First lady Michelle Obama arrives to speak to people of diverse faiths during a gathering at Northland in Longwood, Fla. The first lady spoke about the work of faith and community organizations to support healthy lifestyles during her three day national tour celebrating the second anniversary of Let’s Move.
I adore the way she mixes different styles and colors that one would normally think would not go together. She’s brought a breath of fresh air to the office of First Lady.
Stuning, Gorgeous, intelligent, kind flotus is simple amaizing Flotus will be the closer on
the campaing just watch her, but, but, but we do not hear much about her on the Fucking
MSM, so we have to let everybody know what she is doing for our children.
Isn’t it though? The cut of it is perfect for her figure and the way it seems to flow with her as she moves. It is striking! Classic perfection! I wonder if PBO sees this picture, he thinks “wonder if I can get a date with this woman?”
i love the way she makes the classics fresh and vital, and very much her own. i think first ladies usually try to be formal, in deference to the position just as pbo is almost always in a suit and tie. but formal turns into dowdy, and then that becomes the standard! mrs obama has shaken the dusty victorian buttons off of women’s business attire. i’m so proud of her, for stepping right up in this role.
Dave, you know a smart, good-looking, stylish woman when you see one, that’s what you know. And you ain’t the only one. Barack Obama must have been stunned anytime he offered to quit his job (they worked at the same law firm) when Michelle told him that she didn’t date people where she worked.
We have never seen a First Lady like Michelle Obama. She is just magnificent!
Lord have mercy! Luke Russert is going to do a DatelineNBC investigation tomorrow. Good grief. A story on Jon-Adrian Velazquez. Not sure the story here but I saw a few seconds and had to laugh at Luke Russert trying to look so serious.
Luke Russert is a joke. Just because his father was well-regarded journalist does not mean that Luke has any such qualifications. It just shows the current sad state of affairs in American Journalism.
President Obama will lay out a budget blueprint on Monday that amounts to an election-year bet that a plan for higher taxes on the rich and more spending on popular programs like infrastructure and manufacturing will trump concerns over the deficit.
Good West Coast Morning to you Chipsticks and to my TOD family!
I almost fell out of my chair yesterday when POTUS dropped the bomb on the Repugs and the Bishops! When he does that I hear in my head, “he plays chess while others are playing checkers”.
FLOTUS looks so lovely, I have to sigh when I see her.
Thank God for POTUS & FLOTUS – our very own living and breathing Super Hero’s!
I KNOW!
When will they learn?
When they attack him, he’s like Superman, he goes into his phone booth and comes out in his Community Organizer outfit with his Southside Chicago attitude and BAM!
Game over
When you hear something like Newt Gingrich or Donald Trump say that we don’t have any role models, first of all they are lying bastards. Second of all I dare any one to tell me that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama aren’t good role models. I’ll slap them in their “MF” face. It’s amazing that white men like that who don’t know a darn thing about black community, trying to tell us who our role models are.
“How many of you,” Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, “have ever mocked or made fun of the president’s call for hope and change? Raise your hands.”
Most people in the Marriott Wardman Park hotel ballroom raised their hands. There were cheers and whoops.
“With all due respect,” the conservative pollster and commentator told them, “I’d like to say that’s really stupid.”
This time, there was uncomfortable laughter. “Voters are looking for hope and change as much today as they were in 2008,” Rasmussen explained, and “you ought to be encouraging Republican candidates, people you support, to offer that positive step forward.”
Rasmussen had put his finger on a major problem for Republicans in 2012, and conservatives in particular: At a time when the national mood has begun to improve, they remain nattering nabobs of negativism. At CPAC, any hint of a “positive step” was buried in vitriol.
Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re
acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!
At night, when all the world’s asleep,
the questions run so deep
for such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
That’s like trying to stop a big Pacific Ocean wave from crashing onto the beach. The momentum is too great for them to change it now and they are the ones who built it up.
Hahaha….fear and hate, that’s all they have……From what I saw from CPAC, little clips here and there….the message was completely lost…..you just have to look at the pics of audience members…..not a happy bunch is it?…
thanks yardarm. Duly noted. In the future, I will be sure to add “bigots” to the list. What a sad commentary. The Republican Party just thrives on a constant diet of hatred.
It was Vice President Spiro Agnew who made those alliterative descriptions famous. He was always using them. Before Nixon resigned, he was under investigation by the United States Attorney’s office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States.
He was allowed to plead “No Contest” to the charges if he resigned as Vice President, which he did, and President Nixon appointed Gerald Ford Vice President to take his place. Nixon must have felt besieged because he was going through the Watergate investigation
and resigned himself not long afterward.
Natttering nabobs of negativity always reminds me of this man. I remember him as shaped something like an egg with a rather large nose, poor guy. He was of Greek extraction, first Greek American to hold such a high public office in the United States.
Life is hard, and then we die. Spiro died in 1996, I think.
And I love FLOTUS, too. She’s flat out beautiful, no question.
sorry, the ‘role model’ sarcasm was directed at agnew, nixon, and the watergate criminals. absolutely not about flotus, who i adore and who is a wonderful role model!! didn’t realize how my comment looked till it was posted.
Through all of the past 3 years, and especially the past 2 weeks, President Obama has evidenced his comprehensive understanding of the Bill of Rights and the rigid boundary the Founding Fathers erected between State and Church (they despised any form of ‘theocracy’ irrespective of which ‘god’ or ‘prophet’ some group espoused).
Tried to crystallize it in 140 characters in language anyone capable of reading should understand:
USA – Anyone; any organization telling you what to believe violates your religious freedom & your rights as an American. Just to be clear.
Good Afternoon TOD family..Our First Lady Michelle O looks fab..Just donated and got some goodies from BarackObama2012 website..can’t wait to receive..on another note my children and I decided to troll thru Repubs candidate website to see what subpar wares they are peddling(i’m sure not made in the U.S) as PBO proudly lists..COULD NOT make it thru Mitt’s or Santorum’s site..One thing for sure Santorum is absolutely obessed with President Obama..I never realized..because I try very hard not to watch any of their thinly veiled racist rants while on the campaign trail..the truth is nowhere to be found in the whole lot of them..Santorum is delusional about his own record and just plain makes up lies about President Obama..but every Paragraph Santorum ..really ?? Obsessed much ??
FLOTUS is beauty and grace personified from the inside out. Now that the repubs. have recognized her personal power it makes them all the more willing to go after her unlike some of the Stepford Wifes. FLOTUS, is her own person and both she and PBO share a discipline that keeps them above the ugliness. Too much which is solely (IMO) based on racism.
They had better tread very carefully if they do choose to make a mistake like this! Here is an intelligent, well- bred, well- educated woman, successful in her own right, who happens to be drop dead gorgeous as well – that is beside the point. Michelle Obama has never for a nanosecond been anything other than gracious, open minded and compassionate in expressing her concerns for the lesser of us. She has earned the love and respect of millions by her willingness to put herself out there, standing beside her (gorgeous) husband with her exquisite head held high, and her deep commitment to bettering the lives of people all around the world. If those foolish enough to attack and demean her fail, consequently falling into oblivion, so be it, they will have brought about their own justified demise. No one will miss them, the world will be better off without them. They will only succeed at underscoring the blatant hatred for women they seem to thrive on.
Oh, I have never listened to this man for more than a few seconds, once or twice….. So I did not know that. He who makes $160,000 a day to sell his soul, what’s left of it, into eternal darkness. He cannot harm her: she dwells in a realm of Light and Love and Blessing far far from the dismal speck of the universe he inhabits.
That’s a great quote. Just sharing this: I talked with a woman I hadn’t spoken with for about 20 years. We were joined at the hip in our 20’s and then she divorced her husband (who was a nut) and took her children and moved to Africa. At the time, she said she didn’t want to raise her children here. Especially her young sons. Mothers of black boys know exactly what she meant. We must of talked on the phone for 3 hours. I actually found her daughter on Facebook and she contacted her mother for me. Anyway my friend said something that really moved me. I am a spiritual person who believes in a higher power. I do not belong to any organized religion. My friend is just like me. However, she said that she believes that what is going on, not only in this country. but around the world is divinely inspired. She said President Obama, the Arab spring and all the forces moving to make this a more positive world is happening because the world had moved so far from the path of caring for one another and from democracy. Her words “divinely inspired” gave me comfort. I’m sure there are a lot of people here who don’t believe in any power above man, but those do may find this a comfort.
I am thrilled she spoke it aloud. I believe it too, we are on the cusp of a changing Age. In my mind that has been clear for a long time: you know how these times are so often referred to as “The Age of Obama”? (even by pundits and self-described journalists who have little command of their own language)… I have no recollection of EVER hearing The Age of Bush, or The Age of Clinton, or The Age of Reagan. Those years are always referred to as ‘eras’ not ‘Ages’. An Age is a massive time in history where the entire worldview was affected, not always positively, but none the less is considered by it’s long lasting CHANGE on life as it was known before. Marked by Love, Hope, Oneness and responsibility to each other and to the Earth, this age will be remembered for a turn in thinking and in perception of our true purpose here. Not some made up fantasy which profits on division and setting each against the other, but in unifying us as a group of conscious Workers of Goodwill, for the peace of all. We have only just begun to turn the corner, but one thing is for sure, there is no turning back now.
Obama watching Sasha’s basketball game
2/11/12 9:22 AM EST
President Obama on Saturday watched his daughter Sasha play basketball at the Jane Lawton Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, Md. He arrived at the center just before 9 a.m., according to pool reports.
there was another article there too africa (same link) by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times called “Why Obama Backed Down” I read it and then commented to her that PBO in no way backed down and why. I don’t see my comment posted but maybe it will be. I don’t know how anyone can think that PBO “backed down” in this matter – he most certainly did not!!!!
I read that too, a4Alice, and considering her ‘standing’ as a journalist from Chicago, was surprised she took that stance on what really happened. But found after reading, she really did not say much of anything, and felt her article was vague.
🙂 Considering the Rasmussen guy told them TO THEIR FACES…..there are none so blind as those that REFUSE TO SEE. Let them have their culture war. It will end very badly. For them.
Lol, how do they keep a straight face saying these things out loud, and why are the MSM
not challenging them on this? opinions aren’t facts…and repeating it back doesn’t
make it news/ true, and that is why President Obama just comes out and slaps them down with facts.
There is no way MSNBC, CNN and Fox aren’t losing viewers.
Failed Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller is eyeing Sen. Mark Begich’s seat, which will be up for contest in 2014, according to Washington, D.C., news website Politico.
In an interview with Politico while Miller was attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C., Miller said that he’s ruled out a 2012 run against Rep. Don Young, Alaska’s lone congressman.
Miller did say, however, that “2014, that’s a different story.” And rather cryptically added that Begich “knows what the cards hold on that.”
Miller is just blowing smoke, and hoping to keep his name in the spotlight for a little while longer before he fades into anonymity.
We have so much on Miller it is not even funny, and if he were to run it would be the most fun we have had in Alaska politics since we ran that evil woman form Wasilla out of office.
In other words, if I might borrow a phrase from the teabagging loser, Miller “knows what the cards hold on that.”
6. He was a founding donor to conservative news site The Daily Caller. A $3 million initial investment into Tucker Carlson’s news site in early 2010 helped it get off the ground. He’s since made at least one additional contribution of $500,000. Yet as POLITICO notes, The Daily Caller has thus far failed to disclose its connection to Rick Santorum when covering him on the campaign trail.
lol…I guess they didn’t mind “palling around with terrorist” so long as they are “disappointed in their Hyde Park/Kenwood neighbor, President Obama”. WHATEVER!
As the battle over contraception raged on, was making a election Toolkit page for Women’s issues. I am sure have forgotten important resources, so let me know what I should add. If you find these pages useful, bookmark the election toolkit main page which will lead you to other pages that can be used to help the President win re-election.
Thank you Chips for the pictures. I wait patiently for more and the video.
Let me just say that the picture of the little girl looking up at FLOTUS with those blissful, wide eyes brought me to tears.
My God, what that means to see the The First Lady of the United States who looks like you. I know we have seen numerous picturesque of POTUS holding babies and I am not making any comparison. But this one just touched my heart in such a way that before I saw the next picture, because of the awe of expression on the child’s face. I was hoping to myself that FLOTUS would physically touch her or their eyes connect.
And, of course, it happened. I am so grateful for this woman who is the best First Lady, ever. As a young AA girl growing up in the south, this has just made my day, forever. It even keeps me in a serene and peaceful place while the repugs openly celebrate their hate and racism feast while attending their CPAC KKK meeting.
I am so disgusted with the MSM going along with this hate. I have simply lost words for their not pushing back on these ignorant, hateful people.
This little girl will have memories that I hope she will cherish forever. Not only is she special in God’s eyes, but He sent the FLOTUS to let her know. Thank you, FLOTUS for making her day as well as mine.
I have been staring at that photo all morning…. The child is so aware of herself and the connection she is sharing with Mrs. Obama. I feel sure it will be a life changing moment for her, and she will grow into a powerful, life-changing force for doing great good on this little planet. Bless her innocent lovely heart! 🙂
I also enjoy the look of happiness on the face of the woman just to the right, she seems so delighted to be right there to witness this special moment!
My hubby did some research for me because I was curious: I could not remember if when I started taking the pill in the 1970’s if there was controversy (socially, politically) regarding it (well, except I always knew the Catholic Church forbade it) … and here is a quote for you:
1959
President Dwight Eisenhower states in a press conference that birth control “is not a proper political or government activity or function or responsibility” and adds emphatically that it is “not our business.”
Sue it was on some timeline about the pill … http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/timeline/timeline2.html
I was so impressed with the quote (my grandparents and parents loved Ike) that I have not perused the rest of it. I guess I should.
I SEVERELY love these pictures of the first lady with the oh so cute kids! Severely! {must stop saying S~E~V~E~R~E~L~Y…}
Severely can’t stop… severely… see-veer-lie? Lol! 😀
I DON’T CARE HOW FLOTUS WEARS HER HAIR…SHE ALWAYS LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL…SHE PROBABLY LOOKS GORGEOUS WHEN SHE GETS UP IN THE MORNING!..ME? HAH…CATS CRAWL OUT OF DUMPSTERS! LOLLLLLLLLLLL..:) I THOROUGHLY ENJOY IT…IT IS THEN THAT I SEE TRUE FEAR IN MY OTHER HALF’S EYES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
I am saddened with trying to figure out WordPress and the little box thingy. It won’t let me use my user name from here, and I had to create a new one. I am reluctant to finalize it, I don’t want to become some else on TOD. I think I’ll go clean the birdbaths instead,! 😦
Here is why they want restrictions to birth control.
CPAC Panelist: Want To Change Demographics? Have A Baby
Niger Innis, spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality, asked the ladies of CPAC to cover their ears on Saturday so that he could talk about how demographics of a state are changed.
“The demographic changes taking place in my adopted state of Nevada did not take place on the border,” he said at a panel on immigration and border security. “It took place in the bedroom.”
It was unclear how Innis wanted those demographics to change, although the statement was made after he listed the changes in the demographics of Nevada from 2000 to 2008 — a period when the white population dropped from about 65 percent to 55 percent, the Latino population increased from about 20 percent to about 27 percent, and the Black population stayed about the same.
“As conservatives we have to be pragmatic with our policy,” he said, adding that the Republican Party should avoid alienating non-whites if it does not want to “go the way of the Whig Party.”
that is frickin’ hilarious: ladies, cover your ears while we men talk about where babies come from!
honestly, i am reeling here, just absolutely dazed and gobsmacked.
rethug males, i have some news for you! just because your womenfolk cover their eyes and grit their teeth when you climb under the covers doesn’t mean they don’t know what’s going on!
and here’s another note to any man who can’t figure out why none of the ladies want to make babies with you: listen to aretha. respect. respect our right to choose. respect our right to say no. respect our right to contraception. respect our right to make every single decision about our bodies and our lives. respect us. or go the hell away.
“rethug males, i have some news for you! just because your womenfolk cover their eyes and grit their teeth when you climb under the covers doesn’t mean they don’t know what’s going on! ”
LONGWOOD, Fla. — Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she’s trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else.
“It’s sort of like working before vacation — only it’s not a vacation,” she said in an interview with a handful of reporters. “It’s that same notion of ‘How much time do we have? What do I have to do?’”
“FBN’s primetime ratings have been anemic, with the channel averaging only 54,000 total viewers each night, which places it in “the bottom tier of all cable channels rated by Nielsen.”
“…”by and large, reporters at the [Wall Street] Journal do not like being associated in the minds of news sources or news subjects with Fox News.”
“The fact that Lou Dobbs (whose birtherism hastened his exit from CNN) is considered less polarizing than Fox Business Network’s current slate of primetime hosts is as sure a sign as any that the network had gone completely off the rails.”
I can’t stop look at pictures 5 & 7. The look on those little girls eyes as they look at the first lady gives me chills. The FLOTUS is a wonderful role model.
I’m sorry but for me seeing those little girls gazing up at this BEAUTIFUL role model just brings tears of joy to my eyes. I Love this First Lady!! God Bless Her and Her Husband…… OBAMA2012!!!!!
The Obama Diary 
Thank you defytheodds!
I’m sending this vid to my sister and my sister/girlfriends to let them know that I’m celebrating them!
I seriously covet that blue brooch, it looks so fetching on Michelle’s green dress.
I adore the way she mixes different styles and colors that one would normally think would not go together. She’s brought a breath of fresh air to the office of First Lady.
And notice that the term “FLOTUS” has now come to be affectionately associated with her and only her?
Our FLOTUS looks good doesn’t she? I love her smile, she and POTUS has wonderful smile.
tweeted
Wow look at that dress, gorgeous!
I was just going to say that.
Love it.
Stuning, Gorgeous, intelligent, kind flotus is simple amaizing Flotus will be the closer on
the campaing just watch her, but, but, but we do not hear much about her on the Fucking
MSM, so we have to let everybody know what she is doing for our children.
Isn’t it though? The cut of it is perfect for her figure and the way it seems to flow with her as she moves. It is striking! Classic perfection! I wonder if PBO sees this picture, he thinks “wonder if I can get a date with this woman?”
In fact I’m sure he’s busy planning for that date. Next week is Valentines!
i love the way she makes the classics fresh and vital, and very much her own. i think first ladies usually try to be formal, in deference to the position just as pbo is almost always in a suit and tie. but formal turns into dowdy, and then that becomes the standard! mrs obama has shaken the dusty victorian buttons off of women’s business attire. i’m so proud of her, for stepping right up in this role.
Oh, I do like her hair that way!
I like her everything that way..head to toe….. but what do I know, i’m just a guy.
Dave, you know a smart, good-looking, stylish woman when you see one, that’s what you know. And you ain’t the only one. Barack Obama must have been stunned anytime he offered to quit his job (they worked at the same law firm) when Michelle told him that she didn’t date people where she worked.
We have never seen a First Lady like Michelle Obama. She is just magnificent!
Dress is gorgeous. I’m also drooling over the shoes.
Me too Meta. The way she mixes styles and color is magnificent! The cut, style, and fit of the dress on her is gorgeous.
One of her all-time best daytime outfits. Perfect fit and color. LOVE the hair. Shoes…oh my.
Oh, yes, me too, a very perfect look for her!
Awesome pics!
She looks fabulous! Love her.
Lord have mercy! Luke Russert is going to do a DatelineNBC investigation tomorrow. Good grief. A story on Jon-Adrian Velazquez. Not sure the story here but I saw a few seconds and had to laugh at Luke Russert trying to look so serious.
He should grow a goatee like Chuck Todd to have that deep thinker look…..they’re both ridiculous
LOL…I can see them stroking their chins.
Velazquez was convicted of murder based on eye witness testimony only…..no physical evidence.
Unbelievable. And they give that story to Luke?
Also….the Supreme Court is taking up the validity of only eye witness testimony in this year’s session.
Luke Russert is a joke. Just because his father was well-regarded journalist does not mean that Luke has any such qualifications. It just shows the current sad state of affairs in American Journalism.
President Obama will lay out a budget blueprint on Monday that amounts to an election-year bet that a plan for higher taxes on the rich and more spending on popular programs like infrastructure and manufacturing will trump concerns over the deficit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/us/politics/obamas-budget-to-focus-on-cutting-deficit-and-adding-jobs.html?_r=2&hp
he’s so good. can’t say enough how much i admire our president.
thanks for the article–plenty here we can use in reframing the rethug talking points.
The pictures are beautiful and FLOTUS always seems be in her comfortable zone no matter where she is…
The video above is from this tweet:
I am severely loving Mrs. O’s dress and hair. 🙂
I love your use of the s word.
Good West Coast Morning to you Chipsticks and to my TOD family!
I almost fell out of my chair yesterday when POTUS dropped the bomb on the Repugs and the Bishops! When he does that I hear in my head, “he plays chess while others are playing checkers”.
FLOTUS looks so lovely, I have to sigh when I see her.
Thank God for POTUS & FLOTUS – our very own living and breathing Super Hero’s!
Chipsticks – you are doing a fantastic job 🙂
Bill Press and a lot of the emo progs hate that term but it’s really appropriate. And so fucking TRUE.
Unbelievable after these many years how people STILL underestimate that man. It’s kinda funny to watch, but sad too.
I KNOW!
When will they learn?
When they attack him, he’s like Superman, he goes into his phone booth and comes out in his Community Organizer outfit with his Southside Chicago attitude and BAM!
Game over
They are very predictable….it would give President Obama the proper credit he deserves.
South Africa is to issue a complete set of banknotes bearing the image of its first black president, Nelson Mandela.
Mr Mandela, now 93, was released from prison on 11 February 1990 after 27 years in prison.
President Jacob Zuma said the banknotes were a “humble gesture” to express South Africa’s “deep gratitude”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-africa-16996809
It’s about time.
When you hear something like Newt Gingrich or Donald Trump say that we don’t have any role models, first of all they are lying bastards. Second of all I dare any one to tell me that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama aren’t good role models. I’ll slap them in their “MF” face. It’s amazing that white men like that who don’t know a darn thing about black community, trying to tell us who our role models are.
Hola to all:
Shameless diary pimping for our good Liberal Librarian here’s the link for any who might have missed his debut at TPV….
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2012/02/few-thoughts-from-lapsed-catholic.html
Yes to this, finally had time to read it, thank you, LL, thank you aquagranny!
Bumbling buffoons of negativity. It will be the undoing of them. Happy Damn Day!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/at-cpac-republicans-become-nattering-nabobs-of-negativism/2012/02/10/gIQAYhI44Q_story.html?hpid=z2
“How many of you,” Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, “have ever mocked or made fun of the president’s call for hope and change? Raise your hands.”
Most people in the Marriott Wardman Park hotel ballroom raised their hands. There were cheers and whoops.
“With all due respect,” the conservative pollster and commentator told them, “I’d like to say that’s really stupid.”
This time, there was uncomfortable laughter. “Voters are looking for hope and change as much today as they were in 2008,” Rasmussen explained, and “you ought to be encouraging Republican candidates, people you support, to offer that positive step forward.”
Rasmussen had put his finger on a major problem for Republicans in 2012, and conservatives in particular: At a time when the national mood has begun to improve, they remain nattering nabobs of negativism. At CPAC, any hint of a “positive step” was buried in vitriol.
Guess they ran Rasmussen outta there!!! 😆 😆 As my sweet mama used to say “Misery loves company”
They LOVE their bubble! Anyone that strays from the message they want to hear…is outta there! Lockstep…like the Third Reich.
Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re
acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!
At night, when all the world’s asleep,
the questions run so deep
for such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
The Logical Song
Supertramp
Yes! LOVE Supertramp 🙂
That’s like trying to stop a big Pacific Ocean wave from crashing onto the beach. The momentum is too great for them to change it now and they are the ones who built it up.
Hahaha….fear and hate, that’s all they have……From what I saw from CPAC, little clips here and there….the message was completely lost…..you just have to look at the pics of audience members…..not a happy bunch is it?…
Yes, and notice the cultural diversity.
Yup, old racist hateful white people. And older racist, hateful white people. REAL DIVERSE. uh huh…
You got it.
Isn’t the Hopey Changey former mayor of Wasilla the keynote speaker ?
I think so….around 5……..
They don’t know any other way to respond to PBO than with heightened negativity, hence their dilemma.
^YEP!
The CPAC Convention confirms that the Republican Party is basically comprised of “BIRTHERS, BAGGERS AND BLOWHARDS”.
h/t Bob Beckle
Beckle On “birthers, baggers and blowhards”
Ladyhawke you forgot a ‘B’………… BIGOTS!
thanks yardarm. Duly noted. In the future, I will be sure to add “bigots” to the list. What a sad commentary. The Republican Party just thrives on a constant diet of hatred.
love that DF. “Nattering Nabobs of Negativity” and the first bit of the article you quoted. How true. thx and tweeted
It was Vice President Spiro Agnew who made those alliterative descriptions famous. He was always using them. Before Nixon resigned, he was under investigation by the United States Attorney’s office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States.
He was allowed to plead “No Contest” to the charges if he resigned as Vice President, which he did, and President Nixon appointed Gerald Ford Vice President to take his place. Nixon must have felt besieged because he was going through the Watergate investigation
and resigned himself not long afterward.
Natttering nabobs of negativity always reminds me of this man. I remember him as shaped something like an egg with a rather large nose, poor guy. He was of Greek extraction, first Greek American to hold such a high public office in the United States.
Life is hard, and then we die. Spiro died in 1996, I think.
And I love FLOTUS, too. She’s flat out beautiful, no question.
yes, more fine role models for our youth.
sorry, the ‘role model’ sarcasm was directed at agnew, nixon, and the watergate criminals. absolutely not about flotus, who i adore and who is a wonderful role model!! didn’t realize how my comment looked till it was posted.
I want to hug her too! 🙂
Heads up: FLOTUS on BET Honors Monday 9PM
I love, love, LOVE the little cutie pie who is looking up to FLOTUS. Then FLOTUS looks down at her. What a memory!!!
Oh yeah, have you all noticed that FLOTUS doesn’t connect well with people?? 😎
That hasn’t escaped me, astonishing response to both this beautiful, compassionate woman and her husband, how people barely notice their presence!
Ya, funny ain’t it. You’d hardly know if they entered a room. Ha!
And she looks depressed.
🙄
poor girl needs some new undies to cheer her up.
ya’ll funny.
THAT’S MY HOMEGIRL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hmz5hTMRD1M
That was a great one, yardarm. I remember it well, over and over on the radio, I think when I was first married.
Shhh! You probably remember 45 rpms too. 😆
I definitely remember listening to the the music coming out of Detroit, and loving The Supremes and Temptations, and yes I remember 45rpms, too.
Hmm. I guess that puts you in the ‘seasoned’ category with the rest of ‘old’ goats. 😆 To the good ole daze.(glass held high).
Through all of the past 3 years, and especially the past 2 weeks, President Obama has evidenced his comprehensive understanding of the Bill of Rights and the rigid boundary the Founding Fathers erected between State and Church (they despised any form of ‘theocracy’ irrespective of which ‘god’ or ‘prophet’ some group espoused).
Tried to crystallize it in 140 characters in language anyone capable of reading should understand:
#AmericaTHISisNOTaTEST
#LandslideOBAMA2012
Yes We Must
You did it, bobf, Jedi master of 140 characters that you are! 🙂
Thank you Pamela 🙂
#PRESSON
I think you got it in the first try Bobfr!
Brilliant 🙂
Good Afternoon TOD family..Our First Lady Michelle O looks fab..Just donated and got some goodies from BarackObama2012 website..can’t wait to receive..on another note my children and I decided to troll thru Repubs candidate website to see what subpar wares they are peddling(i’m sure not made in the U.S) as PBO proudly lists..COULD NOT make it thru Mitt’s or Santorum’s site..One thing for sure Santorum is absolutely obessed with President Obama..I never realized..because I try very hard not to watch any of their thinly veiled racist rants while on the campaign trail..the truth is nowhere to be found in the whole lot of them..Santorum is delusional about his own record and just plain makes up lies about President Obama..but every Paragraph Santorum ..really ?? Obsessed much ??
FLOTUS is beauty and grace personified from the inside out. Now that the repubs. have recognized her personal power it makes them all the more willing to go after her unlike some of the Stepford Wifes. FLOTUS, is her own person and both she and PBO share a discipline that keeps them above the ugliness. Too much which is solely (IMO) based on racism.
They had better tread very carefully if they do choose to make a mistake like this! Here is an intelligent, well- bred, well- educated woman, successful in her own right, who happens to be drop dead gorgeous as well – that is beside the point. Michelle Obama has never for a nanosecond been anything other than gracious, open minded and compassionate in expressing her concerns for the lesser of us. She has earned the love and respect of millions by her willingness to put herself out there, standing beside her (gorgeous) husband with her exquisite head held high, and her deep commitment to bettering the lives of people all around the world. If those foolish enough to attack and demean her fail, consequently falling into oblivion, so be it, they will have brought about their own justified demise. No one will miss them, the world will be better off without them. They will only succeed at underscoring the blatant hatred for women they seem to thrive on.
It never stopped the vile racist Rush Limbaugh…..he goes after FLOTUS regularly.
Oh, I have never listened to this man for more than a few seconds, once or twice….. So I did not know that. He who makes $160,000 a day to sell his soul, what’s left of it, into eternal darkness. He cannot harm her: she dwells in a realm of Light and Love and Blessing far far from the dismal speck of the universe he inhabits.
Pamela, So true. Michelle Obama dwells in a realm of LIGHT and LOVE and BLESSING!!
Under cover he likes her. Adolescent little boys poke fun at the girl they really likes.
I bet he would stop if we start saying to him, just own it like a man and say that you really like FLOTUS.
Mae, you assume he like girls to begin with. I’m just sayin’
Correction on his name please. ‘Flush Lump….’ is more like it to me.
FLOTUS; beautiful, intelligent, compassionate, style icon (walking fashion stimulus), grace and class….
America “don’t mock it up”
*sigh*
WE ask ourselves WHO AM I to be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented and Fabulous
Actually WHO Are YOU not to BE..YOU are a Child of GOD ~ Nelson Mandela
In honor of his release after 27 years in prison ..Dedicating this Video to all the Brilliant Gorgeous Talented and Fabulous Fam in Tod’sVille:-)
Good Day!
*sigh*
Thanks Kasai! So profound, isn’t it?
I just watched Akeelah and the Bee with my young nephew and posted that quote on his wall! 🙂
That’s a great quote. Just sharing this: I talked with a woman I hadn’t spoken with for about 20 years. We were joined at the hip in our 20’s and then she divorced her husband (who was a nut) and took her children and moved to Africa. At the time, she said she didn’t want to raise her children here. Especially her young sons. Mothers of black boys know exactly what she meant. We must of talked on the phone for 3 hours. I actually found her daughter on Facebook and she contacted her mother for me. Anyway my friend said something that really moved me. I am a spiritual person who believes in a higher power. I do not belong to any organized religion. My friend is just like me. However, she said that she believes that what is going on, not only in this country. but around the world is divinely inspired. She said President Obama, the Arab spring and all the forces moving to make this a more positive world is happening because the world had moved so far from the path of caring for one another and from democracy. Her words “divinely inspired” gave me comfort. I’m sure there are a lot of people here who don’t believe in any power above man, but those do may find this a comfort.
I am thrilled she spoke it aloud. I believe it too, we are on the cusp of a changing Age. In my mind that has been clear for a long time: you know how these times are so often referred to as “The Age of Obama”? (even by pundits and self-described journalists who have little command of their own language)… I have no recollection of EVER hearing The Age of Bush, or The Age of Clinton, or The Age of Reagan. Those years are always referred to as ‘eras’ not ‘Ages’. An Age is a massive time in history where the entire worldview was affected, not always positively, but none the less is considered by it’s long lasting CHANGE on life as it was known before. Marked by Love, Hope, Oneness and responsibility to each other and to the Earth, this age will be remembered for a turn in thinking and in perception of our true purpose here. Not some made up fantasy which profits on division and setting each against the other, but in unifying us as a group of conscious Workers of Goodwill, for the peace of all. We have only just begun to turn the corner, but one thing is for sure, there is no turning back now.
Thanks for the video Woizero. A truth never dies.
Beyond awesome kasai. That is all.
that is such an inspiring quote Kahsai thanks!
A beautiful man.
Thank you Kasai for this beautiful tribute to Nelson Mandela. 🙂
Obama watching Sasha’s basketball game
2/11/12 9:22 AM EST
President Obama on Saturday watched his daughter Sasha play basketball at the Jane Lawton Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, Md. He arrived at the center just before 9 a.m., according to pool reports.
Walking the talk….I think that is call integrity.
Marriage Partnership in action
WOW!!
p.s good luck Repugs trying to get the women vote lol
DNC video has PBO back
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/02/catholics_obama_contraception_.html
there was another article there too africa (same link) by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times called “Why Obama Backed Down” I read it and then commented to her that PBO in no way backed down and why. I don’t see my comment posted but maybe it will be. I don’t know how anyone can think that PBO “backed down” in this matter – he most certainly did not!!!!
I read that too, a4Alice, and considering her ‘standing’ as a journalist from Chicago, was surprised she took that stance on what really happened. But found after reading, she really did not say much of anything, and felt her article was vague.
On twitter,
from the love-in CPAC
#CPAC speaker says Obama, more than any pres. in US history, has most “savaged and attacked” marriage, religion
They’re going full swing with their culture war….They have nothing left…
.it will crash and burn…….
I guess he didn’t get the memo from that Rasmussen guy…
🙂 Considering the Rasmussen guy told them TO THEIR FACES…..there are none so blind as those that REFUSE TO SEE. Let them have their culture war. It will end very badly. For them.
Mitt will have a bit of trouble trying to tack to the center during the general election.
What a dumb ass
yep DF it will end badly for them hears to making all 50 states blue! (!clink!)
“savaged and attacked” marriage, religion
Lol, how do they keep a straight face saying these things out loud, and why are the MSM
not challenging them on this? opinions aren’t facts…and repeating it back doesn’t
make it news/ true, and that is why President Obama just comes out and slaps them down with facts.
There is no way MSNBC, CNN and Fox aren’t losing viewers.
Failed Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller is eyeing Sen. Mark Begich’s seat, which will be up for contest in 2014, according to Washington, D.C., news website Politico.
In an interview with Politico while Miller was attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C., Miller said that he’s ruled out a 2012 run against Rep. Don Young, Alaska’s lone congressman.
Miller did say, however, that “2014, that’s a different story.” And rather cryptically added that Begich “knows what the cards hold on that.”
Miller is just blowing smoke, and hoping to keep his name in the spotlight for a little while longer before he fades into anonymity.
We have so much on Miller it is not even funny, and if he were to run it would be the most fun we have had in Alaska politics since we ran that evil woman form Wasilla out of office.
In other words, if I might borrow a phrase from the teabagging loser, Miller “knows what the cards hold on that.”
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
OMG. OMG. This is freaking hilarious!
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/02/daily_callers_tucker_carlson_d.html
Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson, Breitbart, dine with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in Chicago Yes. THAT Bill Ayers:)
Ricky Sweater Vest’s money man fronted Tucker 3 million to set up his website.
I read that 🙂 http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/11/422381/who-is-foster-friess-seven-facts-you-need-to-know/
6. He was a founding donor to conservative news site The Daily Caller. A $3 million initial investment into Tucker Carlson’s news site in early 2010 helped it get off the ground. He’s since made at least one additional contribution of $500,000. Yet as POLITICO notes, The Daily Caller has thus far failed to disclose its connection to Rick Santorum when covering him on the campaign trail.
What do you expect to find in a snake pit, hmm? 😦
I think I read somewhere that Breitbart has a ”tape” of President Obama during his college years, proving that he was a radical… lol
I think I read that yesterday….not sure though
Yeah. I read that too.I never believe a damn thing that man says. His idea of radical is anyone that doesn’t think the perverse way he does.Screw him.
Right..some doctored up cut and paste work. Isn’t that what Breitbart is well known for?
lol…I guess they didn’t mind “palling around with terrorist” so long as they are “disappointed in their Hyde Park/Kenwood neighbor, President Obama”. WHATEVER!
I guess Brietbart thinks he will get Ayers on tape saying how “radical” PBO was. That’s the whole purpose of this dinner.
So will we see the right wingers accusing Tucker & Breitbart of palling around with terrorists????:
🙄
As if we needed to hear another reason why no one with a brain should vote for Romney
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/kris-kobach-im-more-involved-with-mitt-romneys-campaign-this-time-than-in-2008.php?ref=fpa
Kris Kobach was the author of the AZ and Alabama immigration laws. Enough said.
I just love PBO & First Lady Michelle Obama. She is my role model. They both make me want to be a better person.
Greetings Everyone
As the battle over contraception raged on, was making a election Toolkit page for Women’s issues. I am sure have forgotten important resources, so let me know what I should add. If you find these pages useful, bookmark the election toolkit main page which will lead you to other pages that can be used to help the President win re-election.
Women’s Issues :: Election Toolkit
http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/02/womens-issues-election-toolkit.html
Main Election Toolkit page
http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/01/election-toolkit-for-50-states.html
Please post resources I have missed below – thanks in advance.
Is this new ?
OMG! I don’t know whether it’s new but it is AWESOME!!
That’s a sho ’nuff keeper!
Ha! that’s awesome!! I wonder who made that?
Copied and filed!!
That’s marvelous.
ok I normally don’t tear up but the little..lemme say it…dark-skinned girl with the pony-tails..is me 50 years ago.
What a beautiful photo of FLOTUS.
And 50 years from now that little girl will be still cherishing that moment 🙂
Absolutely!
Michelle Obama on the importance of sometimes just being “Meesh”:
http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2012/02/11/michelle-obama-likes-just-being-%E2%80%9Cmeesh%E2%80%9D/
I like that. Thanks for sharing Edwina.
Thank you Chips for the pictures. I wait patiently for more and the video.
Let me just say that the picture of the little girl looking up at FLOTUS with those blissful, wide eyes brought me to tears.
My God, what that means to see the The First Lady of the United States who looks like you. I know we have seen numerous picturesque of POTUS holding babies and I am not making any comparison. But this one just touched my heart in such a way that before I saw the next picture, because of the awe of expression on the child’s face. I was hoping to myself that FLOTUS would physically touch her or their eyes connect.
And, of course, it happened. I am so grateful for this woman who is the best First Lady, ever. As a young AA girl growing up in the south, this has just made my day, forever. It even keeps me in a serene and peaceful place while the repugs openly celebrate their hate and racism feast while attending their CPAC KKK meeting.
I am so disgusted with the MSM going along with this hate. I have simply lost words for their not pushing back on these ignorant, hateful people.
This little girl will have memories that I hope she will cherish forever. Not only is she special in God’s eyes, but He sent the FLOTUS to let her know. Thank you, FLOTUS for making her day as well as mine.
I have been staring at that photo all morning…. The child is so aware of herself and the connection she is sharing with Mrs. Obama. I feel sure it will be a life changing moment for her, and she will grow into a powerful, life-changing force for doing great good on this little planet. Bless her innocent lovely heart! 🙂
I also enjoy the look of happiness on the face of the woman just to the right, she seems so delighted to be right there to witness this special moment!
My hubby did some research for me because I was curious: I could not remember if when I started taking the pill in the 1970’s if there was controversy (socially, politically) regarding it (well, except I always knew the Catholic Church forbade it) … and here is a quote for you:
1959
President Dwight Eisenhower states in a press conference that birth control “is not a proper political or government activity or function or responsibility” and adds emphatically that it is “not our business.”
A Republican President, beloved by people of both parties, very popular President.
His campaign slogan — “I like Ike” and I, a young, “cradle democrat,” voted for him. He was a WWII hero.
THIS IS EXCELLENT…THANKS FOR FINDING IT..I’LL BE USING IT!..:)
Sue it was on some timeline about the pill … http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/timeline/timeline2.html
I was so impressed with the quote (my grandparents and parents loved Ike) that I have not perused the rest of it. I guess I should.
Tweet it to axelrod!!
I SEVERELY love these pictures of the first lady with the oh so cute kids! Severely! {must stop saying S~E~V~E~R~E~L~Y…}
Severely can’t stop… severely… see-veer-lie? Lol! 😀
lolololol
too funny
😀
Here’s another fun Michelle Obama article:
Michelle explains why Sasha and Malia like campaigning.
http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2012/02/10/obama-kids-are-happy-campaigners-first-lady-says/
Thanks so much Edwina for this article and the other one about FLOTUS. It’s nice to read about her in her own words.
When is FLOTUS in Orlando ? I hope these teens get to meet her.
I DON’T CARE HOW FLOTUS WEARS HER HAIR…SHE ALWAYS LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL…SHE PROBABLY LOOKS GORGEOUS WHEN SHE GETS UP IN THE MORNING!..ME? HAH…CATS CRAWL OUT OF DUMPSTERS! LOLLLLLLLLLLL..:) I THOROUGHLY ENJOY IT…IT IS THEN THAT I SEE TRUE FEAR IN MY OTHER HALF’S EYES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Lol! 😀
I am saddened with trying to figure out WordPress and the little box thingy. It won’t let me use my user name from here, and I had to create a new one. I am reluctant to finalize it, I don’t want to become some else on TOD. I think I’ll go clean the birdbaths instead,! 😦
Here is why they want restrictions to birth control.
CPAC Panelist: Want To Change Demographics? Have A Baby
Niger Innis, spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality, asked the ladies of CPAC to cover their ears on Saturday so that he could talk about how demographics of a state are changed.
“The demographic changes taking place in my adopted state of Nevada did not take place on the border,” he said at a panel on immigration and border security. “It took place in the bedroom.”
It was unclear how Innis wanted those demographics to change, although the statement was made after he listed the changes in the demographics of Nevada from 2000 to 2008 — a period when the white population dropped from about 65 percent to 55 percent, the Latino population increased from about 20 percent to about 27 percent, and the Black population stayed about the same.
“As conservatives we have to be pragmatic with our policy,” he said, adding that the Republican Party should avoid alienating non-whites if it does not want to “go the way of the Whig Party.”
A bit to late, Niger, you are already gone.
that is frickin’ hilarious: ladies, cover your ears while we men talk about where babies come from!
honestly, i am reeling here, just absolutely dazed and gobsmacked.
rethug males, i have some news for you! just because your womenfolk cover their eyes and grit their teeth when you climb under the covers doesn’t mean they don’t know what’s going on!
and here’s another note to any man who can’t figure out why none of the ladies want to make babies with you: listen to aretha. respect. respect our right to choose. respect our right to say no. respect our right to contraception. respect our right to make every single decision about our bodies and our lives. respect us. or go the hell away.
“rethug males, i have some news for you! just because your womenfolk cover their eyes and grit their teeth when you climb under the covers doesn’t mean they don’t know what’s going on! ”
say it again.
LONGWOOD, Fla. — Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she’s trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else.
“It’s sort of like working before vacation — only it’s not a vacation,” she said in an interview with a handful of reporters. “It’s that same notion of ‘How much time do we have? What do I have to do?’”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/first-lady-michelle-obama-talks-fitness-healthy-living-with-religious-leaders-in-florida/2012/02/11/gIQA3tjI6Q_story.html
Thanks for the article Jovie. Man oh man, FLOTUS is the BEST. Can’t wait for her to begin fully campaigning.
p.s. Loved the pictures of her working out with Perry the Platypus from the Disney cartoon Phineas and Ferb. That cartoon is the best!
Need a little pick-me-up? Media Matters comes through:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201202100012
Fox Business Network
“FBN’s primetime ratings have been anemic, with the channel averaging only 54,000 total viewers each night, which places it in “the bottom tier of all cable channels rated by Nielsen.”
“…”by and large, reporters at the [Wall Street] Journal do not like being associated in the minds of news sources or news subjects with Fox News.”
“The fact that Lou Dobbs (whose birtherism hastened his exit from CNN) is considered less polarizing than Fox Business Network’s current slate of primetime hosts is as sure a sign as any that the network had gone completely off the rails.”
And Judge Napolitano’s show gets dropped.
Mrs. Obama is class personified. She is also looking slimmer and her hands are so expressive and beautiful.
Who won the straw poll?
Also, CNN best political team will be all over the Maine caucuses, starting at 6.
LOL!
I’d rather have needles in my ears than listen to ” Happening Now ” Leslie Blitzer.
They haven’t announced the results yet, but CNN will be having it live soon ~ 4:15PM
New post everyone:
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/mr-happy-guy/
Catchya later.
anyone know PBO’s schedule for next week
I believe I know one day or evening he is busy. FLOTUS said they have something plan for Valentine’s Day.
OK, I am going to say it. The first lady has really nice legs. I am jealous because mines are just sticks. I need to do something about that. 🙂
I can’t stop look at pictures 5 & 7. The look on those little girls eyes as they look at the first lady gives me chills. The FLOTUS is a wonderful role model.
I’m sorry but for me seeing those little girls gazing up at this BEAUTIFUL role model just brings tears of joy to my eyes. I Love this First Lady!! God Bless Her and Her Husband…… OBAMA2012!!!!!