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The U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs
More photos at the Denver Post
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President Obama embraces Tami Graham as he is introduced to supporters at a campaign fundraiser in Denver
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President Obama leaves Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, en route to California
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Tonight (all times Eastern)
9:10: PBO arrives Mountain View, California
10:20: Delivers remarks at a campaign event at a private residence, Atherton
12:10: Delivers remarks at a campaign event at Fox Theatre, Redwood City
CNN live streaming has the 12:10 event in their schedule (but check the time, it varies wherever I look)
Check CBS live streaming too
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Thursday:
11:30: Attends a campaign event at the The Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose
1:00: Departs San Jose en route Newton, Iowa
4:00: Arrives in Des Moines
4:55: Tours TPI Composites, a wind manufacturer
5:15: Delivers remarks on urging Congress to act on the ‘To Do List’
6:55: Delivers remarks at a campaign event
9:20: Departs Des Moines en route Joint Base Andrews
11:30: Arrives at Joint Base Andrews
11:45: Arrives at the White House
The Obama Diary 
hey now!
Hey, isonprize – congratulations!!
ok, that was just way too easy… Howdy, TOD. Just when you least expect it. There is a lonely new post.
Helloooooooooo Isonprize
Chica, you KNOW what I like!! Thank ya, thank ya, Thank you VERY MUCH!!! 🙂 🙂 😎 😎
Congrats izonprize on #1!
Congrats isonprize!
hi
Hi there, am I third? wow
How are you guys doing?
Good Morning folks. 🙂
GM amk!
Top of the morning to you donna. On my second cup of coffee for the day. 🙂
As we here on the east coast get ready to go to bed. You are 9 hours ahead right?
Yup. It’s 06:40 hrs here. Perks of time zones. 🙂
Good Morning, Amk & personal congratulations to you and Mama Amk on young Master Amk’s results! See, he did take after mother as Chips & I reassured you weeks ago! /covering sides of head & moving rapidly out of reach/ 😆
BTW here’s my tongue in cheek answer to the question above
.https://twitter.com/sonamie/status/205460513965088768
Thanks vc. Yes, you and chips told me that. Many times. I got scars to prove it. 🙂
Off today, with him, to look at some engineering colleges. Oh boy, as df said, the REAL fun starts now.
Rise and shine, amk!! PBO is once again in California, where it’s 6:20 pm with the sun shining brightly.
Oh boy. There is no limit to what this guy can do, is there ? 🙂
PBO is once again in California, where it’s 6:20 pm with the sun shining brightly.
GM, meta.
He’s got 2 more fundraisers tonight!! Ca-CHING.
That’s the question! Excellent tweet.
YES, YES, YES to this. Hammer this message home every single day from now to November,,,
That’s a damn Good Question, DC Debbie! Thanks, amk!
Chica is just CRUISIN’ today with new posts every 5 minutes, it seems. Great videos, great new ads, I LOVE THIS PLACE.
Hello, my name is Isonprize, and I am thoroughly addicted to TOD. Yes, we are family, we fight like family, but we usually make up pretty easily (or at least, we’ll sit at the same dinner table) We throw great parties too!! There are the naughty among us, saints and sinners alike.
The one thing we ALL have in common is our positive attitude and willingness to work tirelessly to:
RE-ELECT President Barack H. Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Even if its offering support from afar, yep.
AMEN!!
Hi, Ison! 😆 It’s good to see you and congratulations on your timely arrival. I missed you when I looked in on the last TOD party!
Being somewhat self-centred I’m speculating that the five minute posts today were meant to throw ME off. See I had just figured out my strategy to arrive first, but it included a good waiting period in between each post. Now it’s back to the drawing board for me! This coming first effort is way too much work, something to which I’ve always been allergic.
Good Morning amk, good question on Romney. I bet there will never be a definitive answer to that very apt question.
Every single time I hear him speak I cringe.
GM ss. It’s an excellent question, isn’t it ?
May 23, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Odds and ends about my day. First, Wonderful visit w/my mother. Best in a long time. Yes, she seems weaker each week and sleeps a lot after lunch (wears her out), but we had a delightful talk at lunch about her egg custard, how she made it, how delicious it was, etc. That was brought about because the dessert today was egg custard. Also, I was there for 3 hrs. and only heard 3 or 4 times about bathroom needs. That is usually NON-stop. Another good thing: There was a problem with her “Cadillac” model wheel chair so I called the company (local). The owner was there within 30 minutes and fixed it…..showed me how to fix it if it happens again. What a caring, kind, compassionate young man! All that stuff—–GOOD! Now for the not so good:
First, a normal 2 hr. 10 minute trip took over 3 hours–road construction and when I got into town, rush hour traffic in a downpour! Second, early this morning I shared on FB the line chart about the debt growing less under PO. This afternoon, I found in my email an email entitled: A picture is worth a 1000 words. It was this email:http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/may/04/chain-email/obama-has-added-more-national-debt-previous-43-pre/ PLUS this line in big bright blue print at the bottom: You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek. At the top of the email, he said: “A little different view from your Facebook post??” I did not and will not respond to the email. I did post on FB as my status update: WOW…..speechless. It did not make me angry. It makes me so very sad. There is such hate and disrespect for this fine man.
Thanks for letting me share and get this off my chest. You all are THE BEST!!!!!
I thought I saw an info sheet on the different debt levels of all the prev. pre. I recognize you don’t want to respond but it appears that person needs actually facts, but they probably won’t bother to check. (yes I am assuming). It is sad, I am always dumbfounded at the level of LACK of understanding or thinking skills on display.
Nice to see you are back safely, TN.
They’ve got their own version of reality. It’s almost pointless to present them with facts. They need to learn the hard way – and I just hope they won’t drag us through that lesson with them.
AMEN to that, theo. I have learned that with some, it is pointless to present facts and this guy is one of those. I have him blocked on my Newsfeed but occasionally go this Wall. Far right-wing postings is almost an understatement. As you said, hope they don’t drag us through the muck with their stupidity.
Tnmtngirl, so happy to see that your trip and visit with your precious mother went great. Now get some rest, and try to create your space with the beautiful moments that you shared with your lovely mother. Where there is a space of darkness, shine your own created light of peace, and most of all speak your light into that peaceful space that you have created and let no one enter it with a sense of peacefulness. Rest peacefully tonight and listen to some lovely favorites in your music libraray and meditate on your goodness and love that you shared with mom today. (((((((( Be peaceful to your space)))))))))) HZ
Pamela on May 23, 2012 at 8:32 pm said:
DENEA GOT THE ENGLISH BLOGGER JOB! SHE WILL SOON POST A THANK YOU BIG ENOUGH TO MATCH THE GENEROUS SPIRIT OF THOSE WHO CALL THE OBAMA DIARY HOME! How cool is this, everybody! 😆
WAHOOZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s great, congratulations.
OMG that is fantastic Pamela! A big ole Congrats to Denea.
Congrats to both of you.
Sweet! Congrats to her!
That is wonderful news about your daughter, Pamela! Congrats to her.
WHOA!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY!!! Congrats to Denea!!
Great news, Pamela. She’ll do a terrific jobs. Glad I added my vote to the total.
She was the best of the bunch! Congratulations!! Wow – what an exciting adventure.
Thanks everyone! She and I are both so stoked, it is a fantastic opportunity! It will be very exciting to follow along as she posts, and yes, she will be involved with the video blogging as well, so we will have links and updates to dream over! Who knows what opportunities may open up from the many new connections she will be making!
Great news! Can’t wait until we get to see her first blog.
SO happy for BOTH of you!!!! How fabulous is this!??
*~*~*~*~*~*YAY!!!!*~*~*~*~*~*
Congratulations to you both, this is so cool.
Yea, Denea!!!!!!! Congrats!
Pamela, this is great news. congratulations to Denea!!! What a joy, proud mother. HZ
What wonderful news!! Congratulations to you and especially to Denea!
Just saying hello to all. Been a very, very long time since I’ve been able to comment.
Hi thoughtful3. Glad you are able to join us this evening.
thank you, donna dem. missed you guys 😉
Been a life-changing year-and-a-half for me–relocation, divorce, now a “single mom”, new job, back in school (on my 3rd career). I get a (very) short break here. I’ll get to visit my grandmother and extended family out in san diego next week (although it’s turning out to be a sad, hard time for the family–great-aunt dying from the cancer 😦 But, I’m so grateful for all my blessings, and for family, and friends. And (although I don’t personally know you all), I feel a kinship with you on here as well. We share a common goal of getting this president (one of the greatest, in my opinion) re-elected! I didn’t become fully, actively involved in politics until President Obama in 2008. Although, I previously lived in the Chicago area before moving back to Omaha, so I did vote in 2004 for the first time–for both John Kerry and then-senator Obama. Now, I don’t miss an election, not even the “small” local ones. And, I try to volunteer and donate as much as my time and money will allow 🙂 P.S.–Also, I’m so glad that blackwaterdog is back with TOAITR 😉
Nice to see you back!
Thanks Christi. And, we will get President Obama re-elected. So long as we continue to encourage each other and keep our spirits up!
God Bless you thoughtful3 and glad things are a little more stable. Hope you have a good time in San Diego and that the weather is nice. We will get PBO re-elected again and retake the house and keep the senate so that we can unleash the president’s vision to more our country forward.
Thanks. And, yes we will! Believe it>>>achieve it
Hugs to you, thoughtful3…welcome back home.
thanks, desertflower ((())) 😉
Hi Thoughtful3,
Just read about all that the twists and turns you are going through. Chin-up love. Many hugs and warm heart healing wishes.
Lightfoot 🙂
Hi thoughtful. Nice to see you again.
Hi amk. Thanks. Same to you 🙂
Sorry to hear about your last year. Here is to a happy, new journey.
Yes, it’s all a life-long journey, and never-ending learning experience. But, even the “bad” things all work together for good–I truly believe that.
Indeed. My best wishes. Hopefully you will drop in more often.
We will bring into the candle lighting and prayer each morning at our home. Life can break us, or make us stronger. It sounds as if you are gaining in strength. God Bless You, thoughtful3.
Thanks for the encouraging words. And, to you too, Pamela.
Thoughtful3, may your new home be graced with a sweet and peaceful spirit to carry you onto a new journey of new and beautiful experiences. The very best to you.HZ
Was watching Ed in defense of the president against the crazies. Yet the saddest sentence I heard was “the president is an American.” It came to this. Someone on tv has to affirm that the president of the United States of American is an American.
I thought the same thing. 😦 😦 Kinda goes along with what I said about the email I got. The hate and disrespect for our President…..well, I just have no words other than what has been said by so many on this blog.
I Know how you feel. But please remember the President has enormous support across this country. The national polls seem close, but that ALSO MEANS there are potentially 65, 70+ million voters that are suporting the President right now. His personal popularity is much higher, so a fair amount of the electoral opposition in the polling is not against him OR EVEN his policies or vision for America. Many of that 40-sumthin percent of people that say right now they probably won’t vote for him are people having a hard time that are scared and confused and typically not well informed. The DARK SIDE that is really against Barack is a SMALL, IGNORANT or INTRANSGENT (also pathetic haters) segment of our great country. Call me naive if you want, but I really believe it.
Not naive. I agree with you. FORWARD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Right?
FIRED UP???
READY TO GO!!
You’re right, Magpie. We blow the darkside out of proportion because they’re so loud and hateful. But I agree that there are more of us than them.
Amen, magapie.
Busy day!
Hi Everyone!
Twitter is all atwitter with maddow show today. Was she that good ? Any linky ?
I’m watching the Maddow show and came to comment about it. I’m puzzled ( who are republicans?) My head and heart hurts. She covered Nixon and his comment that “when a president does it it’s not illegal. She segued into Reagan and Iran Contra, the hand slap by congress ( forgot the offical term), the lone descent was Cheny! Cheny apparently also told some senator to “go F@#! yourself” in response to a challenge about something regarding Haliburton.
Cheny is doing fund raiser for Mitt this summer- I’d read that here. The kicker was Romney ( 9/14/2011?) saying at a rally how he’d seen Cheny on TV giving an interview. He gushed about how knowledgeable he was about a whole host of issues. He praised Cheny for his “wisdom and judgement”! WTH!!!! And…the folks applauded, there was even a smile from a woman behind him! Republicans make my head HURT.
Romney and pubs are running from Bush, Romney has not even acknowleged appreciation for Dubya’s oh so casual endorsement from the elevator. I do not understand it. I know Cheny is hanging on to this life so he can get some more of his crap done, and he has the connections to do it! But to actually applaud the so called wisdom and judgement of the main liar to get us into Iraq! I’m am DONE with seeing Cheny unless it’s at the Hague. He has more to answer for than Bush in my eyes. Bush was the idiot self important schmuck who was duped at times by this maciavellian(sp) neo con Cheny and friends.
Please someone tell me even republicans are smarter than this?
Sorry .. you have pretty much figured it out. I don’t think they are smarter than this. This is what is in the Republican Party right now. It scares me to death; I thought I had seen everything during/after the Nixon years .. but it is so much worse now and so scary. As our President said
We won’t go back. We can’t go back. It would be the end of this country (and me).
When I think of Cheny now I cannot help but remember the 2009 Inauguration. When Cheny came out in his wheelchair there was the loudest BOO I had ever heard in my life! There were a lot of people there that day and I swear every single one booed. I was in the Blue section and we were crammed in bodies touching. I was in amazement when I returned home and watched the Inauguration on my tv that I had tivoed. The audio on the moment was changed so if you were watching on tv you never even heard the Boo.
I watched her section on Romney and Cheney. It has sent a chill through my heart. Romney clearly idolizes Cheney. Romney’s god is money – it’s all he seems to live for. And his goal is to collect as much money as possible, no matter the cost or consequences. And who is a better role model for the callous, cold blooded, money-mongering, coreless person than Dick Cheney? If we thought Cheney was bad, then Romney will be worse. I wonder if he’s thinking of bringing on Cheney’s daughter as his VP – to keep the Cheney vibe close. It’s no wonder that the daughter turned out the way she did.
If this country doesn’t wake up to the danger that Romney represents, then heaven help us.
Dancing with the Stars got 17.5 million viewers, in Finale.
You gotta be kidding me?
Lol…I know, huh? I don’t get it either. My mama loves that show!
Hey, hey there yous. I watch that show and I love it. I do do the cha, cha,cha, and the samba as I waltz around my keyboard. Actually I find dance the most enjoyable of all of the fine arts, no matter the style.
You just made me laugh…seriously, I told my son if when I get old and if I start doing shit like this….slap me. HARD! My parents, whom I haven’t seen in 3 years, went out to dinner at 5pm last night, so they could be home by 7pm to watch DWTS. WTF? Dis the daughter for DWTS? Words fail.
Yeah, this is why I don’t worry about what anyone says on cable news. Hardly anyone watches it. Between the four of them they can’t get ratings that high.
I just had to share this tweet I saw the other day from Chuck Todd. It was completely ridiculous that I thought I misread it and read it several times to make sure I wasn’t missing a word or two.
Just imagine. Pres.Obama is running against Mitt Romney for the presidency and by speaking out against Bain/Romney, Chuck thinks he’s getting “personally involved”. WTF?
LHM he is pathetic!!
WTH is he talking about? Sorry, I don’t get it. PBO engaging personally to keep his job in the White House!! Stop the presses!!
Really Chuck Todd is so not qualified for his job. His real level of competence is probably reporting about the town council in a small city in the boondocks. He’s certainly doesn’t have the brains or talent to cover the White House.
His level of competence is delivering the newspaper on a bicycle. That’s about it. And he’d probably screw that up, too.
Doesn’t chucky toad expose his mediawhore, wilfull ignorance on a daily level? He should have giant mounds of complaints AGAINST HIM AT MSNBC-NBC.
JUST SO THEY KNOW..NO ONE IS FOOLED BY HIS CRAVEN WATERBOY ACT.
Chuckie has a commercial that says, in a nutshell, given his access to the whitehouse, president, and congress he’s able to ask the questions the American people have a right to know. He’s there to ask and get the ” truth”. The commercial shows him walking up the lane to the house………..WHAT HAPPENED TO ASKING THE QUESTIONS OF EVERYONE AND GETTING THE TRUTH not your bias CHUCK? inquiring minds want to know.
OK I’ve read the tweet about 10 times and I don’t get it. Please to explain. He’s asking if this is May or October, cause October is usually the month that all the political looney-tunes happen. Yet, he we are in May and PBO is getting fall-out and is being accused of getting personal about Bain. See that’s why I can’t really get to that Twit machine, there’s only so much that can be interpreted from 140 characters.
Anybody know what “(EOP)” means after Jay Carney’s name?
Eyes on Prize?
Hey Tally, I see you’ve recovered from your birthday!!
for the win!!!
Hey Tally bardgal!! aka Princess Potty Mouth, Recovered from the massive birthday party, I presume?
😆
Egad OMG President ? 🙂
Executive Office of the President.
Aaahhhh! 🙂
smartypants:)
ears(eyes) of the president?
Executive Office of the President.
Had to burst my bubble, didn’t you ?
lol
Decorum!!
Hey TODville, in this very simple activity you can see who the sober, ahem… more mature heads in this family are – DD4O & Meta. Boy, am I glad to have you guys in the family! 😆 😆 Executive Office of the Pres, eh. I wondered when I first saw it but didn’t think to ask. Thanks Tally, you seeker of knowledge, you.
’twas I that asked the question, but I DO like Tally’s answer best. “Eyes of Prize” is what I’ve decided it means. tee hee…
Sorry, Ison, got bogged down with the creative answers! 😉
Here’s a point of view that perhaps someone else have about but I have simply not come across. When Vice President Biden made his remarks about supporting marriage between gays and lesbians — it was a mission that he had been deliberately assigned and dispatched to broadcast via the media. It was neither a slip nor was it off-the-cuff statement! For, if we follow President Obama’s actions towards gays and
lesbians this decision is a very LOGICAL conclusion.
Hey Lightfoot!!
A few TODers said that when the issue first came up, especially as people were trying to “blame” VPB for “undercutting” PBO. I also think it was planned. There isn’t much that isn’t planned from the Obama campaign.
Hi Isonprize,
Thanks so much for your response. Especially because I have been busy for a while, and have only been catching up in recent weeks on and off. So, in the interim I’ve caught some things on time, gathered bits and pieces here and there, and missed other things completely.
It is true that when you look at the recording of the VP versus his (other) “gaffs” there is a monumental difference in this single video. Here, Biden is THOUGHTFUL, CALM, deliberate, articulate as usual, CLEAR, and resolute. Not only that, he later offers no gun-to-the-head-you tube-retraction after this alleged “gaff” that could possibly be costly President Obama blah, blah, blah, but instead, is immediately almost hurriedly rushed to seal his BLESSING, APPROVAL, and absolute support via broadcast before the entire planet!
All of this occurs despite this being an election season. But done at a precise time period away from the actual election to allow the national psyche to get acclimated to a new way seeing the world.
Erm, that’s no accident!
🙂
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I am watching the Celtics, and I have a Bud Light in my hand!
You want one?
Test… Chuck Todd is playing with wordoress again.
Hilarious rw birther conspirist mara zebest here
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205230004
And the resultant hilarious BJ thread here
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/05/23/breaking-the-illusion-of-fdrs-war-room-leadership/#comment-3279268
As one BJ poster said
All I can say is that we haven’t even hit June yet. I can’t imagine what things are going to be like when we hit silly season proper.
Popping in from Ct.——drove from western Pa. to Ct. today ——-miles of road construction in every state—-every bridge everywhere is being reconstructed, not kidding. Did some jobs act pass? Sure looks like it. Saw more Obama 2012 bumper stickers, zero for Willard, it’s like he’s not even running, persona non grata. .No one likes that guy, don’t let anyone fool you—absolutely no enthusiasm for the Mitt man. Did see one gal with an Alaska license plate with a Ron Paul bumper sticker—–poor kid. And spotted a deteriorating McCain sticker—-90yr. old driver—obviously does not have access to embarrassing sticker removal info. Vinegar! Visiting fam—-9yr. old Obama supporter grandson is going to be neighborhood campaigning again this year—showed me his most excellent homemeade signs ready to roll—-did it in ’08 too when he was only 5. Brougtht Ct. in for the good guy.
I’ve got 3 Obama/Biden/2012 bumper stickers plastered on the back of my car (and proudly)! And, I live in Omaha, NE! (lol) But, I’ve seen several Obama bumper stickers around these parts. No Romney ones yet. Saw one or two old McCain/Palin ones (lol). There used to be a Romney yard sign at one of the houses up the street, but they must’ve taken it down–haven’t seen it in a while. Meanwhile, the house a couple doors down had two Obama signs in the window 🙂 Omaha’s a 50/50 town–elects some republicans, some democrats. Obama was the first democrat to win the electoral vote from here in 2008 since Lyndon Johnson (Nebraska is one of the two states that split their electoral votes). However, the repubs redistricted here after the 2010 elections, so to make it very much harder for that to happen again. We’ll still try though–not giving up hope 😉
Help Chips? LOL!
David Axelrod on Romney’s lie that his business experience in the corporate world means he knows how to create jobs;
same hooey in MA Get ’em, Axe! GET ‘EM!!!
I’d love to know how Axe defines HOOEY!!! 😆 😆
I think Axe has gotten much better on his communication skills. Maybe gleaned something from Plouffe? 🙂
Oh my. Get ‘im, Axe!
GB, these are excellent tweets from Josh Marshall and David Axelrod! By the way, something else has been bugging me about Willard Romney and his “calling card” about his business experience that qualifies him to be president. Today, I listened to him once again doing the “Sarah Palin”: mocking the President for having worked as a community organizer. Just as an aside, I suppose Sarah Palin thinks that being a half-term governor, going on the road to peddle ghost written books, and serving as a pundit on Fox news, are all more important jobs than organizing laid off workers to find jobs, or organizing people to vote. Of course all these idiots would rather ignore other things the President has been doing ( such as being President for 31/2 years) because they don’t make good sound bites.
Any way, what really bugs me is: what exactly has Willard Romney been doing since he left the governorship in MA? Romney served as governor from 2002 to 2006. We know he doesn’t want to talk about his one term as MA governor. So, other than running for President, what has Willard been doing for almost 6 years since he left the MA governorship? Does spending six years running for president qualify as a business experience? Does Willard mean to tell us that with all his impressive business experience, that he touts every chance he gets, he could’t find a job other than running for president?
President Obama has spent 31/2 years trying to clean the awful mess, both domestic and international, that he inherited from George W. Bush. Any objective person, not driven by ideology or bad faith like our media, would concede that President Obama has done an incredible job. Yet, all we here from Willard Romney and his enablers is constant criticism of the President. Criticism from a man who has spent 6 years running for president simply because he is able to live off all the millions of dollars he made at the expense of workers at many companies he owned.
I repeat, what has Willard “Mitt” Romney been doing to help the country for the past six years, other than run for president? Forget the 4 years he served as governor of MA. How come Willard “Mitt” Romney has not used his business experience, in the past six years, to help create jobs?
These are sad days for the country because our so called “4th Estate” has completely abrogated its responsibilities. No one in the media dares to ask Mitt Romney what he has exactly been doing in the past 6 years (or for that matter the past 31/2 years of the Obama presidency) to help his fellow Americans? Surely, spending 6 years running for president is not evidence of the ability to create jobs.
These are all brilliant questions/points, Nathkatun7. They deserve to be asked and answered.
Thank you Theo67. I honestly think that Romney’s past six years deserve heightened scrutiny. And if the unethical media won’t do it then all of you brilliant people, who know how to tweet/ facebook, must do your best to do the scrutinizing. I intend to write letters to the editors of my local paper to ask these questions. That is if they will print them. I happen to be in the somewhat red area of blue California. To be honest with you, Theoe, I am just sick and tired of listening to Romney relentlessly attacking the President who has been out there trying to fix the horrible mess he inherited, while he (Romney) has done absolutely nothing for the past six years, except to enjoy his loot from Bain and to perpetually run for President. I can’t remember any other presidential candidate, in my lifetime, who did nothing else but spend six years running for President.
Guess it takes a while to hide all his money 🙂 . They are still on the community organizer strategy. Yep, that worked so well in 2008. They GOT NOTHING! They are so pathetic.
If we are going to use twitter right this election season please follow the opposition – @EricFehrn @Reince
Eric is to Romney what Axelrod is to Pres.Obama except Eric is an incompetent douche bag. Of course we all know Michael Steele’s replacement – Reince Preibus. The stuff they tweet..oh my goodness. Pure garbage.
I just don’t think I can do it. I can retweet when I see something come across for either of them, but I just couldn’t survive seeing their lies on a daily basis. I just dipped my toe into Eric Fehrn’s timeline, and I came screaming out. Too much.
Well the right follows our people. You should see the responses to David Axelrod’s tweets. This is part of how we should push back. We should set the top guys straight.
I don’t mind setting the record straight. But, I don’t want that garbage in a constant stream into my timeline. I appreciate all of you who can withstand it. I can’t. When I see people tweeting back the truth to these cretins, then I’ll join in on the retweet and pushback. But seeing that garbage on a daily basis will do me in.
Plus, when their people follow Democratic people, they don’t see vile lies and hateful speech.
Romney: “I know how to read a balance sheet.”
Bashir: “So does Bernie Madoff, but that doesn’t qualify him to be president” Snippet from LOD and the Halipern Romney oh so friendly interview! 🙂
Ha! Love it. Great line. I don’t watch cable “news”, but I’ve seen posters commenting about the Bashir-guy. He seems pretty witty 😉
HA! Burnnnnnn…!!!!
Nail, meet the hammer. Must tweet it.
I know how to read a balance sheet, what does that mean? Mitt you also know how to fire people as you and your buddies walk off filthy rich.
But how many jobs does that create?
Amk, I just read about your son’s success and I wanted to offer my congratulations. I like your tweets. I really need to know who Martin Bashir is because I don’t watch television much. This quote from him is pitch perfect.
Being from the old school I wrote a long comment earlier, probably “severely” repeating my self that could have been easily summarized. I know most people have been focused on Mitt’s Bain years, or his not to be mentioned one term as MA governor. My burning question is: What exactly has Mitt Romney been doing in the past six years to use his business experience to create jobs? He had six years to show us how a seasoned businessman creates jobs; yet he spent all those six years running for president. If you think this is a legitimate query, I wish you, and others skilled in tweeting like Bobfr, Chips, hopefriut, Tally, and others would pose it. As I said earlier, PBO has spent three and half years trying to clean up the mess he inherited, while the job creating businessman has spent six years running for president without creating jobs (other than those for his handlers, retainers, pollsters, etc.) for the average middle class people.
Thank you nathkatun.
Bashir nailed that one perfectly. His linking mittbot with thatscum madoff was genius.
Touche’ Mr Bashir!!
I love Lawrence O’Donnell, but I must say I am truly enjoying Martin as well. Out of all the pundits, it seems that he knows his homework inside and out the most. Plus, his calm, but assertive demeanor is such a refreshing change from the norm. I hope they add him to the line up. Who needs Tweety twice a night?!?!
I love it that Bashir surreptitiously linked mehmney with madoff. 🙂
yes, that was very smoothly done.
Me too, he is wonderful. I wish he had a prime time slot. Chris doesn’t need two slots. It could be Chris, then Reverend Al, then Maddow, Ed, Martin finally O’Donnell.
My perfect scenario would be the great Martin Bashir replacing the awful Scarborough in the morning…same format….3 hours with guests…what a difference it would make….but the right leaning MSNBC would never do that.
Hell, *I* know how to read a balance sheet! That doesn’t qualify me to be president….although I’d be a better one than Willard!
I give up. Me going to Bed. Good night.
Good way to frame it. “mitt still doesn’t get it”…that will go on FOREVER.
Oh my! I just tweeted that in response before moving down and seeing your response. I was wishing that I had had the space to say that Romney doesn’t get it in ANY of the pertinent areas – foreign policy. economy, military etc, and this is MONTHS after he started in the primaries. HE HAS NOT GAINED ONE OUNCE OF KNOWLEDGE SINCE HE HAS STARTED ON THE TRAIL! THERE IS NO EVIDENCE I’VE SEEN THAT HE EVEN HEARS WHAT IS SAID AROUND HIM!
Here it is
BOOM!!
Bravo to David Axelrod! What exactly has Mitt done in the past six years to create jobs? Thanks amk for sharing these gems.
stew-rat better know his place.
FL Michelle will charm him and make HIM laugh! Although, she has to be aware of how disingenuous he can be about PBO. I can’t even believe I have to type those words.
FLOTUS will be on the View when, Tuesday May 29.
FLOTUS is the only one who can get me watch Jon Stewart, and he better treat her with RESPECT.
At the end of RM’s show she gave a quote from Jay Carney’s press conf. on Air Force One. He was really giving it to the White House Press Corp. Talking about the BS they are putting out there about the Presidents lack of accomplishments. Have you guys talked about it already? Is it available? I love Jay!
Brilliant! Thanks for the report, auni!
JAY CARNEY TO THE JACKALS (paraphrasing)
DO YOUR JOB, DON’T BE LAZY SLOTHS, DON’T BUY INTO THE GOP BS, REPORT THE FACTS
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney en route Colorado Springs, CO, 5/23/12
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Q You’re emulating Herbert Hoover now as a standard —
MR. CARNEY: Not at all. I think it is simply a fact that despite the enormous challenges that this country faced when the President took office and the absolute essential need for taking dramatic action and significant action in passing a stimulus bill, as well as the other actions the President took, this President has been — has demonstrated significant fiscal restraint and acted with great fiscal responsibility. That is also why he has put forward a balanced plan to further reduce our deficit and debt by over $4 trillion.
That approach, that balanced approach is available — is supported by a broad majority of the American people, majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans outside of the nation’s capital. If only Republicans in Congress would agree to take that balanced approach, there is an opportunity for significant further deficit reduction.
I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration. I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness.
Next question.
Q Yes, let’s move on.
Q — you need more stimulus, not Herbert Hoover policies. What do you think?
MR. CARNEY: I just think — you know, it’s an interesting point. I think it is often noted, but not enough, that — I remember the chart, seeing it, that the — in the postwar era, the only two Presidents under which the size of the federal government shrank — not Reagan, not Nixon, not Bush or Bush; Clinton and Carter. How could that be? Well, it’s a fact. So next time —
Q — you need more stimulus.
MR. CARNEY: Next time you are lectured by a Republican member of Congress who voted for all of the budget-busting measures under the previous administration, remind them of that record on my behalf.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/23/press-gaggle-press-secretary-jay-carney-en-route-colorado-springs-co-523
Tell ’em Jay. Apparently the questioner is still clueless.
Must have been chuckie.
I loved what Jay had to say “sloth and lazy” to discribe no doing the homework so to speak and just carry GOP water and misinformation. He challenged them to be real journalists! A lost work ethic now. Someone quoted Tweey as owning up to it by saying something like WE don’t call Mitt on his lies cause they’re afraid they won’t get an interview. SAD SAD SAD. Media FAIL again, still and also too.
sloth and lazy describe the media 100 percent, except when they are helping the GOP make up fake controversy to hurt the Obama campaign.The media are the mouthpiece for the Republican party.
Heard it. Totally awesome. Jay gave them h— and they deserve it. Wish he had done it sooner. However, OTOH, Jay is so sharp, I shouldn’t second-guess him. He undoubtedly knew the right time.
Great someone else saw it beside me, Bravo to Jay Carney.
The media knows that Mitt Romney and his camp is telling lies, but yet this sorry ass media lets them get away with it.
I was really disappointed with Tweety today. David Corn made the point that he wished Mark Halperin had challenged some of Mitt Romney’s claims in his “exclusive” interview. Tweety’s response was that challenging Mitt Romney would mean you would never get an interview with him again. Are you freakin kidding me. I just couldn’t believe he said that.
Ladyhawke, I believe he said that, that’s why the media haven’t come out and call Mitt Romney a bold face liar, because he is a bold face liar. And Tweety knows that, so does Chuckie Todd, and the rest of the anti-Obama media.
Let’s be honest. On the whole, the U.S. media has completely mopped into the GOP’s propaganda machine. The mainstream media is just as invested as the GOP to ensure that President Obama is not re-elected. Thankfully, the mainstream U.S. media are no longer the main source of news for a large segment of the American people.
Good read about staying on message and not getting distracted: http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/2012/05/cut-you-strings-stop-being-puppets.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PleaseCutTheCrap+%28Please+Cut+the+Crap!%29
funny thing about that republican robot talk about PBO not knowing how read a balance sheet or “run a business…”
the 2008 campaign was a rapidly built “company,” with massive amounts of “revenue” brought in very fast, and turned around just as fast into strategic and massive expenditures. There was no discernable waste or scandal as they complied with all regulations, and the 2008 obama campaign expenses provided an incredible “return on investment” with a landslide win against all odds, and even had a huge amount of money leftover.
any republican robot, please point to any example of mittbot (or any business for that matter), that was so successful so quickly as the 2008 obama campaign. oh yea, and the guy in charge of this incredibly responsible, and “profitable” organization was barack obama. it must be hard for a republican…they know deep down that obama can kick the butts no matter what he decides to do! democrats 2012!!!
Hey amk, I was reading one of your tweet on twitter…..what does it mean ”Idjit whc”?
Idiot white house correspondent. 🙂
lol thanks…I couldn’t figure it out
Bravo!
🙂 🙂 🙂 I don’t tweet, but that is PERFECTO,LL!!!!!
wham. RT’ed.
I Rt-ed THAT! Though I wonder if Mitt only understands when it’s in the black. There is no proof so far that Mitt knows how to recalibrate his arguments when faced with unexpected data, I shudder to think how he would negotiate for America on the world stage. I just don’t think he could.
RTed!
TY LL. Where is everybody? The thread isn’t moving. Is the President speaking somewhere? I’m always at the tail end of the action! Help me out here.
Well, I’m about to drop off soon as well. I’m pooped.
Have a good rest then; see you tomorrow ‘if the gods allow’.
Fantastic. As per Colin Powell, come on Mitt, THINK.
Mitt Romney is doing exactly what Sarah Palin did, when she needed to do interviews she ran to FOX news. She refused to do interviews with journalists who would ask real questions, who wouldn’t her get away with dodge and ducking. Mitt Romney is doing the same thing. He went to Time magazine Mark Halperin, who is mouth piece for the Republican party. Why is he doing this? He’s afraid.
But he has to be careful which FOX show. Romney won’t go anywhere near Chris Wallace after that shellacking he took . For that matter Bret Baier can’t get his calls returned either.
Way to go LL! You guys are amazing! The MSM don’t know who they are messing with!
Back after having checked out shortly–caught some of c-span replaying Pres. Obama’s commencement address to the Air Force Academy in Co. Springs from earlier–it was very good. Then, caught the end of the Celtics/Sixers game–on to game 7! (I’m a huge sports fan). Then, the end of Law&Order SVU (one of the few shows I used to watch). As you can tell, I haven’t been able to watch much tv in quite awhile..lol
Did anyone catch the end of Rachel Maddow show tonight were she told about Jay Carney going after the press for accepting everything which comes from the Romney camp as truth. For not checking out the facts, something we talk about all the time here. I hope someone saw it beside me. I think Romney folks were talking about the spending of the Obama administration, and Jay Carney read something to the sorry ass press which show that what the Romney folks were saying was a lie, but I think Jay was saying why is it that the media sit on their butts and take everything Romney folks say as facts, without checking these things out. I think Chuck Todd main concern is empty seats at Obama rallies and fake polls. But yet in his own mind he is a great journalists.
I saw it, annie. So proud of Jay. I commented before about this so see my other thoughts.
The so-called “fourth estate” hasn’t done it’s job in many, many years–decades even (although it’s gotten progressively worse). Outside of here, PBS, local public radio (which includes some NPR and BBC reporting), and my local newspaper, I don’t trust any of it. The stuff I do gather, I take that under much scrutiny and sometimes “with a grain of salt” as well, but I figure it’s at least better reporting and generally more trustworthy than the rest of the mass-media out there, which is completely sold-out. This is also at least some portion of the reason that the vast majority of the American public is so uninformed/misinformed. It’s really sad, and also dangerous.
enuff said……Chuckie’s creds are a figment of his imagination.
Anniebella – the Jay clip has been making the rounds on twitter since earlier today. It’s a thing of beauty!
Have you seen Chuck Todd’s MSNBC promo? It’s enough to make you feel sick – he is delusional about his skills as a journalist.
theo67, let me tell you how much I love and respect Chuck Todd, when I see his MSNBC promo about to come on I turn the tv. That’s how much I respect Chuckie Todd.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/47544813#47544813
here is the link to that segment….
I’m still trying to figure out what the joker Chuck Todd meant by that:
”Fallout from Pres. Obama engaging personally in the Bain-Romney debate”
What in the world does he mean, engaging personally?…I don’t get it
He’s really a good surogate for the Romney camp this one….
So predictable
Just think sloth and laziness.
ChristiMTL, let me give you a piece of advice, forget Chuckie Todd, he isn’t worth your time. We know he is just like David Gregory, he can’t be trusted, he is a mouth piece for the GOP, and he isn’t worth sh*t. Excuse my english please.
lol I know anniebella…you don’t waste your time with these losers….I have a tendency to do so, to push back…but he’s hopeless.
http://crooksandliars.com/mike-lux/bain-our-existence Nice read. I found this particularly perfect:
What Obama and other Democrats are arguing is that our government should be on the side of the businesses that create not just wealth for a few at the top, but jobs and incomes for a lot of people. That is why Obama made the incredibly gutsy move to save the American auto industry, a policy that saved 1.45 million jobs in the short run, and kept desperately needed manufacturing jobs in this country for years to come. It is why Obama has made big investments in the budget for Small Business Administration jobs. It is why investments have been made in clean energy jobs of the future. It is why the U.S. Department of Agriculture has emphasized rural economic development and small business development in areas where jobs and incomes are desperately needed.
******* Democratic policies are in fact far more pro-business than policies like the Romney-Ryan budget, which independent studies estimate would cost the nation more than 4 million jobs in the next two years. That’s a lot of business customers who no longer have money to spend.*******
Nice! Tweeted.
******* Democratic policies are in fact far more pro-business than policies like the Romney-Ryan budget, which independent studies estimate would cost the nation more than 4 million jobs in the next two years. That’s a lot of business customers who no longer have money to spend.*******
Ah, yes, but that is irrelevant if you believe in supply-side economics. /snark.
Did anyone else notice the reddish sweaty top of Mitt’s lips during his interview with Halperin? Something’s wrong with guy.
africa, what you witness is a liar, a bold face lying liar, Mitt Romney.
you have good eyes africa lol….I’ll have to check it again….I can’t believe Halperin said Romney was very comfortable…
He was “very comfortable” because, apparently, it wasn’t a real interview. And, I’m not surprised–it being Mark Halperin and all. I haven’t put any stock in him in at least a couple years, and especially after he called the president a d*ck. I didn’t watch the interview, and won’t. The mental picture I’m getting from you guys on here is more than enough, lol.
He was anything but. Look at his body language, his face. His top lip was sweaty. No way that guy was comfortable. Plus he did not answer the softball questions about Bain.
There is definitely something wrong with him. His eyes give him away. I suspect that he is — and will be during the campaign, and especially during the debates — totally medicated.
Medicated for sure,….
africa – I’ve seen the pundits on MSNBC mention his red sweaty upper lip all day today, following that interview. He looked nervous as a cat! Quite an unpleasant thing to watch. Ugh.
Yes – I saw that in the clip on the evening shows. I was surprised he was sweating at such a weak interview. He’s pathetic and so is Halperin.
Noticed the same wet upper lying lip Mitt. The debates will have that upper lip pouring like a full blasting water faucet.HZ
Laughing out loud at this image, HZ! Good to see you – I hope you’re well.
There was a tv show on a couple of years ago called LIES or something along that line that I don’t see on tv now. I really enjoyed the show because it showed universal body language signs that show when a person is lying. I cannot help notice Romney showing those signs when he talks now.
Lie To Me… loved that show.. sexxxy Tim Roth was the star!!
Okay. I bought a new Telescope, 2200 bucks.
Anyways, I just saw Jupiter and 4 moons.
Cool!
That is very cool. The word awesome is terribly overused. But if we’re talking about the vastness of the universe I think AWESOME is the only word to describe it. Enjoy Jovie.
Very cool.
Omg. Don’t look now, Robney just bought Tine magazine.
Go look at the front cover for this Week.
Roses and candy for the Robney Campaign.
Boy, will you be surprised, or maybe I should come to expect it.
The media has a new darling, they Love, live, love Robney!
puke!
jovie141, I don’t read Time. I stop when they didn’t fire that S.O.B. Halperin when he called POTUS a dick. Plus let the media love Mitt, it will be even more sweeter when President Obama win November 6th.
Right on. Lots of people stopped reading them.
Okay, I will tell you. It’s a story of Him and His Mom growing up.
WTF???
Oh, boy!!
Same here Anniebella. I’m was pizzzed at Halperin for making me quit my TIME magazine. It was a sign of them going downhill when they didn’t fire him. What he did was so unprofessional and childish any self respecting news organization would have gotten rid of him immediately. If that’s their standard then I can live without them.
Anniebella, I did the same. I will never again buy TIME magazine! I am doing the same with NEWSWEEK because of its deceptive headline calling President Obama “A Gay President.” Obviously I have no problem with electing a gay president, What I have a problem with is trying to inflame public passions.The President is a strong supporter go gay rights as are many of us who heterosexual. No one called LBJ “a Black President” just because he supported the right to vote for African Americans. The American media, in my humble opinion, are destroying this country by adopting the sensational tactics of tabloid reporting.
I don’t know what the word ”sloth” means..I’m trying to find the french translation but my connection is so slow at the moment, I’m stuck there….actually I never saw that word before….no clue.
anyone?
It means idleness or laziness. Like the animal. It’s one of the legendary seven deadly sins.
Oh I see, thanks WoS, I learned something new
So WoS,is it not fair to conclude that the American media are guilty of engaging in “sloth,” one the seven deadly sins according to Christian (or is it Catholic) theology? For me as a non religious person, I think the U.S. media is guilty of failing to uphold the number one standard of real journalism: Reporting the Truth to the American people. The failure of the U.S. media to inform the public about the truthfulness or falsehood of statements/claims made by politicians makes it possible for politicians to win elections to public office on the basis of lies.
It’s a little late for me to answer your question. But Yes! I think that’s fair to say.
A sloth is an animal that is so lazy it barely moves. To be slothful means to be extremely lazy. It is considered one of the “Seven Deadly Sins” (if you believe in such things).
Thanks PJ
🙂
Seven? Did you see that movie with Brad Pitt? Very scary!
I did — in fact I was thinking of it when I wrote this post. Ha!
Goodnight, my TOD family. Sweet dreams! Will try to pop in and out before I head off ti see my other/born family, but I doubt we will have so may interesting conversations. ( some of them are republicans, though our parents tried to raise them right! ) 😆 I will miss you over the next few days!
The Gary effect, continued
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 5/23/12 11:35 PM EDT
We noted recently that the latest PPP poll of New Hampshire showed libertarian candidate Gary Johnson taking 7 percent of the vote, and the new numbers from the Democratic polling firm out of Arizona show something similar.
In Arizona, Johnson gets 9 percent of the vote, compared with 45 percent for Mitt Romney and 41 percent for President Obama. Another 6 percent are undecided. In a straight head-to-head, the state is less in play than Democrats had hoped, with Romney getting 50 percent to Obama’s 43 percent.
But, PPP pollsters note:
One thing that could make the race more competitive in Arizona, perhaps more so than other states, is Gary Johnson’s presence on the ballot as the Libertarian candidate. He pulls 9% in Arizona and he takes a lot more support away from Romney than he does Obama, narrowing Romney’s lead in the state to 45-41. History suggests it’s quite unlikely Johnson would really pull 9% in the end but it shows how many voters are unhappy with their main choices in this race.
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Ah, yes! The rights Nader?
I figured he would get 80% of the Hispanic vote in Arizona. What happened?
Ha!
HA! POS.
I know I am late, but just wanted to share. I was fortunate in being able to attend the Air Force Academy Graduation in Colorado Springs today. Our President gave a wonderful speech (no surprise there.) He spoke openly and honestly about our wonderful country. There were over 1000 graduates. I think about 1200 in all. Our President saluted and shook hands and spoke to each and every graduate!!! It went on for 2 hours. The man is amazing. I think he probably had to put is arm on ice! Then I see he went up to Denver and was at a fund raiser until 10 or so. He now is in California. Someone better be taking care of this man.
Never too late for such a great on-the-ground report. So glad you got to enjoy seeing the President! Thanks for sharing this.
Oooohh…lucky you. Thanks for the first-hand report
Awesome! It’s reloading on cspan at 1:30!
Lucky you:) Thanks for the update!
President Obama speaking now: http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Loud, lively crowd in Redwood City.
THANK YOU, JER:) I was about to call it quits, and that pulled me right back! That one was a podium slapper! BAM! Loved it….love him:)
Good nite TOD peoples.
First Lady Michelle Obama will be on ABC Television Network on May 29, 2012, the day after Memorial Day, according to a May 23, 2012, announcement from ABC Television Network. Mrs. Obama will talk to “Good Morning America” and then to “The View” hosts to discuss her new book about healthy eating, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.”
Mrs. Obama has made the importance of healthy eating and exercise a primary message to Americans in her “Lets Move” campaign. The interviews on “GMA” and “The View” will be her first television interviews about her new book.
The First Lady will discuss how having access to healthy, affordable food can promote better eating habits. Mrs. Obama will also discuss the history of the White House garden, some of the recipes in the book, and tips for starting your own garden no matter where you live.
On “Good Morning America,” students from New York City’s Public Schools 102 and 107, who have successfully grown their own container gardens, will show viewers how easy it is to get started.
The First Lady’s appearance on “The View” will be part of the shows continuing “Red White & View” campaign. Mrs. Obama then sits down with “The View” hosts Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. Mrs. Obama previously appeared on “The View” in April 2011 and June 2008, when she made her daytime television debut as a special guest co-host.
http://www.examiner.com/article/first-lady-michelle-obama-to-appear-on-gma-and-the-view
I didn’t keep the link, but that source said she will also be on Jon Stewart’s show on Tuesday. And on Wednesday tape Live with Kelly (don’t know when it will air). and on Thursday a previously taped episode with Rachel Ray. What do you want to bet that she will also do fundraisers on Tuesday night?
I know it is late but I was looking at some of the photos from today’s events, and I found this description under the photos interesting. This description sounds like something a republican would write. Ruthless??
“US President Barack Obama disembarks from Air Force One at the Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California, on May 23, 2012 to attend campaign events. Obama may have made his name peddling hope and change, but his aspirational politics concealed a ruthless streak now being turned on the man who wants his job: Mitt Romney. President Obama and his hard-eyed political consultants have unleashed a long-planned attack on the Republican’s corporate past, seeking to turn November’s election on Romney’s character rather than his own economic record.”
This is definitely written by a right winger. Anyone else with eyes open to see knows that President Obama is itching to run on his record – economic, foreign policy, education, military, health, regulations, etc. He has no qualms about his real record, and it’s only a fool who still believes that he’s running from his record, especially when his opponent has a record that should disqualify him from running for dog catcher – let alone for POTUS. I marvel at the right wing’s ability to create a whole separate version of reality!
I used to read the captions on the “Daylife” site – and then I noticed that the site is run by raving right wingers. So, now I just enjoy the pictures, and ignore their comments. The only time to read comments is if you suffer from low blood pressure, and need a jolt.
COS, I would like for who ever wrote that to tell us what do they expect President Obama to do, sit back and let Mitt Romney and his camp continue to LIE about him? Romney has been attacking the President even when he was running against Newt, the two Ricks, Paul, Cain, Bachmann, and the President said once the GOP clowns pick their clown then he would have something to say, well Mitt Romney is their GOPlying clown, so don’t expect President Obama to sit back and let them attack him and his record without hitting back. If anyone is running from their record it is Mitt Romney. You wouldn’t think he was ever Governor of Mass. And he is afraid to discuss Bain. I would love to ask these people, do Romney have a character.
And why hasn’t Romney release his tax returns?
If the President hadn’t release his tax returns, the media would be doing a story on it everyday, making it a controversy. But nothing about Mitt and his tax returns.
I saw him speak in Colorado, and the air force commencement. This speech was essentially the same speech as Colorado, but I have to say it was so much better. This man should be walking exhausted and he just gave a barn burner. The crowd chanted 4 more years in the middle of the years he got them so fired up and he just kept going. President Obama is the BEST president I can remember and I remember back to Ike. Thank God for this man.
I miss the speech but he is like the energizer bunny. He started out early this morning and shook over 1k hands in Colorado. I have never seen a President work this hard. I am in awe.
Goodnight Chips and TOD family. We are going to be fine. Stay focus, stay together, keep our space open to a delightful freshness in our thoughts, share our knowledge openly with each other with respect, pray continiously for POB and his staff, and always give thanks to God for this beautiful gift in our POTUS.
((((((((((((((((((((((( Hugs to my TOD family and our Chips for this beautiful space.))))))))))))))))))))))))))))HZ
🙂
Have Chuckie Todd mention that yet?
Landslide off the port bow.
ATHERTON, Calif. – President Barack Obama told an intimate crowd gathered at the family estate of the heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune that he has started to steer the ship in the right direction.
“We’ve set a path and a target,” he said, “and a direction where this is again a country where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody does their fair share, everybody plays by the same set of rules.”
The president ticked off accomplishments of his first term – from toughening fuel efficiency standards to health care reform. But he also noted a few things he wants to do in the future, including rebuilding the country’s infrastructure and tackling climate change “in a serious way.” His agenda, he suggested is far from complete.
“We may not even finish it in five years,” Obama told roughly 70 supporters at the $35,800 per head dinner. “But I certainly need five more years to get us locked in on where we need to go.”
The hosts, philanthropists Doug and Lisa Goldman, held the event at a leafy, family compound called “Green Shutters” and guests included actor Don Cheadle, vice chair emeritus of AOL Jan Brandt, and Google executives Susan Wojcicki and Dennis Troper.
Obama told the crowd that he is more determined than he was in 2008, and he hoped he could count on their continued support. “I intend to win this thing and I intend to keep on changing this country,” he said.
Pool-
Morning Joe just had breaking news that Scott walker was going to blowout Barrett and that Unions are stooopid!
LOL!
Actually, the Unions are mad, that their candidate lost during the Primary.
If Barrett does lose, it’s because of the process in the Democratic Primary. It zapped a lot of energy.
This is my opinion, which of course, I need to put at the end of all my posts…
Morning Jovie! I just rescued some of your comments from pending, how did you get trapped in there?! 🙂
jovie has a certain knack for getting into trouble. 🙂
GM chips. You’re up early.
😆 I shouldn’t have laughed, but when I saw Jovie’s “HELP!!!!!!!!!!” in pending ….. I LOLed.
Morning amk 😉
The Russians did it!
You mean the soviets, right ?
Billy Joel- back in the USSR!
Ha ! Barrett is ahead with Independents.
What part of Wisconsin are you from, Jovie? That has not been my impression AT ALL. All the unions I know are firmly behind Barrett. Barrett didn’t get into the contest until quite late when many unions were already committed. But unions are fully supporting Barrett. The organizing is spectacular.
It’s not the unions that is the problem. It is the MONEY. And the lack of national Dems supporting Barrett. We have a parade of national established and well-known Republicans traveling all over the state with Walker. Where are the Dems from out-of-state supporting Barrett? MIA – AWOL!!
oh boy on both counts
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 5/24/12 6:25 AM EDT
New battleground polling out this morning from NBC News and Marist College:
President Barack Obama holds a narrow advantage over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in three of the most pivotal presidential battleground states — Florida, Ohio and Virginia — according to new NBC-Marist polls.
But in each of these states, Obama’s share of the vote is below the 50 percent threshold usually considered safe haven for an incumbent president, and Romney has narrowed the margin in these three battlegrounds since earlier this year.
In Florida and Virginia, Obama leads Romney by an identical four-point margin, 48 percent to 44 percent … In Ohio, the president is ahead by six points, 48 percent to 42 percent.
Just saw the President’s “Forward” advertisement again on local TV. I love this ad.
It makes me smile. I’m so proud of my President.
Obama/Biden 2012
And remember, the President is up in those key battleground States, but it’s bad news for Obama.
Isn’t that what the Morning Ass crew is saying?
Good Morning.
Did anyone on Morning Joke go after Halperin for that pathetic Romney interview ? I saw him sitting at the table this morning.
Look at the way his vein popping, vicious way of defending his beloved corporations
BOOM
NBC News/Marist polls of registered swing state voters:
Florida
Obama 48 — Romney 44
Ohio
Obama 48 — Romney 42
Virginia
Obama 48 — Romney 44
Read more: http://thepage.time.com/#ixzz1vmoJeu5n
Paging Quinnipiac
An Obama-Biden ticket vs. one featuring Romney and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio produces the same head-to-head result in Florida — 48 percent to 44 percent. But Romney adding former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush narrows it to a two-point Democratic lead, 47 percent to 45 percent.
In Ohio, an Obama-Biden ticket beats one featuring Romney and Sen. Rob Portman, 47 percent to 42 percent.
And in Virginia, the Democratic duo bests a GOP ticket with Gov. Bob McDonnell, 46 percent to 44 percent.
And Chuck Todd said that qunnipiac methodology, where their are more Republicans, was WRONG!
This is the first time Chuck Todd has actually said something true.
Yes, and STILL, he comes out after the fact…after it’s been reported ad nauseum in the MSM, after it’s been debunked on Twitter and elsewhere, after Tweety breathlessly reported the same damn wrong poll as “troubling news for Obama” in Florida. Sheesh…
WI:
I know that there is a lot of handwringing going on with respect to the prospects of the vote in WI. What I know is that in the end it will all depend on the GOTV and the amount of work each side will do in the next few days.
Races are won and lost in the final hours of the election and yet we still have a few more days to go which we could use to push turnout of dems.
Many of us will not want to deal with a national headline of a walker win. So waht are you doing about it?
I believe that it is very important for WI that Scott Walker is defeated. Could we consider helping out in any way we can by supporting Barrett? Some way for us who are out of WI state to help out is
(a) post the information on our networks so that we can alert those people who may not be paying attention
(b) set up a tool for out-of-state people to contact their friends and relatives in WI to remember to gou out and vote.
I just got an email from the Robney Campaign- they want me to ask you:
Is Obama responsible for the Mayan end of the World?
And of course, I am supposed to ask it 50x, before moving on…
Oh wait a minute…, that is what the WH press corps do. My bad.
Morning Jovie. Tell the Robney campaign that I said to shove it where the sun don’t shine!
see the linky. 🙂
These idiots are so stupid that you have to show them the same thing 1000 times before they get a clue. SOS Bennett should resign his post. Once again, AZ is embarrassed by yet another elected official. Did I mention that Bennett is a co chair of the Romney campaign in AZ? Conflict of interest much? I detest these SOB’s….
If the co-chair of PBO’s campaign was attacking Romney’s Mormon faith or legitimacy, we would not hear the end of it. But we have silence in the MSM because they have no problems with those who attack our President on his legitimacy/faith.
Is it legal to be associated with a campaign and be responsible for the overseeing of the votes in a presidential election at the same time?Am I confused? Help me to understand this someone.
It’s legal, but it represents a serious conflict of interest and ethical issues in my opinion. On the other hand, it’s just fine if you’re a Republican. Their endless conflicts of interest are never a problem for the media, but if PBO spills a drop of juice on the table, it’s all over the Sunday morning talk show news.
So where is Mitt’s birth certificate?
MItt’s a rich white guy. No need.
Morning everyone:) I’m up early today…Big Day! Last day of school for the students…then summer vacation! My son graduates from HS tonight…and then, like I told amk, the REAL fun begins:) I will be spending my summer working with OFA, hopefully reading some good books, swimming/laying in the pool….and NOT having an agenda to worry about. I can hardly wait…maybe take a trip to CA to see a dear friend that I haven’t seen in many years…girl’s weekend, while her son is in Switzerland. And here, of course:)
Df, you just enjoy every single moment, you have earned it! And thank you for the work you will be doing for PBO! 🙂
Yet ANOTHER mess that this Administration has to clean up! It never ends…..
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/veterans-face-ruin-awaiting-benefits-as-wounded-swamp-va.html
Morning everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/05/24/rise-and-shine-187/
YESS!! I’m first!!
😆 First, last, and very clever! Funny, too. 😆