President Barack Obama is introduced by Representative John Larson, Chairman of the Democratic House Caucus, at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Cambridge, Maryland, January 27
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TPM: Out of the three officials who met President Obama on an airport tarmac near Phoenix earlier this week, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is now the only one who has characterized the president as anything other than cordial.
In numerous TV and radio interviews since the meeting, Brewer has said the president was “tense to say the least” and took issue with a book she wrote last year. She said Obama walked away from her while she was in mid-sentence and even told one Phoenix television station she felt “a little bit threatened” by the encounter.
But Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, who was standing just feet away from the president and the governor on Wednesday during their now-infamous encounter, told TPM that Obama seemed calm the whole time.
“He wasn’t tense at all,” Stanton said on Friday. “The guy’s a pro.”
More here
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The Obama Diary 
First!
Well done me!!
I’m still waiting for your e-mail though it’s not necessary now. 😉
Sorry Yardarm, it’s been one of those weeks, I’m way behind with emails – will be in touch asap.
Hey Chipsticks – here’s the President with the Dem Caucus – http://www.c-span.org/Events/President-Obama-and-Vice-President-Biden-at-House-Democratic-Retreat/10737427685-2/
#PRESSON
Well done, Chipsticks! I think you should be 1st on every post. Frees you to do what’s important to your personal life and this blog: a total act of love and sacrifice.
P.S. In honor of your “firstness”, could you pretty please give me an eye candy shot of President “wet” Obama?!
Flowers and chocolates to YOU, congratulations on FIRST! Exhilarating isn’t it?
FLOTUS has such a great sense of humor.
HAHAHA – Yes you need a turn too, once in awhile 🙂
Cute 🙂
Hahahahaha. Very cute Chips. Congratulations 😀
Thank you, thank you UT!
Notice how Chips saves the best photo for her! Oh, well, she deserves it!
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And well she should, she is very special to PBO, no question!
Awwww!!! Could he be any cuter???
Insider Trading !!!
But that’s the embarrassing thing amk, even with the benefit of insider trading, this is my first first 😳
willard would fire you in a trice. 🙂
Ha, true – I’m a very unsuccessful vulture!
I enthusiastically vote for Chipsticks, “a very unsuccessful vulture” with a delicious sense of humor, over Willard, the stiff, humorless, but successful vulture capitalists, who is a serial liar!
You’re just too funny. LMAO –Congrats on a well deserved first!
Thank you, thank you LunarSea, I have worked SO hard for this all my life, so this is a very, very special day for me. Feeling a little choked 😥
Oscars aren’t due till next week. Hold the horses.
The Oscars? Huh. I just won the most coveted prize of all, a FOTPAC!!!
What do you mean you’ve never heard of the FOTPACs? 🙄
First One To Post A Comment!
You’re getting pretty good in this insider trading thingy.
Way to go Chips!!!
Thank you Sabreen 😉
Ha.
LOVED IT !!! 🙂
#2nd and please can this be tweet allover tweetland so people will know what this great President
is done for the last 3 years and specially to the Fuckers of the MSM.
Please tod PEOPLE SEND THE REPORT FROM Josh Marshall of TPM to Chuck Tod and Wolf they are
fucking liears regarding crazy Gov Brewer and PBO we have to stop those M@#$%F”s thank you.
Oh wow. This is bloody amazing! Chips this would be a great picture to blow up.
Beyond awesome, just added it to the post – thank you amk!
That last one may be the most amazing. I’m trying to do that now.
I did the day he got elected in 2008. Over quarter century of a dirty habit. Gone like ashes.
Wow amk I hope to say the same thing because it has been way too long, How did you do it?
My kids and wifey had been after me for a long time. When they saw what a crazy obot I was in 2007, they made a deal that I should quit if he won. And I, foolishly, took the deal. 🙂
Thank you. My wife has been asking me to do the same. It’s not only her. A big part of me wants to do the same. It’s just sometimes that small portion has a megaphone saying don’t do it. That’s how I know something is wrong.
Trust me. It feels to great to kick that nasty habit. I eat better. I smell better. My BP has come down. Everyone is proud of my willpower. I can go on.
Well done YOU! Fantastic to hear this part of your story, amk, PBO would be proud, he knows the struggle and the rewards!
It’s been 4 days so far. I usually don’t even make it this far. Thank you for the inspiration.
Just make each day it’s own goal. Before you know it, you’ll have succeeded 365 days, then 730, and so on. Just succeed from the moment you wake up to the moment you go back to sleep – hour by hour. And when you get tempted, just say “no” out loud – your brain will hear you, and 15 minutes later, you won’t even be tempted. And you’ll have another success to claim. Good luck!
Drink lots of water, draw nice deep breaths, chew sugarless gum. And hit a wall if you must. I quit 11 years ago after having smoked for 30 years. I wanted to be an ex-smoker before I turned 50. I was 48 then. You will do it if you dream of all the things you wish to do where smoking would hinder those efforts. Good luck !
I know I’m late getting back here but thank you all very much.
That’s a great start derbingle. Try to keep people around you all the time at the start, This helps a lot when you feel the urge. One day at a time. Keep some nicotine gums as a last minute get away but try to avoid them if possible.
My best wishes to you.
Good luck on trying to quit smoking, derbingle! I quit smoking 33 years ago after having been a smoker for 25 years. Believe me it was not easy! Every time I was under any kind of stress the first thing I would think of is having a few puffs. Can you imagine the discipline it takes to avoid craving a smoke for a President who has to deal with crisis after crisis? The good news is that once you break the habit (or is it addiction?) it is difficult to go back.
Wonderful!
Yup, that’s my president. #MrBadAss & getting things done with style & swagger.
This is now my desktop background, thanks.
This is beyond brilliant. I hope it will be made into a poster.
Brilliant!
TWEETED
awesome!
spell check-
Increased veterans’ benefits every year
not… very year
Cannot help it as I am a retired elementary teacher. hee hee
I loved this format and combo of photo and list of accomplishments.
I’m trying to get to 100 reasons 🙂
*I’m trying to get to 100 reasons*
What are you going to do with the thousands of reasons left over? 🙂
Just thought of one, if you’re taking suggestions!
You could use the “PBO in the rain” photo (oh, my) and say “He’ll get us through stormy weather” or something! (You can tell you have a good idea, when everybody tries to get in on it!)
Oooh love it 🙂
Really enjoying your pictorial series, Pinkbunny!
Gracias 🙂
This is so cool Pinkbunny I didn’t realize this was what you were doing! So you are creating this series. Very Nice!!! will retweet all I see 🙂
Jon Huntsman has a new job courtesy of daddy!
Guess he won’t “betray” his rich daddy, like he did his last boss.
Huntsman – Backstabber-in-Chief. He was disgusting.
He was still the best candidate the Repubs had….they are so very amazingly short-sighted… Oh well, definitely not my problem!
I hope people get that these GOP politicians have options – they won’t get hurt by their horrific policies. They will have a nice, soft landing. Who else gets an executive job when they’ve spectacularly failed at the most highly visible job interview ever? They will be just fine – they’re after your well-being!
Blind trust is someone trusting what Mitt Romney says after evidence of many lies.
The next time one of these GOpundits talks about the “enthusiasm gap” or “losing the youth vote” the answer should be to laugh at their faces and ask them when is the last time they watched the President interact with a crowd – be it students or factory workers or military or any segment of the population. Make them look as ridiculous as they are. It’s just as effective and much easier on the blood pressure than outrage.
Excellent advice!
Bravo, hgerhard! Excellent advice!
Romney is going to need a doctor after seeing this cause it’s definitely going to leave a mark. Ouch!
Oh boy, I can’t stop laughing. At the end of the video Williard is practically hysterical. I can’t wait for him to try an use that swill during the debates. He’s going to be demolished. He will be bleeding before he realizes he got cut.
I want him to wear steel-toed boots when he kicks this smarmy bastid’s nuts. Pahdon my FF.
I can’t wait for the debates. Romney is such a jackass.
It is bad to want something so bad that you will lie your butt off, and that is what Romney is doing.
The question is: why does Romney want it so bad that he’s willing to drag his reputation through the gutter? What is he after? What does he really want to do? I can’t imagine it’s all about a lust for power.
I’ve been trying to figure that out as well. Is it the title?
It relates to the Mormon church taking over from a corporate or political perspective.
I honestly think Willard wants the position primarily so that he can manipulate the rules for him and his buddies. Yes, he’s incredibly rich, but he is very obviously someone who is always reaching out for more riches. Past history indicates he wouldn’t encounter the obstacles PBO has, so he could do pretty much as he wanted to, and the 1% could have a ball. Nothing else makes sense to me, not even the idea of doing better than daddy. To go through all this now, plus the governing WORK that would be necessary if he won, just to outdo dear old dad doesn’t add up.
Didn’t Romney dad run for President?
“They looked at Romney, the Rambler, but found a taint – for he had not drank from the Cup of Gold Water”
The begatting of a President
George Romney was an excellent man and an excellent governor; a Republican for whom I would have gladly voted ( I was not quite old enough). This is from an article about how George Romney’s experiences may have shaped his son’s behavior today.
“By 1963, he was governor, a Republican in a Democratic state, a politician so beloved that John F. Kennedy was terrified at the thought of running against him in 1964. After his reelection in 1966, he ran 54-46 in a hypothetical 1968 match-up with Lyndon Johnson.
His calling card was his shocking authenticity; his courage in sticking to his positions without fear or favor was extraordinary.”
That was, of course, a time when the Republican party had room for a wider variety of opinions. The rest of the excellent article is here:
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/what-mitt-romney-learned-from-his-dad-20120117#ixzz1klbaV0cC
If Romney is an habitual liar he is not even aware of it. He does it as easily as breathing. If that is the case and having lots of money he probably has been surrounded by kiss ups. He can’t imagine being challenged and thinks he is owed the Presidency. A man that rich that feels entitled will do whatever he needs to do to get to his goal. Prestige, power, entitlement and ego all are the motives.
Mitt Romney – Liar!
Oh, I’m always late. 🙂
No, no, perfect timing!
CNN live streaming has started:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=4
I love that picture of the First Family.
Hey Chips!
I’m on YouTube and I see an ad about the WH taking questions about a post SOTU conversation that YouTube and Google is hosting!
http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse?feature=inp-mh-SOU
Excellent nintendowii10, will check that out 😉
CNN has audio open @ House conference; maybe they are hoping for an errant sound-bite…
Too late now. Willard. You speak hate, it comes back to bite you.
I might add that when these ilegal immigrants leave (self deport) and go back to their home country to apply for permission to come back here to work or live, they will be promptly denied re entry by the new law the Republican will put in place. One cannot trust a Republican politician, they lie.
Long tongue liar.
The GOP base is going to bury him for that.
Joe Biden now on c-span1 now.
PBO on C Span2 NOW.
Dems are fired up!
Yes they are!!!
We are fired up too. And our mission, is to re-elect President Obama. We will be like the Navy Seal.
I want that CD!
Heck, DCCC could use it as fundraiser.
Thanks Nintendowii. I tweeted this one out. Cool!
Wow wow wow what a wonderful intro by Mr. Larson for POTUS 🙂
Yeah, “Rev” Larson was on fire! Pass the plate… 🙂
🙂 indeed- POTUS should get that lively of an intro wherever he goes !
My thought exactly! A great speaker!
Geesh…!!!
I know that the President doesn’t want to respond to all these overt racial remarks but at some point these people need to be called out on this stuff.
Diane Sawyer tried talked about the “food stamp president” comment by Noot in the interview but the President basically said that more people were on more food stamps under GWB than him but he never really addressed the racial overtone of the comment. I know its a tough subject to breach but gee I wish we could find a way to have an open discussion about this.
Sigh!!!
I feel your frustration on this, for sure.
Sorry, I like that that he corrected the lie (I didn’t know that shrub was the real ‘food stamp president’, did you ?). Let others deal with that the disgusting racial crap from the rethugs. I don’t him to stoop to noot’s gutter levels.
I’m with you, AMK. Let the GOP address their racism, if any of the media can muster up the courage to address it. The President already made an historic speech about racism. The ball is in the GOP court, along with the people who continue to vote for them and reward their vile garbage. In an election year, with people as rabid as they’re becoming, it will only distract people if the President wades in during the primaries to address something that’s been happening all throughout his first campaign and presidency. It might make all of us feel good for five minutes – but just look at how distracted everyone became over this finger-wagging wench, and people are STILL talking about it. It’s hard enough for the President to continue to govern, let alone slowly slide into campaigning mode – without adding another distraction which will just result in scapegoating by the GOP.
I think we have to raise the issue, and we have to push other Democrats to raise the issue, and the so-called liberal pundits to raise the issue. I actually liked the way that Krystal Ball handled this yesterday on on of the MSNBC shows (can’t recall which one). She acknowledged that Brewer made a successful, cynical, political move by staging her false scuffle with the President in front of the press. And then Krystal launched into a cool, but scathing, attack on the unacceptability of the whole scene, especially for any elected official, meeting a President who is a guest in her state. I really like Krystal Ball and her analysis.
This!! he already gave a speech on race. Diane knows the President’s campaign is ignoring Newt. She wasn’t trying to get PBO to have a discussion on race, she was trying to get him to call out Newt for race baiting. All that would have happened is Newt attacking POTUS instead of Mittens, and getting PBO in the middle of the gop primaries. Just more drama for viewers and money for the network. Our President is too smart to fall for that.
Yes.
Very well said, Debz!
Totally agree, Theo. It would be a big strategic error for PBO to descend to criticizing Newt who won’t be the R Candidate. He’s said repeatedly that when there’s one candidate left standing he will be ready and he has always known that would be Robney. At this point he’s pounding home a message about the middle class that is resounding with people and he’s not going to have anyone’s attention wander over to Newton LeRoy’s nasty outbursts. Our president is probably the most focused human being on the planet. He won’t be distracted by pests, from flies, to witchy governors to nasty Newt.
I’m butting in, late as usual 😀 As I see it, PBO doesn’t need to talk about the insidiousness of something that has been around for longer than he’s been alive in the country of his birth, and will not go away anytime soon. I hear throughout the day that he should stand up and not take any of the bs thrown his. Some go so far as to say all this race-baiting makes him look weak, and talk about what they would do. Yeah, right….as President of all the people? I think people are projecting their own feelings of helplessness to end the racism, but nothing they say or do will purify the hearts and minds of folk eaten up with the cancer of bigotry. The light revealing the ugly should compel not PBO, but all of us- his supporters- and those of some sanity, to speak up against it. He has his hands full running a country of millions. Surely a couple thousand of us, at least, can challenge the hate, the way MLK, Malcolm, and others have done.
ESP I am very late also. Distractions will come and go. With AA’s, racism has always been a distraction. It is a fact of life. Will it ever be present. Yes as long as hate exist. Will it ever be minimized? Yes as long as love will be multiplied. We will talk about these distractions as long as they exist. When you talk about them, you are not losing focus, you are releasing stress and some are trying to get an understanding. Distractions are teaching moments.in my neighborhood when a person put their finger in your face, that person would be snatchingback a nub Just saying.
I think he said something like the food stamp increase began under the previous President. I do not think he said MORE were under food stamps under the previous President.
Meet the Imagine Cup students turned social entrepreneurs…
Go dems.
Oh I very intersting would the GOP oppose it? go demos.
OK I’m bad but is PBO talking without the…t-word?
Yes I think he is!
What’s the t-word?
teleprompter. did not see one plus he had no notes i could see. i know it’s silly but..hey.
I was wondering the same thing – I agree with collegekay. He used a couple of new phrases that are perfect for this election: “those who think only of the next election instead of the next generation” “those whose think only of what’s good for their party instead of what’s good for their country”.
Texas haz a sad…
The healthcare law allows HHS to adjust the spending rules — known as the medical loss ratio — in states where immediately implementing the 80 percent standard would drive insurers out of the market and leave consumers with fewer options.
But HHS determined that almost all of the insurers in Texas’s individual market either already meet the 80 percent threshold or have said they don’t plan to leave the state once it’s imposed.
more ——-> http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/207051-texas-will-not-receive-healthcare-waiver
Excellent news!
GOTTA BE HONEST! UNCLE JOE BIDEN’S SPEECH WAS MORE TO TH HEART! PBO’S SPEECH IS STILL GREAT !
Halo? Is your middle name Jovie? 😆
LOL!
😉
I was going to ask the same question!
I don’t even know how PBO still has a voice or energy to even stand now, let alond make a speech. I hope he’ll get some real rest this weekend.
Yes, he looked really tired. I only caught the end of the speech, but he looked like he was scraping the bottom of his energy barrel. I don’t know how he does it – just one speech for one day of the week of work he’s done this week (and every week) would leave me gasping for air, fainting on the couch and calling for a brandy. I’m so grateful for everything he does, and the energy he puts into caring for this country (and the world).
Good morning all. Nothing quite like having a Friday off. Puppy is at daycare, wife is at work, and I’m having my coffee while watching my man Tiger play a pretty good round of golf in Abu Dhabi. Off to catch up!
wow thanks LL nobody loves Tiger more than me just switched the channel!!!
I dreamt about ribs, asparagus, etc all night – I’m feeling a lot of ill-will towards you today LL.
😀 😀
Oh my god, it was so good. And with a good, stiff Manhattan? Heavenly.
And blame my mom. She never “taught” me to cook, but I just learned by watching her. I cook a lot like her: very seldom follow a recipe, just put together things that seem like they’d work.
That’s the only way to do it 🙂
My husband was also a very good cook….he said he could mentally taste how the ingredients blended together as he was inventing a dish.
I was only allowed in the kitchen for clean up or to make salad. When people asked him what I did….he used to say………
” She makes the money , I make the food. “
Nice! I’d happily make the money for a husband who would cook for me every day. I love cooking, but not every day.
My husband has become a very good cook – he makes things I don’t make and vice versa.
However there are a few issues: For example, he likes olives. He likes honey. Let’s put olives and honey in the beef stew………
It is now a house rule that I am the only one allowed to make beef stew.
Yeah, that’s quite wrong.
My mother died when I was 13 and I’ve been cooking ever since (62 yrs old). Most of the time cooking is therapy for me. I put a lot of love in my cooking. We seldom eat out and my husband is waaaaay spoiled. But I admit, sometimes I get sick and tired of cooking – I’ve been doing for so long.
I hear you Sabreen! I’m 67 and I’ve been cooking for just about 60 of those years. I started just as soon as I was tall enough to stand at the counter to chop and stir. In a house hold of 12 people everyone helped including my Dad who was a very good cook. But I married a man who burns hard boiled eggs! (NO LIE!) He has never learned to cook and I have really spoiled him because I mostly enjoy cooking. We seldom eat out either but fortunately I have a large extended family of cooks who feed me on occasion.
Hee! (as if you could feel ill-will, EVER!
Next up on cspan2.
” The Future of Conservatism ”
Why did that make me laugh out loud ?
Because it’s an oxymoron, lol.
Because in the age of Obama, that line of thought falls flat.
The only thing I heard Grover Norquist say, (I was walking by the TV after listening the President) was about the government – “leave me alone”. I thought ok, don’t travel on the roads and bridges when you leave and when you get in your airplane call the tower and tell the air traffic controllers not to give the pilot directions and to leave you alone. Just do those two things, Grover. He’s a dangerous idiot.
Grover Norquist needs to be stuffed, mounted and displayed in the Smithsonian as an example of greed mixed with ignorance.
Jan Jan’s story keeps blowing up on her.
2nd Mayor Says Obama ‘Wasn’t Tense At All’ During Brewer Encounter
PruneFace is the poster child for EVERYTHING WRONG with the Republican Party: cynical, thin skinned, and most importantly RACIST!
Yes – as soon as she uttered the silly and offensive words “I felt threatened”, her goose was cooked. That dog whistle was heard by the permanently deaf.
First, we all know the President respects women. Second, we all know the President treats people with respect and dignity – but doesn’t shy away from a righteous fight. Third, she was surrounded by Secret Service, military, police, the Press (always drooling for gossip) and the other two elected officials that were standing right next to her. She must think we’re stupid.
Chris Matthews had on a GOP state legislator from AZ on the same night the news about Gov Jan Brewer came out. I will give her the respect of the title even though she does not act in a way that earns her the right. Matthews interview with the guy let him spew his talking points about how she created more jobs and brought the state out of the red and how much the state loves her. He droned on and on. I wish Chris was enough up on things to atleast challenge him on something.
She also lied about balancing her budget……..as do all Republican Governors.
Gaps States have Faced in FY2012
FY2012 Projected Shortfall Shortfall as Percent of FY2012 General Fund Budget
Arizona $1.5 billion 17.0%
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=711
That’s what happens when you lie like a cheap rug…
Hah!
love that her hand is green!
Sure does, LL
#PRESSON
LL, Gov. Brewer is just like those four GOP guys running for President, she is like Boehner and the rest. They are a bunch of lying racists.
Mayor Scott Smith from Mesa is a Republican, a fairly decent guy, who has just announced he plans to run for a second term. He had to be a bit circumspect in his words but I would just bet he would have liked Brewer’s head out in the desert in stead of on the tarmac of Mesa airport. The President’s visit was a BFD for him and for new Democratic Phoenix Mayor Stanton. Smith has worked really hard along with other mayors to promote the valley as a great place to build business. Brewer grabbed what should have been a shining moment for our economy with positive publicity and turned it into a circus act for her benefit.
I feel bad for Arizona but especially for Smith who had really worked hard for this and looked forward to PBO’s visit.
I want to add that Stanton has only been in office a few weeks, since he was elected in November 2011.
That makes what Brewer did even more horrible. As the Governor, she should have put the well-being of her state before her greedy ambitions. Pathetic.
Nice to see the Sunday shows so balanced again:
Meet the Press: Rick Santorum, John McCain, Fred Thompson, David Axelrod
This Week: Newt Gingrich, John Boehner
Face of The Nation: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Reince Priebus
Fox News Sunday: Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan
🙄
But at least…. NO WILLARD!
That *is* quite interesting. If the media is in the tank for Willard, why aren’t he or his surrogates on? Very odd.
John McCain is on MTP.
By the way – I stomached about three minutes of McCain on NPR this morning. That man is offensive, and he needs to get over his 2008 smack down by President Obama. That’s all I’ll say.
Willard makes mistakes that end up in the news cycle for days. They probably have the old Sarah Palin approach of stay away from unneeded interviews. When it is working be careful and when it is not go out and do interviews and get mean in the ads.
I wonder when Willard will ever be on Meet the Press?
You mean “Meet the Press-situtes”? With Pimp Gregory.
If it’s Sunday, it’s MEET THE REPUBLICANS.
LOL.Nice on Lh.
Thanks amk, I can’t take credit for it. I think someone on Steve Benen’s blog posted that some time ago. I never forget it, it’s just perfect. In fact, it occurred to me that Senator John McCain has been on Meet The Republicans so many times, I would not be surprised if they asked him to guest host for David Gregory the next time he goes on vacation.
Thanks, Ladyhawke, for speaking TRUTH!
I wonder how long Rinse Repriebus will be around…
His name is all over the indictment handed down in Wisconsin yesterday.
The word is Willard can’t wing it TV interviews. You see how he got so flustered with Brett Baier for goodness sake.
He is SCREWED if he goes up against President Obama in any debate!! especially as audience will be more bi-partisan.
I am hoping that the GE debates will be an audience quiet approach.
Hello TOD. I think Willard is that sure of the nomination. Newt will never be let to be!
I have a feeling that FLOTUS will tweet PBO’s accomplishments one at a time.
I hope so.
FLOTUS HAS OVER 500,000 FOLLOWERS.
This is what you call ‘CIRCUMVENTING THE MEDIA FIREWALL” big time. How many times have you heard anyone in the mainstream media educate the public about the Fair Pay Act? Just imagine the number of people that are going to hear about this and say to themselves – “Gee, I didn’t President Obama did that”.
That is great, I hadn’t thought about that!
That’s funny – I always thought of Twitter as the motor behind the Arab Spring.
Perhaps it can fuel the “Blue Revolution” in the US, too ….
When your base consists of angry, lawsuit-suit filing, paranoid, conspiracy theorists, what could possibly go wrong?
Tea Party lawsuit
“Tea Party HD was conceived as the “world’s first HD provider of news about the Tea Party” in 2010, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A lawsuit against founder Anthony Loiacono filed in Tennessee in October alleged that the project was really “an investment scheme to defraud politically conservative-minded citizens who support the Tea Party mission.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/207003-report-tea-party-lawsuit-involves-rep-bachmann
To review: a paranoid tea partier is suing a tea partier alleging he’s trying to defraud tea partiers. Once again they prove they have the credentials to be a great, viable and enduring third party that American can count on for centuries to come.
Oh my goodness…
Romney and/or Gingrich will realize soon enough that their energy levels, physical and mental stamina is simply no where near that of PBO’s. The media and PL bloggers can only protect them so much – there comes a point where if the voters just can’t relate to the lies, bigotry, and plain NONSENSE these charlatans are peddling, they will only go so far.
We haven’t had that Nixon/Kennedy, President Obama/McCain aesthetic juxtaposition yet. When we do, whichever one of them ends up being the nominee, they are done.
It’ll be the contrast between a cool, calm, collected optimist with a record of unprecedented foreign policy achievements and economic growth versus an angry, desperate, petty, pessimistic throwback. Ultimately the country doesn’t not want their President to be in a permanent fit of pique as typified by Newt or bored by banality and lies as typified by Mitt. We just want to get through these rough waters with a captain we can trust. We have that and more.
We are not going to give up on President Obama in exchange for either one of these low-rent Machiavellians.
HAHA! Both things can’t be true – right? 🙂
Ya… Liz Trotta on Fox Propaganda says that President Obama hides behind SEAL TEAM 6 too much, and Jabba the Rush says that Mr. Obama hates the military…. GOP doubling down on the crazy and stupid!
Go Eva.
Love love love Eva Longoria. She has been a champion for this President on twitter and other avenues. She’s been lauding his accomplishments to and for the Latino community, throwing fundraisers and making sure she does everything on her part to make sure PBO is re-elected.
I love it!
Gracias Hernana Eva We get it and for the record Hispanics will support PBO big time.
Romney faces Medicare attacks in Florida
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/27/romney-faces-medicare-attacks-in-florida/
willard’s ugly past is catching up.
Beautiful!
President Obama’s attorney has skilz! Ltr contains just the right measure of subtle snark.
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/01/26/brian-kemp-to-barack-obamas-attorney-skip-ballot-hearing-at-your-own-peril/
Don’t normally read comments, but this one was a gem!
J Throckmorton Malcontent
January 26th, 2012
10:11 am
“Once upon a time, I knew a couple named GOP and America. He was a little stuffy, a little churchy, and sort of obsessed with business, but he was an okay country club type.
Then GOP started getting weird…substance abuse, listening to talk radio 24/7, strange conspiracy theories. He started running fast and loose with his money investing in various schemes, and eventually his friend the banker had to forclose on his house. GOP had to move out of the White House and into a trailer in the Deep South.
So America left him for a black man. And GOP did not take it well. He started going on crying binges, he refused to sign the alimony checks, he started getting paranoid and carrying guns around and did everything he could to break up America and her new black man.
The funny thing is, if you ask me, America is better off with her new black man. He’s quiet, scholarly, calm, treats her with patience and respect, and truth be told, he’s a better neighbor and family man.”
LOL. He nailed it.
These birthers are consumed with crazy.
OMG – SPOT ON ! That was such a great satircal commentary.
I’m with you BWD I do hope PBO get’s some rest but I bet he wakes up tomorrow morn and goes play golf. I know he does it on purpose just to hear gop heads explode. LOL.
*takes a deep breath* Hi All! Hiya Chips, just popped in on my lunch break: Red Hook Ale battered shrimp, hold the fries, tossed field greens salad, tomato parmesan soup, followed by a fresh warm from the oven oatmeal raisin cookie! ( No way I am at home, Chips, if that is any consolation ) * ducks back to work* Catch y’all later! Powered up now for a tough afternoon! 😉 😉 😉
WOW…ANOTHER EVENT AT 4:30…OUR ENERGIZER BUNNY PBO NEVER WEARS DOWN! I HOPE HE GETS SOME ZZZZZZZZZ AND DOWN TIME OVER THE WEEKEND! GOD LOVE HIM AND HE DOES!
Okay, up above in a pic is that a t-shirt up above of a drawing of PBO opening his shirt to show a superhero “O” suit underneath? I love it! I think all TODers need one of those t-shirts!
I had that on my desk top for a long time…..
now i don’t see it anymore? was it in a different post? i have never seen that image before. it sure made me smile this afternoon.
yes, i messed up. it is in the previous post and not this one!
I saw the guy from the back on the feed – and I was just hoping that it wasn’t some birther or Occupy nonsense. So, when I saw it from the front, I almost burst into tears. He held that t-shirt up for a while, so the President could see it. I love it!
oh wonderful!
// CAMBRIDGE, Md. — House Democrats weren’t going to allow President Barack Obama to be greeted empty-handed at their annual conference.So lawmakers got together and recorded a rendition of themselves crooning to Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” giving the CD to Obama as he arrived in this Eastern Shore town to close out the three-day retreat. //
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/house-dems-give-obama-al-green-recording-112598.html
OMG – that’s amazing!! So sweet.
How cute! And even better that it’s on CD not YouTube!
love that!!!!!!
Romney’s Weak Spot
It’s his taxes:
Just over half of Americans doubt that he pays his fair share in taxes. After hearing about his actual income and tax rate, these people are less likely to think he “cares about people like me”—an attribute on which Romney is disadvantaged relative to Obama and which is a perennial predictor of how people vote. Information about his wealth also leads a larger fraction of Americans to believe he cares about the wealthy, and this belief in turn also reinforces the sense that he does not care about “people like me.” The more Romney’s wealth and taxes are discussed, the more he may seem like someone who cannot relate to ordinary voters. This may explain why, during a time in which his wealth and taxes were in the news, negative views of Romney jumped 20 points among whites with incomes below $50,000.
And that’s a key demographic for past GOP victories, If Obama can increase support among those voters, things look much bleaker for Romney/Gingrich/Whoever.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/
I wonder if the GOP are regretting laughing at the Occupy people while sipping champagne, and telling them and the unemployed to “take a bath and go get a job”. As much as I disliked the ineffective methods of the Occupy movement, and then their antagonism towards President Obama, I don’t deny that they have legitimate outrage at the top 1% of society. And this reaction to Romney is wonderful karma for those who turned their noses up at the middle class expressing their outrage at inequality. The banks got bonuses after destroying the economy and making millions homeless, and millions more jobless. And to this day, the greedy ones in the top 1% don’t get it. Now, they are trying to give the country into the hands of one of their own – one of the very people who reaped rewards through shady practices that bankrupted businesses and families, and who currently and plaintively is talking about how the banks are “overwhelmed” and stressed. They don’t get it. Let Romney be the poster child of the 1%. He deserves it.
I always said that Romney’s taxes will be a much bigger problem for him in the general than Bain capital. Bain capital takes time to explain but paying only 13.9% on $20 million is easily digestible as unfair for the vast majority of Americans. It makes Romney look like he is out of touch and doesn’t care about the middle class.
In the most rigorous analyses undertaken to date, two recently released resource assessments show that waves and tidal currents off the nation’s coasts contain enough energy to provide a significant portion our nation’s total annual electricity usage.
The United States uses about 4,000 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year. The reports find that the nation’s waves and tides could potentially produce up to 1,420 TWh annually, or 15 percent of America’s electricity. Although these resources won’t be used in their entirety, they represent a major opportunity for America to harness homegrown, clean power and create jobs.
The West Coast, including Alaska and Hawaii, has especially high potential for wave energy development while significant opportunities also exist along the East Coast, which have strong tides that could be tapped to produce energy.
http://energy.gov/articles/tapping-wave-and-tidal-ocean-power-15-water-power-2030
Hey guys. There is a poll question posted on AZCentral about who was wrong, Governor Jan Brewer or Barack Obama or both.
Please go on there and vote. Earlier today, it was tied, I would love to see the blame go to Governor Brewer. I don’t like polls, but this one is important to me. It is located in the lower right-hand corner. Thanks!
http://www.azcentral.com/
just went and voted! thanks jackie. hope many other TODers do the same!
Thank you!
LOOKS LIKE BREWER IS THE WINNER OF THE ‘STUPIDITY’ AWARD HANDS DOWN!..:)
Randi Rhodes has a link to this article in her “homework” section today. Did you see this? This actually occurred to me because I just couldn’t imagine any elected official in his/her right mind doing something so obnoxious and disrespectful. The nickname “Otis” answers my question.
Did Tipsy Arizona Governor wag finger in Presidents face?
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One can understand how the main stream media considers waving a finger in the face of the President unseemly, especially for a public official, like say a Governor. The problem is most of the main stream media, is unaware Governor Brewer’s nick name around the State capital is Otis, a reference to the town drunk from Mayberry.
If one looks charitably at the incident, you might opinion a sense of relief, pointing a quivering digit in the presidents face was all Jan Brewer did this afternoon, some days she is known to sign bills that abrogate constitutional rights and make it illegal for a person of color to reside in the State.
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Change can never come soon enough for those on the short end of institutional inequity, but the perception Governor Brewer’s staff clearly hoped to craft backfired and the audience and electoral support for such behavior is limited to those who consider FOX fair and balanced
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http://www.examiner.com/congressional-oversight-in-phoenix/did-tipsy-arizona-governor-wag-finger-presidents-face
Thanks Sue. I hope it continues. When the Repugs get a hold of it, they could bombard the site.
Voted. The Prez is winning.
Done
happy to vote in this one. right now, the witchy one is losing to our pbo 57 to 33 percent. where do they find people who would blame the president for her rude behavior?
Done.
Done, Baby! She’s losing the votes now:)
THE IRRESPONSIBLE ACTIONS OF THE GOP AS A WHOLE WITH REGARD TO OBSTRUCTION AND MORE SWINGS ON THE 18TH HOLE THAN IN CONGRESS SHOULD BE ENUFF TO CONVINCE ANY VOTERS WITH SHADES OF ‘COMMON SENSE’…THAT REPUBLICANS ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THIS COUNTRY IN ORDER TO GET WHAT THEY WANT….LOL…LONG SENTENCE…NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES HAVE THE QUALIFICATIONS TO BEAT PBO…IT’S THE VOTER WHO HOLDS RACIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL BELIEFS THAT BOTHERS ME. THESE ARE THE GLENN BECK,LIMBAUGH FANS WITH TUNNEL VISION AND FOR THEM…COMMON SENSE IS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES! WE SAW THIS IN THE MIDTERMS WHEN ANGRY,GULLIBLE VOTERS FELL FOR THE WORST IN GOP PROMISES. WE HAVE TO WORK HARD AND NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED…AFTER ALL…THE AIRHEADS HAVE LANDED!
I heard somewhere (probably here) that there’s a group trying to raise a petition to being Glen Beck back. I worry about those people, too. They’re certifiably insane.
WOW, RUBIO IS REALLY WORKING ON THAT VP SLOT
Rubio Calls Out Conservatives For ‘Harsh And Intolerable And Inexcusable’ Rhetoric On Immigration
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MIAMI, Florida — Speaking at the conservative Hispanic Leadership Network conference here today, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned his fellow conservatives against using rhetoric towards immigrants that is “harsh and intolerable and inexcusable“:
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Rubio is a rising star in the GOP and extraordinarily popular among the Hispanic conservatives at the conference, and his words received a very warm reception here. His comments came after he was interrupted by two undocumented students who confronted him for not supporting the DREAM Act.
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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/27/413484/rubio-calls-conservatives-immigration-rhetoric-harsh-and-intolerable-and-inexcusable-rhetoric-on-immigration/
THAT HE IS…HIS NAME HAS STUCK W/ ME SINCE THE BEGINNING AND THEY WILL CLING TO HIM FOR THE CHRISTIAN AND HISPANIC VOTE!
They are in a box. The GOP base hates Hispanics, if they pick Rubio as VP, and they go pro Hispanic, they Lose center right indes and many tea baggers stay Home.
If they pick Rubio the Cubano, this will not help them with the wider Latino vote.
Rubio doesn’t help them with anybody except FL people who voted for him.
It’s not surprising that he’s “extraordinarily popular among the Hispanic conservatives at the conference”. Any Hispanic person – in fact, any person of color (in fact, any thinking person, period) – who’s still calling themselves a member of the Republican Party has some serious self-worth problems. Words are cheap.
100% agree.
Wolfe Hannity is on now. Jeesh. Everyday…
THAT’S A GOOD REASON FOR ME TO GO AND FLUSH MY TOILET!..:)
🙂
Ron Paul is in Maine for a Rally, not Florida.
Ummm, ok.
He is only going to campaign in Caucus States , I think.
Saw some funny postings about what Brewer is actually saying to the President, “I am going to tell Michelle about us, I won’t be just IGNORED”, ala Glenn Close. Also noticed her hair–dark roots, messy–the way a women who is not really in control of her life appears–drinker?
I just read this comment on pmcarpenter’s blog from today:
I spent some considerable time yesterday waiting in a restaurant on Merriman Rd for a delayed flight due to arrive in Detroit. On the way to that restaurant, a Big Boy, I was forced to pass my unusual turn around because it had a large tent over it with many gabardined men and numerous police officers and cars around the area. Ah thinks I, a crime scene. When I got to the restaurant and ordered I asked about what had happened I was told that nothing had happened but that President Obama was staying next door at the Sheraton. Cool thinks I. Now this is a mundane enough story but what was truly interesting I thought was what happened when the President’s motorcade actually arrived a few moments later. I had a view of the whole room and every single employee of that restaurant and all but three of the patrons were at the windows waving to a man who could not possibly see them through the dark and rain. Who did not? Two elderly plump white gentleman and one presumptive wife. All three looked quite put out and the husband and wife demanded their check. They left immediately. The excitement in that room was palpable and it crossed lines of sex and race and age. It was something to see.
Posted by: Peter G | January 27, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Thanks, this made me tear up at the end. That’s the impact our guy has on so many Americans.
I bet if President Obama looked like Senator Scott Brown the three patrons who left the restaurant in a huff would have been all over him like a cheap suit. But sadly, some folks in this country just can’t abide the idea of this brilliant black man in the White House. How unfortunate for them. It’s their loss.
I don’t follow pmcarpenter and i do not know the writer of that comment, but when i happened to come upon this description of the restaurant scene watching the motorcade I just felt like it should be shared.
Sadly my own parents could have been included in the 3 that asked for their check. The are brainwashed by Fox…
Aw – I love this story! (I think that’s my statement of the day – I’ve loved every story on here today and just keep squealing and saying “awww” -wonderful!)
Glad you loved it Theo67! A happy day to you!
And to you! 🙂
A roomful of supporters and three old cranks? I’ll take those odds.
I might have asked for my check if it was Bush.
i might have asked for my check…only to be able to et outside to get a closer view!!!!
get outside
We have our president’s back! Oh yes we do! Swing by for a good read (warning, language may be a bit salty for some):
http://emiliawahoo76.blogspot.com/2012/01/bill-maher-hopes-youll-forget-what-hes.html?spref=tw
Maher has had brilliant moments and shameful ones—- I’m not sure who he takes his cues from, but he can be too easily swayed. Martin Bashir is on his show tonight—-which is a reason to watch.
I’m reading that Hatchet Face Brewer’s book is “flying” off the shelves.
Of course. her new BFF, Sarah Palin told her this is how you get it done!
Everybody, and I mean everybody, is trying to make a buck off of PBO. UGH.
Yesssss!
Amen to that! Retweeted.
Those people on that big ass boat that tipped over, got paid a little less than 15k per person.
From the cruise liner Costa!
What about people that died? This settlement seems low.
That amount is only being paid out to people who were not injured, and they’re getting a full refund. This payout doesn’t apply to those who were injured or killed. That’s still to come.
Jan Brewer’s unacceptably close finger-wag combined with the “I felt threatened” has pissed me off beyond recognition. Prior to this incident, I mostly thought of her as a wiling, well-placed pawn of the right wing similar to the Florida secretary of state who stopped the ballot counting in Gore v. Bush.
But Jan Brewer has moved has tapped into a new level of ugliness. Now she permanently represents the racist underbelly in the U.S. that savors their resentment of and resistance to the non-white President their fellow Americans chose in an electoral landslide. She has gone beyond the Orly Taitz territory of craziness. She feels entitled to publicly disrespect the President of the United States, while doubling and tripling down on her contempt, jumping from interview to interview and embellishing her encounter with the prickly, threatening black man with each telling. From her lies about decapitated bodies on Arizona’s border to her tension on the tarmac drama, she is proving to be a disgusting and dangerous person unworthy to be Governor of any state.
All true. Did you call her office? I’ll give you the number if you need it:) I called yesterday. She lies.Always and often.
“Now she permanently represents the racist underbelly in the U.S. ”
My mother used to say, “if you are ugly on the inside, you are ugly on the outside and it shows”.
Given the image that was captured of the incident, I would say my dear departed mother was right.
Afternoon All! I was talking to myself this morning…by the time I figured out that Chips had posted a new thread, there were already 78 comments:) I do that from time to time 🙂
Thought you might like to get a load of this…seriously? The company he keeps. The entire lot of them is one big, freaking joke.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bribes-chinese-mob-ties-alleged-casino-gingrich-money/story?id=15455918&singlePage=true#.TyMVI8XlPeh
The casino company run by the principal financial backer of Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid, Sheldon Adelson, has been under criminal investigation for the last year by the Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission for alleged bribery of foreign officials, according to corporate documents.
In a separate civil lawsuit, a former executive of the company has alleged that Adelson ordered him to keep quiet about sensitive issues at the Sands casinos on the Chinese island of Macau, including the casinos’ alleged “involvement with Chinese organized crime groups, known as Triads, connected to the junket business.” The triads — Chinese organized crime syndicates — are allegedly involved in organizing high stakes gambling junkets for wealthy Chinese travelers.
and are we surprised? ‘not really.’
Randi just played PBO singing Al Green…:) Says she wants her text ringtone to be him singing!!!!
I heard that – she played it twice! And squealed the whole time. I play it at least five times in the evenings.
Someone commented on Youtube that even radio stations are now playing the song more often than before PBO sang it….
GOP presidential front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich barnstormed across Florida on Friday, trying to rally supporters and break away in the polls four days before what is shaking up to be a pivotal primary in that state.
The morning after a heated CNN/Florida Republican Party debate in Jacksonville, a pro-Gingrich super PAC hit the airwaves with a television ad essentially accusing Romney of committing Medicare fraud. One of Gingrich’s top Florida backers, former state Attorney General Bill McCollum, also raised questions about Romney’s past service on the board of Damon Corp., a Massachusetts medical testing company that pleaded guilty in 1996 to billing Medicare fraudulently and that paid a $119 million fine.
Romney was never implicated in any wrongdoing, but the issue is “fair game” and “raises a serious question about (Romney’s) corporate judgment,” McCollum said.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/politics/campaign-wrap/?hpt=hp_t2
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/politics/campaign-wrap/?hpt=hp_t2
Robney faces Medicare attacks in Florida. Lol!
Gasp!!!
poor little mite.
It’s official. The GOP is out of their collective flipping minds.
GOP candidate’s ad portrays Obama as captain of a slave ship
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/207095-obama-slave-ship-ad-gop-candidate-mark-oxner
Granted we have a long way to go in this election cycle but I go by the old adage my grandmother used to say: “that a person can only do to you what you allow them to do to you.”
At some point Dems will need to call this stuff out for what it is. Pure unadulterated racism and when the Republicans shout “playing the race card” we answer them with ALL the examples we have portraying this mess.
The Repubs continue to do this because they think its acceptable and nothing will happen to them for it. We have a media that has relinquished all of their responsibility to the public in favor of sensationalism.
Okay I need to start scrolling on by when I see this stuff because its starting to take its toll on me and like I said we still have a very long way to go.
I think I will write Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Clyburn to ask them to make a joint statement. Something needs to be done.
Donna – some friendly advice (this is a long one). Don’t misdirect your anger and frustration towards the President because other people have decided to be racists. Put the blame where it belongs. It’s frustrating, but I think you know that he probably feels it just as much, and probably more, than you do. It’s being directed at him, at his wife and at his kids. He’s been facing this every day for several years – actually, for all his life. He’s the one who’s got the birthers demanding his appearance in Georgia, the Speaker calling his speech “pathetic” before even hearing a word (and not being challenged by the media), and idiot GOP candidates taken seriously, all the while they’re proposing policies that would destroy the economy all over again and erase the middle class.
The fact that he persists; that he continues to do his job; that he refuses to acknowledge these lowlifes – that should make you proud, not frustrated. Imagine the strength it takes to do that. You probably do it in your own job. And in your case, the consequences of leaving a racist to stew in their cesspool of hate only affects you and the racist. In the President’s case, his actions impact millions in the United States, and billions more around the world. He only has a limited time to be President, to have this amount of influence. Should he spend that time responding to people who’ve been racist their whole lives? Or should he do as he did when he was a child and had kids throwing rocks at him – not let them steal his joy and his mission; not let them diminish him and distract him? Not let them win?
In my opinion, this racism thing is a national issue. This man is the duly elected President of the United States, and he is being disrespected. Why isn’t the nation demanding that these people stop what they’re doing? They’ve been doing it since he was inaugurated. Since before that. Why don’t the Democrats speak up on his behalf? Why aren’t citizens in the streets and on the phones expressing their outrage? Why don’t the pundits speak out? Why can’t Americans feel shame that this is happening? It’s not for him alone to defend the Office of the Presidency. American citizens should be outraged that their institute of democracy is held in such low regard, and that the rights of every American, including the President of the United States, are abrogated by an ignorant few. Who’s demanding that Orly Taitz, an immigrant, stop what she’s doing against the American-born President? Why have birthers been allowed to continue to exist? Why have they not been shamed out of existence?
Personally, I’m proud that the President continues to do his job in the face of apathy and ignorance. I’m proud that he doesn’t acknowledge these creatures that are beneath him, and who shouldn’t have one second of his attention. I’m thankful that he still has love for this country and its people, even though he’s been met with pure hatred by so many.
Don’t be mad at the President for not defending himself. He has nothing to defend. His actions have been admirable and patriotic. He shouldn’t even have to confront this nonsense. He’s already done that. Be mad that a nation of people who the entire world looks to as a symbol of freedom, equality and justice have allowed their President to be treated this way.
Rev. Al said the other day on his radio show that everyone needs to be shouting about this…..from progressive radio, reporters, the electorate, civil rights leaders, Democrats, Republican leadership, media…..where are they? Rev. Al also pointed out, and I totally agree, that the President himself, should not be the one to do this. He must stay above the fray and stay focused because he has very little time to address the public on policyand governing and it is up to others to have his back on this. Pressure needs to be exerted from outside the WH and I have to say that I am truly steamed at the Dem leadership and the PL on this issue, as well as Republican leadership. My patience with some progressives is just about depleted at this point—and their pants on fire hysterics mean nothing to me if they can’t support this President. I see why he doesn’t stick his neck out to appease them—-they never have his back. What’s been happening since Joe “You Lie” Wilson has been truly horrible. It’s like the Dems want this to boil up and boil up and then what?
This is my comment:
“Granted we have a long way to go in this election cycle but I go by the old adage my grandmother used to say: “that a person can only do to you what you allow them to do to you.”
“At some point Dems will need to call this stuff out for what it is. Pure unadulterated racism”
Theo67 I am not sure where in this comment you are getting the impression that I am “directing my anger and frustration” at the President. As I said up above when that video was posted he can’t answer all these disgusting comments that have and will continue to come up during this campaign season but IMO my Party certainly needs to start calling it for what it is. I only said that the President chose not to address the subject when Sawyer brought it up. I completely understand why he didn’t and my frustration is NOT directed at him. I think you completely misunderstood my comment. This comments was directed at the media and my Democratic Party that should be taking a stand in my opinion on this issue.
The notion that we just let it go and somehow the public will see it for what it is just doesn’t sit well with me and never will.
I won’t breach the subject again in the future when I see these links (I take it a tad too personal). As I said in my comment I’ll just scroll on by from here on out.
No, Donna please comment on this in the future. You are not taking it too personal—-it’s the truth. A lot of folks read this blog and read how we feel and I have to say when I saw Chuck Todd, Howard Fineman,etc. and some so-called progressive hosts blaming the President and blowing this off, this hit me in the core. This is a strong undercurrent that is being allowed to fester because the media wants the ratings from their tabloid reporting. Again, Donna, please do not just scroll by on this topic in the future. It was totally disgusting what I saw this week, the media’s reaction and the lack of leadership speaking out against this behavior was just as bad Brewer’s actions. I’ve been trying to calm myself as well this week.
I agree. I very much value Donna’s input on this. This week ticked me off profoundly and I want to know that I am not alone and this is not business as usual.
Donna – you might not see this response, since I’m just getting back in and there’s a new post out there, but I’ll put it here so it’s in context.
First – I apologize if I misunderstood your sentiments. You are one of the strongest advocates for the President, so I would not want any misunderstanding on that point.
My response above was triggered first by your earlier comment about the President’s limited response to Diane Sawyer’s question about food stamps, and then coupled with your quote above of “a person can only do to you what you allow them to do to you” – which makes the President seem like a victim in these racist attacks being lobbed against him from the GOP candidates to Orly Taitz. My intent was to point out that I don’t think the President’s actions are that of a victim, but rather someone who is rising above his surroundings and focusing on what’s actually important. In his response, he’s not allowing anyone to do anything to him, because he’s still accomplishing what he set out to do.
Just to be clear, in no way do I think the answer is to scroll on by, and neither did I say that we should just let it go and hope the public will see what’s going on. The victim here isn’t the President, even if he isn’t responding or directing his people to respond yet. He’s still thriving and succeeding, despite these vile people. The victims are the Office of the Presidency and the citizenry. I agree that the Dems need to act to respond to this garbage, as I stated in my response, but I also think that the real problem is the lack of indignation from the nation about this stuff. I stand by those comments.
I hear what you and Donna are saying. What I am seeing is a comfort zone with public racism that’s includes the President and his family but it has gone beyond them and the nature of the disrespect has gone from annoying to disturbing.
You’ve got a math teacher with black students using slavery as the basis for math word problems. You’ve got an elected official in Connecticut saying he might get a taco in response to a question about what will he do for the Latino community in the wake of his police force being charged with racial profiling of Latinos. You’ve got the Tennessee Tea Party demanding that all references to slavery be removed from textbooks. You’ve got Rick Santorum demonizing black people on tape and when he’s called out on it by none other than Bill O’Reilly on Fox News he claims he never said it and that he was trying to say blah people. You’ve got the dangerous fool in AZ wagging her finger and gleefully going on interview after interview embellishing her story about feeling threatened on the tarmac. You’ve got Ron Paul supporters, young, Liberal and Conservative who fall over themselves to ignore the racism he has signed onto for years.
This climate, 9 months out, seems to be worse than the craziness in 2008 and 2009 with Palin’s crowds and the extreme elements in the tea party. Even John McCain wasn’t as explicitly disgraceful as Santorum, Gingrich and Brewer. He actually showed leadership compared to these corrosive people.
It worries me a little that this undercurrent is being stirred and other than Bob Schieffer and Rev. Al, other media seem to be treating this as a quaint parlor discussion, “is this racism or just campaign hijinx?” I am sick of it already.
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That video posted down thread by edp4bho regarding Rickey Smiley addresses both responses and provides a clear plan of action. Citizens (especially minorities) have to be vocal and all have to VOTE. We cannot depend on the msm, PO should not lower himself to acknowledge this, WE have to shut it down.
If that video doesn’t get you fired up to step into action — nothing will. Post the video where you can, tweet if possible. Spread far and wide.
Rickey Smiley gives a heated commentary towards Gov. Jan Brewer for disrespecting the President by putting her finger in his face after an exchange after the President arrived in Arizona.
applauding wildly.
Just like you, I want the President to bypass the willful ignorance and Press On.
I am confident that America will have his back and that they way to silence the masses to include the msm and strike the most lethal blow to the racist underbelly of this country is to vote this man in for a second term. Not by a few percentage points, but by an ass kicking landslide that will be felt around the nation and the world.
We have work to do. It is imperative that we ALL keep our eyes on the prize, stay focused, kick off our bedroom slippers, put on our walking shoes and Press On with him. WE can make this happen.
This kind of sums it all up:
10 Worst Moments of Disrespect
http://politic365.com/2012/01/27/the-10-worst-moments-of-disrespect-towards-president-obama/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-10-worst-moments-of-disrespect-towards-president-obama
There are countless more.
Thanks for posting this. I am going to make February – “Call out the racists” month for me. I am going to write or tweet politicians, reporters, newspapers, and tv shows with examples, asking why they are not denouncing this. I was a little daunted at trying to find lots of examples because I know they’re out there, I just don’t remember much past the most recent (sad little brain that I have).
I wonder if President Obama wants more attention called to their racists ways? He seems to like to brush it off and press on. If the incidents are made more in the foreground it might detract even more from what he is trying to show with his job building travel visits. We need to be sure that whatever we are doing in the name of helping is truly what is wanted and considered help.
I just read the list of ten moments of disrespect since reading so many posts that want to tweet the stations and all. I thought maybe there was something there I did not know. The list is a series of disrespectful things that happened during the Presidency so far. They are horrific, but I still think it may be wise to either contact WH.gov and ask if they would appreciate this push back or not. Or even contact the re-election campaign in Chicago. I know I called the election Campaign HQ in ’08 for help and questions more than once and I write emails to wh.gov whenever I have ideas and often times get feedback. I feel like you do but realize all of these issues that take the focus off of what the Prez is trying to highlight may not be helpful even though they are instigated out of love and the desire to help.
I think I am going to be sick….
I am sick…..
actually, whoever conceived of, created, approved, funded, and released this ad is sick–sick in the head, sick in the heart, and–here’s the worst part–contagious!!
donnadem, i’m with you. this insidious, disgusting turn to racism cannot be ignored. it’s a national disgrace, and i for one am deeply ashamed of my country at this moment.
i love that our president is riding above the muck, doing an extraordinary job, and teaching by example that racism is wrong, wrong, wrong. pulling him in to a back-and-forth with these cretins is just what they want–they’re taunting him and jabbing at him all the time. even if they can’t change minds and hearts with their vile spittle flying from their ugly mouths, they could splatter him, which they would adore. so i think he must not engage with them as if this is a debate. it’s over. they lost. now we’re dealing with the stench of their dead rotting ‘beliefs’.
but a quiet looking-away just makes space for them to debauch our integrity even more. who should call them out? everyone!!! every time!!! but especially the news media, the churches, the universities, the unions, the health organizations, the veterans organizations–all the groups that have historically held the standard of our nation’s nobility. time to speak up!!!
i’m getting busy right now with letters to everybody i can think of–starting with my senators and representatives and so on. this shit has to stop.
Being perfectly clear:
“I think we’ve made pretty clear, because the facts are incontestable, that the unfortunate obstructionism the country has encountered in passing common-sense, mainstream measures to get the economy going, in passing a balanced approach to deficit reduction and long-term control of our debt, have been Republicans exclusively,” Carney said.
Repeating a phrase Obama often uses — “let me be clear” — Carney added that “the obstructionism we face in Congress [has] been thrown up by Republicans, unfortunately, and House Republicans in particular.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/207103-carney-house-gop-is-obstructionist
Has even one member of the media bothered to ask the Republicans to show how many jobs their thirty “jobs bills” will create, that they are claiming to be stalled in the Senate? They keep letting them get away wit that nonsense.
The answer is no because asking that question would puncture the media firewall and we can’t have that. The facts might get out.
Flotus has over 500,000 followers on twitter
Yeah!!
Read it !!! Must READ COMIC:) It’ll make you feel SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better!
http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2012/01/arizona-daily-star-governor-brewer-embarrasses-arizona-.html
Another funny 🙂 http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/01/jan_brewers_letter_to_barack_o.php#Comments
one of the comments on this suggested brewer donate the proceeds of her book sales to the state. after all, the uptick is a result of her using her platform as governor of arizona in denigrating the president. dirty money, i’d say.
GREAT IDEA! bet she’ll get right on that:)
This is hilarious DF. I had to tweet it.
🙂 I knew you’d like that!
Oh desertflower. I had to tweet that. I love the caption where the Prez asks if she played Mary’s roommate in “There’s something about Mary”. Too funny!
I was wondering why she looked familiar. 😀
Private sector unions add members as jobs return
WASHINGTON — Union membership grew slightly last year, giving labor leaders hope that a period of steep declines has finally bottomed out.
The number of unionized workers increased by about 50,000 to nearly 14.8 million members in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The increase comes after unions lost nearly 1.4 million members over the previous two years.
Still, unions’ share of the overall workforce fell, from 11.9 percent to 11.8 percent, as state and local governments trimmed thousands of jobs to address budget shortfalls. That’s the lowest percentage of union workers since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Unions saw losses of about 61,000 workers in government employment. But they grew by 110,000 workers in the private sector, mainly in construction and health care. Despite that growth, unions still represent just 6.9 percent of all workers at private companies, unchanged from 2010.
“The devastating losses from 2009 and 2010 have stopped and that’s got to be good news for the labor movement,” said John Schmitt, a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.
Schmitt said another positive for unions is that private sector membership grew at about the same rate as overall job growth.
Thank goodness he’s stopped smoking. Was worried about that.
Voted in the AZ central poll….there’s only one obvious answer!
Thanks Carolyn.
Just saw a commercial for this new documentary today. It looks to be very promising. Premieres on Valentine’s Day on HBO.
The Loving Story
LOL! I almost thought I saw “premiers in Valentines Day on BHO.” My mind is so much on President Obama 🙂
Me, too! It took me a minute to shake my head and see what it actually said. 🙂
@lamh35 My husband and I are the Lovings..like the Lovings i am African-American as well as Native American,my husband is Italian and Puerto Rican..we live in Virginia ..maybe an 1.5 hrs from Caroline County(King and Queen County) my family is from King and Queen county also..we have been together for 20 years and married for 18 yrs..we have 2 beautiful children..we thank God for the Lovings having the courage to Love.. thank u so much for posting the link to the story..can’t wait to watch..I will say people of mixed backgrounds learn to have tough skin early in life..or you will be consumed that’s why I know President Obama can take the jabs..hate will never win..President Obama and the First Family know they are loved,respected and prayed for..and this will continue to carry them thru all the hateful snares and hateful speeches..so Obama supporters will always embrace him in that Love and i believe that helps him make it ..Obama\Biden 2012
Thanks for your story #1. And I agree and President Obama and his family know they are loved, respected and prayed for. That helps them strength to deal with the uglies.
:0) !!
Fantastic:
Holder Announces Working Unit on Mortgage-Backed Bonds Fraud
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — A new U.S. government unit will investigate misconduct in the bundling of mortgage loans into securities that fueled the housing bubble and contributed to the financial crisis, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
In providing details about the new unit, Holder said that the Justice Department in the past few days has subpoenaed 11 financial institutions in related investigations.
The mortgage fraud unit will “streamline” and “strengthen” current efforts to investigate fraud in residential mortgage-backed securities, he said today at a news conference in Washington.
The unit is intended to help “restore faith in our financial markets and institutions,” Holder said. “We will marshal our civil and criminal capabilities” in pursuing the investigations, he said.
President Barack Obama announced the creation of the unit during his State of the Union speech on Jan. 24.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-27/holder-announces-working-unit-on-mortgage-backed-bonds-fraud.html
Love it. President Obama is the ‘DO SOMETHING’ president. He’s leaving the ugly Republicans in the dust.
He’s a TOTAL man of action. I think this will fact will go a very long way to helping him win a second term. He’s doesn’t just talk. He gets things done.
That is excellent news. In more “We Can’t Wait” mortgage relief news:
“The administration said it was expanding eligibility for its Home Affordable Modification Program, known as HAMP, to borrowers with higher debt loads and tripling the incentives it pays banks that reduce principal on loans.
The administration also said it would offer incentives to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce principal on loans. Previously, the government had only offered incentives to private lenders and banks. The program was also extended to December 2013. It was initially set to expire at the end of this year.”
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/27/real_estate/hamp_program/index.htm
FiredUp, so sorry I missed your birthday yesterday. I hope you had a wonderful day!!
I did. Thank you very much Meta!
Yes this is excellent news. The Obama administration has to be much more aggressive on housing.
The slow progress on housing is partly (mostly) to do with Edward DeMarco, who oversees Freddie and Fannie. He has refused to sign off on some of the mortgage relief because it wouldn’t negatively impact the bottom line for the two organizations, which is his primary responsibility and mission. He’s been a bane in the side of the Administration as they’ve tried to help homeowners. I agree that they probably should have tried something creative much sooner when they realized he wouldn’t budget.
The Administration was also voted down in Congress when a bill was presented that would allow judges to lower the principal on mortgage loans, forcing banks to take a hit and allow people to reset their mortgages to match their home values.
And lastly – there are a lot of people who just won’t take the relief. Crazy, but true. I have people at work who spend sleepless nights about their ballooning mortgages, but don’t want anything to do with the government. You can’t help them.
As I pick my jaw off the floor.
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/01/27/413634/virginia-school-year-rollercoasters/
Way to go Virginia!!! Kids last!
The action by the Senate Education and Health Committee followed testimony from a string of tourism representatives, who said that moving the first day of school before the holiday weekend would hurt the industry at a time when it could ill afford to lose revenue.
their reasoning is despicable. but i do wish schools would all start after labor day. it just seems an essential part of a kid’s summer.
I do agree; especially in the cold climates — we really need that part of Summer – it is so very short and usually nice and warm that first week of Sept. Now I think we could cut out a bunch of the random off-days throughout the year to ensure we have more total days. Seems like there are so many release days…. Just a thought.
Tweety has a segment on Saul Alinsky coming up……This should be good……
If you want to know more about him…..this is great
Journalist and author Nicholas von Hoffman talked about his career and his book, Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky (Nation Books, 2010), which is based on his experiences prior to his journalism career working for ten years as a community activist in Chicago for Saul Alinsky. Mr. Alinsky is said to have influenced the community organizing of President Obama. Video clips from a 1967 documentary about Mr. Alinsky were shown in the background.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295377-1
I’m amazed that Fig Newton always brings up Saul Alinsky in his talks and debates. Bet 99% of those listening have NO IDEA who the hell he’s talking about….but it sure does SOUND SCARY! Very telling that he would would bash a man who made giving the underrepresented and largely forgotten, a voice.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/100030/gingrich-alinsky-saul-newt-catholic-carolina
‘it shows yet again that the skillful demagogue is a lousy historian’
no, he’s just a non-stop liar.
That is a great article…..thank you…
Surprise ending 🙂 You’re welcome, Linda.
Signs your mother has been watching too many spy movies….. I put the picture up on her desktop of the arrival in Mi and she comes flying in my room going “Oh my god, I thought they were going to kill him”. Ok that just made both of us break out hysterically laughing, I know the thought isn’t funny but with all the anger and hatred spewing from the other side a little levity is what is called for… (i.e. the idiot from Peoria, Az., and their equally idiotic Governor)
whelp, looks like a 2nd mayor has come confirmed the previous mayor account of the “finger wag heard round the world”, essentially Guv Brewer’s account is a big fat EPIC FAIL:
2nd Mayor Says Obama ‘Wasn’t Tense At All’ During Brewer Encounter
Well, she’s a perpetual liar. Those of us here, know that. Why do you think she and “the quitter” are such great friends?
OpenSecrets: Obama Campaign Refunding Donations By Federal Lobbyists
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/01/barack-obama-refunds-lobbyist-money.html
Some great economic news—Chrysler to add 1600 jobs in Illinois as a part of a “hiring blitz”—- plan to add thousands of new workers:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-chrysler-to-add-1600-workers-at-illinois-plant-20120127,0,6894386.story
This is EXCELLENT!!!! Go US auto industry!
Yikes…..that needs to come with a warning label.
This right here is a righteous rant from Ricky Smiley ya’ll. Check out this audio.
Rickey Smiley Goes Off On Jan Brewer for Disrespecting President Obama
Righteous rant! He is right!
I am right there with everything Rickey Smiley is saying. Her finger was the tipping point. I am sick of these people thinking they can act out.
Agree with him 100 percent.
Wow! Just finished listening to the whole thing, agreeing 110%
And I agree 110% also. And anybody that has common sense, a sound mind, and Is stable, must agree with Ricky Smiley. She/Brewer Is shameful, and disrespectful. It really does make your blood pressure rise, all because He Is a black President. Offensive? to say the least 😦 😦
TRUTH! That was one hell of a righteous rant! He was right on ALL COUNTS!
The Ten Images Democrats want you to see:
This is a good compilation of stuff here, very inspiring and great tools for educating family and friends.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-10-images-that-democrats-want-you-to-see
Thomas Jefferson’s quote is so appropriate for today’s issues with corporations!
Someone is selling PBO’s old car on ebay!
// President Obama is on cruise control toward his party’s nomination to run for reelection, but Tim O’Brien is hoping to capitalize on Obama’s old cruise-mobile — a 2005 Chrysler 300C. Yeah, it’s got a Hemi in it. That’s probably what led aspiring presidential candidate Obama to ditch the muscle car in favor of a Ford Escape hybrid to shore up his green credentials back in 2008. //
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10253056-obamas-chrysler-on-ebay-yours-for-1-million
One Million ? Seriously ? Maybe Mitt can buy it….he likes to copy our President.
HAHAHA! Should be pocket change for Willard.
Yeah – Willard will probably buy it and give it to charity – one of his sons, for instance, since he seems to fully believe charity begins at home. And ends at home.
So tell me, when does our President rest????? Pic w/Pres Bush (41) and Jeb this afternoon…
uh oh… Poppy is in a wheelchair….
I sense that he likes our President. I think Dubbya does too. They just can’t be to public about it.
Nice pic, civility is alive somewhere!
Me too.
Obama is the first born son he wish he had.
Jonathan I miss you on MSNBC.
I THINK BUSH 41 AND JEB BUSH WERE GREAT PUBLIC SERVANTS WITH CLASS AND DIGNITY! THEY AREN”T LIKE THE RIGHT WING HATERS!
Halo?? Have you been hacked?? (a) What’s with the CAPS all of a sudden? (b) Whatever about Bush 41 …… Jeb was a great a public servant???? Are you being amusing?
Interesting. Wonder what that meeting was about. Anyone?
Probably 41 and Jeb are asking for asylum in the Democratic Party. That’s my take.
JOBoomer, I think that’s about right.
Interesting…
“It wasn’t on Pres Obama’s public schedule, but he met in the Oval today with former Pres GHWBush & son Jeb Bush.”
I heard or read that they were all attending the same meeting and GH Bush usually stops in to say hi before that meeting. It’s always an unscheduled drop in visit.
That’s right Mr. President! You had a great week! You bumped Al Green’s record sales by 490%! You gave an excellent SOTU address followed by a successful whirlwind tour meeting with and talking to the American people, sharing your superior ideas on the road. You had the Ann Arbor youth braving the bitter cold just for a chance to get a ticket to one of your speeches. You are back in DC with your lovely family. You got more voters behind you, voters who want to see you re-elected in November! I’m glad you’re in a great mood Mr. President! When our President is happy, America is happy!
Here’s PBO, Al Green, Rev Al, James Brown and others at the Apollo. Funny stuff: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/vp/46170040#46170040
I think he especially likes going on the road to RE-CONNECT with REAL people, and not the idiotic GOP & MSM in Washington
This is for you JaquelineOBoomer 🙂
beautiful!
OH MY…YOU JUST HAD TO RUN THAT PICTURE AGAIN!!!!! I HOPE PBO HAS A WONDERFULLY RELAXED WEEKEND…HE HAS GIVEN SO MUCH TO US OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL….I LOVE MY PRESIDENT!
Great pink bunny! Well done! Retweeted! Chips will love this!
You are not wrong lovingandlaughing – gulping anti-faint pills as we speak.
Dumbass Ed’s question:
“Do you feel PBO is getting on a roll?”——-WTF?!!! He’s been on a roll all this time! Where the fuck were you, Ed? Fricking Coneheads!!! 😡
LOL…..Lisa, I almost choked on my cheese curls. Girl, you have passion for days 😀
Chips, can you post the “Slippery when Wet” photo sans photoshop for me please? I want to make it the background on my phone. pwetty pwease wid chwerries owan twop?!!!! :kissy face: :kissy face: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts:
That’s some REALLY good sucking up, Miss Lisa: This photo greets me first thing in the morning on my desktop….wonderful! It will be Fabulous on your phone 🙂
In their continuing effort to celebrate volunteerism, the Patriots announced 10 winners of their “Super Bowl for Super People” online sweepstakes, which is meant to recognize outstanding individuals in the public-service sector.
Each winner gets a trip for two to Super Bowl XLVI. The winners will also participate in a public Patriots send-off at Gillette Stadium on Sunday.
Two winners were selected randomly from each of the following categories: firefighter, police officer, teacher, military and nurse.
Here are the winners:
Firefighter:
Timothy Wilder of Somersworth, N.H.
John Surabian of Stoneham, Mass.
Police Officer:
Timothy Sullivan of East Walpole, Mass.
Sherry DeGenova of Hartford, Conn.
Teacher:
Whitney Hartwell of Norfolk, Mass.
Jim Miller of Auburn, Maine
Military:
Patrick Squires of Hingham, Mass.
Todd Seymour of Lempster, N.H.
Nurse:
Tara Jean of Dracut, Mass.
Jim Taber of Tiverton, R.I.
Good move. They picked the professions that have been targeted by GOP obstructionists. Ha nice slap in their faces.
About the only thing I every check out on GOS anymore is Cheers and Jeers Rum and Coke Friday- a fun and light take on the week’s news. In the poll of “Who Won The Week” the diarist would always just put “President Obama” as one of those you could choose but he would never list what POTUS had done that week. Everyone one else he would show their name and what specifically they had done. So POTUS always got a lot of votes but often didn’t win when he in fact had the most successful week for America just because the voters weren’t reminded of what he had specifically accomplished that week. Well, recently I noticed he started listing what POTUS had done and of course now POTUS has been leading all voters or easily in the top 3.
This week he’s shown as leading all votes and it’s written for voting as: President Obama for his State of the Union address and for giving AZ Gov. Jan Brewer a lesson in good manners.
Even the emoprogs on GOS are getting on board…
Hey folks, another find to listen to. Thanks to POU, visit them sometime.
Thanks for the post… I have sent an email to that bish Gov Brewer on top of the tweets I’ve sent her since the incident occurred. Cant stomach that wench!
I really appreciated what Ricky Smiley said. He was really mad and I don’t blame him.
He is right, it is up to us/citizens to call them out and most importantly VOTE. We have to get PO reelected for 4 more years. Excellent rant. Excellent. Fired Up and ready to go!
President Obama’s campaign fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel this afternoon was with the Native American Leadership Council, and in remarks to the group, he characterized the fight for fairness that he outlined in the State of the Union address as a “turning point” for tribal relations.
“And I want you guys to be full partners in that fight because I believe that one day we’re going to be able to look back on these years and say this was a turning point in nation-to-nation relations; that this was turning point when the nations all across the country recognized that they were full partners, treated with dignity and respect and consultation; that this wasn’t just a side note on a White House agenda, but this was part and parcel of our broader agenda to make sure that everybody has opportunity,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/raising-money-with-the-first-americans-112637.html
WISH I HAD BEEN THERE FOR HIS LAST STOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH NATIVE AMERICANS…MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE! GOD BLESS MY PRESIDENT…HE FIRED UP THE TRAIL THIS WEEK…AS ALWAYS!…:) HE MAKES MY HEART SMILE!
My absolute favorite, too, is when President Obama keeps his commitment to our First Americans!
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Obama delivers remarks at the 99th annual Alfalfa Club Dinner in Washington. Michelle Obama attends.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/obama_doj_protects_military_voters_from_texas_repu.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
The Justice Department said in a filing on Friday that the primary schedule proposed by the Texas Republican Party wouldn’t give enough time for military and overseas voters to participate in the election process in violation of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act.
Here’s the kicker: conservatives — led by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn — have long been on a crusade against the Justice Department for what they said was a failure to protect military voters under the MOVE Act.
What was up is down, and was was down is up. All because the Republicans have lost their way, out of greed and envy.
Another boost to the economy due to our President 😆
Call it the Obama bump.
Since delivering a dozen pizzas and even more cannolis to President Barack Obama during his recent overnight stay in Las Vegas, Dom DeMarco’s pizzeria has seen a burst of interest from customers and national media.
“It’s been huge. The phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” said Albert Scalleat, the pizzeria’s co-owner and general manager. “There’s been a lot of buzz.”
http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2012/jan/27/obamas-pizza-order-touches-bonanza-las-vegas-resta/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lvsevening
I only saw the word “cannolis” to know your story was a good one! 🙂
hmmm–i got kinda stuck on ‘the obama bump’. just the dance moves in my head, now. cannot speak or walk. mmm–movie in my head.
Hello TOD
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Thanks Chips,
Amazing isn’t it Andy? Glad you have arrived in our little slice of heaven!
MUST READ. This is the Jan Brewer that all of AZ knows
http://www.politicususa.com/en/behind-jan-brewers-tall-tales-of-intimidation-hides-a-dishonest-despot IOKIYAR
Pheeeeeeeeeeeeew, at last, a new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/01/27/evening-all-30/
Martin Bashir is on bill maher show and Ed Markey.