London Evening Standard: As a lesson in good natured statesmanship – if not to say simple manners – it was a masterclass.
For Michelle Obama cast aside stuffy protocol to join in the fun and games to celebrate today’s opening of the Olympic games with more than 1,000 children.
The First Lady met the children – most of them from U.S. military families – in the grounds of Winfield House, the official residence of the U.S. ambassador in London…..
Mrs Obama, who later tried out sports including tug-of-war and football alongside the children, offered a tribute to military families who had been invited to take part in the event….
…. It was a somewhat different story from another American visitor, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was forced to apologise for his comments about London’s readiness for the Games.
The gaffe-prone Republican told US channel NBC’s Today Show: “After being here a couple of days it looks to me like London is ready”.
His comments followed criticism from both David Cameron and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt as well as worldwide condemnation from Twitter users who got #romneyshambles trending on the microblogging site.
More here
Thanks Terim
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Meanwhile, Londoners don’t know whether to laugh or growl when they spot the guy:
Grosvenor Place, London, July 27
The Obama Diary 
At last! 😆
Congratulations VCprez on #1 🙂
Thank you, Hf, on behalf of the members of my team who have worked with me diligently to keep my focus sharp. 😉
WhoopWhoop! My teammate! First (again and again and again)!
Hello Pamela. I’m just trying to keep our names in the spotlight until you have a little more time to carry the baton. 😛
(lucky for me, as I have NO idea when that might be!)
You’re so cute! 🙂
Dudette! 😳 😳 😳
Congrats on first, VC!
Why, thank you. 😳 😉 I do seem to get to the podium more often when Chips isn’t around, don’t I. Mmmmmn. I wonder if her presence and repeated /turtle/ expectation makes me nervous and off my game? I shall have to put together a team to investigate this.
Has anyone seen both of you in the same room?
Oh yeah! Our paths cross from time to time, though not so much lately. 😆
Damn!
Don I’m so sorry…but take heart, you earned your Silver Medal 🙂
Now we have a male, to complement our coffee drinking female, giving Willard ‘the look’! Poor Willard.
That last picture is priceless.
Indeed. 🙂
Eyes like daggers! 🙂
I appreciate the guy laughing out loud! Myth deserves no better!
Hahaha. Indeed it is.
I hope the big screen shows Mr. and Mrs. Twit tonight so the crowd can tell them what they think about them.
Oooh, you delicious devil, you.
Her speech to our Olympians had me crying, talking about her father… and reminding me how we also in our home loved the Olympics, cheered them on & caught the spirit while growing up & while raising my own sons. We are truly graced to have Michelle Obama as our First Lady.
Now – to that filth Romney.. I read what he said in that Israel paper- he’s scum.. is he now in Israel? I cannot believe the majority of Israel would want to see this cretin as our President.
I’m almost afraid to ask what he said in the Israel paper. He’s just scum.
heres the link theo, it was posted in the comments on the last TOD post: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5207
Chips, the second shot of the look of distrust!!! LOL
I’m happy to see that many of our TOD and other friends on Twitter are promptly and aggressively going after the media NEWSTAINERS and calling it as we see it and know to be true.
Mark Knoller and MSM putting negative spin on GDP. Wonder how much the Koch Brothers paid the MSM to lick Romney’s butt.
They don’t have to be paid. They don’t even have to be instructed. The MSM — particularly in DC — all go to the same parties, hang out in the same places. They’re terrified of losing “access.” They just love playing handmaiden to the powerful.
I read a piece by Sally Quinn in which she said, quite clearly, that the “problem” with the Obamas is that they don’t go to the right dinner parties and hang around with trash like her.
You have described Washington perfectly.
How about this spin straight for the Finance pages, GDP better than expected because that is what I read, knucklehead. When Upchuck Toad looks at the GDP numbers in a positive light I know something is up.
Me thinks that Mark Troller loves getting any attention, even when it’s negative but I am still glad that some of you ride his weasely arse as hard as you do.
I agree he craves Twitter attention (has no life otherwise) but unfortunately, it’s probable that many of his followers (and their followers, and off-Twitter friends and associates) don’t know he’s an attention whore, but take his tweets seriously. Therefore, the push back is quite necessary to correct the info.
Mark Knoller @markknoller
We’ll be sorry to see @NorahODonnell leave the WH beat. She’ll be joining co-hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King on @CBSThisMorning.
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We’re not sorry to see her go.
Not a bit. She had a big opportunity to be a human and objective WH reporter and missed it. Maybe Gayle King will straighten her out.
This was Knoller’s pathetic attempt to rebut to my tweet:
That’s me, btw, just from a different end. 😉
He really has a problem….it’s pathetic
Hi Christi! Did you get my email?
Great job, Hachiko. What an idiot!
The gaffe-prone Republican told US channel NBC’s Today Show: “After being here a couple of days it looks to me like London is ready”.
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Based on what, MittWitt ?
…based on walking back his comments and apologizing. How ironic when he tries to condemn Obama for nonexistent apology tours.
Mitt is so utterly dense that what he doesn’t appreciate is that no one, utterly no one, cares about his judgments of the readiness of the Olympics. So whether he makes positive or critical remarks, it’s all so arrogant and out of place, especially since he doesn’t know anything.
Except for propagandists like mark troller and jen rubin.
“Well, I’ve observed and I deem London worthy.”
How the hell did this IDIOT get this close to the Presidency?
That’s the part that stood out to me …. after being there a couple of days, he now thinks they are ready … like they passed some Mitt inspection – the white glove test or something. THIS COMMENT MAKES IT WORSE! He is still looking down that nose at them. He has NO class, zero! Go home Mitt (unfortunately that is here) … you are not worthy to represent our country anywhere!
I think all the converts to Mormonism that he convinced to stop drinking wine in Bordeaux while young men were dying in Vietnam for his ‘religious liberty’, should give him a fucking castle in Bordeaux and get him the hell away from the U.S.
Based on willard’s Fiip Flopping.
I know now that when my knee is completely heeled and I get back to my overseas trips if Mitt Romney wins to be POTUS I will need to do what I did when GW was Prez, pretend I am Canadian when engaging conversations with people abroad. My travels drastically changed for the positive when PBO took office. How Americans are perceived in other parts of the world are directly affected by who our President is.
I am so proud of FLOTUS.The interview with CBS this morning was perfect. Eat your hearts out Mitt and Ann Romney.
Oops, I forgot to put a space between my sentences. 🙂
“How Americans are perceived in other parts of the world are directly affected by who our President is.” — So true, which is why millions the world over are praying the American people do the right thing and keep President Barack Obama in office for a second term. And I’m sure many are wishing we didn’t have term limits.
Of course Jindal and Pawlenty and the rest of the RWNJs are saying that it doesn’t matter what the foreign press say.:) Our President and First Family make me so proud everyday.
Pffft! Those two idiots DON’T MATTER!
COS, they will never get it. These attitudes are the ones that make our friends all over the world hate us when these high-ass people get into office. Enough of their crap. People are tired of this type of crap, for sure.HZ
“a lesson in good natured statesmanship – if not to say simple manners”
That says it all, doessn’t it ?
I just hope she’ll never be put in the awkward position where she’d have to apologize for Mitt’s “performance”.
Seriously guys – every time you tweet anything about Romney – change it to #MITTIOT and we can get it to trend. LET’S DO THIS!!
I’m game.
gotcha
I really need to learn the hashtag thing. Do I add it, even if it’s a retweet?
yes – you can also add RT for retweet, and MT for modified tweet…
#RomneyShambles is still trending…..after mmmm how many hours now?….I love it! I hope it’s stay there a few more days.
Now #Mittthetwitt is trending…..
Michelle Obama looks amazing in white…at an Olympic Reception at Buckingham Palace.
Link please!!!
Found pics here:
http://www.daylife.com/search/photos/1/grid?q=obama
Loving her hair!!! She is just beautiful. She is loving her role as First Lady!!!
Look at her! She’s just GLOWING!
http://www.daylife.com/photo/04ah49G1q4abf?__site=daylife&q=obama
That’s a gorgeous outfit ! Stunning for meeting the Queen 🙂
These are gorgeous! Thanks for the link.
Look at our FLOTUs with Prince Albert of Monaco, Will and Kate, and of course, Queen E.; so beautiful, graceful, and a natural all while being simply who she is. Take that Mitt the nitwit.
Thanks for this link, Dudette. FLOTUS always looks so ‘real’ in her photographs in any given situation! She certainly is an excellent choice to represent the USA; guaranteed to mute the national sting of any Romney gaffe..
I am on holiday in Huron, Ohio and finally have free wireless here (actually hotel is in Sandusky). I CANNOT believe all that has gone down in the past 2 days!!!
Isn’t it overwhelming to miss a day or two in TODville, Betsy? I no longer try to literally recapture what I missed, hoping instead that it will seep through in conversation as I go forward. Have an enjoyable vacation, we’ll be here anytime you can drop in!
I have missed three days so far, and just read a little. You are so right it’s hard to keep up 🙂
Mrs. Greenspan just praised George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State Clinton for fighting aids. No mention of PBO or the fact Secretary of State Clinton works for him. The MSM’s agenda against PBO is unmatched.
She is a PUMA is disguise. She has taken folks to task when they get too out of hand but she can be hard to read a lot of times.
What disguise?
Actually, she’s no Democrat but she does react with a bit of feminist fervor when women are under attack.
She’s Mrs. Greenspan, for God’s sake!
Yesterday Brian Williams talked about the Olympics, but failed to mention a word about FLOTUS arriving there yesterday. I watched all of his news waiting for him to mention just one word but I waited in vain.
Someone should tweet his sorry butt and let him have it!
He probably didn’t want to offend Lady Ann…after all, isn’t she the First Lady now? She’s also Queen, Duchess, Princess, Empress, and Goddess all wrapped up in one empty brain.
So true.
They have Robney gaining ground nationally in July. It’s Rasmussen. They got him up 5 points today, really hurting the averages.
So predictable. 🙄
I love this article
Isn’t she lovely!
Gorgeous!!!!!!!!
What a gorgeous dress. And don’t you just love thexpression on that man’s face? He looks like the cat that swallowed the canary.
Her escort is Louis Susman, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom 🙂
LMAO! veryslowwriter I was so caught up in our FLOTUS’s lovely attire that I didn’t notice her escort’s facial expression until you mentioned it…and indeed, his face says it all! No words necessary. Let the pictures speak for themselves.
FLOTUS is lovely and the dress is exquisite. I can’t take my eyes off of her. My heart feels like it is about the explode with pride.
I read the most ridiculous article in Mediaite
Selective Outrage: How The U.K. Press Reacted To Obama’s Numerous Anti-British Gaffes
by Noah Rothman |
He’s the RWNJ over there, I remember a few months ago sending him a couple of angry tweets and he replied to me, and we went back and forth….I had an answer ready for all his BS.
So basically he thinks that FLOTUS touching the Queen or President Obama’s toast to the Queen is the same as an arrogant snob insulting the whole country.
I’m very impress with the way the UK press went after Romney.
FLOTUS did not touch the Queen until the Queen touched her. Not even a little breach of royal protocol. These people just love to make up stuff.
I know! it’s so ridiculous, there’s no comparison whatsoever…it was soooo endearing….The Queen really respect the First Couple…..
The Right Wing Haters are so pitiful. I mean PI-TI- FUL. Mitt Romney made a first class fool of himself, now they have to try to say the Obamas did too. When you let HATE rule you, you are sick, sick, sick sick..
Irreverent soul that I sometimes am I’d add that it was probably the first touch/hug the queen had had in a long time.
OH. MY. GOD. FLOTUS IS STUNNING…stunning…stunning…..
Gorgeous!!
Wow Meta, FLOTUS looks gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this photo.
Our First Lady can go from running around with kids all day, kicking soccer balls, pulling ropes, playing tennis, being pick up by a female wrestler, to looking like a million dollars to meet the Queen. And during it all with class and dignity and not insulting anyone, and making her country proud. Mrs, Michelle Obama looks beautiful, she is inside and out.
I bet the proudest one ( if proudest is a word ), but I bet the proudest one is the guy in that Oval Office.
perfectly said anniebella ~ she is allll that & makes this citizen extremely proud always.
Dazzling!
Meta, I am sure Chips will post these but here are more photos of FLOTUS.
http://www.daylife.com/search/photos/1/grid?__site=daylife&q=Michelle+Obama
Thanks! What an exciting day for her. If only POTUS could be there with her.
There just aren’t enough adjectives to describe this woman. Timeless beauty for the ages! Inside and out…sheer class and grace. May I say, I think that she has the most beautiful hands I ever saw.
Stunning. She has the most beautiful hands on the planet. Those earrings are so perfect it hurts.
Heads up!
Clinton, Pelosi close International AIDS Conference (3:15PM EST)
Former president Bill Clinton and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi deliver closing remarks at the International AIDS Conference in Washington.
CNN Live stream: http://live.cnn.com/
romney= bush economics, bush foreign policy, bush social policy, and karl rove. I’ve had enough.
All on steroids.
Just like President Clinton said.
Sounds like a good tweet to me 😉
#RmoneyWreck … will remind these folk more than once ….
#mittthetwit is now trending on twitter with #RomneyShambles. 🙂 🙂 🙂
We had one of those nuts here in the DC area. Thank God they took him serious and got to him before he did any harm to others.
WASHINGTON — A Maryland man calling himself “a joker” is accused of threatening to shoot up the business from which he was about to be fired and was wearing a T-shirt that read “Guns don’t kill people. I do,” when he first talked to officers who arrested him, police said Friday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/official-md-man-who-called-himself-a-joker-suspected-of-plotting-to-shoot-up-workplace/2012/07/27/gJQAbRYzDX_story.html
Thanks God! Of course, Mitt thinks we don’t need so many police and teachers…
http://twitter.com/DetachedO/status/228922901926125568
Well good, but the story is on kos. It’ll never be heard by the people who need to hear it.
Can someone Tweet this to Sherrod Brown? I think that Cantor did the exact same thing…bet on US failure to make their money!!
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/27/590481/josh-mandel-shorting-treasury-bonds/
Even the Daily Mail is being nice, below is a nice write-up about Flotus
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179787/Michelle-Obama-gives-Team-USA-pep-talk-ahead-Olympics-opening-ceremony-London.html
Nice. I love the pictures. Princess Kate is gorgeous. Love the picture with First Lady Michelle and Princess Kate.
Now, if they could get a picture of the two of them and Jill Biden, I would be in heaven.
AHA…it appears that the O-team has caught to Knoller’s disgusting antics, taken a page from the TOD Twitter Brigade’s book and is pushing back aggressively and promptly on Knoller’s lies:
Mark Knoller needs to be following Romney around period. He is no journalist, he is nothing but a lying gop pusher of bs. Sick of him. Good on Dan Pfeiffer.
Love me some Dan Pfeiffer. The President has some awesome people around him.
He absolutely does indeed, Dudette, thank goodness for POTUS excellent judgement.
Nicely done Dan. Mark Knoller and are the rest of the jackals need to get back to the basics of journalism. They might try starting with the first principle which is to tell the truth. They are a disgrace to their profession. Too lazy to just report the facts.
Maybe if Knoller got up off his fat butt to actual look into things, then he would not believe everything the right wingers tell him.
Or say.
I bet Snark would have a thing or two to say on this……;-)
Al Jazeera coverage of the Olympics here:
http://blog.livenewschat.tv/al-jazeera-news-chat/
Romney Advisor Guy Slamming Obama For ‘Leaks’ Was Same Dude Who Leaked On Valerie Plame
http://wonkette.com/479161/romney-advisor-guy-slamming-obama-for-leaks-was-same-dude-who-leaked-on-valerie-plame
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Shame on Diane Feinstein…..
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/07/27/at-the-palace-2/
Hi TOD…My daughter had the most wonderful experience and surprise a few weeks ago.
She had just graduated college in May and came home and started job hunting. She got a temporary
3 week job back in DC ( where she went to college). She was a camp counselor/mentor….this is her story.
As she pulls up to the camp her supervisor urgently texts her to come to the office immediately…of course she thought
she had done something wrong. Then the supervisor said in the sternest of voices …You have to sign a confidentiality
agreement now cause Sasha will be coming to our camp for a week. Well she got all excited, after the shock wore off
and the first thing she said she blurted out was “Can I tell my Mom”. The answer of course was a firm NO.
I cracked up when she told me her reaction because she is normally so mature and balanced…but she knows
what an Obamamama I am so that was her reflexive response. She honored the agreement however so it was
not until she came home a week ago that I got all the stories…
She had the honor of meeting our First Lady who came to the kids performance at the end of the week.
She kept saying ,Mom, Michelle is soooo beautiful in person and so down to earth and nice to all of us. It was a small
group so she was able to talk with the FL and they took group pictures, which finally convinced me…because it all seemed
too good to be true. Also the SS were nice and friendly but always on the job. Got a lot of other little stories but will
keep it brief 🙂
What a great experience to have as her first job out of college! I hope her future will be equally blessed. Just thought
i’d share with my TOD family especially since we are now witnessing this magnificent First Lady in action on the world stage.
oh neat! She’ll treasure it forever!
That is so wonderful! Good for her!
how wonderful!