President Barack Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing from Robert Cardillo, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration, in the Oval Office, Jan. 31, 2012. Part of the briefing was done using a tablet computer. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
DON’T GET TICKED OFF…ROMNEY IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO HIS DOWNFALL! I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE PBO USE HIS FLYSWATTER! I CAN’T WAIT PERIOD…I’M TIRED OF THEIS CLOWN SHOW…BRING IT ON…HAH! GOD BLESS OUR PBO…ROMNEY WILL BE GONE!
I HAVE ALL KINDS OF FAITH IN PBO…I DON’T WORRY ABOUT WHO WINS IN THE GOP CIRCUS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY PRESIDENT IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND I KNOW DEEP IN MY HEART THAT HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL AND ‘TRUTH WINS!’ JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL…WITHOUT A DOUBT! IT IS THE REPUBS. WHO ARE DISGUSTED BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY DON’T HAVE ANY CANDIDATES.
They are cretins. They have no idea that the more they enrage the base and independents, the more we donate to the Obama campaign & the more we are determined to hand PBO a land slide.
Oh I like that shirt, very smart.. I’m going to buy one too- I’ll prolly get shot here in my rightwing town.. but I love they’ve listed his accomplishments- outstanding! Definitely will get it and PROUDLY Wear it 🙂 thanks BWD. Romney disgusts me, I cannot wait to Vote Against his smarmy lying ass. Yeah I’m really pissed too.
I pray daily that both of my daughters marry a down-to-earth, nerdy, intelligent, super-nice, loving, techie, handsome, honest, loyal, kind, generous, caring, patient, gentle man like my President Obama.
me too vitaminlover. me too … Actually my husband of 23 years is a lot like what you described. I hope our two girlies are fortunate enough to find one like him. 🙂
That is awesome, StayingSteady4PBO, I bet your girlies will look for those traits. We know as moms how important this is. I am also blessed with a good stable husband and am very thankful.
Truly, yardarm, I have just noticed that my list for my daughters include mostly character traits. I am sure that there are decent young men out there like him. Obviously, Our Beloved President is just showing so many examples of these traits. I know that my daughters can have what Mrs. Obama and Malia an Sasha have. If you think about it, yes, he is rich but he wasn’t always rich and that is not what keeps Mrs. Obama. However he IS hardworking and above board. That can help one towards wealth in the right way.
POTUS always says that FLOTUS kid him about his dancing. So POTUS sings and FLOTUS dance, don’t matter they both are great, and American needs them 4 more years.
FLOTUS didn’t say what she wanted to say, we all know that. She had to be polite though the head line would be First Lady call Romney a Bad Singer. And who know how Politico, Huff Puff, and Fox would have spun it.
that woman is pure class, Chips. She’s a billion times better than I am. I would have called him a mofoing dipshit. But hey, that’s just me, and I make no pretenses of class.
Correction. I didn’t hear it the first time but the full quote is “It’s [a] beautiful song.” It kind of got drowned out by laughing and clapping. But she was talking about the song and then she went on to say that’s it’s an American song and every American can sing it.
Wow, Tweety really, really hate Romney for having that money overseas to avoid taxes. I hope this will be the flipflopping liar’s big downfall in the general. The Dems should not let up.
We cannot let up. He thinks he has found the key to victory. Go negative, 90% of the time, relentlessly. I’m gonna lose some hair during the general. I hate when they lie about the president. I don’t mind criticism and critique. But they are just making shh up about him.
POTUS has to be agressive in the general! Being nice to the billionaire candidate will not work. Mitt/Karl/Koch Brothers are going to go nasty in the general. They’ll start running ads on POTUS before the Fall. Mitt has never had any plans for this country, they have shown that they have no desire to lay out plans too.
Britt, I said this before when you made the same comment.
Pres. Obama will always, always ALWAYS be respectful. That’s just the type of man that he is. His surrogates may come out swinging, the Obama campaign ads may be devastating. but Pres. Obama will always be respectful, civil, polite, and yes, nice, to his opponents.
To be honest, I hope he completely mocks Robney during the debates. U just know Robney is going to try what he did tonight in the debates to show his base they picked the right guy. PBO can then just smile and say, “Mitt, take a deep breath and calm down.”
mocking and belittling won’t work. Independents don’t like bullies. You can be firm and critical and still come off smelling like a rose, just like PBO did in the SOTU. He went into the repugs’ house and served them their asses on a platter and the independents and dems loved it and said. “more please.” that’s how he’ll win. PBO doesn’t belittle or mock people, those asses do it to themselves.
I so agree isonprize. He will be firm, strong, determined and the ultimate campaigner but he will not lower himself down in the gutter to become what he hates. The contrast for the American people will be stark. It’s maddening for Obama’s opponents the way theyhave to exhaust themselves and become very sure of themselves until the end comes and they self-implode. His calmness drives crazy people absolutely nuts. I have no doubt that PBO will do what is necessary to achieve his goals without losing his soul and inner core.
AND THE PRESIDENT’S ADS WILL NOT BE FILLED WITH LIES…THAT IS NOT WHO HE IS!!!!
HE WILL HIT ROBME WITH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH…OH AND WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH HURTS…MITTENS
WONT KNOW WHAT HIT HIM…HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012….GAME ON!!!!
Mitt Romney is a flip flopping pathological liar. That is a serious character flaw for someone who thinks they are qualified to be the leader of the free world.
It is so awesome to see that the President of the United States will take a couple’s camera and take a pic of them FOR THEM..I just can’t see any of those fools being this genuine..
I THINK THIS HAS BEEN TOO LONG FOR ALL OF US…IT IS DISAPPOINTING AND DISHEARTENING TO SEE SUCH A GATHERING OF FOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY. PEOPLE HAVE SO DISRESPECTED THIS PRESIDENT…I ALWAYS THO’T AMERICA WAS BETTER THAN THIS. EACH DAY PASSERS-BY ACT WORSE WHEN THEY SEE MY ‘O’ CAR. PEOPLE ARE RUDE AND SO OUT FOR THEMSELVES. I WILL BE GLAD WHEN WE GET DOWN TO ONE CANDIDATE SO THAT I DON’T HAVE TO LOOK AT THESE FAILURES NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. THEY ARE A POOR EXAMPLE OF WHAT AMERICANS WERE MEANT TO BE. OUR ANCESTORS WOULD BE SO ASHAMED!
Ok all, I’m doing data entry tomorrow for a phonebanking session in Venice. I’m so stoked! Especially after reading all the lies flowing out of GOP candidates’ mouths like verbal diarrhea. I will let you all know how it went Thursday.
Yeah, LL!! We are running a phone bank on Thursday, to schedule the petition drive. We will finish up the petition drive to get Pres. Obama on the PA ballot this weekend.
FIRED UP!!!
I hope everyone on this blog has, or will, in some way, volunteer for the Obama campaign. There are TONS of things you can do.
TIME-OUT. This unprecedented level of rrepooblicun DOUCHE-BAGGERY??? I mean could you make this up if you tried?? Mittens, Newton-Leroy and……………………………………..And they ONLY get worse and worse. They NEVER moderate or restart or…. And the craven level of pure nonsenical, unsupportable LYING about The President’s record?????? FUCK ME IN THE HEART. Makes me PUKE!
I know we are going to win but I think we have to be prepared for the most hideous nightmare that could never even be truly classified as an election. Romney is ILL. PSYCH. DISTURBED. And he has some very big money cats behind him. This whole thing is DIABOLICAL. We are going to have to steel ourselves for this horror show. We will win.
I think Romney is used to getting everything he wants through money. He just bought the FL election with all the Super Pac negative ads against Gingrich. As much as I hate Gingrich’s lies and approach against PBO he atleast is forcing Romney to be exposed as the negative person he is.
FLOTUS Michelle Obama. So smart, so classy, so real. Anyone who has paid even a little bit of attention to her would know that this is how she would respond.
Note to Myth Robme, Leroy Grinch-GetRich, and Little Ricky:
No matter how much money you have, your money will never buy class. Never has, never will.
See what I tell you about the media.They wanted to know what she thought of Mitt Romney singing. I rather heard what FLOTUS thought about her husband singing. “F” Romney. But the media thought they were going to get a story.
Did you heard that lying ass A.Cooper. Michelle Obama did not try to make fun of Romney so call singing. You better believe A. Cooper will be getting a email from me. Even if she did , Romney can’t sing, it was horrible.
He did it earlier too Anniebella, the way he advertised it I assumed Michelle had said something sarky about Willard. These creatures would try to make a story out of an empty space.
I may be watching that answer as much as I’ve clicked the President. That was classic. Jay Leno is cruel to make her deal with the travesty of his singing on national television.
I believe Mitt would have better luck singing tenor as in ten or twelve miles away.
Romney obviously doesn’t know how to invest…al lthat money and the vote was 300,000 less…he does NOT get value for his money. So glad!
You do know that after he is the official nominee, all the info about his pitiful term as Governor of Mass. will come out…..total facts. They are just WAITING for their time! He was really a half term governor. The only difference between him and Palin was that he kept the office, but didn’t work. She quit. He started running for president midway through his term. He’s pathetic!
It was amazing. Rev Al just skewered him. Called him out for Gingrich’s nonsense “food stamp president.” Called him out for Gingrich claiming blacks don’t have role models. Called him out for Gingrich claiming blacks need to get off food stamps and learn the value of work. The guy tried to say MSNBC was race-baiting, but Rev Al wasn’t having it.
I wish the Republicans were called out this forcefully all of the time. They wouldn’t be as brazen in their bullshit if they had a fear that they’d be so fully challenged in the way Rev Al challenged this guy this evening.
It’s fitting that he’d tell black folks who their role models are. After all, we’re mesmerized by government aid and public housing, and the Democratic Party. We cannot think for ourselves in that regard, so of course we need some Tyler guy to tell us who are role models are as well.
True. But, of course, Tyler and Newt and the rest of them only have black folks’ best interests at heart, they’re there to help and makes things better. Such Christians.
To me, it does help because every now and then someone in the game of politics – from the media, or the players, or the politicians – need to call out some of the b.s. that folks like Gingrich spew out on the regular.
To not call that shithead on his lies would be a disservice to all of us. Everything out of that fool’s mouth was a lie. I was cursing up a storm in front of my tv and really going off. If Rev Al hadn’t said anything, I would have lost a lot of respect for him. You fight lies with truth. fuck that meathead.
Nevermind Chips, I just saw the clip on MSNBC. What the hell! No matter how fare we have come, there are people like Newt, this guy and others who are trying to send us back. Well, that ain’t going to happen without a fight!
Well said, Bobfr! I am an AA and President Obama is my role model as well as the role model of my children! Chipsticks should send this idiot clips from all the people, young and old, in Ireland, Brazil, India, and Australia, who demonstrated, by their deeds, how they felt about President Obama as an inspiring role model for humanity.
Nath, thank you for sharing that personal information. It has inspired me to tweet this sometime tomorrow am:
Clue to the interminably clueless Corney and Tavis – #PresObama dad was Kenyan (Africa) & his mom was a Kansan (America). He is totally “African American.”
I am so sick – as a 64 y/o caucasian – of various AA disparaging our President’s unassailable genetics. He is the epitome of African American. Just because his ancestors were not 100 % slaves does not in any way undermine the fact that his wife’s ancestors were and he, born of an American mother, the son of an African father, actually makes him the most remarkable symbol of all that IS GREAT about America.
I’m in my room cursing at my tv. Newts fucking asshole mouthpiece talking about how Newt is trying to recruit black folks to the repug party. Fucker. Talking about how black military families just went to see Red Tails because they don’t have role models and this was the first time they’d seen role models like the people in Red Tails. mother fucking shithead. Rev Al going after that fuckhead. So did that chick a fricking hate. Fucking bastard’s talking about how the repug party can do a better job for blacks than Dems who just want to keep them depended on government programs. Fucker.
Tf was up with that Gingrich spokesman. He said we (black people) don’t have any role models and we abort our babies. is that how white republicans view us? so pissed right now
Yep…that’s how they view us. No role models, on food stamps, and aborting our babies. This shhh pisses me off so much. I have 2 college educated parents, ALL of my siblings and myself have advanced degrees. NONE of us have had kids out of wedlock or had abortions. Our family was NEVER on public assistance and we were a typical middle-class family. F these a-holes.
There are times when I walk into court and I KNOW there are white folks that are looking at me wondering HOW I got here. WONDERING what I’m doing here. Then I speak and they are SHOCKED I’m speaking clearer and better than THEM. The soft bigotry of low expectations. Gingrich talking the way he has been reaffirms those low expectations. He breathes life into those low expectations. He keeps those low expectations alive so that when someone like me and my siblings and many of my black friends and colleagues go out into the “white world” we have to fight back against this crap and these low expectations. It’s so uncool.
They don’t think Cosby-like families exist but they do!
I was raised by a single mom but we never were on food stamps. She worked HARD for both of us.. always keeping 2 or 3 jobs.
All Black people aren’t sitting around on welfare and food stamps. shit pisses me off. And it undermines people who are actually ON food stamps who are working too! They just can’t make ends meet right now.
Frankly, for every “ghetto queen on food stamps” the Republicans try to trot out, there are 1000s of hard working black, brown, and white folks on food stamps not living it up – just struggling. They do not deserve their assistance cut because Republicans have been able to make hay out of random people undermining the using the system.
LOL remember how we hated Tweety chewing on Obama all last Fall..I am so happy he found a new bone. Chris Matthews is clearly totally pi$$ed and will be so much fun to watch over the next 10 months.
I knew she would be. It was a dumb fight that simply showed the need for some folks to step away from their computers and into the larger, personal, world.
I just donated to your fundraising page and bought I Bark for Barack Magnets to give out to friends and family. Now I have to go read a book because I can’t stand listening to this mess these assholes are putting out there about our great POTUS.
SarahT, thank you so much for sharing this letter. One of the greatest misconceptions about slaves is that they were ignorant of their situation just because they didn’t know how to read and write. This is so untrue. This country badly needs to learn the history of the African American experience, which contains a great deal of insights about the resiliency of human spirit. Unlike the vast majority of whites who took slaves, and by extension all black people, for granted, slaves and their descendants took pains to learn the psychology of their oppressors. They knew when to lay low and when to push back. That was the only they could survive the most brutal and dehumanizing experiences of slavery and Jim crow.
I had to turn off MSNBC. Couldn’t stand the cold stare that Steve Schmidt guy always gives Rev. Al. Rev. Al stares right back at him, but Schmidt (or whatever his name is) keeps the frozen look on his face for as long as he can, before he starts twitching.
I may soon be the only person around who still does not believe that Romney will be the GOP nominee, but it really doesn’t matter. I know that my President’s message will resonate with the people. It is so clear to me that in the end it comes down to who speaks for all Americans, who keeps the dreams of all of us alive, who promises – as Barack Obama does – a fair chance for all, with everyone doing their share and everyone playing by the same rules. The millions of people who do not believe that they – or their children – will ever be part of the 1% will respond to efforts to lift up the 99%. Some of them may listen to Republicans lies and repeat them, but in the end most of them will realize that the GOP does not care about them, but only uses them to pursue the interests of a small minority. Pandering to their prejudices may work for some, but the majority will choose the message of shared responsibility and shared opportunity over the ugly message of hatred and greed. That’s not just my hope – it is a core belief of our President when he talks about perfecting our union. His appeal will always be to the better angels of our nature and to the strong positive and creative spirit of Americans of all races, all creeds and all backgrounds.
I want to agree with you so badly, but politics is a dirty business and political history is littered with candidates who were trampled trying to simply appeal to better angels. Thankfully, I know PBO has the ability to fight it out bare knuckle style if he has to. In the end, it’s not just aobut message, it’s about math and vote totals. We have lots of gurus crunching numbers. We have to trust they know how to maximize the turnout while alos trusting PBO to carry his message across the country and dismantling Robney’s lies in teh debates.
I just don’t think we can ever minimize just how much latent damage the Republicans’ 3 year anti-Obama campaign has caused the president. I think people are craving stability and calm, and I believe too many can easily be swayed to someone they think may bring that.
I am well aware of good people having been “trampled”. Much of the political “dialogue” today is nothing but sound and fury and angry reactions just poisen the atmosphere even more. It becomes a true race to the bottom when political candiates try to be even more outrageous than their opponents. I am not suggesting that the President ignore the lies of the Republican candidates, but I do believe that his grace and calm and his unerring civility and charity towards his opponents carry much more weight than all the garbage they can throw at him. Rarely have I ever witnessed a more persuasive voice than that of our President and I have no doubt that he will prevail. On the other hand that does not mean that I intend to sit back and watch the show. I will work harder than I ever have in my almost 69 years to get as many people to the polls as possible. I will write letters, overcome my lack of expertise and tweet, call and canvass every day until November 6. I consider it a duty and an honor to be part of the President’s re-election campaign. But I do cherish him because of who he is and how he does appeal to the better angels of our nature.
I don’t think it is certified yet that Romney will be the nominee either. I believe it is going to be a long slog to their convention. It is clear that to me that Romney has had an unexpectedly inspirational and influential impact on Republican voters — he has inspired and influenced Republican voters to stay home by the droves.
This is supposed to be a landslide and a cakewalk and mandate and a restoration and a….
It is not happening. To this day, three years later, the majority of people know that we are still digging out the pit Bush/Cheney dug for this country. To this day, despite all noxious, toxic rhetoric coming form Romney, Gingrich and Santorum the people do not blame the President for the duration of this economic mess. The people push his favorables up and push the tea-party flavored Republican House down.
Gov. Walker and Nicky Haley and Rick Scott are down as well. The people have not been persuaded by Gingrich or Romney as they continually to come up short when matched head to head with the President — and this is before the greatest campaigner in American history has begun to actually campaign.
I know the President will be re-elected. Only two things worry me. The extent to which Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney will tear apart this country in their foolish quest to win and unwinnable election. And the Senate. That’s it. The President and his movement are ready, willing, able and unstoppable.
Fucking Micheal Turncoat Steele now on saying that Leroy’s comments weren’t racial. Fucker. Shithead spent so much of his life with his fat head stuck up white repugs asses he doesn’t even realize he’s got dark skin too. Fucker. defending the indefensible. Can’t stand these self loathing black folks who sell their souls to fit in with people who don’t even respect you. Asshole.
ps- sorry. too fucking pissed to bleep the foul language. fucking hate these fucktards.
That’s ok Lisa, rant on! When I saw the posts about Rev. Al, I turned to MSNBC and saw Steele. I could only stomach him for a couple of minutes making all those excuses! I know he has a job to do, but at some point in everyone’s life they have to stand up and have some dignity. Steele is old enough to know and probably experience a lot of this crap that the Republicans have been spewing all of these years about African Americans and he should have a backbone and say enough is enough!
My husband and I were just discussing Michael Steele. You know what. I bet if you confronted him he would say, “how much money you got – I’m getting mine”. See he knows that the Repubs needs someone black they can stand up and put out front. If you’re black and get a toe in the door of the Repub establishment they will USE you and you will make some money. Michael cares about making money. We ran him out of Maryland. He’s pathetic, but he’s making money – now as a contributor on MSNBC.
For me it’s a toss up as to who chaps my ass more…Micheal Steele or Ron Christie…..both insufferable asses. But that’s a prerequisite to being a Republican……f’in losers.
I feel your angry. My husband came into the room just as Rick Tyler was saying that African Americans abort their babies. Let’s just say I had to call my next door neighbor and apologize, because my husband was very very upset. I’ve never seen him this way in our 20 years together.
I think he’s a decent guy, yet, I think he should stick to writing. He’s an excellent writer, but saw him recently being totally drowned out by Michael Steele. He couldn’t get a word in, and Steele took total advantage of it.
I must say the drubbing that Rev Al gave the the Newt Gingrich superpac guy (i think his name was Rick Tyler) was immensely satisfying. Rel Al doesn’t take any guff from anybody. I just love that about him. He is a breath of fresh air because he speaks the truth. I didn’t mind Lawrence O’Donnell getting in a few last licks either. Mr Tyler did not say anything intelligible. He was full of flimsy talking points and he wasn’t making a lot of sense.
My sister called me this morning and told me that Eugene R. could not name any of PBO’s accomplishments this morning on Morning Joke. She said that Mika was able to name several.
LOL.. Gene Robinson for the Mika B Wishy-Washy Award!!!! It’s fitting. I was so disappointed by his response to Gingrich’s “entertainer-in-chief” comment.
Gene Robinson: “Umm…well…I didn’t hear it, I didn’t hear the race…ummm, ummmm….no.”
Smoked, then roasted, whole, free-range organic chicken stuffed with a friend’s ‘home made’ blueberry sausage
Roasted Yukon Gold potatoes & Cippolini onions
Green beans in a heirloom tomato, butter sauce
Just Wow!! Blacks have no role models..and parents are criminal and on food stamps.. are you serious??
God helps us GOP is itching to start a race war…
That’s just a slap in the face to all of us, not matter our skin color, it implies that President Obama Presidency is not really an achievement or he shouldn’t be seen as a role model to our children..This just pains me..that America would vote for someone that can’t connect with humanity.
We all know the tremendous contribution African Americans made not only to this country..but all over the world. It’s amazing that this so called wanna be leaders of the free world can can be so disingenuous..Truly sad:-(
My best friend has a PhD in chemistry. She works at NIH in cancer research and has worked there for most of her career. She’s a black woman who graduated from PUBLIC High School in 1967. Many of my friends are professionals and came out of the public school system. I’m sure everyone on this site can say the same thing. Newt can kiss my ass. African Americans have the largest middle class since emancipation – even with people like Newt who try to keep institutional racism alive and well.
Yay. That race was supposed to be a harbinger of the November elections. Now that she’s won I am certain they’ll say doesn’t mean anything, it was expected. That’s cool. We just keep winning and trending the right direction while the Republicans continue to have an enthusiasm chasm — Florida 300,000 down from 2008. That’s shameful. But that’s when happen when Newt and Mitt are your stars.
Gosh…the VA state legislature is getting right to work passing their right-wing, no job creation focused agenda, now that they have the majority (of sorts).
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DESERVES THEIR TWO FRONT RUNNERS
1) Newt Gingrich
– Is the angriest man in America.
– He is the poster child for negative campaigning. He wrote the book.
– He produced the GOPAC memo that describes the dirty names to call Democratic opponents.
– He is a serial adulterer.
– He is a disgraced former Speaker of the House
– He is an influence peddler.
– He was a “historian” for Fannie and Freddie
– He throws racist comments around like confetti.
2) Mitt Romney
– He was a vulture capitalist
– He’s wealthy
– He’s a flip flopper.
– He’s a pathological liar.
– He’s a phony.
– He has no core.
– He can’t get arrested
– He has a habit of copying President Obama.
– He looks very uncomfortable holding a baby.
– Romneycare has become an albatross.
Happy Birthday Africa!
First?
Tie? lol
Yaaaaa………
FIRST?!? 🙂
Close!!!
Thank you Chips and PBO (hi back at cha)!
Chipsticks – I’m beginning to feel like the invisible TOD member. Once again, you were so busy, you didn’t see I was First on the last Thread.
I’mma gonna need counseling real soon….. 😦
Sorry GGail 😆
I don’t know Chipsticks….that’s not the apology pic I had in mind…..
Ah!
😉
All’s forgiven
YEA BABY!
😉
First?
Nearly!!!
His cute, high tech ass! Lol!
Just bought this:
http://store.barackobama.com/featured/change-is-tee.html
I’m so pissed right now. Fuck Romney.
DON’T GET TICKED OFF…ROMNEY IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO HIS DOWNFALL! I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE PBO USE HIS FLYSWATTER! I CAN’T WAIT PERIOD…I’M TIRED OF THEIS CLOWN SHOW…BRING IT ON…HAH! GOD BLESS OUR PBO…ROMNEY WILL BE GONE!
I HAVE ALL KINDS OF FAITH IN PBO…I DON’T WORRY ABOUT WHO WINS IN THE GOP CIRCUS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY PRESIDENT IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND I KNOW DEEP IN MY HEART THAT HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL AND ‘TRUTH WINS!’ JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL…WITHOUT A DOUBT! IT IS THE REPUBS. WHO ARE DISGUSTED BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY DON’T HAVE ANY CANDIDATES.
THIS.THIS.THIS…..BRING IT THE HELL ON…FIRED UP….READY TO GO!!!!!
He doesn’t use a fly swatter. It’s bare hands all the way!
It’s the best therapy, BWD. These people make me feel ill too, they’re just repulsive.
They are cretins. They have no idea that the more they enrage the base and independents, the more we donate to the Obama campaign & the more we are determined to hand PBO a land slide.
Get angry, then take a few people with you to get out the vote!
Oh I like that shirt, very smart.. I’m going to buy one too- I’ll prolly get shot here in my rightwing town.. but I love they’ve listed his accomplishments- outstanding! Definitely will get it and PROUDLY Wear it 🙂 thanks BWD. Romney disgusts me, I cannot wait to Vote Against his smarmy lying ass. Yeah I’m really pissed too.
BWD, you inspired me. I just bought one, too.
Nice tee!
Just do not let me look at the Vera Wang tote, again, oh my goodness… I have SO MANY totes! And still only two arms to tote them with!
Explore The Candidates
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2012/candidates.html
So glad those awful speeches are over. I like RevAl’s characterization of the GOP: political cannibalism.
I pray daily that both of my daughters marry a down-to-earth, nerdy, intelligent, super-nice, loving, techie, handsome, honest, loyal, kind, generous, caring, patient, gentle man like my President Obama.
me too vitaminlover. me too … Actually my husband of 23 years is a lot like what you described. I hope our two girlies are fortunate enough to find one like him. 🙂
That is awesome, StayingSteady4PBO, I bet your girlies will look for those traits. We know as moms how important this is. I am also blessed with a good stable husband and am very thankful.
and FUNNY. I can haz one too plz?
who like to cook, Please, oh please, oh please? I can haz one three, plz?
ummm, I just had to pop in and say can I PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP HAZ ONE!!! Thank you!
Why, sure, LadyTNT.
Yes, isonprize, wow he can do that too.
Yes, you can, Tally, funny and endearingly corny.
Geeezz! You don’t want much, do you? 😀
yardarm – we know you’re spoken for so for the TOD inauguration gathering, you could bring several of your available mates for us to meet. 🙂
Yeah, riiight! None of my mates can walk on water though. I’m still training ’em. 😉
Truly, yardarm, I have just noticed that my list for my daughters include mostly character traits. I am sure that there are decent young men out there like him. Obviously, Our Beloved President is just showing so many examples of these traits. I know that my daughters can have what Mrs. Obama and Malia an Sasha have. If you think about it, yes, he is rich but he wasn’t always rich and that is not what keeps Mrs. Obama. However he IS hardworking and above board. That can help one towards wealth in the right way.
Message received.That works for me. I just get my skivvies in a bunch when i see wish lists.
I have to admit I now pray my daughters will marry a Democrat. I am getting more biased against them thinking of marrying a Republican. LOL
Spare your sweet selves and don’t listen to their crap. Reading it is bad enough.
WORD. I just plain don’t have the stomach. TOXIC.
So what did Miche say about the Lying Liar? Did she call him a lying liar or is that just wishful thinking?
She was very polite and said he’s singing of “America the beautiful” was beautiful. Yeah, she was lying to be nice.
On another note Michelle can’t sing but she’s a much better dancer.
POTUS always says that FLOTUS kid him about his dancing. So POTUS sings and FLOTUS dance, don’t matter they both are great, and American needs them 4 more years.
did she say “beautiful’ or “nice”—- I hope she said nice, beautiful is stretching it.
Ha, she said “beautiful” Lisa! She’s all class!
Of course she said ‘beautiful’ lest she be called “unAmerican” 😎
So true!!!
FLOTUS didn’t say what she wanted to say, we all know that. She had to be polite though the head line would be First Lady call Romney a Bad Singer. And who know how Politico, Huff Puff, and Fox would have spun it.
hahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhaha!!!! 😆
that woman is pure class, Chips. She’s a billion times better than I am. I would have called him a mofoing dipshit. But hey, that’s just me, and I make no pretenses of class.
😆 Me neither Lisa! And I can assure you, I would have said waaaaaaaaaaaaay worse than “mofoing dipshit”!
Forget Romney, what was FLOTUS wearing? The different between our POTUS and FLOTUS is they don’t have to be nasty or racists to get a point across.
Thurston Howell III “AIN’T BEAUTIFUL”. Neither is his singing. He’s a strong wind out of an elephants ass! 😦
“He’s a strong wind out of an elephants ass”
That sums up my singing perfectly, Yardarm 😕
Don’t even go there Chips. It ain’t no ways right.
Correction. I didn’t hear it the first time but the full quote is “It’s [a] beautiful song.” It kind of got drowned out by laughing and clapping. But she was talking about the song and then she went on to say that’s it’s an American song and every American can sing it.
she’s very diplomatic. Maybe after the girls go off to college she’ll become an Ambassador.
When did this happen?? I must have missed it. Clip please??
If mitt the liar thinks America is so Beautiful..why doesn’t he invest in her infrastructure?
Mitt thinks America is so beautiful because he can suck up every million dollar he can and only pay 13% tax rate, lower than a secretary.
Howard Fineman, Dems/Obama Campaign are going to attack Mitt’s character.
Wow, Tweety really, really hate Romney for having that money overseas to avoid taxes. I hope this will be the flipflopping liar’s big downfall in the general. The Dems should not let up.
We cannot let up. He thinks he has found the key to victory. Go negative, 90% of the time, relentlessly. I’m gonna lose some hair during the general. I hate when they lie about the president. I don’t mind criticism and critique. But they are just making shh up about him.
POTUS has to be agressive in the general! Being nice to the billionaire candidate will not work. Mitt/Karl/Koch Brothers are going to go nasty in the general. They’ll start running ads on POTUS before the Fall. Mitt has never had any plans for this country, they have shown that they have no desire to lay out plans too.
Britt, I said this before when you made the same comment.
Pres. Obama will always, always ALWAYS be respectful. That’s just the type of man that he is. His surrogates may come out swinging, the Obama campaign ads may be devastating. but Pres. Obama will always be respectful, civil, polite, and yes, nice, to his opponents.
To be honest, I hope he completely mocks Robney during the debates. U just know Robney is going to try what he did tonight in the debates to show his base they picked the right guy. PBO can then just smile and say, “Mitt, take a deep breath and calm down.”
Totally agree. He should belittle Robney when he starts to go crazy and produce verbal diarrhea-styled negative attacks against the president.
mocking and belittling won’t work. Independents don’t like bullies. You can be firm and critical and still come off smelling like a rose, just like PBO did in the SOTU. He went into the repugs’ house and served them their asses on a platter and the independents and dems loved it and said. “more please.” that’s how he’ll win. PBO doesn’t belittle or mock people, those asses do it to themselves.
I so agree isonprize. He will be firm, strong, determined and the ultimate campaigner but he will not lower himself down in the gutter to become what he hates. The contrast for the American people will be stark. It’s maddening for Obama’s opponents the way theyhave to exhaust themselves and become very sure of themselves until the end comes and they self-implode. His calmness drives crazy people absolutely nuts. I have no doubt that PBO will do what is necessary to achieve his goals without losing his soul and inner core.
AND THE PRESIDENT’S ADS WILL NOT BE FILLED WITH LIES…THAT IS NOT WHO HE IS!!!!
HE WILL HIT ROBME WITH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH…OH AND WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH HURTS…MITTENS
WONT KNOW WHAT HIT HIM…HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012….GAME ON!!!!
in the general
Mitt Romney is a flip flopping pathological liar. That is a serious character flaw for someone who thinks they are qualified to be the leader of the free world.
willard has no character
That’s easy since he doesn’t have any ‘character’ …..
#PRESSON
It is so awesome to see that the President of the United States will take a couple’s camera and take a pic of them FOR THEM..I just can’t see any of those fools being this genuine..
I’m sitll amazed at how much PBO and his admin use technology. 1st Prez to do it this much.
Thirty-second???!!
I THINK THIS HAS BEEN TOO LONG FOR ALL OF US…IT IS DISAPPOINTING AND DISHEARTENING TO SEE SUCH A GATHERING OF FOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY. PEOPLE HAVE SO DISRESPECTED THIS PRESIDENT…I ALWAYS THO’T AMERICA WAS BETTER THAN THIS. EACH DAY PASSERS-BY ACT WORSE WHEN THEY SEE MY ‘O’ CAR. PEOPLE ARE RUDE AND SO OUT FOR THEMSELVES. I WILL BE GLAD WHEN WE GET DOWN TO ONE CANDIDATE SO THAT I DON’T HAVE TO LOOK AT THESE FAILURES NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. THEY ARE A POOR EXAMPLE OF WHAT AMERICANS WERE MEANT TO BE. OUR ANCESTORS WOULD BE SO ASHAMED!
A few observations on the farce that the Party of Lincoln has become:
#PRESSON
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#PRESSON
^^^THIS^^^
😀 😀 😀
Hey, thanks for the RT Tally 🙂
#PRESSON
That’s what I wanted to know, GOP turnout this year vs. 2008. Feel the enthusiasm!
Agree, LL — that magical intensity one experiences with the utterly, totally …. UNDERWHELMING 🙂
#PRESSON
HOLY #$@!@@ I’m FiredUP! Dang I despise that Romney.
HOLY CRAP TWEETY HATES ROBNEY!
he’s got no heart, no guts therefore no glory. You know Tweety, he loves a show. he loves a fight, he loves emotion. Willard has none.
Yup. Tha’ts the core of it. “No heart, no guts, and no glory.”
Tweety just said that Willard is running a “dirtball campaign.”
Romney is getting SS. Oh lord.
for what? the only people who want to hurt him are the crazy Tea Party. Dems already have his number. We crush him come Nov. 2012.
Ok all, I’m doing data entry tomorrow for a phonebanking session in Venice. I’m so stoked! Especially after reading all the lies flowing out of GOP candidates’ mouths like verbal diarrhea. I will let you all know how it went Thursday.
Data entry is FUN. Plus you get to have a sense of how things are going. Enjoy!!
Most excellent, LL!!!
Thank you.
#LandslideOBAMA2012 #YesWeMust
Yeah, LL!! We are running a phone bank on Thursday, to schedule the petition drive. We will finish up the petition drive to get Pres. Obama on the PA ballot this weekend.
FIRED UP!!!
I hope everyone on this blog has, or will, in some way, volunteer for the Obama campaign. There are TONS of things you can do.
GET INVOLVED!!!! Here is the link:
http://www.barackobama.com/
Since November 6th, 2011, Californians made over 250,000 calls into Nevada. YES WE CAN.
Ugh. Chuckie the Toad is all over my tv screen.
Overall, I think Chuck is pretty fair and down the middle. Also really enjoy Steve Schmidt’s analysis of the GOP. He knows what he’s talkinga bout.
TIME-OUT. This unprecedented level of rrepooblicun DOUCHE-BAGGERY??? I mean could you make this up if you tried?? Mittens, Newton-Leroy and……………………………………..And they ONLY get worse and worse. They NEVER moderate or restart or…. And the craven level of pure nonsenical, unsupportable LYING about The President’s record?????? FUCK ME IN THE HEART. Makes me PUKE!
You’re not alone, Dave- its horrendous. We WILL get out the Vote. We Will Win this.
OF COURSE WE WILL WIN THIS…WE HAVE THE GREATEST PRESIDENT AMERICA WILL EVER SEE IN ITS HISTORY!..:) NIGHT ALL AND GOD BLESS EVERYONE!
I know we are going to win but I think we have to be prepared for the most hideous nightmare that could never even be truly classified as an election. Romney is ILL. PSYCH. DISTURBED. And he has some very big money cats behind him. This whole thing is DIABOLICAL. We are going to have to steel ourselves for this horror show. We will win.
JUST THINK ABOUT THE 8 YEARS WITH PECOS PETE AT THE PODIUM…OUR SNEAKERS WILL WORK OVERTIME!..LOL…………
I think Romney is used to getting everything he wants through money. He just bought the FL election with all the Super Pac negative ads against Gingrich. As much as I hate Gingrich’s lies and approach against PBO he atleast is forcing Romney to be exposed as the negative person he is.
I agree with all you say, but our biggest challenge comes with all aspects of voter suppression.
Rev. Al is fantastic!!! I am sooo happy that he is a p[art of this panel. Blacks abort their babies??????? Please!!!!!
Adore Rev Al – that Tyler is just an ugly piece of racist shit.
So sickening…however I was heartened that the surrogates on today’s cable shows all sucked……Big Time!
#PRESSON
Here’s a not-very-good recording of Michelle on Willard’s singing:
She is so way cool.
FLOTUS answered that question just right. She knows that these folks look for anything to make a 24/7 newscycle. she was not biting. 🙂
FLOTUS Michelle Obama. So smart, so classy, so real. Anyone who has paid even a little bit of attention to her would know that this is how she would respond.
Note to Myth Robme, Leroy Grinch-GetRich, and Little Ricky:
No matter how much money you have, your money will never buy class. Never has, never will.
LOVE HOW CNN TRIES TO MAKE IT SOUNDS LIKE MICHELLE CRITICZIED ROBNEY UNPROMPTED.
halo, that’s the B.S. media.
See what I tell you about the media.They wanted to know what she thought of Mitt Romney singing. I rather heard what FLOTUS thought about her husband singing. “F” Romney. But the media thought they were going to get a story.
Did you heard that lying ass A.Cooper. Michelle Obama did not try to make fun of Romney so call singing. You better believe A. Cooper will be getting a email from me. Even if she did , Romney can’t sing, it was horrible.
He did it earlier too Anniebella, the way he advertised it I assumed Michelle had said something sarky about Willard. These creatures would try to make a story out of an empty space.
The media are lying bastards.
I may be watching that answer as much as I’ve clicked the President. That was classic. Jay Leno is cruel to make her deal with the travesty of his singing on national television.
I believe Mitt would have better luck singing tenor as in ten or twelve miles away.
Ha, FiredUp, after listening to FLOTUS I clicked on the President, ooooh, six times? We’re addicted 😆
and I was thinking solo as in so low no one could hear him…
Romney obviously doesn’t know how to invest…al lthat money and the vote was 300,000 less…he does NOT get value for his money. So glad!
You do know that after he is the official nominee, all the info about his pitiful term as Governor of Mass. will come out…..total facts. They are just WAITING for their time! He was really a half term governor. The only difference between him and Palin was that he kept the office, but didn’t work. She quit. He started running for president midway through his term. He’s pathetic!
Many of those 300,000 are probably no longer Republicans and are likely to vote for PBO in November.
Happy birthday africa, hope you had a beautiful day! I predict you’re going to have an awesome year 🙂
Oh snap! Rev Al bringing Church into this Gingrich idiot’s azz. Boom!
Vero, where are you seeing the Rev Al??
MSNBC. Rachel is now speaking. This is a former Gingrich spokesperson on right now.
This is excellent, although it’s really hard to listen to Tyler.
It was amazing. Rev Al just skewered him. Called him out for Gingrich’s nonsense “food stamp president.” Called him out for Gingrich claiming blacks don’t have role models. Called him out for Gingrich claiming blacks need to get off food stamps and learn the value of work. The guy tried to say MSNBC was race-baiting, but Rev Al wasn’t having it.
I wish the Republicans were called out this forcefully all of the time. They wouldn’t be as brazen in their bullshit if they had a fear that they’d be so fully challenged in the way Rev Al challenged this guy this evening.
Absolutely Vero, it was a joy watching Rev Al dismantle Tyler with facts and controlled rage. All Tyler could do was smirk, it’s all he’s got.
No role models? Really? Not even the guy in the White House, never mind the people Rev Al listed, doctors, teachers, etc, etc?
It was just a whole heap of ugly from Tyler, and I was so glad Rev Al was there to take him on. I thought Rachel was great too.
More of this, please.
Co-sign. Black folks – no folks, for that matter – need Hollywood to give us our role models.
And you had to love Tyler telling Rev Al who were appropriate role models for the African American community. I hate these people so much.
It’s fitting that he’d tell black folks who their role models are. After all, we’re mesmerized by government aid and public housing, and the Democratic Party. We cannot think for ourselves in that regard, so of course we need some Tyler guy to tell us who are role models are as well.
True. But, of course, Tyler and Newt and the rest of them only have black folks’ best interests at heart, they’re there to help and makes things better. Such Christians.
And I wonder why you couldn’t get any white distributors for the film?
I agree that Rev. kicking this guys’ butt, but it doesn’t really advance the conversation, don’t you think? It’s not really going anywhere.
He’s exposing Tyler for what he is, no harm in that.
🙄 🙄 🙄
😀 😀 😀
To me, it does help because every now and then someone in the game of politics – from the media, or the players, or the politicians – need to call out some of the b.s. that folks like Gingrich spew out on the regular.
What do you mean by that halo
Where would YOU like it to go?
To not call that shithead on his lies would be a disservice to all of us. Everything out of that fool’s mouth was a lie. I was cursing up a storm in front of my tv and really going off. If Rev Al hadn’t said anything, I would have lost a lot of respect for him. You fight lies with truth. fuck that meathead.
Oh, I missed it! Can’t wait to see a video of it. Chips?
Will find it tomorrow Doreen – if I forget, remind me!
Will do, thanks!
Nevermind Chips, I just saw the clip on MSNBC. What the hell! No matter how fare we have come, there are people like Newt, this guy and others who are trying to send us back. Well, that ain’t going to happen without a fight!
WHY THE HELL DOES ROBNEY GET SS?
Because he’s cool.
Codename: Stiff Mittens
Just to be clear:
#PRESSON
Right On Mr. Bobfr.
Well said, Bobfr! I am an AA and President Obama is my role model as well as the role model of my children! Chipsticks should send this idiot clips from all the people, young and old, in Ireland, Brazil, India, and Australia, who demonstrated, by their deeds, how they felt about President Obama as an inspiring role model for humanity.
Thank you annie and nath.
Nath, thank you for sharing that personal information. It has inspired me to tweet this sometime tomorrow am:
Clue to the interminably clueless Corney and Tavis – #PresObama dad was Kenyan (Africa) & his mom was a Kansan (America). He is totally “African American.”
I am so sick – as a 64 y/o caucasian – of various AA disparaging our President’s unassailable genetics. He is the epitome of African American. Just because his ancestors were not 100 % slaves does not in any way undermine the fact that his wife’s ancestors were and he, born of an American mother, the son of an African father, actually makes him the most remarkable symbol of all that IS GREAT about America.
#PRESSON
I’m in my room cursing at my tv. Newts fucking asshole mouthpiece talking about how Newt is trying to recruit black folks to the repug party. Fucker. Talking about how black military families just went to see Red Tails because they don’t have role models and this was the first time they’d seen role models like the people in Red Tails. mother fucking shithead. Rev Al going after that fuckhead. So did that chick a fricking hate. Fucking bastard’s talking about how the repug party can do a better job for blacks than Dems who just want to keep them depended on government programs. Fucker.
Lisa did you see those 2 AA plants standing up there behind Noot? I am sure they must have paid them.
Probably paid them 50 bucks each. Can’t blame ’em. they should take that fuckwit’s money and vote PBO come 2012.
Lisa you crack me up. 🙂
All Noot needs to do is replace Calista with a “sista” and he’d be awrite! 😆
Take the $$ and buy Obama teeshirts!
Tf was up with that Gingrich spokesman. He said we (black people) don’t have any role models and we abort our babies. is that how white republicans view us? so pissed right now
we have the best role models possible:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA
Yep…that’s how they view us. No role models, on food stamps, and aborting our babies. This shhh pisses me off so much. I have 2 college educated parents, ALL of my siblings and myself have advanced degrees. NONE of us have had kids out of wedlock or had abortions. Our family was NEVER on public assistance and we were a typical middle-class family. F these a-holes.
There are times when I walk into court and I KNOW there are white folks that are looking at me wondering HOW I got here. WONDERING what I’m doing here. Then I speak and they are SHOCKED I’m speaking clearer and better than THEM. The soft bigotry of low expectations. Gingrich talking the way he has been reaffirms those low expectations. He breathes life into those low expectations. He keeps those low expectations alive so that when someone like me and my siblings and many of my black friends and colleagues go out into the “white world” we have to fight back against this crap and these low expectations. It’s so uncool.
They don’t think Cosby-like families exist but they do!
I was raised by a single mom but we never were on food stamps. She worked HARD for both of us.. always keeping 2 or 3 jobs.
All Black people aren’t sitting around on welfare and food stamps. shit pisses me off. And it undermines people who are actually ON food stamps who are working too! They just can’t make ends meet right now.
Frankly, for every “ghetto queen on food stamps” the Republicans try to trot out, there are 1000s of hard working black, brown, and white folks on food stamps not living it up – just struggling. They do not deserve their assistance cut because Republicans have been able to make hay out of random people undermining the using the system.
#PRESSON
LOL remember how we hated Tweety chewing on Obama all last Fall..I am so happy he found a new bone. Chris Matthews is clearly totally pi$$ed and will be so much fun to watch over the next 10 months.
Tomorrow he will be back to telling President Obama’s campaign to be careful you wish for as it relates to Newt Gingrich.
ABL is back at BJ.
I knew she would be. It was a dumb fight that simply showed the need for some folks to step away from their computers and into the larger, personal, world.
Chips,
I just donated to your fundraising page and bought I Bark for Barack Magnets to give out to friends and family. Now I have to go read a book because I can’t stand listening to this mess these assholes are putting out there about our great POTUS.
On the eve of Black History Month, here’s an absolutely amazing letter written by a former slave – enjoy !
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html
Thanks so much for that.
My pleasure ! Hope more people will read it & pass it along.
Tks. Priceless. My father and grandfather were from those parts.
SarahT, thank you so much for sharing this letter. One of the greatest misconceptions about slaves is that they were ignorant of their situation just because they didn’t know how to read and write. This is so untrue. This country badly needs to learn the history of the African American experience, which contains a great deal of insights about the resiliency of human spirit. Unlike the vast majority of whites who took slaves, and by extension all black people, for granted, slaves and their descendants took pains to learn the psychology of their oppressors. They knew when to lay low and when to push back. That was the only they could survive the most brutal and dehumanizing experiences of slavery and Jim crow.
Ooooppps. There it is. You don’t miss your water ’til the well runs dry. Uh yeah!
Ha ! Love it !
That racist bastard on MSNBC just got my pressure off the roof. And Michael Steele needs to STFU
hate that douchebag too. fricking conehead bastard.
I had to turn off MSNBC. Couldn’t stand the cold stare that Steve Schmidt guy always gives Rev. Al. Rev. Al stares right back at him, but Schmidt (or whatever his name is) keeps the frozen look on his face for as long as he can, before he starts twitching.
I may soon be the only person around who still does not believe that Romney will be the GOP nominee, but it really doesn’t matter. I know that my President’s message will resonate with the people. It is so clear to me that in the end it comes down to who speaks for all Americans, who keeps the dreams of all of us alive, who promises – as Barack Obama does – a fair chance for all, with everyone doing their share and everyone playing by the same rules. The millions of people who do not believe that they – or their children – will ever be part of the 1% will respond to efforts to lift up the 99%. Some of them may listen to Republicans lies and repeat them, but in the end most of them will realize that the GOP does not care about them, but only uses them to pursue the interests of a small minority. Pandering to their prejudices may work for some, but the majority will choose the message of shared responsibility and shared opportunity over the ugly message of hatred and greed. That’s not just my hope – it is a core belief of our President when he talks about perfecting our union. His appeal will always be to the better angels of our nature and to the strong positive and creative spirit of Americans of all races, all creeds and all backgrounds.
I’m with you, too.
I want to agree with you so badly, but politics is a dirty business and political history is littered with candidates who were trampled trying to simply appeal to better angels. Thankfully, I know PBO has the ability to fight it out bare knuckle style if he has to. In the end, it’s not just aobut message, it’s about math and vote totals. We have lots of gurus crunching numbers. We have to trust they know how to maximize the turnout while alos trusting PBO to carry his message across the country and dismantling Robney’s lies in teh debates.
I just don’t think we can ever minimize just how much latent damage the Republicans’ 3 year anti-Obama campaign has caused the president. I think people are craving stability and calm, and I believe too many can easily be swayed to someone they think may bring that.
I am well aware of good people having been “trampled”. Much of the political “dialogue” today is nothing but sound and fury and angry reactions just poisen the atmosphere even more. It becomes a true race to the bottom when political candiates try to be even more outrageous than their opponents. I am not suggesting that the President ignore the lies of the Republican candidates, but I do believe that his grace and calm and his unerring civility and charity towards his opponents carry much more weight than all the garbage they can throw at him. Rarely have I ever witnessed a more persuasive voice than that of our President and I have no doubt that he will prevail. On the other hand that does not mean that I intend to sit back and watch the show. I will work harder than I ever have in my almost 69 years to get as many people to the polls as possible. I will write letters, overcome my lack of expertise and tweet, call and canvass every day until November 6. I consider it a duty and an honor to be part of the President’s re-election campaign. But I do cherish him because of who he is and how he does appeal to the better angels of our nature.
I don’t think it is certified yet that Romney will be the nominee either. I believe it is going to be a long slog to their convention. It is clear that to me that Romney has had an unexpectedly inspirational and influential impact on Republican voters — he has inspired and influenced Republican voters to stay home by the droves.
This is supposed to be a landslide and a cakewalk and mandate and a restoration and a….
It is not happening. To this day, three years later, the majority of people know that we are still digging out the pit Bush/Cheney dug for this country. To this day, despite all noxious, toxic rhetoric coming form Romney, Gingrich and Santorum the people do not blame the President for the duration of this economic mess. The people push his favorables up and push the tea-party flavored Republican House down.
Gov. Walker and Nicky Haley and Rick Scott are down as well. The people have not been persuaded by Gingrich or Romney as they continually to come up short when matched head to head with the President — and this is before the greatest campaigner in American history has begun to actually campaign.
I know the President will be re-elected. Only two things worry me. The extent to which Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney will tear apart this country in their foolish quest to win and unwinnable election. And the Senate. That’s it. The President and his movement are ready, willing, able and unstoppable.
Fucking Micheal Turncoat Steele now on saying that Leroy’s comments weren’t racial. Fucker. Shithead spent so much of his life with his fat head stuck up white repugs asses he doesn’t even realize he’s got dark skin too. Fucker. defending the indefensible. Can’t stand these self loathing black folks who sell their souls to fit in with people who don’t even respect you. Asshole.
ps- sorry. too fucking pissed to bleep the foul language. fucking hate these fucktards.
No problem.
That’s ok Lisa, rant on! When I saw the posts about Rev. Al, I turned to MSNBC and saw Steele. I could only stomach him for a couple of minutes making all those excuses! I know he has a job to do, but at some point in everyone’s life they have to stand up and have some dignity. Steele is old enough to know and probably experience a lot of this crap that the Republicans have been spewing all of these years about African Americans and he should have a backbone and say enough is enough!
My husband and I were just discussing Michael Steele. You know what. I bet if you confronted him he would say, “how much money you got – I’m getting mine”. See he knows that the Repubs needs someone black they can stand up and put out front. If you’re black and get a toe in the door of the Repub establishment they will USE you and you will make some money. Michael cares about making money. We ran him out of Maryland. He’s pathetic, but he’s making money – now as a contributor on MSNBC.
For me it’s a toss up as to who chaps my ass more…Micheal Steele or Ron Christie…..both insufferable asses. But that’s a prerequisite to being a Republican……f’in losers.
I feel your angry. My husband came into the room just as Rick Tyler was saying that African Americans abort their babies. Let’s just say I had to call my next door neighbor and apologize, because my husband was very very upset. I’ve never seen him this way in our 20 years together.
I’m not surprised by that reaction Cheryllou, Tyler was beyond disgusting. If that wasn’t hate speech, what is?
Is it possible for Eugene Robinson to be any more wishy washy? He’s as bad as Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joke.
He’s terrible. He oculdn’t even debate Michael Steele on whether the AUTO BAILOUT was a plus for PBO.
Eugene just seems to go along to get along. Whatever. More folks to register to vote…
I think he’s a decent guy, yet, I think he should stick to writing. He’s an excellent writer, but saw him recently being totally drowned out by Michael Steele. He couldn’t get a word in, and Steele took total advantage of it.
I must say the drubbing that Rev Al gave the the Newt Gingrich superpac guy (i think his name was Rick Tyler) was immensely satisfying. Rel Al doesn’t take any guff from anybody. I just love that about him. He is a breath of fresh air because he speaks the truth. I didn’t mind Lawrence O’Donnell getting in a few last licks either. Mr Tyler did not say anything intelligible. He was full of flimsy talking points and he wasn’t making a lot of sense.
My sister called me this morning and told me that Eugene R. could not name any of PBO’s accomplishments this morning on Morning Joke. She said that Mika was able to name several.
ha! Sad but unsurprising. It’s like he won his Pulitzer and lost his brain. Useless.
LOL.. Gene Robinson for the Mika B Wishy-Washy Award!!!! It’s fitting. I was so disappointed by his response to Gingrich’s “entertainer-in-chief” comment.
Gene Robinson: “Umm…well…I didn’t hear it, I didn’t hear the race…ummm, ummmm….no.”
Eugene Robinson has no backbone. Tweety is wishy washy, too. So he and Eugene should get along well.
Hey chips they’ve released a hulu clip of FLOTUS on Jay Leno.
http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/First-Lady-on-Singing-(1/31/12)/1382432
Good night guys
For those who are interested.
Tonight’s menu:
Tilapia poached in white wine
Long grain wild rice
Sautee of diced red peppers and yellow crookneck squash
At the ‘4thEstate’ am preparing:
Smoked, then roasted, whole, free-range organic chicken stuffed with a friend’s ‘home made’ blueberry sausage
Roasted Yukon Gold potatoes & Cippolini onions
Green beans in a heirloom tomato, butter sauce
A nice PNW vino, as well
🙂
Ooooo, that sounds lovely.
Dang it! The ONE night I’m not hanging out at TOD and I MISS Dinner. 😆 😆
mmmmm tilapia is my favorite fish behind salmon! yummy
Just Wow!! Blacks have no role models..and parents are criminal and on food stamps.. are you serious??
God helps us GOP is itching to start a race war…
That’s just a slap in the face to all of us, not matter our skin color, it implies that President Obama Presidency is not really an achievement or he shouldn’t be seen as a role model to our children..This just pains me..that America would vote for someone that can’t connect with humanity.
We all know the tremendous contribution African Americans made not only to this country..but all over the world. It’s amazing that this so called wanna be leaders of the free world can can be so disingenuous..Truly sad:-(
Here some cool sites:
http://www.black-scientists.com/index.php?start=3
http://www.engineering.unl.edu/publications/blueprint/archive/Summer02/BlackEngineers.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_inventors_and_scientists
My best friend has a PhD in chemistry. She works at NIH in cancer research and has worked there for most of her career. She’s a black woman who graduated from PUBLIC High School in 1967. Many of my friends are professionals and came out of the public school system. I’m sure everyone on this site can say the same thing. Newt can kiss my ass. African Americans have the largest middle class since emancipation – even with people like Newt who try to keep institutional racism alive and well.
Hey- the Democrat just Won in Oregon-
http://www.kptv.com/category/224859/oregon-election-results
Yay!
Go Dems.
Yay. That race was supposed to be a harbinger of the November elections. Now that she’s won I am certain they’ll say doesn’t mean anything, it was expected. That’s cool. We just keep winning and trending the right direction while the Republicans continue to have an enthusiasm chasm — Florida 300,000 down from 2008. That’s shameful. But that’s when happen when Newt and Mitt are your stars.
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/01/31/he-was-singing-their-song/
Gosh…the VA state legislature is getting right to work passing their right-wing, no job creation focused agenda, now that they have the majority (of sorts).
Here’s a taste:
Ultrasound Before Abortion Bill Makes Way through Senate
http://www.nbc29.com/story/16645066/ultrasound-before-abortion-legislation-makes-way-through-senate
Virginia Moves Forward With Voter ID Bill
http://wamu.org/news/12/01/31/virginia_moves_forward_with_voter_id_bill_0
I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it! FLOTUS in 20 mins. Yay!
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DESERVES THEIR TWO FRONT RUNNERS
1) Newt Gingrich
– Is the angriest man in America.
– He is the poster child for negative campaigning. He wrote the book.
– He produced the GOPAC memo that describes the dirty names to call Democratic opponents.
– He is a serial adulterer.
– He is a disgraced former Speaker of the House
– He is an influence peddler.
– He was a “historian” for Fannie and Freddie
– He throws racist comments around like confetti.
2) Mitt Romney
– He was a vulture capitalist
– He’s wealthy
– He’s a flip flopper.
– He’s a pathological liar.
– He’s a phony.
– He has no core.
– He can’t get arrested
– He has a habit of copying President Obama.
– He looks very uncomfortable holding a baby.
– Romneycare has become an albatross.
What a true and sad commentary on the 2 ‘top’ gop picks, Ladyhawke. Just pathetic.