Manchester, New Hampshire, October 18 (Reuters/Jason Reed)
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Coming Up:
President Obama delivers remarks at the 67th Annual Alfred. E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
Streaming has started (7:40 ET) – warning: Willard will appear too …. wait, they’re having their dinner first, then we’ll get the speeches.
2008:
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(Jason Reed/Reuters)
Manchester, New Hampshire (Mark Bolton/Union Leader)
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JFK, Oct 18 (Reuters/Jason Reed)
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Live with Michael and Kelly (FBD)
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The Daily Show, October 18 (MSNBC)
The Obama Diary 
Can’t wait.
Hi Africa, congrats!
Hey VC. So glad to be here. I love, love my president.
OT: Everyone who talks to me about PBO at my job was seething with anger about Mitt’s nasty, disrespect.
Hellooooooooo Africa!
Hiya Chips!! Hi Everyone Love, love my president and his beautiful wife. Thanks for this most gorgeous picture!!
Excellent choice Chips! Beauty personified in both!
Hey Africa! Congrats!!
😕 Me again passing by
‘ssup VC!
Hello!
Howdy hf!!
Hey there dudette 🙂
Oh goodie! Top 10.
😆 😆
Please tweet to Lis Smith.
Repubs are so nasty. I don’t even want to imagine what they’d do if Romneybot is elected. Is there anything that the Democratic party can do about Husted’s defiance?
Was Stewart decent towards my President? He had better been.
If he wasn’t, we might be able to pay one of the Romney boys to punch him in the face.
Some Details:
The following individual has been charged:
Mr. Colin Small, 31 year old male of Phoenixville, PA
Voter Registration Supervisor employed by Pinpoint, an independent private organization contracted by the REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA for purposes of general voter registration. The following charges have been placed:
Four (4) counts of Destruction of Voter Registration Application, Class 1 Misdemeanor, Section 24.2-1002.01, Code of Virginia
Eight (8) counts of Disclosure of Voter Registration Application, Class 5 Felony, Section 24.2-1002.01, Code of Virginia
One (1) count of Obstruction of Justice, Class 1 Misdemeanor, Section 18.2-460(A), Code of Virginia
Glad they caught the creep. Read about this on Balloon Juice this morning. So Republicans are straight up destroying the registrations of Democrats? Then they want to run their mouth about voter fraud. Just Wow.
Media not saying a word about this:
If we keep telling people that the GOP is going to steal the election, it might deflate ourside!
Just saying!
I don’t think they can steal the election. But Tagg is a THUG.
True!
Like father, like son.
Just reading about that—–troubling that the Taggster is invested in the voting machines that will be used in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., which has been identified as Ground Zero, the deciding county, in Ohio’s vote results. Why doesn’t anyone care about this?
http://www.politicolnews.com/tagg-romney-invested-in-ohio-electronic-voting-machines/
From what I gathered from the article, the voting machines are limited to Cincinnati? So maybe this situation isn’t as bad as it seems.
But I agree. Tagg is a #jackass.
I can’t believe that the media gives a wink and a nod to those spoiled brats’ uncivil manners. Josh comparing POTUS to a child, Tagg sayig he wants to take a swing at POTUS. As Edwina said earlier, where was Tagg when Newt actually called Willard a liar?
Not one day of service from any of those spoiled, able-bodied men, not even National Guard duty like GWBush.
Americans have got to have more sense than to want to have crazy, creepy Willard in office.
This is what the right wing is freaking out about-
What’s wring with that?
I blame Jon Stewart for bringing up this issue and framing it that way in the first place.
Here are Stew-Rat’s exact words: “I would say and even you would admit it was not the optimal response – at least to the American people as far as all of us being on the same page.”
And here is PBO’s response: “Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed it is not optimal,” And we are going to fix it, all of it. And what happens during the course of a presidency, you know the government is a big operation at any given time, something screws up and you make sure you find out what’s broken and you fix it.”
Oh! Another loaded question? Probably from the RNC?
Obama was just using Stewart’s word–optimal—back at him, optimal meaning “most favorable, most desirable”, and Obama using it to mean any time 4 Americans get killed it is certainly not “most desirable”.
When is the GOP not freaking about anything about terrorism? Ever since 9/11 they shit their pants over “war on terror”. Good grief, they are so fucking scared of their own shadow that they have to have terrorists imprisoned offshore as they are scared our prisons (you know those ones that are made of inflatable tents with zippered entrance/exits?) are not strong enough to hold those few hundred guys. “Oooh so he didn’t say terrorist before we did. Ooooh they were middle eastern men committing terror on us.
In reality, this is all Major League BULLSHIT. If our Ambassador to Canada and 3 other Americans had been killed by white Canadians in an attack on our embassy there do you think the GOP would be calling it terrorism?? HELL NO. This is more about the GOP and their fucking racist bigoted beliefs and hate for the president than anything to do with something called terrorism.
i’m no fan of Stewrat, but there’s nothing wrong with the question. Anybody freaking out about the use of the word optimal, obviously doesn’t know what it means.
What does Jon Stewart mean by “not the optimal response”? I must be missing something. President Obama is going to make sure that the creeps who killed 4 Americans are brought to justice. The response is yet to come. And who is “all of us being on the same page”? Rethugs and Democrats?
Stewart can be hilarious at times, but I prefer Colbert.
Most RWNJs don’t understand the meaning of the word optimal and those RWNJs who do will pretend it means something else..
I could care less about what the right wingers are freaking out about. Their word-smithing makes me wonder why they had a problem with Bill Clinton’s claim that “it depends on what your definition of “is” is…”. Silly stuff.
Streaming has started!
Is it me, or are people (incl MSM) more excited about these events since PBO? E.g. the WHCD, WH state dinners, WH Gov dinners, Alfred Foundation Dinner, etc.
+ A gazillion. He’s been so flippin’ hilarious at these things, they’re must-watches now. But we have to wait about an hour until they finish eating, I want him to start RIGHT NOW!!! 🙂
Me too. Can’t wait!
Besides the fact that he’s funny, he’s also nice to look at. 🙂 So people tune in.
When Nate Silver says Gallup’s LV model is suspect, it has officially jumped the shark.
Indeed. I read on Twitter that even a GOP pollster did not believe the Gallup LV showing Willard with +7.
Kos had an article on this yesterday. The cross tabs divided the country into four parts: East, Midwest, West and South. In the East and Midwest, President Obama was leading 52-48 and 53-47 in the West, but in the South Romney led 61-39. He did not say if the regions were evenly divided. But this southern region seems to be the crux of Romney’s high numbers. But President Obama outside of Florida will not win any of those states, but he was leading in the regions where most of the swing states are.
So President Obama is leading in the East, Midwest and West? And Romney is leading in the South only? Unusual way to do a poll? Is this how Gallup always does its polls? Other polling orgs?
I have to admit that I panicked when I saw that poll. Seems like an insurmountable lead by Romney. Feel a lot better having read your comment.
CBS is streaming from the beginning. Preliminaries now. It seems the speeches start at 9 with Romney first and the President after that. Ann is there, but not Michelle, but she wasn’t there last time though she was at a fundraiser with him later that night. I think she doesn’t see a need for her to be there and I think I would feel the same. Not a friendly place for the Obamas, but he handles himself well in all circumstances. Now they are eating and the stream ends. President looks sharp. He and Romney flank the Cardinal.
Mitt can’t be let out alone – he breaks down
Romney might have a breakdown if Ann isn’t there. And if PBO roasts him properly, Romney will need Ann to calm him down. UGH.
As she said today, she is often needed to “stabilize” him, an alarming admission.
Let’s not forget Michelle has two young girls she is trying to raised. I’m sure she doesn’t like to stay away from them to much. She don’t want them to grow up and be like the Romney rich arrogant grown rusty brats.
Is it just me or do these Romney kids all look very strange ( as in ax murderers?). I get the creeps looking at them…*shrugs*
They are pure evil and demon possessed like their mammy and pappy.
The word ‘Stepford’ comes to mind only more than wives.
I made a comment about a month ago that Willard reminds me of that Norman Bates (Psycho) character. I wasn’t joking either.
No, it’s not just you, Kreen. They remind me of the time, many years ago, when I lived in SF and I was surrounded by Moonies at the bus stop. ALL of the Moonies were young, but looked so exhausted. The Romney “boys” have the same look.
They look like the psycho husband in a Lifetime movie.
Not trying to sound rude, but none of the 5 boys are good looking in any way to me. I know I’m biased, but they look strange. And it seems a little odd that 3 of them have had children via surrogate mothers.
I have always thought the GOP men have a slicked back look to them. Like slicked down hair, conservative suits and ties just like the Mormons knocking on your door to talk religion. The Dem’s men look disheveled, rumpily dressed as if their outer look does not matter as much as their inner feelings.
The Dems seem more easy going and have a better sense of humor while the GOP seem uptight, and less into humor.
These are of course all generalizations but they seem more true of late.
Romney and Palin have seemed to give their kids strange names like Trig, Trip and Tagg for example.
Yup – they’re very strange to look at. I don’t like looking at them.
These polls prove early voting will crush Romney and that anyone who says Romney is leading among women voters is delusional.
I posted this earlier, but hasn’t seemed to gain traction:
re: auto bailout > 3,000% return on investment for Romney and Wall Street donors (written by an economist/journalist, author of “Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps”)
“Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.”
http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza#
It’s building, Arapaho. Bobfr has included a couple of excerpts (in the last post I think) and there have been a couple of tweets. Sometimes it takes weeks, sometimes days for stuff to gain traction. In this case I think part of the ‘delay’ is that the article itself is so long that people don’t bother to read it in its entirety to pick possible ‘sound bytes’.
Lots of folk have been tweeting it besides me …
… I’m sure the @truthteam2012 folk are all over it 🙂
#PRESSON
Thank you Utaustinliberal for all of your positive and uplifting tweets showing President Obama leading in several polls. I have to admit that I was sad today when I heard about the Gallup LV poll. Breaks my heart that people are seriously considering voting for someone as awful as Romneybot.
Keep up the good work. We need to keep fighting right to the end. I just donated more $$$ today.
Utal, have you looked at that article Arapaho posted above (Approx #51) yet? I’m sure with your expertise you’ll be able to grab some key tweet-size messages. It deals with the fantastic returns Mitt and his buds got from the auto industry’s pain and subsequent revival.
I see our First lady is doing the good ol ‘dirt of the shoulder’ love it
Hi hhutzpadeecats, thanks for trying to comment here.
Because of a swarm of trolls in the last while, only comments by people with non-private Twitter accounts of long-standing will go automatically through.
You can see the others ways to sign up here: http://theobamadiary.com/house-rules/
Sorry about that, but it’s the only way of keeping the trolls out.
Thanks
Trolls are everywhere. Willard and/or Rove must be opening the checkbook.
Should be a no-brainer for women to support President Obama. I don’t see why any woman would find Romneybot appealing at all, except Ann.
Where are people watching the dinner? All I’m seeing is a photo of a waterfront.
CSPAN one TV will be carrying live from 9PM. I think Chips is watching one of the livestream links she posted above.
It quit when they began eating.
Mark Knoller must have been pissed when they did that. He won’t be able to go home and replay clips of PBO eating on his DVR.
They are eating right now. Will begin program at 9. Will be televised on C-Span and should also be streamed on CBS and CNN.
Off-Topic: Fans of Showtime’s No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency starring Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose — let’s tweet the network to encourage them to get going on the 2nd season PLEASE!
Their is no way that Robney can win, with these numbers on Latinos-
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-72931038/
Wildcard!
The link didn’t work for me. I assume it shows that President Obama is maintaining his huge lead among Latino voters. Good to hear.
We’ve got VICTORY.
I love my President. That is all.
Totally agree!
Feinstein faults Obama’s intel director for mixed messages on Benghazi attack
Julian Pecquet – 10/18/12 11:29 AM ET
She said administration officials were given “speaking points” by intelligence adviser James Clapper in the immediate aftermath.…
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Feinstein! AGAIN?
In the middle of an election, she is running her mouth.
I hate her….I hope there is someone running in four years to replace her. If there were one Dem Senator I would give up it would be her. In fact I might vote for the Rethug this time. She really doesn’t ask for money like Barbara Boxer because I think a lot of R’s give her money. I wouldn’t be surprised.
Sheiks a pain in the @$$!
That should be ‘she is’ 🙂
Why can’t she address her concerns to President Obama and his advisers? Why make her concerns public where they can be picked up on by the Rightwingers and mainstream media? She’s just adding to the anti-Obama rhetoric re Libya. Not too bright. I’m going to contact her office.
I thought Feinstein learned her lesson the last time. This Benhazi faux outrage is making a fool of a lot of people. First they demand a conclusion before all the information is in. Then they conflate two separate incidents: the terrorist attack and the global outrage over an deeply offensive video. Then, they make political hay out of the death of American citizens. The whole thing is disgusting.
Got my absentee ballot and voted Obama/Biden and straight democrat! Will be mailing it tomorrow.
Way to go, Jeff!!!!
#FORWARD
Make sure you put extra postage on the envelope to make sure it gets there on time!
There’s an Anti-Obama documentary on HDMOV The Hope and Change…..it’s all anti-obama. This is what Citizens United has given us. In fact the black guy in this documentary looks a lot like the “undecided” black guy at the 2nd Debate.
oh… it’s not that Obama 2016 movie as of the fact that maker of the film resigned from the christian college that he was heading due to an affair?
No, it’s a documentary but the few minutes I watched it was anti-Obama. I don’t know who produced the documentary…maybe Michael Moore/snark.
Arrggghhh! Ron Christie is a criss-eye piece of rs!
Am absolutely refusing to watch these bi-polar pundidiots.
Good one! I’m gonna use it. If you don’t mind?
Be my guest. I am honored.
I cannot stand Ron Christie’s lying azz. He acts as if Tagg Romney wouldn’t make the same veiled threat against him that he made against PBO. Based on my own experience in dealing with people like TR, he’d diss Ron Christie to his face and laugh about it in his face. TR is a despicable person, and I was so glad to see David Sirota address the issue of White Privilege in a post at Salon today. Someone must be paying Ron Christie a sh*tload of money to dismiss what his eyes and brain show/tell him that is happening.
Here, here!
I turned to Current TV when he was on. I think I’ll skip him until the Election.
I dunno. That Cenk fella gives me the crawlies.
Oh my…Tommy Thompson the (R) candidate for the Wisconsin Senate debate is an arrogant bullying bastard, yelling at Tammy Baldwin (D), calling her “Joe Biden” while yelling angrily “let me FINISH, LET ME FINISH, you had your two minutes.” All this because she tried to correct some lies he was telling. The audience was not happy with his remarks. We might see this on the news tomorrow!
Dare we hope 🙂
I guess it’s frustrating for him that she is leading in the polls. How is it an insult to be called Joe Biden? LOL.
we have a problem…..go to Charlotte Observer…look at article on Billy Graham and Mormons….hold your nose and scroll down to comments…keep going until you read the one about a 1 hr conference call persumably with stock holders, maybe, from BB&T Bank( bank here in NC)…saying that if there isn’t a change in Washington there could possibly be reductions in employees, their benefits and salaries….apparently there are a lot of companies intimidating their employees…..this was just someone who let the cat out of the bag in NC in a comments section of newspaper….now…….having said this, how the hell are they going to know who you vote for…….It seems now that there is some merit to being registered Independent…..this is scary stuff….For some reason, I was naive and never thought this intimidation would come into my world but this is a medium sized NC bank not some looney rich guy who lives in the largest house and donates to Mitt Romney….
Haven’t you heard? Romney had this big meeting with employers and suggested they tell their employees their companies could be in trouble if Obama is elected. It’s all over the MSNBC.
John Allison the now retired Chairman of BB &T required upper management to read Ayn Rand. It was almost run as a cult and probably has not changed much
It seems this is widespread—-have heard about it from many different areas.
Since Citizens United, it is no longer illegal for employers to tell employees how to vote. You see, corporations are people too, my friends.
What I found shocking is that some employers are forcing employees to donate money to specific candidates.
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/14/koch-brothers-use-company-to-round-up-votes-for-romney/
I don’t know how they’d do that, unless they stole your money by not paying you in the first place. I’d call their bluff on that one. I worked for a company that became involved in a pac during the Clinton/Bush campaign. I was in management, so they felt that they could pressure the non-union folks to participate. I was shocked that of the folks in my group, only two people objected and refused to contribute. I was one and the other person was voting for Ross Perot. We were both pulled in and questioned. I simply said, ‘please proceed with this line of questioning’. Silence and a thank you very much. We left the room politically on opposing sides, but we became fast friends after that. I can’t believe the mealy mouth so and so’s who went along with that crap without even voicing any dissent. They were all afraid.
Hi Chips, I saw your note up thread about only folks with non private twitter accounts being able to post.
I don’t have a twitter acct. but have been here for quite a long time. Just don’t post often, even though I
read every day. I hope I still can post….please. 🙂
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Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.
10:50 AM
Obama departs the White House en route Fairfax, Va.
11:45 AM
Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
4:45 PM
Obama departs the White House en route Camp David.
Chips…I have to run out to the store and I’m afraid that I’ll miss PBO tonight…can you put his speech up here for those of us that might not be able to make it? That would be wonderful……. 🙂 Just the PBO part. I don’t really give 2 shits what Mitt says. Thanks
🙂 I’ll see if it appears on YouTube DF, but C-Span should have the video up pretty soon after. Happy shopping!
Ok…it’s food shopping. Not the same as “fun shopping” 🙂
Hell no. I would rather watch Sean Hannity tonight than watch Romney try to tell jokes. I’ll wait for the black president guy who can actually tell a joke.
Heads up:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/10/18/heads-up-president-obama-at-the-alfred-e-smith-dinner/
CBS2 feed says Romney speaks at 9:05 ET, PBO speaks at 9:20 ET. Meanwhile we get to watch some kind of Immigration operation on a NH bay.
Nice photo.
C-SPAN has live stream of the dinner and Romney looks uncomfortable.
Probably because he ‘went’ on himself.