Thanks Chips!!! In the words of my church member who won the Tony for Lead Actor in a play (2011); “Man gives the award; God gives the reward.”. Bless you, love. 🙂
I love it that the TOD Family enjoys the fun and love between our POTUS and FLOTUS. Did you all see Malia telling them when to start the kiss. They are all so cute. Best president and vice president ever!!!
Totally agree with you HZ! This is one fun place to come to. I just love the way people on this site, especially the ladies, are not afraid to act human and enjoy themselves beyond politics. POTUS and FLOTUS are such fun loving people too. The same is true of VP Biden and Dr. Biden. It seems like Malia was the instigator for that kiss. She probably dared her parents to do it. From the way she looked at the monitor she was loving every moment of it. By the way, HZ, I hope all is well with you and you’re feeling much better.
if you look at the pictures in the posts below it looks like malia has a iphone with a pink cover. i didn’t comment in that post because it has over 300 comments so i put it here
You know I keep looking a Reggie and thinking about his old job as “Body Man” for the President. There’s just something about “body” in the same sentence as PBO….. OK, OK, to the showers.
R-money is very lucky one of the waiters didn’t actually trip when serving the soup just as it came near his lap. The end of this sentence really writes itself…”just wait for the agony they’re gonna have when I’m president.” Never tick off waiters and waitresses when they’re serving your food, Willard. Or, maybe he thinks they don’t see or hear cause they’re just the “help.”
Pamela, that was so cute of Malia. The young ladies are growing up right in front of our very own eyes. What a joy to see them having fun with their parents. HZ
I just love how Joe Biden is enjoying the heck out of this whole evening! Good for them, and God Bless All of Them that they can set it all aside and immerse themselves in some healthy, honest, soul-lifting fun! We are all so very blessed to be alive in these times!
Joe Biden is one of the most authentic, down to earth, people holding public office. There is no pretentious bone in his body. He just doesn’t mind enjoying himself when ever he gets a chance. It’s as if he says: “F***k the cameras I am here to enjoy myself.” The same is true of President Obama. They both take their jobs seriously but they don’t take themselves so seriously that they miss out on having a good time whenever they can. It makes me feel good to know that we have such a healthy POTUS and VPOTUS leading our country.
I tweeted this as my contribution to the hashtag that was on twitter today about Mitt Romney and holy smokes! because it got RT’d a lot, it’s brought out the wingnuts. They’re mad that I would dare point out that Bain was about wealth creation not job creation. They are mad as hell. It makes me chuckle because it’s another sign that the Bain ads and topics Obama 2012 have brought up are really resonating with voters and that makes the wingnuts desperate. 😆
#AdmititMitt Bain Capital was about wealth creation not job creation.
I got a lot of attention from the wingnuts on Twitter this evening, too, ut, when I tweeted to Lawrence O’Donnell that PBO graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and received higher honors than Romney. It was in response to Limbaugh saying that Romney should say that while he was out creating jobs, PBO was at Columbia smoking dope and drinking 40s or some such mess like that. Wingnuts were asking if PBO graduated and where I’d read it. they refused to believe that PBO was a better law student than Romney. It never ceases to amaze me how they will get behind a politician and know nothing about him/her except they like they way the pol looks/speaks. Another wingnut gave provided a link to a vile site attacking Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, using anti-semitism. He claimed Palin was smarter than DWS. In what universe does he live, I wondered.
Have the guy who sent his maid around getting pain killing prescriptions from doctors for him forgotten? Rush Limbaugh is a big fat, big mouth racists, who hate women.
Mitt Romney-Helmed Olympics Outsourced Uniforms To Burma (Myanmar)
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For Romney, the 2002 Olympics anecdote represents another instance of outsourcing under his stewardship, as President Barack Obama’s reelection team continues to assail him for shipping jobs overseas while at private equity firm Bain Capital. It also exposes an embarrassing oversight in allowing the uniforms to be manufactured in Burma, which until just last year was controlled by a brutal military regime.
According to reports in 2002, the decision to outsource the torchbearer uniforms to Burma caused an uproar among human rights advocates and trade groups. It prompted the head of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) to write a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), stating that “No responsible organization or body should make use of products originating in Burma.”
Mitt Romney and backers use ‘day-to-day’ to reshape questions about Bain
By Callum Borchers, Globe Correspondent
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In knocking down the straw man he erected, Rove compared Romney to the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs.
“When Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple and took a leave of absence for medical reasons, nobody continues to say, ‘Well, you’re the guy who’s making the day-to-day decisions,’ ” Rove said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Romney was busy running the Olympics.”
Rove noted correctly that like Jobs, Romney stepped away from the day-to-day decisions of his company.
The questions now are coming from people who suspect Romney’s leave of absence resembled that of Jobs, who continued to participate in major Apple moments, such as the release of the iPad 2 and the company’s Mac Lion operating system.
Yeah, Chica, but SOMEBODY’S got to push back for the ladies. We are having too much fun this evening!!
Did you see where the R-money crew “forgot” to get permission to use “I’m so in love with you” in an ad? It’s pulled from Youtube. Less than 24 hours. SHeeeesh. What a bunch of whistleheads.. 😆 🙄 😆 🙄
Waddle N crump, back on the train with you, massah! We are OUT of it, and we are ON FIRE! Did I mention loving this lovely evening! Our Chipsticks may never be the same after tonight! 🙂 🙂
lisa, I told you that you guys were bad role models for my pure innocent soul. I have never laugh so much from you guys. All kidding aside, when I see POTUS and FLOTUS, and Malia, I am so proud they are our First Family. And I am go glad that I have a place like this to come too.
What great pics! Thanks, Chips! I just love them all. Was Reggie the seat warmer for FLOTUS? Oh, & Malia was sitting next to VPOTUS? I wanted to gate crash that fun!
I think the estrogen cloud that I’m releasing from watch POTUS and FLOTUS smooch made me say this on the previous thread. 🙂
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“Okay, I know Van Jones can be iffy (today he’s on the upswing on the Ed Show), but good-googly-moogly that dayum man is FINE!!
He’s so pretty, it sends me into my ugly face exclaiming how pretty he is! Wow! I think I did see a star sparkle on the upper right corner of his teeth when he smiled this evening! [Do I hear music playing?]
Have decided this is, without doubt, a thread worth acknowledging, smiling, and move’n on!!!! I am so depressed I did not establish a naughty mat factory in the US of A … the thousands I’d now have employed …. 😀 😀 😀
A test was given to a class with the usual ratio of males to females. Words were written on the board and the students were to add correct punctuation. The words were:
woman with out her man is nothing
Males wrote: Woman without her man, is nothing.
Females wrote: Woman. Without her, man is nothing.
Well, LunarSea as much as I hate to admit it, because I am a man, I think the females had it right. Just imagine how boring and uneventful life would be if Eve hadn’t tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit.
haven’t been online much recently, just a quick drop in here and there so not sure if this is common knowledge, but just saw this video and it blew me away:
we’ve got to make mittbot so odious to republicans that we dominate the down ticket races too, by making republican voters simply stay home. at this rate, i like our chances!!
odd how this was put up last march, and I don’t remember hearing about it. shows how much the media is covering for this guy, and yes, hope it goes viral too. can only imagine how much stuff team obama has waiting to release at opportune times until november. forward!!!
This really is it. I am confident that the president can beat Mitt, but what we need is to demoralize the GOP base so they don’t show up in numbers that will threaten the Senate or maintain the House. They need to feel as if 2016 is pointless for them. It needs to be commonly accepted fact that the conservative movement is OVER.
My goodness..my, my my. Here I am, working the phones like nobody’s business…FOR OUR PRESIDENT…(who did a fiiiiiiiiiiiine job with that kiss!) and you guys are killing it here! Laughing, joking, being funny as hell….and I have to come home and only read about it! You guys are all in bed now after your cold showers and drinks and naughty mats, naughty rugs…padded rooms! I missed all the FUN! (Though I must say, I did talk to some really cool people tonight while I was calling for OFA…Dems are so much nicer. Sorry, they just are)
Head’ up! Tomorrow morning I’m doing voter reg…don’t have too much fun until I get back…OK? No telling what kind of shit pile Willard will step in tomorrow…today was copyright infringement day. What IS it with these guys? Rules don’t apply to them? !!
Chips…you have a fine home here!! Word’s getting out..we’re the place to be for everything PBO and sanity in the midst of insanity…xoxoxox
The fact that Malia encourage them to go for it shows that she is not embarrass by her parents affection, she is used too it. Most teenagers would have been telling their parents no, no, no, don’t do that please don’t embarrass me before all my friends and the world. I think it’s kind of sweet that she is not embarrass by her parents doing something like this.
I mentioned on a earlier thread that there is a video from a few years ago where Malia says she likes to see her parents kiss. The interview was shot at their Chicago home. I can’t remember if it was during the 08 campaign or his run for senate. I think its the one where PBO says that he likes to put spicy mustard in his tuna.
Mitt Romney is one vile dude. At an upscale country club in Jackson, Mississippi tonight, he pointed to the waiters and told them that PBO had “let them down.” Something tells me that in a place like Jackson, Mississippi, these waiters were most likely POC. Romney picked one of the most racist states in the Union to play his latest race card. Snake. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57473489-503544/romney-says-waiters-at-fundraiser-arent-having-a-good-year/
majiir, And what has John Boehner, Eric Canter, Mitch McConnell, and all the obstruction Republicans done for that waiter or any other American except for rich ones.. if anyone had listen to Mitt Romney there would be no American Auto Industry.
WHAT DID REPUBLICANS DO FOR WAITERS AND WAITRESSES?
Tell it anniebella. Your comment needs to be a tweet. This is par for the course with the Republicans and Mitt Romney. They never take responsibility for their actions. We have divided government. Both parties are responsible for governing. It infuriates me when the GOP and many in the media hammer President Obama for everything that’s wrong as if he is the only one responsible. The feckless media has been letting the Republicans off the hook from day one. And the Republicans from day one have been hostage taking, obstructing, delaying, filibustering, and sabotaging everything President Obama has tried to do.
Why is the Firms ad coming on at 1pm on TV Land? It happened last night too. My tv’s been on tv land since 12pm and this is the first time I’ve seen it tonight. You don’t figure there’s something hinky going on do you?
Can’t remember the last time we had a Pres and Veep who got along as well as Obama & Biden. Both seem to have a great deal of respect for one another and there is little doubt a friendship has grown out of all of this – even if, at times, Biden might stray from message!
What great pics today. love when the president is on the road and campaigning. He is fire and ice. passion and policy. Brought tears to my eyes to hear his speech today. He was awesome.
Does the campaign have more stuff on mittbot other than bain, the pain and the tax-returns, the bomb ? I want the stupid, balloon-boy msm chasing the new shining object every other week, before the O team lowers the boom on the mittbot a week before the election.
Yes, I hate to link/ or excerpt anything from Mark Halperin…but this is what he posted this morning
Pause for two beats and pay “Prizzi’s Honor”-style homage to the ruthless killing machine that is the combined White House-Chicago operation.
They have parceled out their opposition research in a manner both strategic and tactical, selecting specific news organizations at times of their choosing to maximize the drip-drip-drip of the twin stories. They have used left-leaning Web outfits as recipients of over-the-transom gifts as effectively (cumulatively) as the Romney campaign uses Drudge. And they have seen the Boston Globe use its credibility to drive a ton of news.
The Obamans have dominated numerous consecutive news cycles since the last unemployment numbers came out. And there is more to come for sure. The Gang of 500 is confident it is just a matter of time before Romney relents and puts out additional years of tax returns, an eventuality that the Obama campaign will drag out for days. When some said that the Bain issue was burning out through its use by Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and others in the nomination fight, Chicago was quietly confident the matter could be easily revived with new information and heavy advertising — and Chicago was right. And, make no mistake, the Obamans are sitting on even more research that they will unfurl down the road.
From the President, to Joe Biden, to senior White House aides, to the entire re-elect operation — there has been impressive coordination on every one of their Bain-tax return hits, and there’s no reason to think that that teamwork will stop.
Romney still hasn’t answered all the Bain questions (despite Boston pretending otherwise) and he still hasn’t satisfied the call (including from some Republicans) for his tax returns. For now, without a doubt, Romney is losing on two fronts: the politico-media dialogue is not focused on the Obama economic record and Romney is being defined by the opposition.
But Romney has not collapsed in the polls by any means, and the President remains short of the magical 50% in most surveys. Maybe Romney’s foreign trip, VP selection, and convention will organically turn the page for him in time. But there are a lot of nervous Republicans outside the campaign who don’t think that’s true. And most of those nervous Republicans would be even more nervous if they knew what Chicago was still, patiently, sitting on.
Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, and Verpstakes…
Who gives Shit! Now, this is boring, so they are talking to each other in the Beltway again!
This is why their ratings are way down, they only talk amongst themselves and not the viewers!
Cook: Romney letting Obama define him
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 7/17/12 6:50 AM EDT
Political prognosticator Charlie Cook, last seen accurately foreseeing doom and destruction for House Democrats, joins the chorus of analysts warning that Mitt Romney is losing control of the 2012 race:
Taken together, this ought to be a steep uphill fight for Obama. Voters seem perfectly open to the option of firing the president, but the Obama camp has given voters—specifically in swing states where wall-to-wall advertising is running—reason to hesitate about hiring Romney. Puzzlingly, the Romney campaign has offered very little to build up its candidate as a real human being, someone of character who’s worthy of being entrusted with the Oval Office.
The strategic decision by the Romney campaign not to define him personally—not to inoculate him from inevitable attacks—seems a perverse one. Given his campaign’s ample financial resources, the decision not to run biographical or testimonial ads, in effect to do nothing to establish him as a three-dimensional person, has left him open to the inevitable attacks for his work at Bain Capital, on outsourcing, and on his investments. It’s all rather inexplicable. Aside from a single spot aired in the spring by the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future, not one personal positive ad has been aired on Romney’s behalf. The view that any day or dollar spent on talking about anything other than the economy is a waste has been taken to such an extreme that Romney has no positive definition other than that of being a rich, successful, and presumably smart businessman. People see and feel the reasons for firing Obama every day in the economic statistics and the struggle that so many Americans face daily. The Romney campaign seems focused on reinforcing a message that hardly needs reinforcing, while ignoring a clear and immediate danger to its own candidate’s electability.
One thing Cook dies not mention is that a lot if People do not blame this President fir the Economy. It’s complicated, I think voters get that. In Cooks beltway world…
Would you rather have Stephanie Cutter or Ed Gillespie representing you? The answer might say something about what kind of administration one might have.
She is awesome! Now, I know why she used the word felony! To get more attention from the press.
She did not back down, wording it as a possible criminal offense!
It is absurd she was ever questioned about using the word “felony”. She simply said if he lied on SEC filings it was a federal crime. It was a reasonable hypothetical.
I am so sorry I missed this fun “kiss cam” post last night. I love the direction from Chips tat we keep “calmish!” Too funny! Malia looks so gorgeous! How delightful to see her enjoying the evening and being with her parents.
I’m first
Yes you are Lorraine, congrats!
In the words of the King of Rock and Roll, “Thank you, thank you very much.”
Congratulations Lorraine on #1!
Congrats Lorraine
Hellooooooooooooo Lorraine.
Thanks Chips!!! In the words of my church member who won the Tony for Lead Actor in a play (2011); “Man gives the award; God gives the reward.”. Bless you, love. 🙂
Looks good on you, Lorraine!
Hurray for Lorraine
Congrats Lorraine!
Congratulations,
I Am committing a sin of jealously…not for your 1st as I am happy for you, BUT gawd, some people have all the luck, just look at those two.
Waaaaaaa.
LOL Chips.. you never fail to crack me up 🙂
Your time stamp is the same so Congrats, too.
aww thank you 😉
Sherijr, I’ve completely cracked up tonight …… waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much loveliness, I’m struggling to cope 😕
“All you need is Love”…. The Beatles
We’re all right there with you Chips 🙂
I see you’re done with your shower. Better now?
No, no LunarSea, posting from my waterproof iPad in the shower. Will exit on, hmm, Friday.
LOL take as long as you need. I lost count of how many times I played that clip and the longer one you posted below, excellent.
And I refuse to get on the naughty mat (rug) until I am done! (like maybe never)
CAN’T HEAR YOU, STILL IN ICICLE-CHILLY SHOWER, WILL BE OUT IN OCTOBER.
I love it that the TOD Family enjoys the fun and love between our POTUS and FLOTUS. Did you all see Malia telling them when to start the kiss. They are all so cute. Best president and vice president ever!!!
Totally agree with you HZ! This is one fun place to come to. I just love the way people on this site, especially the ladies, are not afraid to act human and enjoy themselves beyond politics. POTUS and FLOTUS are such fun loving people too. The same is true of VP Biden and Dr. Biden. It seems like Malia was the instigator for that kiss. She probably dared her parents to do it. From the way she looked at the monitor she was loving every moment of it. By the way, HZ, I hope all is well with you and you’re feeling much better.
ugh, my mom doesn’t have cable. thx chips
I don’t have cable either… so I love getting to see this here.
Proud to say I have never subscribed to cable. Ever.
Oh wow
He can do that. He’s got papers.
Great. Now I can’t go to sleep because of that video.
Awwwwww……..
Crap! The one time I’m around for a new thread, and I missed out on first! Congrats, Lorraine, and I’ll settle for silver.
Scratch that…bronze…Okay, okay, I’ll settle for aluminum! Man, you people are muy rapido!
Lol!!!! :-). Sorry.
No worries! 🙂 You certainly give Usain Bolt a run for his money
I’ll let Carl Lewis in his heyday run for me.
if you look at the pictures in the posts below it looks like malia has a iphone with a pink cover. i didn’t comment in that post because it has over 300 comments so i put it here
Where?
its not on this post its http://theobamadiary.com/2012/07/16/game-time-3/ about the 8th photo
Grazie, Lola! 🙂
lola, I love all the pictures, specially number 10.
I love all the pictures.
do i see a tan line on malia…lol
Surely looks that way, lola, I noticed it in earlier pics. Very cool!
I don’t see it 😦
the picture where michelle and malia high five malia is holding a pink iphone i believe
So do I! She has great taste!
Malia you naughty girl! Sooooooooo cute that Malia alerted them to kiss & boy, was PBO ready to kiss FLOTUS. Oh my, I need a cold shower & a drink.
PBO seemed super happy all night. He was waiting for this moment! 🙂
You know I keep looking a Reggie and thinking about his old job as “Body Man” for the President. There’s just something about “body” in the same sentence as PBO….. OK, OK, to the showers.
How fucking stupid is Romney? Seriously. This dude expects the American people to buy this BS? 😆 😆 😆
:-).
Oh yea, he is trying to lose.
Wow. Most. Patronizing. Tone-def. Candidate. Ever.
Yawn. Zzzzzzz…..
R-money is very lucky one of the waiters didn’t actually trip when serving the soup just as it came near his lap. The end of this sentence really writes itself…”just wait for the agony they’re gonna have when I’m president.” Never tick off waiters and waitresses when they’re serving your food, Willard. Or, maybe he thinks they don’t see or hear cause they’re just the “help.”
Ok I will watch one more time. Maybe 3 more or well ……
Papa Obama takes direction well from his very sharp teenaged daughter! Malia, you rock our World! 😆
Pamela, that was so cute of Malia. The young ladies are growing up right in front of our very own eyes. What a joy to see them having fun with their parents. HZ
Damn – “Kiss-cam” is still trending on Twitter.
I miss not seeing Reggie Love.
I miss our Reggie also. However, he still looks fine enough for me. He is studying hard, as I am told.HZ
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…LAWD..this is TOO FUNNY!!!
Oh, please, God, let them all get shipwrecked (for a few months, until December, then back to their miserable lives), especially Romney. Thank you.
Oh crap, there goes my evening wine for my heart all over my computer. Please warn me.HZ
hopefruit2, that picture is Funny, funny, funny.
Hopefruit, omg thanks for that laugh!
LOL I thought it was going to be the three stooges, but that was better. Had all the characters in full regala
You guys are simply too much! Is that Ron Paul as cross dresser?
I just love how Joe Biden is enjoying the heck out of this whole evening! Good for them, and God Bless All of Them that they can set it all aside and immerse themselves in some healthy, honest, soul-lifting fun! We are all so very blessed to be alive in these times!
Pamela, I think it’s because they’re all healthy, honest, and have souls, eh?
I can’t remember seeing such a cohesive presidential team in all my years. Love me some Uncle Joe! they really do compliment each other.
Joe Biden is one of the most authentic, down to earth, people holding public office. There is no pretentious bone in his body. He just doesn’t mind enjoying himself when ever he gets a chance. It’s as if he says: “F***k the cameras I am here to enjoy myself.” The same is true of President Obama. They both take their jobs seriously but they don’t take themselves so seriously that they miss out on having a good time whenever they can. It makes me feel good to know that we have such a healthy POTUS and VPOTUS leading our country.
I tweeted this as my contribution to the hashtag that was on twitter today about Mitt Romney and holy smokes! because it got RT’d a lot, it’s brought out the wingnuts. They’re mad that I would dare point out that Bain was about wealth creation not job creation. They are mad as hell. It makes me chuckle because it’s another sign that the Bain ads and topics Obama 2012 have brought up are really resonating with voters and that makes the wingnuts desperate. 😆
Bullies don’t like to have their realities (non-sensibilities) questioned. It makes them scared and when they’re scared they lash out. Brats
I got a lot of attention from the wingnuts on Twitter this evening, too, ut, when I tweeted to Lawrence O’Donnell that PBO graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and received higher honors than Romney. It was in response to Limbaugh saying that Romney should say that while he was out creating jobs, PBO was at Columbia smoking dope and drinking 40s or some such mess like that. Wingnuts were asking if PBO graduated and where I’d read it. they refused to believe that PBO was a better law student than Romney. It never ceases to amaze me how they will get behind a politician and know nothing about him/her except they like they way the pol looks/speaks. Another wingnut gave provided a link to a vile site attacking Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, using anti-semitism. He claimed Palin was smarter than DWS. In what universe does he live, I wondered.
Have the guy who sent his maid around getting pain killing prescriptions from doctors for him forgotten? Rush Limbaugh is a big fat, big mouth racists, who hate women.
Rush was the bully at school who was jealous of all the kids who had more that he had and accomplished more that he did.
“Bain Capital was about wealth creation not job creation.”
UT! Your tweet clearly states the absolute TRUTH! The MSM have failed to educate people about what’s true and what’s false.
I’ve added a few more photos to the post, as calmly as I could. I’ll talk to you after I finish with my -236 degree shower.
Mitt Romney-Helmed Olympics Outsourced Uniforms To Burma (Myanmar)
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For Romney, the 2002 Olympics anecdote represents another instance of outsourcing under his stewardship, as President Barack Obama’s reelection team continues to assail him for shipping jobs overseas while at private equity firm Bain Capital. It also exposes an embarrassing oversight in allowing the uniforms to be manufactured in Burma, which until just last year was controlled by a brutal military regime.
According to reports in 2002, the decision to outsource the torchbearer uniforms to Burma caused an uproar among human rights advocates and trade groups. It prompted the head of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) to write a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), stating that “No responsible organization or body should make use of products originating in Burma.”
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014168196
Note: Karen Finney just talked about this on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.
The first couple is just too adorable for words!!!
I laughed so hard when I saw it earlier…..you are the father lol
Ha!
I just love it when I see “oh Mittens.” Cracks me up!
I raise a Manhattan to Barack Hussein Obama and the love of his life, Michelle. Stanley Ann is smiling right now.
Nice. 🙂
She looks fantastic!
I’m still laughing from the last thread.
Between the shower and the car- wash, I have just set off the alarm, dogs barking next door….the old lady has finally lost it?
Everybody, go to bed now, my laugh muscles can’t take anymore.
Mitt Romney and backers use ‘day-to-day’ to reshape questions about Bain
By Callum Borchers, Globe Correspondent
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In knocking down the straw man he erected, Rove compared Romney to the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs.
“When Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple and took a leave of absence for medical reasons, nobody continues to say, ‘Well, you’re the guy who’s making the day-to-day decisions,’ ” Rove said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Romney was busy running the Olympics.”
Rove noted correctly that like Jobs, Romney stepped away from the day-to-day decisions of his company.
The questions now are coming from people who suspect Romney’s leave of absence resembled that of Jobs, who continued to participate in major Apple moments, such as the release of the iPad 2 and the company’s Mac Lion operating system.
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http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/07/16/mitt-romney-and-backers-use-day-day-reshape-questions-about-bain/1eFGBl8dO9uOZvjXyViomM/story.html
I . just. HAD. to. post. this….
I hope they invite Rev Al Green to the re-election inauguation of President Obama.
Sorry to be non kissy 🙂
thought this was interesting
As I said in an earlier thread, this is not your Daddy’s Democratic Party. It’s Obama’s House now.
SOMEBODY IS WORKING FOR THEIR SALARIES!!! Yeah, DEMS!!!!
What’s all the noise? What’s going on here ? …Oh ?… Ok gals, back to our rooms…. AND STAY THERE
amk? Don’t even TRY it. Not tonight. don’t even try it…. 😆 🙄 😆
Jeez Isonprize, you MUST know when you tell amk to not ‘try it’, it’s utterly inevitable that he will. He’s that kind of cheeky, rebellious divil.
Yeah, Chica, but SOMEBODY’S got to push back for the ladies. We are having too much fun this evening!!
Did you see where the R-money crew “forgot” to get permission to use “I’m so in love with you” in an ad? It’s pulled from Youtube. Less than 24 hours. SHeeeesh. What a bunch of whistleheads.. 😆 🙄 😆 🙄
Hell the Romney camp don’t even know who Al Green is, why should he used his music.
Let Romney go get Chachi ( that has been Scott Baio ) to sing something for.
He wants the FLOTUS kiss all to himself. Gotta share AMK
Amk, there’s a whole lotta shaking going on, and that’s just my fingers as I post these pics and videos. Severely struggling to breathe here.
Yeah, I could see the video was kinda shaky. OTOH, it could be the train I was in.
So Kiss Cam thingy is a regular feature in NBA games ?
Waddle N crump, back on the train with you, massah! We are OUT of it, and we are ON FIRE! Did I mention loving this lovely evening! Our Chipsticks may never be the same after tonight! 🙂 🙂
wimmin……/smh
can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.
That’s the
nubrib of the problem. 🙂Yay!! 😆
FLOTUS seems so shy and embarrass. I guess she is like me, I like to do my business behind close doors, and when i do it, I mean I do it. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
See you guys are a bad role model for me. Talking about naughty mats and cold showers.
I see you’re saying this while perched on your own little mat over there, Anniebella… 😉
theo67, I shall remain silent.
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ANNIBELLA!
Hahahahahhahahahhahahhahahahahhahahhahahhahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahhahhahahhahhahahhahahhahhaha!!!!! Anniebella,!! OMG!!!! 😳 hahahahahahahahahahhahhahahahahahahaha!!! 😉
lisa, I told you that you guys were bad role models for my pure innocent soul. I have never laugh so much from you guys. All kidding aside, when I see POTUS and FLOTUS, and Malia, I am so proud they are our First Family. And I am go glad that I have a place like this to come too.
Amen to everything except the “pure” and “innocent” crap! My inner skeptic says: “yeah, right!” 😉
lisa, 🙂
Which makes her even more of a sport about it.
https://twitter.com/silversly80/status/225071714722263042
Colbert has me LOL re. the Starbucks at the funeral home, a for real deal.
I miss Colbert and Stewart. I have Directv and they are in dispute with viacom. so they pulled comedy central! Grrrrrrrr
Jon did a little piece on it. I hope they settle this stupid dispute ASAP.
Hey there, you can watch online.
http://www.colbertnation.com/
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Yummy!!!!
What great pics! Thanks, Chips! I just love them all. Was Reggie the seat warmer for FLOTUS? Oh, & Malia was sitting next to VPOTUS? I wanted to gate crash that fun!
Love Colbert. He always makes me laugh.
I think the estrogen cloud that I’m releasing from watch POTUS and FLOTUS smooch made me say this on the previous thread. 🙂
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“Okay, I know Van Jones can be iffy (today he’s on the upswing on the Ed Show), but good-googly-moogly that dayum man is FINE!!
He’s so pretty, it sends me into my ugly face exclaiming how pretty he is! Wow! I think I did see a star sparkle on the upper right corner of his teeth when he smiled this evening! [Do I hear music playing?]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#48203597
Oh, somebody help me snap out of it! Slap me now!!”
You were definitely high on something Dudette! 😉
LOL!
Have decided this is, without doubt, a thread worth acknowledging, smiling, and move’n on!!!! I am so depressed I did not establish a naughty mat factory in the US of A … the thousands I’d now have employed …. 😀 😀 😀
You can open one retroactively!
Aha! Another Rommey School of Economics alumnus. 🙂
I just knew that one of the exceptionally with it and funny members of the TOD would do that ‘retroactively’ thingy to me 😀 😀 😀 😀
And, jojo, since I couldn’t fail to acknowledge your cool comment, thought I’d add a nighty night missive to #BainMitt …
Rest well friends …
I couldn’t rest Bobfr…. : ) 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Okay gotta watch one more time, then off to bed for me.
This one’s for amk:
A test was given to a class with the usual ratio of males to females. Words were written on the board and the students were to add correct punctuation. The words were:
woman with out her man is nothing
Males wrote: Woman without her man, is nothing.
Females wrote: Woman. Without her, man is nothing.
Nite all
🙂 Love that, LunarSea
Well, LunarSea as much as I hate to admit it, because I am a man, I think the females had it right. Just imagine how boring and uneventful life would be if Eve hadn’t tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman.
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Telling him how he is always wrong.
This music is so beautiful is feels like the theme song for today. Good note end the day on. Good night everyone!
haven’t been online much recently, just a quick drop in here and there so not sure if this is common knowledge, but just saw this video and it blew me away:
we’ve got to make mittbot so odious to republicans that we dominate the down ticket races too, by making republican voters simply stay home. at this rate, i like our chances!!
Ouuuuuuch……and it’s only MID-JULY!
Wow, what a piece of work Robney is, hope this goes viral.
Have to get some sleep, goodnight and thx for the video.
odd how this was put up last march, and I don’t remember hearing about it. shows how much the media is covering for this guy, and yes, hope it goes viral too. can only imagine how much stuff team obama has waiting to release at opportune times until november. forward!!!
yikes! youtube notes over 25k views of this clip in the past 3 months–can we make that number go up??!!
Tweet it.
This really is it. I am confident that the president can beat Mitt, but what we need is to demoralize the GOP base so they don’t show up in numbers that will threaten the Senate or maintain the House. They need to feel as if 2016 is pointless for them. It needs to be commonly accepted fact that the conservative movement is OVER.
The first couple are so darn cute!
Good night to all.
My goodness..my, my my. Here I am, working the phones like nobody’s business…FOR OUR PRESIDENT…(who did a fiiiiiiiiiiiine job with that kiss!) and you guys are killing it here! Laughing, joking, being funny as hell….and I have to come home and only read about it! You guys are all in bed now after your cold showers and drinks and naughty mats, naughty rugs…padded rooms! I missed all the FUN! (Though I must say, I did talk to some really cool people tonight while I was calling for OFA…Dems are so much nicer. Sorry, they just are)
Head’ up! Tomorrow morning I’m doing voter reg…don’t have too much fun until I get back…OK? No telling what kind of shit pile Willard will step in tomorrow…today was copyright infringement day. What IS it with these guys? Rules don’t apply to them? !!
Chips…you have a fine home here!! Word’s getting out..we’re the place to be for everything PBO and sanity in the midst of insanity…xoxoxox
This is the best version so far:
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey BWD! It’s been a long time no hear girlfriend……Thanks, this is sooooooo cute. The whole crowd erupts. On this note…………
Good Nite TOD’er and TOAITR’ers
I think Malia’s little squeal (with her perfect teeth) of “Now! Go for it, Dad” is the almost the best part of the video. The whole gang is awesome!
The fact that Malia encourage them to go for it shows that she is not embarrass by her parents affection, she is used too it. Most teenagers would have been telling their parents no, no, no, don’t do that please don’t embarrass me before all my friends and the world. I think it’s kind of sweet that she is not embarrass by her parents doing something like this.
I mentioned on a earlier thread that there is a video from a few years ago where Malia says she likes to see her parents kiss. The interview was shot at their Chicago home. I can’t remember if it was during the 08 campaign or his run for senate. I think its the one where PBO says that he likes to put spicy mustard in his tuna.
Thanks BWD!
Chips, thank you and good night everyone.
LMAO! A friend of mine just sent me some hilarious bumper stickers:) Just a taste….
If Liberals Hated America, We’d Vote Republican
When the Rapture Comes, Can I Have Your Car?
Tea Party? White Whine Party Is More Like It
2012:(with Obama logo) My President KIlled Osama Bin Ladin. How About Yours?
Palin/ Beck 2012…It’s A No Brainer
The Republican Party. Our Bridge to the 11th Century
I’d Vote For A Republican But I’m Allergic to Nuts
Honk If My Taxes Support Your Whiny Teabaggy Ass
I Love Sanity
Tea…It’s the New Kool Aid
Teabaggers Gave America A Boehner
Proud To Be Everything the Right Wing Hates
Don’t Want Government? Move to Somalia
Mitt Romney is one vile dude. At an upscale country club in Jackson, Mississippi tonight, he pointed to the waiters and told them that PBO had “let them down.” Something tells me that in a place like Jackson, Mississippi, these waiters were most likely POC. Romney picked one of the most racist states in the Union to play his latest race card. Snake.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57473489-503544/romney-says-waiters-at-fundraiser-arent-having-a-good-year/
This out of touch idiot does not even try to hide his disdain for poor people.
majiir, And what has John Boehner, Eric Canter, Mitch McConnell, and all the obstruction Republicans done for that waiter or any other American except for rich ones.. if anyone had listen to Mitt Romney there would be no American Auto Industry.
WHAT DID REPUBLICANS DO FOR WAITERS AND WAITRESSES?
Tell it anniebella. Your comment needs to be a tweet. This is par for the course with the Republicans and Mitt Romney. They never take responsibility for their actions. We have divided government. Both parties are responsible for governing. It infuriates me when the GOP and many in the media hammer President Obama for everything that’s wrong as if he is the only one responsible. The feckless media has been letting the Republicans off the hook from day one. And the Republicans from day one have been hostage taking, obstructing, delaying, filibustering, and sabotaging everything President Obama has tried to do.
Why is the Firms ad coming on at 1pm on TV Land? It happened last night too. My tv’s been on tv land since 12pm and this is the first time I’ve seen it tonight. You don’t figure there’s something hinky going on do you?
Correction: 1am, my tv has been on tv land since 12 am.
Hey! You think! http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/pew-public-believes-obamas-tax-increase-on-high
Pew: Public Believes Tax Increase On High Earners Would Help The Economy, Improve Fairness
Can’t remember the last time we had a Pres and Veep who got along as well as Obama & Biden. Both seem to have a great deal of respect for one another and there is little doubt a friendship has grown out of all of this – even if, at times, Biden might stray from message!
What great pics today. love when the president is on the road and campaigning. He is fire and ice. passion and policy. Brought tears to my eyes to hear his speech today. He was awesome.
it’s kind of funny to see the secret service guy in the “kiss-cam” video being all serious right behind them. he’s trying so hard not to smile. a pro.
Okay guyz (= galz here). Serious question.
Does the campaign have more stuff on mittbot other than bain, the pain and the tax-returns, the bomb ? I want the stupid, balloon-boy msm chasing the new shining object every other week, before the O team lowers the boom on the mittbot a week before the election.
Yes, I hate to link/ or excerpt anything from Mark Halperin…but this is what he posted this morning
Pause for two beats and pay “Prizzi’s Honor”-style homage to the ruthless killing machine that is the combined White House-Chicago operation.
They have parceled out their opposition research in a manner both strategic and tactical, selecting specific news organizations at times of their choosing to maximize the drip-drip-drip of the twin stories. They have used left-leaning Web outfits as recipients of over-the-transom gifts as effectively (cumulatively) as the Romney campaign uses Drudge. And they have seen the Boston Globe use its credibility to drive a ton of news.
The Obamans have dominated numerous consecutive news cycles since the last unemployment numbers came out. And there is more to come for sure. The Gang of 500 is confident it is just a matter of time before Romney relents and puts out additional years of tax returns, an eventuality that the Obama campaign will drag out for days. When some said that the Bain issue was burning out through its use by Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and others in the nomination fight, Chicago was quietly confident the matter could be easily revived with new information and heavy advertising — and Chicago was right. And, make no mistake, the Obamans are sitting on even more research that they will unfurl down the road.
From the President, to Joe Biden, to senior White House aides, to the entire re-elect operation — there has been impressive coordination on every one of their Bain-tax return hits, and there’s no reason to think that that teamwork will stop.
Romney still hasn’t answered all the Bain questions (despite Boston pretending otherwise) and he still hasn’t satisfied the call (including from some Republicans) for his tax returns. For now, without a doubt, Romney is losing on two fronts: the politico-media dialogue is not focused on the Obama economic record and Romney is being defined by the opposition.
But Romney has not collapsed in the polls by any means, and the President remains short of the magical 50% in most surveys. Maybe Romney’s foreign trip, VP selection, and convention will organically turn the page for him in time. But there are a lot of nervous Republicans outside the campaign who don’t think that’s true. And most of those nervous Republicans would be even more nervous if they knew what Chicago was still, patiently, sitting on.
Read more: http://thepage.time.com/#ixzz20sRA5M49
Meh, the same old blather from this maroon.
oamans ? really ?
I can’t stand that Dick!
Ok, df, defend your crazy state.
Now that everyone has calmed down, on to the important question: Who won ?
Who won what? Was there a game last night?
The United States men won by 11 points I think, and the woman blew out Brazil.
The USA women team blew out Brazil.
The US won Brazil 80 to 69
Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, Veepstakes, and Verpstakes…
Who gives Shit! Now, this is boring, so they are talking to each other in the Beltway again!
This is why their ratings are way down, they only talk amongst themselves and not the viewers!
New OFA ad on Robney taxes-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/07/17/obama-romney-taxes_n_1678254.html
Cook: Romney letting Obama define him
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 7/17/12 6:50 AM EDT
Political prognosticator Charlie Cook, last seen accurately foreseeing doom and destruction for House Democrats, joins the chorus of analysts warning that Mitt Romney is losing control of the 2012 race:
Taken together, this ought to be a steep uphill fight for Obama. Voters seem perfectly open to the option of firing the president, but the Obama camp has given voters—specifically in swing states where wall-to-wall advertising is running—reason to hesitate about hiring Romney. Puzzlingly, the Romney campaign has offered very little to build up its candidate as a real human being, someone of character who’s worthy of being entrusted with the Oval Office.
The strategic decision by the Romney campaign not to define him personally—not to inoculate him from inevitable attacks—seems a perverse one. Given his campaign’s ample financial resources, the decision not to run biographical or testimonial ads, in effect to do nothing to establish him as a three-dimensional person, has left him open to the inevitable attacks for his work at Bain Capital, on outsourcing, and on his investments. It’s all rather inexplicable. Aside from a single spot aired in the spring by the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future, not one personal positive ad has been aired on Romney’s behalf. The view that any day or dollar spent on talking about anything other than the economy is a waste has been taken to such an extreme that Romney has no positive definition other than that of being a rich, successful, and presumably smart businessman. People see and feel the reasons for firing Obama every day in the economic statistics and the struggle that so many Americans face daily. The Romney campaign seems focused on reinforcing a message that hardly needs reinforcing, while ignoring a clear and immediate danger to its own candidate’s electability.
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Charlie Cook said this??? Go figure?
One thing Cook dies not mention is that a lot if People do not blame this President fir the Economy. It’s complicated, I think voters get that. In Cooks beltway world…
New ad from the team
Morning ASS, cut out the first 15 seconds. I winder why?
Stephanie Cutter was great! At the end of the conversation, everybody was agreeing with Stephanie.
Is she not awesome?
Would you rather have Stephanie Cutter or Ed Gillespie representing you? The answer might say something about what kind of administration one might have.
Stephanie cutter coming right up!
Morning Joe is quoting Wolf Blitzer as an expert on Willard’s retroactive retirement. Can things become any crazier?
Stephanie Cutter . . : “It doesn’t take 3 years to change the top of the letterhead.”
She is awesome! Now, I know why she used the word felony! To get more attention from the press.
She did not back down, wording it as a possible criminal offense!
It is absurd she was ever questioned about using the word “felony”. She simply said if he lied on SEC filings it was a federal crime. It was a reasonable hypothetical.
Plus it showed that Mitt was getting paid 100,000 dollars or more, for what if he wasn’t in charge anymore.
I am so sorry I missed this fun “kiss cam” post last night. I love the direction from Chips tat we keep “calmish!” Too funny! Malia looks so gorgeous! How delightful to see her enjoying the evening and being with her parents.
that
Morning everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/07/17/rise-and-shine-241/
OMG I CAN’T STAND IT!! I LOVE THEM, I LOVE THEM, I LOVE THEM!!! I AM IN LOVE WITH THAT ENTIRE FAMILY!!!!!
Hot Damn..thts sexy !!