9:50: President Obama Speaks to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Volunteers
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New Fox poll shows a Romney-President Obama match-up would be a tight race. Not a surprise given how divided the country is:
“In a potential Obama-Romney election, 46 percent of voters would back Obama and 45 percent Romney if the election were held today…”
But here’s the big take away for me, that is a lesson to the far Left to the far Right:
“And behind those numbers is a striking contrast: 74 percent of Obama backers say they are voting “for” him rather than “against Romney” (21 percent). Yet for Romney, his support is mainly anti-Obama. Fifty-eight percent of Romney voters say they would be voting “against Obama” rather than “for Romney” (33 percent).
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/15/fox-news-poll-2012-obama-romney-race-would-be-tight/#ixzz1jcYnva4s
The message is loud and clear and I hope you get it MSNBC, Michael Moore, Cenk, Ron Paul dreamers. The President’s support is not the result of a flavor-of-the-month protest vote or based in hatred or fear of the Other.
This President is loved, respected and supported for who he is and how he leads. Deal with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr Day of Service. Make it a DAY ON, not a day off.
http://mlkday.gov/
We’ve all got to make sure this happens. Find your local OFA office, make some calls, register some voters. PRESS ON!!
As we learned in 2004 when we had a less than passion-inspiring candidate (wearing my Diplomatic hat this am), hating the other guy is not enough to win an election. Each member of the clown car posse would lose to Obama in November, each with different reasons the R base won’t be able to get too excited about them.
Some think the R’s knew all along that they’d lose this one so none of the “heavy hitters” jumped in. To that I say “Bullshit”. While I agree they knew this race would be a loser for them, they have no “heavy hitters” standing on the side-lines. The one somewhat sane candidate (Huntsman) never gets so much as a second look. The GOP has positioned itself so that only bat-shit crazy right wingers are considered, no one that the majority of Americans consider sane.
It really is pretty fascinating to watch. I’m just glad we’ve got President Obama in the WH, being an adult and everything. Seems to be the rarest trait in DC these days.
Julie
Julie–I totally agree about the so-called heavy hitters, each of whom have baggage and each of whom would fold like a cheap suit when up against PBO. They held off because they were scared and wanted to o up against what they hope will be a weaker Democratic candidate in 2016.
I totally agree with you, Julie. All their so-called sane candidates don’t stand a chance because their party is so crazy. That’s why Huntsman was chased out. He is a lot more traditionally conservative than Romney, and he’s even put some thought into his policies. But, they’re going for the guy who has the machinery and the money behind him – they don’t care about policies. They’ll kick Romney out in four years if he succeeds, and replace him with one of their pets, if he shows any signs of being moderate. But, they only care about defeating President Obama – finding workable solutions to the country’s issues don’t even rank. I heard one woman quoted as saying she wanted someone who will work with Congress – but the only part of Congress she’s concerned about is the Republican side of Congress. It’s pretty scary!
Jodi Kantor is trending on Amazon.com — downward that is. She is at #79 now. As I tweeted, the next stop will be a bin at a yardsale around corner from my house. Go figure.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=sv_b_2/102-1901153-1116909#4
It won’t be long now and Judy will be on shelves in the dollar stores. I will laugh and laugh….. 🙂
Julie
Jodi Kantor is trending on Amazon.com — downward that is. She is at #79 now.
Hah! That sounds like her book company and conservatives aren’t helping her out by buying up her trash.
From 56 to 79 overnight is a steep drop. Don’t know if conservatives are buying the book or just talking about it.
I heard Kantor was over there at FOX, she is trying to get the racists haters of the Obamas to buy that trashy gossipy book of hers, because no one else is buying it.
I really don’t believe they are going to buy her book. They will talk about it a bunch. Usually right wing folks buys their own books in bulk and give it away. Don’t know if they will be willing to do this for her.
I hope you are right africa
Malia is there with PBO and FLOTUS. He said Sasha couldn’t make it today.
What a family!! I pray for them everyday.
AMEN HERE…WHAT BETTER ROLE MODLES COULD YOU HAVE FOR AMERICA? NOTHING COMPARES TO THE ‘OBAMA’ FAMILY AND ALL THAT THEY HAVE GIVEN TO THIS COUNTRY….:)
THAT’S ‘MODELS’…BLONDE SPELLING HERE!..LOL!
Me too.
Hey yall, remember when PBO criticized Citizens United at SOTU and everyone flipped shit?
LOOKS LIKE HE WAS RIGHT
And it is amazing to see how few remember. Thanks for the video.
THAT RULING..PLAIN AND SIMPLE…WAS A DELIBERATE MOVE AGAINST OUR PRESIDENT!…TYPICAL REPUBLICAN DECEIT!…THE ‘OZ BOYS’ BEHIND THE CURTAIN…AS USUAL.
The ‘ quiet rooms’ deal.
HuffPost Headline:
“Rick Santorum To Mitt Romney: Tell Your Super PAC To Take Down Ad Attacking Me”
Karl Rove politics bites them back with a vengeance.
But Rick, he can’t do that. It’s against the law for the candidate to “coordinate” with a super pac; afterall they’re independent.
Hahahaha. Good one.
I would like to find clips of them hailing the Citizens United ruling. But then again these folks are so used to talking out of both sides of their mouths. It was interesting seeing Newt decrying Citizens United after Iowa.
halo. THANKS!! We as a country have a very short memory. I hope the folks at the Obama office are making the ads the remind people of stuff like this.
I remember when the President made that speech and the judge, was it judge Roberts, he shook his head in disagreement. Looks like POTUS was right.
I think it was Alito. But these asses are interchangeable.
I ‘m sure the camera man is HATING those columns as much as I am!!!
I just love how he takes the time to focus on each person, if only for a brief second. A genuine caring leader. imagine that? Children gravitate toward him.
CNN stream is ended. Switching back to the National Action Network MLK Breakfast on Live CPAN3.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/National-Action-Network-Hosts-Martin-Luther-King-Day-Breakfast/10737427120-1/
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator is speaking now.
Malia is a natural like her parents. She was so poised as she followed her dad speaking to people and shaking hands. I noticed this quality in her especially when the family visited various South American countries last year. She held her own with adults and children. The “Oracle” indeed.
She’s so lovely. She has the sweetness and grace of her parents. Today I feel the momentous history of their presence in the White House. SWEET.
CEB, where did you see all this at, I missed it. 😦
It was livestreamed on CNN moments ago. Hopefully at some point Chips will be able to post the video footage of the visit.
hopefruit2, I’m counting on it. thank you
“The Oracle,” yes. She is so poised.
Good morning TOD family! Just watched “King” on the History Channel, and one of Dr King’s quote where he said “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” really touched me. It gave me great comfort to deal with all the “excitement” Huntsman’s endorsement of Willard the MSM will manufacture today. The arc of the universe is on our side, so we’ve gotta press on!
DebbyeOh. FYI, MLK was quoting Theodore Parker, a 19th century abolitionist and Unitarian minister. Here is a link from NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129609461
Yep, I’d read that before…Dr King was very well read. In his speeches sometimes he’d cite the source of his comment, sometimes he didn’t. 🙂
I watched that last night…and the Rosa Parks story was right after it.
Both are great.
We shall overcome,people. We shall definitely overcome. Happy Martin Luther King Day to Chips and the TOD family.
huntsman scrubbing anti-mittens vids is height of cowardice beating his ‘endorsement’ of willard.
What a pathetic pos.
AMK. That is so lame of Huntsman. But he doesn’t seem to know about the interwebs. Once something is up, IT CAN BE FOUND!!!
What did Romney promise Huntsman?
Anniebella, does it really matter? He’ll flip-flop whatever he promised tomorrow!!! 😆 😆 😆
isonprize, no it really doesn’t matter, because if it was a job in his cabinet, that won’t happen because President Obama will still be President, maybe Huntsman can get a job at Bain Capitol. I forget Mitt don’t create jobs, he like firing people.
🙂
willard is as trustworthy as a venomous snake.
Good morning all. I’m going to the MLK memorial. Have a great day 🙂
THE STATE OF “JOURNALISM” IS PATHETIC
By Please Cut The Crap (2/18/11)
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In a nutshell, this is what’s wrong with journalism these days. Far too much of it is lazy and slothful and “reporters” are far too keen on reporting something someone says, without investigating the truth or falsity of the statement. Sometimes, someone gets lucky, and something they heard turns out to be true. But good journalism isn’t about luck. Good journalism is about knowing that what is being said is as close to 100% true as possible, and only reporting the facts, to the extent possible. If the facts lead you to what some see as a “biased” conclusion, then so be it. The Perception of others is not fact.
A lot of journalists also seem to misunderstand the concept of “objectivity.” Facts are, by nature, objective. If you report only the facts, then your story will be objective, even if the accumulation of facts leads readers to one direction or another. When you write a story on climate change, for example, and you report that scientific consensus is that temperatures are climbing, which is a fact (consensus does not mean every scientist living now says that), you cannot create “objectivity” by offering an opposing viewpoint that is not, in fact, true. You actually undermine the objectivity of a story when you do that. That there are a few scientists, many of them paid by oil companies or others with a vested interest in undermining the climate change narrative is not news, nor does it enhance your story in any way. “Some say” the earth is flat. “Some say” we didn’t send astronauts to the moon. “Some say” the Holocaust never happened. Some folks will say anything to get attention. Your job, as a journalist, is to determine, via fact gathering, whether or not what a person says is true.
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http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/2011/02/the-state-of-journalism-is-pathetic.html
Today, I saw in Nairobi a mobile repair shop named “Yes, We Can”. Was too slow to take a picture from a moving cab.
Ah, how cool.
https://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/158936865095942145
This POS (as amk calls them 🙂 ) isn’t covered in the beautiful truth telling piece “Cut the Crap” that Ladyhawke posted above because there are bigger problems with our worthless press than this tweet. But this is an example of the state of our press: how it matters to THEM – the press — not us. The real point of Knoller’s tweet is that the press was ALLOWED to watch. The emphasis is not on the First Family’s example of voluteerism that is the purpose for this. WTF. Crappy, sick journalist.
pahdon my FF. 🙂
I agree. He’s been very nasty (in a passive-agressive way) on Twitter all morning. First off, he started by saying that “thanks to the MLK holiday,” he has a pleasant morning commute to work. Then he goes on to pitch a series of snarky tweets about the President’s volunteer work, while reporting on the Press Pool complaints all through. He’s been getting pushback from some of us twitter and Saintroscoe just called him out on his passive-aggressive behavior.
Great to hear you guys are going after him on Twitter. I gotta go check it out!
We should tweet Knoller to ask him what the so-called GOP candidates are doing to honour MLK Day.
New post here:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/01/16/day-of-service-updating/
Just logged back on. Thanks everyone for answering Anniebella’s question.
All of these people (the candidates, the media, the once invisible powerbrokers, the pundits, the false leaders, etc) are showing us who they really are. The curtain has been drawn, the scales have fallen from our eyes and the average American can see that the emperors have no clothes. Hard times have a way of stripping us down to the essence of what life really is; what is important and what is true. As the year progresses, more will see the stark contrast of PBO’s vision for the country as oppossed to many of the 1% and their minions who want to turn our democracy into an oligarchy.
Martin L. King Jr (Speaking to the Hawaii House of Representatives in 1959)
This link was shared by Susanne on the previous thread, and I thought the sentiments shared are still SO VERY RELEVANT. A fact which underlines our President’s constant reminders that lasting change isn’t going to fall in our laps overnight.
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I imply that figuratively speaking, that Old Man Segregation is on his death bed, but you know history has proven that social systems have a great last-minute breathing power, and the guardians of the status quo are always on hand with their oxygen tents to keep the old order alive, and this is exactly what we see today. ……. if democracy is to live, segregation must die.
[One could stretch the point and see today’s ‘segregation’ as the divide between the rich vs poor?]
Segregation is a cancer in the body politic which must be removed before our democratic health can be realized. In a real sense, the shape of the .world today does not permit us the luxury of an anemic democracy. If we are to survive, ……..we must solve this problem …..
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This is not our struggle today to free 17,000,000 Negroes. It’s bigger than that. We are seeking to free the soul of America. Segregation debilitates the white man as well as the Negro. We are to free all men, all races and all groups. This is our responsibility and this is our challenge, ….
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[This conclusion is pretty apt today IMO.]
We have come a long, long way. We have a long, long way to go. I close, if you will permit me, by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher. He didn’t quite have his grammar right, but he uttered some words in the form of a prayer with great symbolic profundity and these are the words he said: ‘Lord, we ain’t what we want to be; we ain’t what we ought to be; we ain’t what we gonna be, but thank God, we ain’t what we was.’ Thank you.’ ”
http://www.allhawaiinews.com/2012/01/why-did-rev-martin-luther-king-jr-wear.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AllHawaiiNews+%28All+Hawaii+News%29
ps. This might look like too long an excerpt, but I really just spaced it out. where no spaces were. Hopefully you’ll go read it in its entirety.
Hope everyone has a productive MLK day in which you connect with others as you serve!
Just listened to Huntsman. Republicans are fools. This guy would have been a stronger candidate than Romney. He could have fooled a lot of independants.
Hi LP. Why do you think he would have been better than willard ? To me, he is a man without any convictions whatsoever and has zero appeal for the voters.
What was amazing to see is after going after willard the way Huntsman did and come right back to endorse him made me sick to my stomach but that is our election politics. It make you lose faith on the system.
How have you been amk? It has been a while. Hope all is well.
Hi TiMt. Great to see you here. I am doing fine, thanks for asking. As a matter of fact I am presently in that usurper, muslin;s “birth place”. 😉 😉
Hope you’re doing fine. Still blogging at that hateful orange place ?
Oh my, my last comment there was early September 2011. I now have my own blog called ThisIsOurTime Blog at TiMTPost.com. Come out sometimes and say hello. I just started it about a week ago. Share it with the family. Here is something to spread as well –> http://timtpost.com/2012/01/10/comprehensive-achievements-of-obamacare-care-to-share-it-with-the-54-who-favor-repealing-it/
Huntsman has zero charisma, zero energy, zero real convictions. His speeches are one long snoooze fest. He would not have had the physical or emotional stamina to run in a general election against President Obama. Despite all the media efforts in propping him and his daughters, he still fell shamefully short.
For sure. The only state he could possibly win an election in is Utah where zero charisma, energy and conviction is overruled by being a good Mormon family man.
I disagree that he has no convictions. He comes off as intelligent and coherent. Oh, he’s wrong on economic policies big time. And he has degraded himself a few times when playing politics ( in his lame accusations of President Obama). But he is not the phoney, empty suit that Romney is. He comes off as more intelligent and more knowledgeable. And he does the “spinning” thing much better; diplomats are good at handling delicate situations.
He maybe has some weaknesses as a speaker and a debater, but in the context of a general election where you practice and repeat stump speaches and THE MEDIA CONSTANTLY PROPS YOU UP, it wouldn’t have been that important.
I was appaled this morning by some of his rhetoric; but it was very well delivered . I’m still convinced that this is the kind of guy that could have fooled a lot of independant voters into voting for him. ” The Great White Hope”, you know? Good family guy, good looking, from a rich family, seems honest and dignified, etc…
Folks, there is a reason why President Obama offered him the job of Ambassador to China. Didn’t people on the Obama team admitted to journalists that they considered Huntsman a potential threat? And the Obama team has good instincts…
Obama and his team overestimated huntsman. He ran an insipid campaign, doling out the usual pablum which resonated more with the extreme left than with his own party. And he has the charisma of a drying paint and flip=flopped his positions as much as willard, the latest example being his endorsing a man whom he castigated as root of all evil that is DC just 2 days back. He is an empty suit.
I’m with you on that amk. i do however, think it was a brilliant political move on PBO’s part. He neutralized arguments about being partisan and unwilling to work with the other side, and a potential opponent.