here’s the quest of Politico, Associated Press and Fox:
Nov. 10 2008
“The all-time low on the public’s mood may have something to do with the poll’s finding that President Bush is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in the poll disapprove of how he is handling his job.
That’s an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.”
God bless ’em. Try as they may. That is not going to happen with this President. Given how choppy the economy he should be doing dismally.
The GOP and their media water carriers have done everything they could to incite the widespread rejection of President Obama that was felt for Bush.
But it’s not going to happen, because there really is no basis for despising this President. You have to work at it believing he’s wholly responsible for the fact that corporations aren’t hiring.
You really have to contort yourself to believe his foreign policy has been a disaster after the transitions that have occured in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya with none of the losses in blood and treasure incurred by neocon foreign adventures.
I almost pity them. Because of the profession they’re in and the corporate masters they must do the bidding for, they can’t publicly acknowledge this President’s singular, historic accomplishments, domestically and internationally, in a mere three years.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
So FLOTUS is headed back to the WH and POTUS will be going on to Australia. FLOTUS has a speech planned in front of the Chamber of Commerce re Military veterans tomorrow.
I was hoping they’d both go to Australia.
Me to. theo57.
I think MIchelle wouldn’t stay away from her girls that long. They are in school now.
I imagine the people of Australia was hoping FLOTUS would be coming also. But the wonderful Mother that she is, she don’t want to be away from her girls that long. Remember first and foremost she is Mom in chief.
Thank you so much, Chips! You never miss a beat…big hugs to you for all you do here for all of us{{{{{{ Chips}}}}}}}}
So CNN finally decided to stream a presser from APEC.
I am putting my hugs with desertflower’s to make the largest vase of Sonia Roses to Chipsticks tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We love you and thank you, Chipsticks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Are The Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HZ
Yes, thank you Chips!
I see Chuckie T is already on the CNN livestream. The bacdrop is beautiful with the water.
Ooops meant “backdrop”.
Will Chuckie or Jake ask stupid questions today?
Of course. 🙂
No doubt. It’s in their DNA!!
They won’t disappoint, I’m sure.
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Yes.
I guess you all saw that all the jack and jill asses were there. There weren’t going to turn down a trip to Hawaii. Since they love the GOP so much they ought to have stayed home and cover those 8 clowns on the other side.
No wonder PM Gillard and PBO get on so well. They’re both fighting hard against asshat oppositions!
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/248516/20111114/pm-gillard-sees-poll-numbers-boost-country.htm
Our body clocks are gonna be ALL screwed up following this man around the world in the next few days. True Obamabots! 😆 😆 😆
So true PJ – this’ll be us very soon:
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
*nuzzles tummy*
How dare they expect me to make it to work on time?!?! Don’t they know I need my beauty rest after getting up at 2am to follow the President’s afternoon press conference?!?! 😆
lol Chips …. I am soooo copying/pasting this…..
😆
Chips…If we feel this…My Lord, I can’t even begin to think.. what you have to go through to bring us world news, regardless of time difference…Bless you Chips…your work is truly a labor of love….and we love you so much for all that you do.
Hopefully…We can all gather in a new place called “TOD’S REHAB CENTER” after 2016…because God knows we need somewhere to go for the Obama withdrawals symptoms.
Yes, kasai — I don’t know HOW Chips does it! Our Fearless Leader!
Kasai, you’re beyond lovely.
And I like the idea of the TOD REHAB CENTER 😆
You know, after he serves his second term, I reckon he’ll be one of the very great international statesmen, so we’ll all be here for many years to come. So, stock up on the coffee, we have work to do 😉
Yes we do….:-) thank you
This
That’s the cutest thing! Look at its little sleeping face!
ROFL!!!!!
Awwwww! the kitty is so cute. My cat looked just like this when I got him. He’s bigger now and a good mouse catcher but he used to look just like this. Love him! xxxxxxxx
My stray cat pulls that pose when she’s desperately seeking chicken and gravy – her most loved meal. But having built her a luxury (cat) house in the garden, only to see her refuse to enter it (she will only lie on the roof), it’ll be a long time before she’ll get chicken and gravy from me. 👿
Put the chicken and gravy inside the house.
I’ve tried that Tien, and she just sits outside with a face that suggests I’m waterboarding her. And I’m not: I don’t believe in torture, even for miserably ungrateful stray cats.
LOL. Your frustration is showing, Ms Chips. Our cat, bless her soul, used to pull that stunt on us all the time. Gawd, we miss that bitch.
On a golden platter. They love that 🙂
That’s very strange Chips. My cat will sit inside any kind of box or open drawer. Maybe she thinks there’s a dog in there 😦
Love the picture, Chipsticks!!
We have two kitties who just love to lay on their backs …
#YesWeCanDOMoreTogether — even when we’re asleep 🙂
Thanks Chipsticks for this heads-up 😀
Chips I see these 2 are still on my tail….Yuck!!!! Just go away and leave me the hell alone..
GottaLaff @Kennymack1971 @Kahsai @LiberalPhenom since we’re non profit and don’t accept ads page views mean nothing.
Uggh, what’s that all about Kasai?
I think it has to when we both pushed back about Gitmo….
I cant see the live stream on the white website. is anyone else having this problem?
Try the CNN link Jenny:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=4
Yes.
Counting the president’s questions. These guys need to fill air time, and so they just talk. CNNTEA
Oh no………….the Whitehouse Live site says the press conference will be audio only. *YUCK*
I reject and denounce just audio!
http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=4
😉
Love you so much Chips. Watching on CNN. HZ
TIME is hosting a poll on who should be Person of the Year and they have President Obama listed with willard, Nicolas Sarkozy, rupey murdock, paul ryan and so on and so and so. Please take a moment to vote FOR our president. Whether they “listen” to what we want, they will know we are reading and watching…… I voted YES!…. 🙂
Sankofa, where is the link to the Time poll?
Link to the Time poll: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2098471_2098472_2098506,00.html
Just joining you all for a brief moment. Sankofa, if Time has to go through all of that BS for Person of the Year, is it really worth it to value their judgement? I flatly reject their choices, since there is only one for me for all the hell he has had to/does go through, and remains standing tall, confident, still hopeful, and ever so charming…..as well as accomplished. Hell no, Time, the others do not compare. President Obama hands down. Thanks for your vote anyhow, but I gave up on Time once they started being snarky about PBO, and since they decided to keep the dick-head Halperin. I do not play with these creatures.
You make a whole lot of sense EDP4BHO. I agree with you that most of their choices are questionable at best, ridiculous and insulting at worst.
EDP4BHO….Oh I agree with what you wrote, the others can’t compare, they don’t and will never have President Obama’s attributes at all. I was just sending a message to TIME that WE see what you’re doing. I voted because I won’t them to KNOW people are standing with the president, no matter how assinine they try and present him….. EDP4BHO……..”holding up Girl Scout fingers”… I promise not to play with the creatures anymore…… Scout’s honor….
Ooooops, “want” them to know……….sigh
Can’t seem to get the whitehouse stream on my Ipad. I guess am out of lack. Goodnight my TOD Family.
Try the CNN link.
good night Me4. I gotta hit the sack! Thanks for all you do Chips! You are tireless!!!
There’s no video just audio on WH.gov. CNN has a video link, but you won’t be able to use your iPad.
PBO always, always working so very hard. Apparently he’s gotten a “wider than expected agreement” at APEC.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/14/us-apec-idUSTRE7AB12920111114
Last night Mitt Romney was criticizing our President for “thinking that his personal affections (Romney makes a sarcastic gesture)” are the way to deal with folks from other countries.
When Romney talks, all I hear is blah, blah, blah and he even flip flops that.
Such a pretentious, no-nothing, shallow, hollow a**!!!!! Romnoid the obnoxoid! So there!
Oooops newcenturywoman… http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2098471_2098472_2098506,00.html. Hope this works and thanks for bringing it to my attention. And here I thought I had done something great…..smh
OK, voted.
Me too. I cannot believe 47% voted no after all this man has done for this country.
Thanks for the heads up, Chips!!
Nancy Smash doesn’t sound too happy:
@NancyPelosi
I was the Speaker the credit card industry feared most–tonight’s CBS smear not based on facts: goo.gl/ghOFV
Is that Norah “Ice Princess” O’Donnell in the red dress in the first row? I hope she doesn’t get to ask a question.
Here he is!
He’s on CNN now
Are you hearing double audio?
yep. Something’s up with his mic
APEC SUMMIT IN HAWAII 2011
All about increasing trade and selling products stamped “MADE IN AMERICA”.
Does anyone else hear double in the CNN feed?
😆 Yes, it’s not your dodgy ears Halo, there’s an echo going on!
Halo see my comment two comments above yours!!!
ECHO ECHO ECHO
Thank you PBO!!
Would it be too much to hope that he completely ignores the usual suspects when they try to ask a question?
As usual, the jackals are carrying GOP water on bomb bomb bomb Iran. Dumbasses
yuppers. It’s like they got their talking points from the clown car debates the other night.
No insight, no original thought.
I’m hoping that he’s letting them ask questions on US soil, and then he’ll ask other reporters in the international press conferences, where the rest of the world will be paying attention. That press conference was brilliant, as usual. I was cheering all the way through. He’s so direct – I think the GOP nominee should be shaking violently in their boots.
TIME “Person of the Year” So far 99% is leading
Rank Name Total Votes in favor of this candidate
1 The 99% 37114
2 Anonymous 21667
3 Lionel Messi 12512
4 Arab Youth Protesters 9668
5 Steve Jobs 8053
6 Barack Obama 5118
7 Fukushima 50 4670
8 SEAL Team 6 4370
9 Gabrielle Giffords 3729
10 Warren Buffett 3402
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2098471_2098928_2098929,00.html #ixzz1de6KfmrU
lionel messi, charlie sheen, cain, bachmann, kardashian, dsk ,murdock, cantor, paul ryan casey anthony are in that list ???\
Really Time ? No wonder your circulation is in the toilet.
LOL amk…total mess
Some one should get the american media in that list. I bet they’ll top the top ten worst list.
Oh, the joy and pleasure to have a brilliant President speaking with intelligence to the people. HZ
Dan Lothian….get ready!——-I knew it!!!!!!!! What an ass!!!
I disagree, but this is my opinion. I think Mr. Lothian is giving President Obama the opportunity to be the sane individual in the room. You don’t ignore your opponents (no matter how out of touch they are), you define them. I’m not just saying this because I’ve met and spoken with Mr. Lothain who is a very nice man, smart and well informed. Same with Mrs. O’Donnell, I appreciate her giving President Obama the opportunity to show our American people how incredibly ill-informed Mittens flippy-floppy Romney really is.
I disagree. This is not t the forum for such questions. This is pure trolling in a foreign policy presser. lothian and norabeing nice persons has got nothing to do with it.
Well, we will agree to disagree.
X 2
And IMO it’s annoying that these journalists have such an opportunity and they do not have the integrity of purpose or the professionalism to know when to ask what.
Also, the questions these supposed top journalists ask almost ALWAYS originate from the GOP ‘debates’! Right now only two of the GOP candidates are in government, so why is the president being asked repeatedly to dignify their ill-informed opinions? I won’t even mention the fact that the debates are not even legitimate debates.
and the church says AMEN!!!! Lothian, Toadie, Norah, Fatboy Eddie and Tapper are the biggest holes located on the North American continent.
If Norah O is a “nice” person she’s sure been hiding that under a bushell of snarky nastiness:-)
She replaced Chip Reid and continued his practice of asking snarky, gotcha questions. Her questions are always dripping with sarcasm. She seems to have disdain for President Obama. Very accusatory in her tone.
Norah is unqualified for her job……..
Amen. HZ
Regarding the GOP’s position on Waterboarding and torture: “THEY ARE WRONG!”
PBO 11/13/11 Apec Summit
Thank you Mr. President.
And did you see that expression on his face when he said it? Priceless. I love my “Stop the foolishness guys and girls. Please ask some intelligent questions, or is that asking too much.? Just tell me, so I can make other arrangements for the American people on what is happening in the real world.”HZ
“And did you see that expression on his face when he said it? Priceless. I love my “Stop the foolishness guys and girls. Please ask some intelligent questions, or is that asking too much.?”
I got that from his body language and response as well.
Emphatically: Waterboarding is torture.
Oh, lord, Carrying GOP water.
Why is Don Lothian asking about Cain and Bachmann and waterboarding at the APEC presser?
Beats me. He’s another ass in this ass salad we call the American press corps.
It’s just so frustrating to me, Lisa. that these guys/gals get the opportunity to clarify issues for the U S populace and they use the time day after day to seek the country’s leader’s take on a bunch of know nothings WHO CURRENTLY HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE COUNTRY!
Do the members of this press corp hold their position right through the next 12 months and beyond, or is there a chance a couple of intelligent journalists might be allowed to join in? Tell me there is a system of rotation for this honour. The thought of being stuck with this moronic, uncreative bunch for another year withers my insides.
Why did’t Dan Lothian also mention that waterboarding has been defined as torture in the Geneva convention and is against international law?
Oh NOOOOO! Norah. What a fucking *itch!!! She is so fucking stupid.
I really can not wait for him to really begin campaigning against these assholes.
LOL…I refuse to comment, when they don’t have a nominee yet,,hehehehe
That was sweet!!
Yup, let them vote them out of the island first. What a pathetic buncha losers. And I’m not just talking about the rethug field.
Here is another one, BWD. Please lets keep working so the time can pass fast as we work our behinds off, and let him tear up who ever will be running against him. Get it on. So tired of these clowns. HZ
The faux-journalists just do NOT grow/learn!! Their questioning has been the same no matter what the context!
Loving my President’s responses to these dunderheads. He has the the look of incredulity. I feel ya, Mr. President.
Oh. I can’t SEE him. I’m on wh.gov with audio only.
CNN is carrying it live, dear.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=4
Instead of having the jackals traveling with President Obama, we might as well have the RNC Chairman instead. The jackals are a total embarrassment. All they do is parrot the GOP talking points. We all know the GOP is not a credible opposition party. The jackals can carry water for the GOP but they can not escape the fact that there is no seriousness of purpose with the Republican Party.
Exactly! How do they get away with this uninformed approach? These are the same questions they ask day after day! Why pay for them to travel with the President when they can just wait until he returns to ask their dumb GOP points? Or do they travel for free? Jeez louise, I’m so tired of them repeating the same stuff presser after presser!!!!
Extremely well said, Lady!
Yes he did. He is tired of these jackasses for sure,HZ
THEY’RE WRONG!
I can’t believe CNN is carrying this presser on Live TV. I just happen to turn over there.
The only reason they’re carrying it live is so that they can bring on some Republican brainless twit to “analyze” and “grade” the presser afterwards.
that is a stunning postcard beautiful backdrop framing PBO’s presser. I’m jealous.
Noooooo!!! Jake Tapper! Penn State scandal.
Jake Snarl Tapper asking idiotic question about Penn State Scandal – saying that the Prez is a big fan of college sports so blah blah blah blah blah…
SHEESH!
This scandal has been talked about more than anything I’ve heard in the last year.
I swear we need new reporters to ask our president better
questions.
we need to get rid of these media mongrels and actually get real reporters, you know, ones with integrity, brains…… degrees in journalism? Not high school drop-outs (Toad boy– so I’ve heard) and beauty school rejects (Norah, girlfriend, I’m talking to you.)
Now you are talking, Lisa. You are so on point. “Degrees in journalism” well versed in the subject matter in context of setting,. This is a messed up bunch of fools talking and writing for the American people with the Leader of the Free World. What the hell?HZ
Yes! Is this possible? Maybe we need to create an Occupy WH Press Corp with the specific goal of having these dolts replaced by a more serious press corp.
JennyLee, I can’t think of any better National reporters. May be some of those local Reporters who interviewed the President could be tapped. I say we bypass so called reporters and look to other nationally recognized people. I nominate Jay Leno and Rev. Al. Sharpton. They asked the President better and more intelligent questions.
Wow! how reflective and thoughtful on that Penn State question.
Yes, I really did not mind the “jackals” asking the Prez directly on this one. I’m sure Jay is happy that they can STOP asking him to comment. His response was very thoughtful, as I’m sure he’s had time to reflect upon this. The falier of Penn State, and seemingly taw enforcement and the judicial system is enormous. This happens a lot, just this cas is so public and front and center.
Once again PBO is being our country’s moral compass, which is really what a good president does. Does not mean he is not allowed mistakes or bad decisions but we should keep a real sense of decency.
What I find odd about these pressers is that there is never a sense of appropriateness. Some of these questions it is good that they’d ask, but given where and what is happening, and APEC meeting why not more questions about this business. Was that jessica yellin asking the cheap question about the exoticness of the countries over the next few days. Well jessica it’s where the US needs to do more trade in the coming years. And yes Hawaii is one beautiful and exotic state that millions of Americans call home.
‘there is never a sense of appropriateness.’
THIS is what ticks me off! They follow the President around and never seem to listen or have any awareness of location, always trotting out their stupid GOP comments regardless of the immediate audience. Makes me think of my grandma saying never wash your dirty linen in public. And the disgusting part for me is that there doesn’t seem to be ANY consistent professionalism. They all seem to think that adding the occasional ‘sir’ or Mr. President conceals the snark and legitimizes the question. I haven’t been so mad in a long time!
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Probably because they came at the tail end of my Chips-Obama travel tour which in the past has always been (a) day(s) of HIGH highs!
“What I find odd about these pressers is that there is never a sense of appropriateness. Some of these questions it is good that they’d ask, but given where and what is happening, and APEC meeting why not more questions about this business.”
you are right on that point.
um ok, so Obama giving a press conference in Honolulu from APEC Summit, ya know, a real foreign policy event that may have some effect on international relations and ALL the questions from US press corps is about the GOP debate, as if POTUS hasn’t kinda been busy with ya know international stuff?
Ugh!! the US press corp is an embarassment.
YESSSS! Idiots, and I wonder why I’m so clueless about the world and our world policies.
Yes, Clueless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You nailed it elo4obama/biden.
Yes, Embarassment!!!! You nailed it lamh35.
It was embarrassing lamh35.
“Ugh!! the US press corp is an embarassment.” Bingo!
Did Julie not hear PBO when he said he’s not gonna answer anymore of these stupid questions about those stupid repug clowns till they pick a nominee? What an ass!
They really do NOT listen to/hear the answers to their asinine questions. Seems like they each pick up a question sheet on the way to the presser, and each journalist asks the (generally paraphrased) question on the sheet following the one just asked.
PBO..answers..and Humanize…them, regardless of the questions.
His elements in motion…………..God Bless him
Why is it the same worthless reporters get to pose the questions? There is a whole room of them but all we get is Chuck, Jake, April and maybe one or two more.
Jackie 4 Obama that has been a question of mine for a long time. Why the same people? We need to find out why, I think.HZ
I asked Jay why.
Now the question about the Hawaiian shirts was very stupid!
On 2nd thought maybe it was so stupid because the President is knocked that pitch out of the park
Where in the world do these reporters get these questions? they are so shallow.
COS, out of their behinds!!!!! It is a shame!!!HZ
I was going to say from their two brain cells they rub together but HZ is probably more spot on.
That was the inevitable ‘OPTICS” question. Unbelievable. Where exactly should the APEC summit been held that wold be acceptable to the jackals. Hawaii is beautiful so this is a problem??
Ah yes, the oft-presented question of “living it up, while ordinary Amurkans are having a tough time”. Who the hell deprives the POTUS the perks and accomodations that come with that office?…..Oh right, I forget…..the “black” guy doesn’t deserve those. He should wear homespun while us po creatures are eatin mush. How dare he have that beautiful scenery behind him like that. These clowns are just beyond disgusting. Now I see, again, why I do not watch these pressers. I just wanted to see PBO in his element….looking gorgeous and speaking profoundly. Gonna say good night to you all. Don’t let them sully your peaceful evening 😀
Good night, EDP4BHO, sleep tight!
what exactly was the hawaii shirt question?
Apparently, it’s tradition that wherever APEC is, you dress in the traditional garb. Last year when it was announced that APEC would be hosted by America and PBO choose Hawaii, he said they’d all be wearing Hawaiian shirts. He gave them the shirts but gave them option of wearing them.
ps- PBO is on message and on point
She asked why not wear the shirts, was it because he didn’t want people who are struggle to see the World leaders in Hawaiian shirts.
love how PBO isn’t letting the GOP disease these so called reporters carry contaminate his good work. These reporters will do anything to overshadow PBO’s work. They are ridiculous.
ps- Oh Chuckie. 🙄
there should be a new hashtag #reportersstupidquestions
Great idea. I think one of the stupidest questions came from Ann Compton when she asked about the bedroom slippers comment at the CBC event.
LAWDHammmercy…Chuckie.Is.Ridiculous.
Chuckie Todd is not the sharpest pencil in the box. Lord up in Heaven, I miss Tim Russert.
The Super Committee needs to do their job. This is a congressional issue. President Obama has provided his input. Why can’t congress just do their job?
Because they are a do nothing Congress.
Added to post: Video clip of President commenting on waterboarding.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Ed Henry! He’s so stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid. Another GOP question. He doesn’t even try to fake it anymore.
In the words of Smoky Robinson, “I second that emotion!” He is stupid!
I do not know who I dislike more, Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper or Ed Henry.
Ed Henry
Chuck Todd
Jake Tapper
In that order.
You forgot Lil Ms Beauty school drop-out. She infuriates me to no end. Every time I see her, I remember this:
Ed Henry will always be an idiot!
I call him Ed “Cheshire Cat” Henry because he sits in the front row at the press briefings with Jay Carney and smirks the entire time. It’s as if he is in on some private joke. It’s disgusting.
Maybe he is trying to become the Glenn Beck of hack journalism.
Ed Henry is tiresome with his nonstop ass-kissing of Mitt Romney.
He is!!
Now they are getting ready to do analysis of the presser. No thanks. CNN.
Can you believe it? They treat President Obama’s press conferences like sporting events. I don’t doubt that Don Lemon will ask his guests to RATE President Obama. They might as well give the gasbags cards to hold up with their grade on it like they do at the Olympics.
Yes, with David Frum. Give me a break. Lord please have mercy.HZ
PBO has gotten FANTASTIC at pivoting off of negative media questions and bringing home HIS own message. If you’ve noticed, every negative question asked, he’s managed to pivot back to his own message. hahahha. In your faces you diseased media mongrels!!! In your faces!!!
That’s what I call relentless message discipline. Love it. The jackals throw out the gotta questions and PBO turns the tables on them.
media mongrels!!!
Love it even though it’s an insult to mongrels, who are loyal.
OK, I”LL ADMIT IT. ED HENRY’S JOKE WAS FUNNY!
Pres. Obama is ever the professor. Always polite, always informative. As my sweet would say ‘he has the patience of a saint’ to answer the dumbest question ever asked of a President, especially when they are at an international summit. What a bunch of whistleheads!!
as my sweet mama would say..
Oh! I wasn’t thinking of your mama. 😉
Ed Henry is worried about Obama’s leadership going into the election without jobs bill passed. Blinders on about the total Repub blockade. I thought Chuck T’s question might be the worst of the night, but I forgot about ol’ Ed Henry and his usual accusatory questions. The only good that comes from these pressers with these poor excuses for journalists and their wasteful, idiotic questions is the chance to put President Obama’s wide base of knowledge on display. His thoughtful, smart responses stand in stark contrast to the basement quality of the questions he is asked.
This same question has been asked many times before. I know I heard Nora O’D. ask it once; also Jake Tapper.
That’s not something we do, Period.
Eat it, rethugs and their ass kissers in the press. Go Mr President.
Just finished watching the press conference…..yes, some of the questions were dumb…..but the President took those as a jumping off point to inform and educate. After a while, the question and the questioner were forgotten, and what he said is what counted. When Norah O’Donnell said “The Rpublicans disagreed with you…..” He said “Shocking!” and smiled, and she couldn’t even continue for a long beat. He’s always on top, and they aren’t. He uses these as wonderful opportunities to talk directly to the people. My husband had turned on FOX…we NEVER watch it, but he was flipping channels and came to the president, and the reception was good. The crawler along the bottom at the end said that Canada and Mexico want to join this Pacific Trade Group and that strengthens president Obama’s stance and leadership of it. Yes, that’s what the crawler actually said.
It’s been a long slow haul, but his patience and confidence are winning.
I agree carolyn. Our President knows how to use just about any question as an opportunity to inform and educate.
You know hopefruit2, you are right. I really do believe in my heart and with my brain that Our Beloved and Intelligent Patient President could take the worst s… and (gloves on for sure) make the most out of this world patties you have ever seen or eaten. That is what brilliance and using it will do.
He is so damn brilliant that he takes the fools questions and turn them into an educational moment that is priceless, and educate the entire world with his brilliance with his answers. It is just terrific to see him do that.
That is what I love about our brilliant President. He is like watching a brilliiant pianist, artist, mathematician, educator, scientist, doctor perform with the worst instrument in their profession and make the most brilliant composition, solve the most difficult equation, play the most beautiful solo on the violin, teach the most disruptivd bunch of kids in a classroom,operate in an operating room with precision, and do it front of the whole world. And keep stepping without missing a step.
And there you get what? A Brilliant Masterpiece!!!!!!! He is fricking Brilliant. I love watching him answer questions with these fools. Brillliant, Mr. President!!!!!!! HZ
HZ, you said it beautifully, as always. He is brilliant. In fact, he’s a political genius.
Very well said HZ, Hopefruit2, and Carolyn! Only idiots fail to recognize President Obama’s brilliance.
You are right in your summary, Carolyn.
Net time, president must completely replace the current crop of pathetic press pool that goes with him with some reporters from outside the beltway. I’m sure there are plenty of much more smarter reporters out there toiling for a recognition.
Isn’t it up to the news agencies who they want to send to cover the White House? That’s kind of like separation of church and state: If the White House can choose who it allows to cover the White House, that’s bad. And if they did do it, we’d be screaming foul play.
I’m thinking more along the lines of being able to choose the network or news outlet. Just like he gave unprecedented access to the local stations (last week) he could issue the same invite for travel. Plus Jay called on the news guy from Tampa ( mabe Mark Wilson) at the presser on that Tuesday.
As someone already mentioned plenty of news outlets there, but always the same big 4-cbs, abc. nbc and fox. Mix it up more, and who says they HAVE to get a question in. I think Jay may have once or twice not gone to the front row first. I’d like to see taking more questions from smaller outlets and print and online news outlets.
Absolutely! Why oh why, Jay, must you call on these children all the time? There are other reporters in the room.
Who gets invited into his plane is entirely up to him.
I love my President. One of the principles of leadership is setting a good example. YES! Thank you. He handled that question so beautifully. And it wasn’t just talk saying we don’t need torture to prosecute the war on terror. He’s got the proof to back it up. We. Don’t. Need. Torture. Period.
Tien, I have a feeling that response is going to be played over and over next week. I loved his curt answer.
Tien Le, I too loved the President’s response on water boarding. And as you said, “He’s got proof to back it up.” If the U.S. does not
re-elect President Obama, the looser will be the American people and not President Obama.
got Dang I love our President.. I’d a slapped the heck outta every single media person for their ignorant rightwinged questions… I get so bloody mad at their foolishness,, but POTUS just takes them to school ever so politely and uses their awfullness to INFORM the world. They are all going down some day.. right now there are young brilliant people preparing to take these jobs away from these loser gop paid “journalists”. Their days are numbered, I’m betting on it. When POTUS and We win in 2012, everything is going to change. every.single.thing.
Hello TOD peeps, I hope you all have had a lovely weekend.. have been tuning in and enjoying all the news & comments, thank you chips.
Hi sherijr, hope you are having a nice one as well. I retweeted some of your tweets tonight during the Press Conference. People were slamming the fools all over the place. The smarts ones knows what is taking place.
Sheriji remember the song, “Everything Must Change.” There you go. We Got This One !!!HZ
Yes Tien…He’s got proof…ask OBL…Ask al-queda….Ghaddafi…should I go on…He didn’t even have to say it…
Anyone that wants to debate him….please do so at your own risk…the outcome will be slaughter.
Just saw the coolest word on twitter: Mediarazzi How perfect is that? Totally describes what we have in this country.
lol…love it Mediarazzi…..very clever
Someone introduced that word a few months ago, and has been trying to get it to trend. It’s perfect for these media losers. I love it – but I often forget to use it.
Great thought and word. How do we get it started Kasai and theo67? Would be interesting to see what would change.HZ
Totally perfect!
when asked about AJA…I loved his response…Hes’ going to press on, no matter how long it takes…”It may take a new congress to get it done”.
Take that media….
Take that congress! In particular republican congress. He is NOT going to stop talking and “campaigning” about the parts of the AJA. So ya know guess what it’s going to be time to put up- you say jobs are important, then do it. Plus with whatever agreement they reach this month, which I think will have revenue! There will be no excuse not to give a booste to job hiring and pay for the thing with some kind of revenue. Cause PBO is not going to go silent on what we can do to create jobs NOW- and we need infrastructure for the economy we are working towards this 21st century. We need to improve our institutions of education, and we need teachers and first responders. Republicans do ya really want to be the cause of higher taxes for the middile class going into an election year. If you are feeing the heat now, you just wait for what you will be feeling at the end of the year.
What other announcements will the Prez have to make regarding Pacific Eastern trade- how close will we be to doubling our trade by the time of the state of the union address. The president is working to do all that he can do alone, so…what is the republican congress contributing to our economy.
PRESS ON!!!!
I’ve forgotten already—-who was the fool who asked the Hawaiian shirt question? That’s in the running too for Stupidest Question of the Decade. What a waste.
She the annoying women who always sits in the 2nd row in the Press briefing room. She tends to sit next to the big boy Mark knoller.
Don’t remember. At this point, does it really matter? As the great bard once said:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a dumbass
By any other name would smell as stink”
And as many great Americans have uttered:
“A dumbass by any other name is still a dumbass”
And as I like to say:
“A dumbass is a dumbass is a dumbass like the members of our press.”
“A dumbass is a dumbass is a dumbass like the members of our press.” Bravo, Lisa! Sadly these “dumb asses” monopolize the airwaves and help in the dumbing down of the American people. Thankfully, there are sites, like this one, that continue to expose the failure of our so called mainstream media.
It should be tweeted to the US press corpse that they are an embarrassment to our country with their stuipid ass gotcha ???s. And, PBO just exposes them all the more. They’re Jr grade up against the Best in the world.
Thanks Tweeters!
They are doing Chuck Todd questions on Twitter. Hilarious.
Mr. President, do you think Beyonce’s child is a girl or a boy? #ChuckToddQuestions
Mr. President , How come you don’t sing spirituals like Herman Cain? Wouldn’t that make you more authentic? #ChuckToddQuestions
The tweeters are so funny.
now talk about your pop cultture questions…hahahahaha
What I also liked about the Presser was we got to hear about the context of the President’s private conversation with the French President regarding Netanyau.
Chuck Todd is a loser and a back stabber to his press corp team because they all followed the rules and asked one dumb ass question and he asked two dumb ass questions….
Yes, that was a great little piece of news. President Obama took President Sarkozy to task for voting for Palestine at UNESCO, short-cutting the peace talks process. That was more important than talking about gossip of an open mic.
Love POTUS answer on that one. POB did not back off either. Love my President.!!!HZ
Totally in love with his BRAIN! The APEC Q&A yesterday was nothing short of brilliant.
This man has total command of all subjects thrown at him. And then tonight’s presser.
What meticulous well thought out answers to mostly garbage questions. As lisalovesobama
correctly pointed out above, our PREZ skillfully walks away from the talking points masquerading
as questions and reframes the conversation to drive home his issues. Master and Commander…that he is!
Thank you so much Miss Chips for your great work of covering our PBO’s trip. What would we
do without you . You and the rest of TODville keep me sane and hopeful. THANK you soooo much.
I totally agree – we have to tweet these two video clips far and wide, and put it on Facebook, too. Most people won’t even know this happened. I’m going to also email links to people I know who need to see this President in action.
ChuckToddQuestion# When is it my bedtime in Hawaii Mr. President?
Press conference was great. The President handles these fools with ease! Very impressive. Listened with my hubby. He’s a great defender of the Pres. among his mostly right wing co-workers. Not much hope of conversion but he doesn’t let the lies go unchallenged. I have been able to give him a lot of information thanks to this site. I am here every day even when I don’t comment. Thanks Chips for everything you do. 🙂
Sweet dreams peeps.
Sweet dreams too, W_o_S!
@natthedem natthedem
Chuck Todd should be a cautionary tale for Nate Silver of @fivethirtyeight. You can go from a numbers guy to a douchebag in no time.
Ha!
Oh, nate is already halfway there alright.
Hi everyone. I’ve not been avaiable the last few weeks to come join you but I do try to sneak in and read the threads. I would love to see the twitter brigade go after those poisers who can’t get past “got ya” questions. The President is a wizard the was he can turn the narrative around to get across his points. I hope this posts as Barb.
Mr. President do you like me?? #ChuckToddQuestions
Mr. President? Does my head look bigger than my ass?
Mr. President, the airplane door says exit, should I jump?
Mr. President, is my nose brown?
Mr. President, is there a kick me sign stuck to my ass?
Mr. President, is my face stuck too far up GOP ass?
Mr. President, should I hold my breath and stomp my feet when you disregard my gotcha questions?
Mr. President, do you like me? My friends– the imaginary ones–say I’m a likeable guy.
Now this is funny. . .
http://twitter.com/#!/BorowitzReport/status/135814337603436544
THIS! IS! HILARIOUS! He’s on a roll today!
Borowitz is a riot! That is way too funny! I can now visualize a bumper sticker with that joke. Simply priceless!
Night all….though I would love to stay and chat…work comes too soon, and I get cranky if I don’t get enough sleep! See you all tomorrow…PS. LOVE those Tweeted questions for Chuck!
Good night, sleep tight, DF! I can’t believe my eyes are still open, so I’m hanging around until they start to close.
Nite desertflower. Sleep peacefully. HZ
I’m supposed to be in bed but I just want to say this. I am extremely proud of the answer the President gave about waterboarding. I LOVE this man for his decency above all other qualities he may have. God bless him and keep him safe and God please grant that he stay in charge, because the alternatives are truly despicable.
Thank’s for giving the play by play with those sub human dorks. I love the way our President can take that mud pie they throw and turn it into
your favorite flavor. I detest these reporters. Don’t the networks think they are going overboard with such nosense?
I hope this posts for me. I’ve tried at times today to sign in without any luck. In case is does I’m Barb and love all of your input with a big thanks to Chips for keeping this going all hours. I think Ireland took the prize for times we watched it nonstop… but this week isn’t over yet.
I have a question about last weeks press conference and Jake. What did he say? When he appeared again at another conference the speaker, not Jay, told him not to think that the government isn’t protecting him and there are several press briefings missing at the WH?
I thought I’d seen them all this week, but that I don’t recollect. If I do find out anything I’ll respond.
Thanks elo4obma/bide. I watch him like a hawk, that Tapper. He is getting worse. When he was pounding on Jay for answers, he said “do you mean our harvard graduated constitutional lawyer doesn’t know?” That is what caught me. Is anyone fighting back with these idiots on Twitter? I’d love me some Twitter.
Yeah…………..I’m in.
I LOVE HOW THE PRESIDENT TAKES HIS TIME TO ANSWER THE MEDIA
Tweeterland is on fire tonight.. here’s one..lol
#Who knew that when we shut down mental health facilities they’d all turn up in GOP leadership positions. #p2
Off topic somewhat, but what is happening with the Elizabeth Warren campaign is simply amazing! The last time I remember seeing turnout like this so early in a Senate campaign was you know who…
http://twitpic.com/7dxg2w
Every event just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and Warren keeps getting better and better at each one. We’re really onto something here…
This is why the Big Bank front organization American Crossroads is already running attack ads against her. Nothing scares the Big Banks and GOP more than the Democrats having another candidate in the pipeline that inspires us and gets us to show up in droves to volunteer. They want to get ahead of this next freight train headed down the tracks.
Were Elizabeth Warren to be elected the first woman US President, what do you want to bet that the exact same people who went ballistic about her not getting nominated to head the CFPB will trash her as bad as they do the PBO?
I’ve thought the same thing, Tien Le. They are all for the chase, never about rolling up sleeves and doing the realistic work of making difficult change. They’re the same people who hyperventilated over President Obama, and are now calling him “Bush-lite”. I choose to ignore them as much as possible. If Elizabeth Warren gets to the Senate, I(which seems likely), then I wish her good luck. I won’t start putting great expectations on her for 2016 until I see how effective she is in the Senate – but she is a hard worker for the middle class, and if she can stomach the political environment, would be interesting to see as a political operative – maybe even vying for the White House. At this time, I’ve got my eye on Governor O’Malley for 2016.
Well there are two places on the ticket, ya know. O’Malley/Warren sounds pretty sweet.
That is OK, she’d be in office then. She would have to be as determined, smart and as couregeous as PBO to be the “first.” Yes there are those out there with a short attention span, no sense of how government works and a real laziness to be all “I’m dissappointed” but you know our President presses on, keeps his eye short and long term. honestly he is zen like water flowing over and under and around a rock ( the obstructionism of the republican congress and their corporate masters). You’ve got to be tough, and maybe also have the mindset to give it your all, and hope the American people are smart and sensible enough to “buy into your vision” and patient enough to see the baby steps taken at times to get us there- a stronger more vibrant middle class, a 21st century economy, 21st century fuel and the kind of relationshiip bridges needed for this more complex and ever changing world.
None of the republican candidates have any kind of a moral core, they are all morally bankrupt or lack the courage to take on the crazies of their party. Any time 1 of them half way makes sense, they get cowarded down to walking back their position, and they say any ole silly thing to please the RWN part of their base. Ew, goodnight!
They’re already trashing her.
The Firebaggers and PUMAs hate her because she won’t criticize Obama.
I would bet all my money that the PL would go ” ballistic” the moment she opts for a practical solutions to problems that may not be 100% of the solutions she wanted.
HONOLULU (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told China on Sunday that the United States was fed up with its trade and currency practices, as he turned up the heat on America’s biggest economic rival at an Asia Pacific summit.
“Enough’s enough,” Obama said bluntly at a closing news conference at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting where he scored a significant breakthrough in his push to create a pan-Pacific free trade zone.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE7AB12920111114?irpc=932
Our4thEstate Bobfr
America – Our #PresObama to China – “Enough is enough” on the monetary ‘games’ they’re playing reut.rs/toyEl4 Got that #NEWSTAINERS
#PRESSON
C-SPAN is re-airing PBO’s APEC press conference right now and no matter how many times one watches the jackals; their stupidity levels never decreases. My goodness!
Read this one:HZ
Chelsea Clinton; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/business/media/chelsea_clinton-hired-by-nbc–news.html?_r=1&Src=tp
This is an interesting development. I heard last week that Chelsea may be seeking a Senatorial position. Not sure where she’s headed. She seems to have a decent head on her shoulders. But, she also seems to be getting some silver spoon treatment. She’s been named to a board of directors position, yet, has no real experience. She’ll be an interesting one to watch, because I have a lot of admiration for her mother.
Hey, I am not saying that everyone has to follow Mother Theresa in their career paths, but Chelsea’s job out of college was as a hedge fund manager.
A hedge fund manager.
The link is not working. I’ll try to find another one.
Oh, I can’t go to bed without asking about our beautiful and thoughtful Sue. She has been on my today, and I have not seen Sue lately, Chips. I hope and pray that Sue is doing fine and healing properly.
Let us know how you are Sue when you are able to do so. However, know that you are in my thoughts and your entire TOD family also has you in their thoughts. Love, hugs, and prayers, beautiful thoughts in meditations coming your way. Sue. Love you so much, Sue. HZ
Hey HZ, we are on the same page! I DM-ed a4Alice earlier to ask if she’d been in touch with Sue in M because I noticed her absence. She hadn’t. I also Dm-ed Sue. Yes, Sue in M, you are in our thoughts, and we trust you are just resting up while you wait on your computer repairs.
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Joan K Shaw, you are also in my thoughts, and I trust that your recovery is moving along nicely.
Really falling asleep now – Toodle-di-doo, all.
This is it, the eyes are closing. Good night, everyone! Sweet dreams!
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Ms Chips, A Good Morning to you!
THANK you for another great weekend travel experience! 😆 😆 My first voyage on the SS Vinton was terrific, as I loves me some ship only when it is stationary. My first college basketball game was fun, and being able to relax in Hawaii, AND enjoy a fashion show was the icing on the cake for me. The poise, beauty, and charisma of your First Model just shone through. You made an excellent choice of model to headline your show! Kudos to you. You sure know how to keeps your clients on the edge of their seats. 😆 😀 Thanks again!
May you have a “Mah-ve-lous” Monday when you wake up!
Good night, everyone. I just want to thank you Chips for keeping me informed this weekend with all the important events of our beloved POB and his lovely wife, FLOTUS. Volunteering duties of phone banking keeps me quite busy. But I just had to let you all know that I thank you for all the information. You do not realize how it helps me to educate and re-educate voters. I thank the brave TOD ers who have the stomach to watch the clown debates. I just refuse to subject myself to their ignorance. I will not allow myself to go to bed with that nonsense. Thanks to you, Chips, I rather look at some of our President’s speeches to help me wind down for the evening.
I agree with the comments concerning the WH press. When will their terms expire? Please tell me we will not have to deal with them another four years……..gee whiz. My five-year-old grandson’s questions are much more thought out and intelligent than those idiots. Grant, it our President and Jay make them look like fools, but once….just once I would like to hear questions of what the people may be thinking and not what the repubs sent them to ask. It is so annoying and very unprofessional. Especially the ones who sit in the front seats. They ask their questions and sit there as if they are doing everyone in the room a favor by just being there. So disgusting to watch.
Thanks again. I must come here every day to be informed. I do not trust the “mediarazzi”. I like that term a lot……..
Our4thEstate Bobfr
Anyone doubting that repeal of Glass-Steagall is a consequence of the failed leadership & compromised Presidency of Bill Clinton is a fool.
Our4thEstate Bobfr
Dear #PresObama we call them #Newstainers for a reason. Why you tolerate them is answered by realizing how empathetic of the lane you are.
#PRESSON
America – #PresObama informs the #GOPTortureFans that “waterboarding is torture – that’s not who we are” bit.ly/rBctmX AGREE Totally.
#YesWeCanDOMoreTogether
Our4thEstate Bobfr
America – PresObama informs Bachmann, Cain & other #KOCHMAFIASTOOGES that Waterbording is TORTURE. Period. youtu.be/WV0in_W3ln0
#PRESSON
Bobfr, Thank you so much for the wonderful job you are doing with your tweets.
PRESSON!
“But when voters were pushed to pick between Obama and the GOP front-runner, Mitt Romney, the president took a 6-percentage-point lead. Obama beat Herman Cain by 9 percentage points in the survey, conducted last week as new revelations about sexual harassment allegations against the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO continued to trickle out.
Those fresh numbers highlight the circumstance that will determine who wins next year’s election: The more that the 2012 contest is a referendum on Obama’s job performance, the more likely he is to lose. …
The president’s job approval rating is at 44 percent, with a dangerously high 51 percent disapproval. Of those who disapprove, 41 percent say they feel strongly. Worse, in a sample of the 19 states that could swing to either party next year, Obama’s job approval fell to 40 percent and his disapproval increased to 57 percent. These numbers are on par with Obama’s standing on the eve of last year’s Democratic shellacking in the midterm elections.”
LOOKS LIKE GOPOLITICO CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH WITH OBAMA BEATING BOTH HERMAN AND WILLARD SO THEY HAVE TO SAY HE’S DOING SO BADLY
Of course, msnbc will be talking about this, tampon hall snd Andrea mitchel probably assisted politico in writi g tge story.
“Poll: Obama Tied
In new Politico/G.W. Uni. survey POTUS level 43-43 with generic GOP candidate, beats both ’12 frontrunners.
Obama 49% — Romney 43%
Obama 49% — Cain 40%
And/but: approval rating at 44%, disapproval rating 51%.
MARK HACKPERIN APPARENTLY THINKS PBO WILL BE RUNNING AGAINST A GENERIC PERSON
Halo,
Halperin is Knee deep in biased reporting.
WTH is a generic republican? They kill me with this garbage. MITT is the nominee…if they don’t like him now, they won’t like him later. You see most are leading with this generic nonsense..and not Romney v Obama. Hello, Iowa is in two months, we’ve had a gazillion debates, there is NO GENERIC REPUBLICAN:(
The issue with approval/disapproval is some from the left disapprove, but that doesn’t mean they won’t vote for him or will vote for Republican candidate.
WATCHED PBO LAST NIGHT…AS AN EX-NEWS REPORTER…I AM EMBARRASSED AND SADDENED BY THOSE REPORTERS WHO DISRESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. HOW DARE THEY CRITIQUE PBO’S JOURNEY THIS WEEK WHEN REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT SQUANDER AND DESTROY THE MORAL VALUES WE HOLD SO DEARLY IN AMERICA’S BIRTHING! AND…NO…TORTURE IS NOT OKAY! MAY GOD DEEPLY BLESS YOU MR. PRESIDENT AND GIVE YOU STRENGTH AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND FACE THE CHALLENGES FOR THIS NATION. YOU ARE LOVED!
Sue – watching those “reporters” on tv . . . they make the case that journalism is either dead and buried or in a deep coma with minimal chance of recovery.
Good morning TOD family. Love, love, love the President’s response to the Republican Circus. “Waterboarding IS torture. . .that’s not something we do. Period.”
Posting the candle link for those who wish to light a candle for the continued success and safety of the President’s trip.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
Here’s a link to FLOTUS’ event yesterday. There’s also coverage of the event at http://www.khon2.com but I couldn’t get the link to show up if you want to check that one out as well (in that one there’s a short clip of the boys choir singing).
http://www.kitv.com/video/29762128/detail.html
Also, msnbc will be propping up Romney all day, as they re interviewed Republicans after the Cain scandal and Perry Oooops!
Romney has 32% of the republican vote now. Of course, the media is giving Romney a free pass.
Can you provide a link showing that Romney has 32% of the Republican vote? All the polls I’ve seen show him at 25% or less.
Good Morning Hope. After Perry’s brainfreeze and Cains fiasco NBC decided to go back and re-poll the same people they had polled the week before to see if their views had changed about the candidates. Perry fell off the map and Cain started to decline and Romney’s numbers went up.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/13/8782807-gop-support-for-perry-plummets-after-debate-flub
Thanks Donna. And yes I’ve noticed not just MSNBC but GOPolitico and others propping up Romney – as Jovie said. The same Politico article that has President Obama beating Romney – even among Independents and Seniors (who McCain won by 8 points in 2008), has a headline: “Obama Vulnerable.” I mean couldn’t they be a little less obvious in their narrative building?
It’s getting bad, because they read the polls and realize that in a general election, mitt Romney will be getting scrutiny on his record. Snd they all read the polls, in which the Presidrnt beats him consistently!
http://thepage.time.com/2011/11/14/on-the-rise/
Hey chips,
Look at this love fest halperin has for Romney- after reading this, I am quite certain Romney will come out for marriage equality- good grief:
http://thepage.time.com/2011/11/13/halperins-take-the-romney-advantage/
Halperin also had a love-fest for John McCain. Halperin’s “love” is like the kiss of death. If I were Romney I would be afraid – very afraid.
From Breakingnews.com:
“King Abdullah of Jordan calls on Syrian President Bashir Assad to step down in a BBC interview – @BBCBreaking”
The times are changing. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and even Iran, which was briefly touched by a Green Revolution, should provide ample evidence that the day of the strongman is over.
Assad, like every other delusional dictator before him, thinks he is exceptional. The Arab Spring is other countries, not his people. How many of his fellow countrymen will he slay before he accepts the inevitable?
Hopefully soon, he will see the writing on the wall, and step down. Too many people are being killed. The people are speaking…he needs to listen
Meep Meep….once again, the PEOPLE of that area have spoken. I am concerned of all those that have died, but more bloodshed would have come if the WEST decided to cowboy this one…
Yep it’s the people within the country calling for regime change, not our President.
The Syrian leadership is seriously out of touch:
“Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem says Arab League suspension an ‘extremely dangerous step.’ – Reuters”
They’re threatening the Arab League? What are the going to do them? Or is that a threat that they’ll escalate violence against their own people, if suspended from the Arab League?
Assad is starting to mimic Ghaddaffi. As he was rapidly losing his grip on power, he also was losing his grip on reality and sunk into a seige mentality like a suicidal cult leader.
Morning! Don’t forget to watch Diane Sawyer interview Gabby Giffords tonight! 9pm…check local listings 🙂
Watching Morning Joe because CNN is talking about the dinner and the 99% singer….Major Garrett just said that after the GOP debate he is terrified of the GOP foreign policy…..Morning Joe alluded to the same position.
Terrified of GOP foreign policy? YA THINK!
CNN is obsessed with that story about the 99% singer. Clearly they think it was to the President’s embarrassment. But as I indicated on a thread at Old Orange (where they also seemed super gleeful about that story), what if the President knew that this guy was going to sing protest songs and had given the singer his okay. According to the singer “President Obama did not appear to notice.” Well I think that was the role that PBO might have had agreed to play. And the singer knew that as well.
Maybe the guy singer wasn’t any good that’s way no one seem to play him any attention. The only one to play him any attention is the sorry ass media.
These stupid Republicans are talking about starting another war. Like McCain wanted to do bomb bomb bomb Iran.
The next sector to be targeted by President Obama’s campaign to help the economy without Congress is the health care industry, The Washington Post reports.
Up to $1 billion will be made available to hire health workers, the paper details:
Grants can go to doctors, community groups, local government and other organizations that work with patients in federal health-care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The funds are for experimenting with different ways to expand the health-care workforce while reducing the cost of delivering care. There will be an emphasis on speed, with new programs expected to be running within six months of funding. …
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, created as part of the Affordable Care Act, will administer and oversee the program, called the Health Care Innovation Challenge.
Great news, Jovie…thanks for finding this! That should make a fairly big dent, I would think.
Mini stimulus?
ZOMG Can you believe this BS from POLITICO….”Kids obsession with President Obama fades”..Yesterday’s story was ridiculous but this BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They read the polls, they are realizing that the economy may not be enough, to get rid of this President!
Kids were never “obsessed” with President Obama. They liked and respected him and that is STILL THE CASE. It’s the GOPMEDIA that has been obsessed with making Obama fail, making him be a one-term president. They are ratcheting up their anti-Obama campaign.
Here’s the quest of Politico, Associated Press and Fox:
Nov. 10 2008
“The all-time low on the public’s mood may have something to do with the poll’s finding that President Bush is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in the poll disapprove of how he is handling his job.
That’s an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.”
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-10/politics/bush.transition.poll_1_disapproval-rating-opinion-research-corporation-polling-director?_s=PM:POLITICS
God bless ’em. Try as they may. That is not going to happen with this President. Given how choppy the economy he should be doing dismally.
The GOP and their media water carriers have done everything they could to incite the widespread rejection of President Obama that was felt for Bush.
But it’s not going to happen, because there really is no basis for despising this President. You have to work at it believing he’s wholly responsible for the fact that corporations aren’t hiring.
You really have to contort yourself to believe his foreign policy has been a disaster after the transitions that have occured in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya with none of the losses in blood and treasure incurred by neocon foreign adventures.
I almost pity them. Because of the profession they’re in and the corporate masters they must do the bidding for, they can’t publicly acknowledge this President’s singular, historic accomplishments, domestically and internationally, in a mere three years.
Rise and shine everyone 😉
http://theobamadiary.com/2011/11/14/rise-and-shine-21/