I know, poor dear. Eat a samwich or somethin’, would ya? We don’t want ya witherin’ away. You’ve got 4 yrs more work to do!
And put a coat on — it’s cold up there!
Shouldn’t you be wearing a coat, or something, Ms Chips? Where did I get the idea that it would be cold up in the clouds? I know you love the idea of Obamacare(s) and the fact Pres O might visit you in hospital, but don’t you think it’s a bit irresponsible to deliberately expose yourself to pneumonia or whatever way up there? Another possibility, suppose you fall? Doesn’t look like there’s enough flesh there to cushion your bones. I think you should make sure you’re not alone up there, or carefully make your way down to a more reasonable level. Just saying because I love having you around.
I am still wearing my wining smile. After all we have been through and what PBO had to endure, I will always be indebted to the right thinking Americans who trounced the buckets of evil/hateful money from the rwnj billionaires. We did it again.
And Joe and Jill are home safe too, I presume? So grateful for the two of them and the team that they are part of with our Prez and First Lady. It is just incredible. I have never witnessed a relationship like the four of have in the White House and the way they work with each other.
“The REAL Fantastic Four!” Yes indeed! I am always coming to the party late but I love the vibrations (I meat to say music selections) from you and Susanne. Coming to TOD makes feel young again.
Hello TODers, just wanted to drop in to say THANK YOU. I found this place to be an oasis in the midst of the storm of election season. I was so grateful to be able to drop in here after a long day when I needed my spirits lifted. I thank everyone in this community who worked so hard for the re-election of the President. Now the real work begins again. I decided to go to the Obama Victory Party at McCormick Place last night even though I was still feeling ill. I thought that it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I am paying for it today but I am not sorry. You won’t be surprised to know that I cried when the President started speaking. It was so moving and I felt to proud to be part of a large community of people who contributed to that moment. So I just wanted to drop in to say thanks to all of you and in particular to Chips for providing this wonderful space. FORWARD! Peace to all of you.
Thanks for dropping in, MK. Take care of yourself – you fought hard for this campaign; you deserve the rest. It was a spectacular day and night and day after. Next stop – inauguration 2013! 🙂
YIKES!!!!!!!! hear those icecubes swirling? She needs to pass out now….or she may just stoke out…and need that “socialist” medicine:) Drudge. What poison.
So much hate – but so wonderful to see the exploding head. They deserve to have their heads explode because of their racism and nonsense that we’ve had to endure. I’m going to love watching them during this second term, because there’s absolutely nothing they can do about the state of affairs! I love it!
Go ahead and speak the TRUTH Theo67! For four years they hated and plotted for the destruction of MY President. Guess what? They all failed. The tea baggers and fire baggers failed. Rush Limbaugh failed. Glenn Beck failed. Donald Trump and all the birthers failed. FOX News failed. Glen Greenwald failed. Jane Hamsher failed. Above all, and more deliciously, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Eric Cantor, with all their obstructionism, failed. President Obama won and was re-elected for a second term! All of us who kept the faith in our President won. There is nothing they can do about it now. Absolutely NOTHING! If their heads explode it’s all their making, not ours. May be they will finally grasp this truth: “NO LIE CAN LIVE FOREVER!”
And Rev Al spoke to this earlier today. He said that they threw every punch at President Obama, but he kept getting up and getting up – with grace and dignity. And he won. I can’t get over how happy I am about this win. It is so well deserved, and such sweet justice for so many. When I saw the Obama family on Marine One and Air Force One and then in the motorcade and finally entering the White House – I reveled in the fact that Romney and Ann will never know what that feels like. Never.
Chips you’re such a card. And you’re the best…couldn’t have survived the last four years with out you. Personally I wasn’t worried yesterday. When the President went into that repub retreat they called the lion’s and he mauled the lion’s I knew this man was a genius. I just wished we’d gotten rid of both Smirky and Creepy…
Oh my gosh, love the images…especially the celebration image from India, the children in Indonesia and the image of the girl waiting for her parents to vote in Staten Island is absolutely amazing! So happy you ate on cloud nine Chips, we all are too! Oh happy, happy Day!
Wow, just watched that Martin B. clip Chips posted above, that is outstanding. Martin has become my favorite on MSNBC. Hate lost! Love that. He makes a great point about how Romney’s America does not exist in reality.
Slight correction: Inauguration Day is still on Jan 20th (must be that day by law), but govt holiday is the following day MLK Day Observance Day, Jan 21st. Btw, MLKJr’s actual birthday is Jan 15th.
Exceptional good music, but wow, somebody’s in a deep melancholy mood…
You’re one of those people who’d be sittin’ in the corner suckin on a doobie while everyone else at the party is sweatin’ & shaking their groove thang, aren’t ya? Whatever does it for ya bro. Somebody’s gotta hold up the wall. 🙂
The formal oath will be taken privately on Jan 20 to comply with the Constitution. But the public celebration and oath taking will take place on Jan 21.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States gave final approval on Wednesday to duties on billions of dollars of solar-energy products from China for the next five years, protecting U.S. producers against lower-priced imports and raising fears of Chinese retaliation.
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 6-0 in favor of double- and triple-digit duties in a case filed last year by SolarWorld Industries America.
Beijing has protested the case each step of the way, calling it a protectionist move that threatens the future of solar energy by driving up costs for consumers.
SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar-panel manufacturer, accused Chinese competitors such as Suntech Power Holdings of selling solar cells and panels in the United States at unfairly low prices and receiving government subsidies.
SolarWorld’s German parent, SolarWorld AG, is pressing the European Union for similar curbs on Chinese solar products.
Gordon Brinser, president of SolarWorld America, told reporters the unanimous vote showed “very clearly” that U.S. producers had been harmed the imports.
The duties should allow U.S. producers to start adding jobs, but stringent enforcement is needed to prevent Chinese companies from circumventing the orders, he said.
In the meantime, SolarWorld has invested $27 million over the past year in technology that is increasing the efficiency of its solar cells, Brinser said.
I’ve missed checking in here so so much these last couple of weeks as I decided to go “all in” with my local OFA grassroots team and do whatever I could, for as long as I could to make sure our illustrious Prez got 4 more years. Missed everyone here and all the goings on.
I just got back home a couple of hours ago from Nevada. After working as volunteer coordinator staff for one of OFA’s So Cal HUMUNGO GOTV “phonebank on steroids” for 12 hour days the past two weekends, I went to Lost Wages, Monday night to be part of the Prez’ voter protection legal team that was being dispatched to polling places all over the Las Vegas area on election day. I spent 13 hours yesterday at a lovely little polling place trying to make sure that our voting process was not obstructed, compromised or just plain messed with by the Rethuglicans or anyone else who believed that that the path to victory lies in preventing others from participating in the democratic process. What an eye opening experience but in a good way.
When I arrived at my assigned polling place at 6:00 am yesterday morning, my heart kind of sank. One because I was at a newly built school in a lovely and newly developed subdivision in the outskirts of Las Vegas proper. Lovely newly built homes, overly manicured lawns, pristine sidewalks, lovely white church in the background with rolling green lawns, with a huge steeple and the Nevada mountains in the background. PLUS a huge SUV parked in the school parking lot proudly sporting a large Romney/Ryan 2012 bumper sticker. It looked like something out of the movie Pleasantville. And two, I walked into the polling place and saw the electronic voting machines. All of Tally’s tweets and articles about the voting machines and the ability to tamper with them came flooding back in a further rush of anxiety. But the team leader at the polling place could not have been a more ethical professional along with the rest of the poll workers there. He took the time to explain to me how the machines worked, the paper trail that they created and reconciled with the voter signature books and the CPUs in the machines, the chain of custody process they go through to ensure votes can’t be tampered with. It calmed me down some, and then they opened the doors to the polls at 7am. I saw a line of people of all ethnicities, socio-economic status, waiting patiently to cast their vote. Some with their children in tow to expose them to “democracy in action”. Others (of all ages) voting for the first time or second time. All of a sudden a calm came over me and I thought to myself, “we got this!” There were never any long lines, picketers or other drama, just a steady stream of people of all walks of life exercising their right to vote.
I met some other legal observers from Republican campaigns, (including Mitten’s campaign), all who came through the polling place at different times throughout the day. All of them were very polite and pleasant–but obviously hopelessly misguided! 😆 One of them shared with me later in the day that it was likely the President was going to win in large part due to early voting. Of course I demurred and was politely non-committal. But you KNOW on the inside I was yelling “OF COURSE HE’S GOING TO WIN DOOFUS! HA!”. I was so tired at the poll close at 7:00pm that I went straight back to where I was staying and went directly to sleep without watching any results. But I went to sleep with the unshakeable certainty that I would wake up this morning knowing that our illustrious Prez would be our illustrious Prez for another 4 years. And of course that’s exactly what happened. Plus I JUST KNEW Miz Chips and TOD would have EVERYTHING that has happened and I could relive it all as if I watched it unfold last night in real time. And of course she didn’t disappoint. Thanks Miz Chips and all the rest of you TOD Peeps. Without this oasis, Randi Rhodes and my OFA neighborhood team, I don’t know whether I’d still have my sanity by now. Off now to catch up on all the posts.
Thank you so much for this purpleshoes:) You really went above and beyond, just as so many others did to deliver this for the President. WE DID THIS!! Hugs to you….and thanks again
welcome home, purpleshoes!!!!!! thanks for all your hard work, and dedication! indeed, miss chipsticks has been keeping us sane here, and also setting up the party supplies. so glad you’re back in time for the good part—celebration!
Purple … that is a beautiful account. Thank you for all that you and others like you have done. Your tireless efforts is appreciated beyond words. My sister in Malaysia said how happy that PBO won, and so you have the gratitude of non-american citizens like us all over the world. We believe that the world is a much better place under PBO’s admin. Thank you, again.
Purple, you were a Warrior Princess out there! I’m so grateful and proud of all the wonderful work you did on the President’s and OUR behalf. Thank you for sharing your adventure with us. Love you sooooooooooooooo much!!! {{{{PurpleshoesLA!!}}} Rest your bones, honey, you’ve earned a nice LONG, soothing rest! THANK YOU!!
Lovely work, PurpleShoesLA! I did the same work at a polling place here in Richmond, and I second a lot of the details you shared — down to cluelessness on the part of Mittens’ legal observers, and their tone at the end of the night. 😆 Overall I learned so much and was so encouraged at seeing our democracy (flawed and crazy as it is) at work. It was a beautiful thing.
I hope you get some much needed rest PurpleShoesLA! We are all indebted to the magnificent work you and other volunteers did to ensure the President’s victory. I wish we could do more to express our gratitude. For now all I will say is: THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE!
All of my friends have been so happy,full of hugs today, not because they understand or follow much of the US politics but because they have seen my enthusiasm and watch me every shift, following TOD between babies and seeing how many folks here are so faithful and true to PBO’s ideals. Thanks everyone for a great ride, especially you amk, vc and Theo who are always around at night and to you Chips for making this all possible.
Hey there – I love that your friends celebrated with you. My friends all contacted me with celebratory messages, too. Everyone was happy last night! Well, all the thinking people, at least! I’m still happy, and plan to continue to be happy tomorrow.
Yes – the sane Republicans need to separate from the right wing loons, and then things can start moving forward. And we may see the beginnings of that movement with the emergence of compromisers in Congress. My fingers are crossed!
Nov 12…..Hey Theo, thanks for the reminder about that Rudyard Kipling poem. I love it. I often snatch lines from songs or poems to create titles for my stories and A Walk with Kings was one I picked a couple of years ago.
Thanks again.
An estimated 66.8 million viewers watched election returns on broadcast and cable networks Tuesday, the Nielsen Co. said Wednesday.
The audience fell short of the record 71.5 million viewers who tuned in to the outcome of the 2008 contest and the historic election of the first African-American president.
NBC came out on top among all networks, averaging 12.1 million viewers during the three hours of prime time, 8-11 p.m. Fox News Channel held the No. 2 slot with 11.45 million viewers, the biggest average ever in the network’s 16-year history.
Among other networks, ABC drew 10.52 million viewers, CNN had 9.25 million, CBS had 7.92 million, FOX (broadcast sister to Fox News) had 4.93 million and MSNBC had 4.7 million.
Jovie … thank you for the news you bring us. I don’t know how you do it but I come here and get so much information that I wouldn’t know of otherwise. Thanks a bunch J.
I feel exactly the same way. You are fantastic at this. Don’t stop because our next four years will be just as demanding of good info and thoughtful reflection.
President Obama’s reelection, along with key wins by Senate Democrats, ensures that the federal government will press ahead with efforts to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency and to curb greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change.
But the scope of these policies could be constrained by congressional opposition and by concern over their economic impact, making it likely that a second Obama term will deliver some, but not all, of environmentalists’ top priorities.
Booooo oooohhh de oh dooooo ohhh de oh dooooo oh de oh doooooo. One nation under a groove. Gettin’ down just fooooor the funk of it. Nothin’ can stop us now!
Even I couldn’t resist going to watch a Faux News head explosion video or two today.
I felt ashamed for like 3 seconds, then it was back to gloatin’ like a mofo! 😀
I love these Election Day pics. Earlier today, on the NYT website, I viewed a whole series of people voting in NY and NJ in the cold and without electricity, in tents and shelters, and it brought tears to my eyes. I am so sorry they are still going through such hardship, but so proud and gratified at their perseverance.
Man it’s great to see the president win so handily and to prove that I was worrying nothing over the polls. They were so wrong about the women’s vote about them being some mystical tie, etc. They were also very incorrect in believing that the minority turn out aka Hispanic, Black, etc would be smaller than 2008 when in fact it was MUCH larger.
By the way Ms. Chips, thank you for enforcing the “positively no drama rule” during the last couple of weeks before the victorious re-election. It kept us focussed and on point. We won!
hey, jeff, we all had our moments, and the folks here talked us all off the ledge from time to time. that was before–now it’s four more years of the good stuff!!
Last one from me tonight folks. Goodnight everyone!
I love you and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it! So glad we’ll be together for another 4 yrs.
df – that is so funny – he actually spent time doing this BEFORE the election – when he had more than enough time afterwards. I am also ROTFLMAO – He really thought it was “his turn”
That works! If I never hear his name uttered again, it’ll be too soon. Time to move FORWARD….and time to leave these cretins in the dust. Night all…I will sleep like a baby:)
Love seeing Chips in person…Where’s the little ‘9’ on that cloud, though? Seriously, girlfriend, life is good and you draw the same way I do! That makes you even more wonderful than previously realized with your all-powerful awesomeness. Chips (TOD) wins teh internetz.
At the core of what we accomplished is the fact that on 6 Nov 2012 the majority of those Americans PARTICIPATING in THEIR democracy REJECTED HATE and affirmed all the values that countless brave and caring individuals, for more than 2 Centuries committed their lives to enable.
To be fair, he did offer a heartfelt apology, and said he was looking at the situation from a political perspective, and lost sight of the real lives lost and harmed by the tragedy. It was a very decent apology.
But, I won’t forgive him for the comments about President Obama needing to be beholden to Clinton, and share the night of his victory with Bill Clinton and the Democrats who won (instead of being more presidential and focusing on an inclusive message). I’m done with Chris over that.
His apology wasn’t for insinuating that PBO got lucky (which was his primary objective with that comment). His apology was for his insensitivity to those victimized by the storm. And that was the only reason why his bosses probably forced him to come back and apologize the next day – because his comment ended up offending a whole bunch of people, not just the intended target.
You’re right – he was only apologizing for the insensitivity of the storm comment. In any case, I’m done with Chris Matthews. He’s just offensive on so many fronts, and patronizing in his “support”.
One more little tearjerker, heard tonight on The Ed Show. The head of the United Steelworkers union was being interviewed, and Ed asked him if he thought labor helped bring it home for the President. The union chief said ALL the unions were on the ground getting out the vote, and then said (paraphrased), “The union that includes bus drivers … the bus drivers were talking to their riders to encourage them to vote for the President.”
This President surely knows when he goes to sleep at night that so many regular, normal people – including those who get up every morning and hop aboard a bus on their way to work, or those driving the bus – appreciate his goodness and voted for him.
We got our second term, America. Let’s not waste it. And I repeat what I posted earlier in the day: Don’t anybody try to ruin my joy for the next four years!
Ok gotta go to bed and I’m not caught up yet here at TOD. I guess all the adrenaline is dissipating out my body. Listened to the Prez’ victory speech 3 times in a row, and cried/clapped/hooted/hollered in different places each time I watched it. Then you all had me rolling on the floor laughing at all your posts. Plus all the PAR-TAY music. So missed you guys. 😆 😆 😆 Thank goodness I’m taking a few days this week so I can get caught up here at TOD. Nite all. Fais de beaux reves.
Purpleshoesla – I’m right behind you. I’ve watched the President’s speech three times, and the third time, paused and rewound to see certain details again. I haven’t caught up, and at this point – I don’t know that I ever will. But I’m on Cloud 10, right next to Chips’ position on Cloud 9, and I’ll be happy to never come down again (although, I could do with a sweater). This was a very well-deserved victory. See everyone tomorrow!
It is essential that each of us do all we can to encourage our wonderful President Obama to GO DIRECT TO THE PEOPLE – be it in person or via the many ‘virtual’ modalities available to him.
In that spirit, following is a little missive submitted to the President via the WH comment portal:
Dear Mr President,
Congratulations! You have achieved so much, of incalculable value to so many, and now you have >4 more years to inspire Americans and, with them, expand on policy and implementation of CHANGE.
The following is a humble recommendation offered in the context of admiration and pragmatic awareness of the inertia and hate you will continue to confront.
Simply, between now and Inauguration Day – Jan 2017, yes, 2017, please, no matter what – BE WITH THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
Broadcast radio/TV and cable currently have distorted and usurped the fact that they only exist because WE THE PEOPLE allow them to have access to the public’s electromagnetic spectrum as shepherded by the FCC.
Beyond FCC regulation of that spectrum on behalf of every citizen of America, is a more central issue – how you, as our President, leverage it to ensure that EVERY AMERICAN is truthfully informed as to what YOU are doing on THEIR behalf.
In that context, the recommendation is that you do not allow others, be it your Press Secretary, ‘surrogates,’ or anyone else be the primary communicator to Americans. During the next 4+ years, YOU need to be ‘in our face.’
Doing so is no longer a technological or logistical issue.
YOU can CONNECT with ALL of US, easily and I’ll not insult your intelligence by listing all the options you have to do so.
JUST DO IT, Sir.
Not with staged YouTube videos, though those are useful, but use all the tools you have readily available to BE WITH US.
Most importantly – GET OUT OF DC, OFTEN.
You’ve got all you need on AF1, and in your various vehicles to be connected, constantly, with those whom need your guidance and authorization for ANY ACTION. That’s not a barrier.
By being WITH THE PEOPLE, you not only will destroy those forces manically focused on destroying you, the middle class and our democracy, but also how you enable all of us to be shoulder to shoulder with you.
Yes I agree that we the people need to be more engaged in the process during the next four years. Working side by side with our President as he tries to push his policies and much needed reforms.
it’s just crazy. they can’t think we’re going to believe they are sooooo concerned for precision, and for honoring all the voters’ ballots. we’ve seen how their governor tried to suppress and disrupt voting. it didn’t keep the president from winning, so just give it up, florida!
Because it’s so close (within 46,000) they have to count the provisional ballots prior to declaring winner. The other states didn’t have a close election so they declared winner before their provisional ballots were counted.
FL has an incompetent Gov and SS that allowed a ten page ballot on one of the most heavily voted elections in hopes that people would walk away (people meaning Dems). This time many R’s walked away too. The people they wanted most NOT to vote stayed in line no matter how long the wait.
That is something I hope Senator Reid can do something about, cause it is shameful what McConnell and his Republicans Senators did with the filibuster, their obstruction.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s election victory on Tuesday may give him the opportunity to deepen his liberal imprint on the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Harvard law graduate who taught constitutional law, Obama, a Democrat, named two liberals to the high court during his first four-year term.
With his re-election, the retirement of one or more justices in the next four years could preserve the present ideological balance or, more significantly, move the bench to the left.
The court’s nine justices are selected for life and their appointments can rank among a president’s most enduring legacies.
Four are in their 70s. Two – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 79, and Stephen Breyer, 74 – are liberals. Two – Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, both 76 – are conservatives. The biggest shake-up would come if either of the last two stepped down.
A swing in the liberal direction could foster a new receptiveness to campaign finance regulation. The five-justice conservative majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has ruled against such regulation, most notably in the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission dispute.
However, figures like Viguerie have limited influence within the GOP these days. The real lightning bolts being thrown on Wednesday were by the party’s super donors, who played a historic role in this election after a 2010 Supreme Court decision allowed them to give unlimited amounts to outside groups.
Many of the lightning bolts were aimed at none other than Karl Rove, the former Bush administration political genius who oversaw the deployment of nearly $400 million in campaign spending through outside groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS toward the presidential race and toward numerous Senate and House races.
“The billionaire donors I hear are livid,” one Republican operative told The Huffington Post. “There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do … I don’t know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got nothing.”
Hi guys. This is silly, loud and now a bit outdated, and not really something to start a day with (it came up with something else I watched), but some of you might get a chuckle….who knows?
Oh, he also called him a ‘tubby weasel’. You should watch this segment, I think people will do a better job if they watch Letterman for news analysis rather than these pundits.
Brian Williams is the great pretender and artful dodger, always going for the easy laugh and whatever is in vogue. Notice how he replied to Dave regarding Dave’s statement that the news made it seem like it was a close election; “Oh but that would take collusion.” Yes, exactly it was collusion Brian Williams.
Mitt Romney “began his retreat from public life Wednesday at a private breakfast gathering with a couple hundred of his most loyal and affluent campaign benefactors. The former Massachusetts governor, humbled by the thumping that ended his six-year pursuit of the presidency, reminisced about the journey and tried not to cry,” the Washington Post reports.
I sure Robme cried for ALL the money he spent and paid to those workers and did not get elected. He was not going to allow any of those commoners to attend his inauguration anyway. It would have been a parade of the wealthiest 1%.
Interesting that all these pundits who have been maligning President Obama daily for the last 2 years, at least, now find him the greatest thing since sliced bread, his team politically smarter, geniuses. All kinds of praise. It’s pretty amazing, this instantaneous turnaround, pretending all that constant anti-Obama pounding never happened, wiped clean from the slate.
Also interesting in the Reuters post-election analysis that after the 2010 midterms, with the election of all those tea party crazies who seized control of the Repub Party, Axe told Obama that “they just sowed the seeds of your re-election.” They knew that their nominee would either come from that radical wing or would have to bow down to it in order to win the nomination——and that the majority of the electorate would reject that extremism.
The lefty nuts ? Don’t worry, they’ll start bitching and moaning from today. As a matter of fact, the lefty limbaugh aka ed shultz, is already whining about the stupid holding the prez feet to fire nonsense.
My prediction. – Obama is will be much more aggressive now and will push his agenda regardless of the teabaggers, firebaggers, stupid pundtwits, msm morons and even his own democratic party if they stand in the way. Just watch.
Already heard it this morning. Not even 48 hours since the election. I think it will be a lot less, but it won’t be gone. the whiny left makes me insane.
A-fucking-men. And I seriously believe they’re going to be marginalized this time. The Democratic party and progressives had better learn how to effect the change they allegedly want, and that includes keeping your powder dry, working with and supporting the existing Democratic President and realize if we fucking behave, we’ll undo a great deal of damage in about a decade.
2010 was a major step back and I blame the whiny left and wimpy Dem’s for most of it.
KARL ROVE “THE ARCHITECT” DIDN’T BUILD IT. OH TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL WHEN THE CALL FROM SHELDON ADELSON COMES THROUGH TO CHAT ABOUT WHAT HE GOT FOR ALL THAT MONEY.
Vice President Joe Biden will make an appearance on an upcoming episode of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” Nov. 15 where the vice president will play himself, the newly re-elected vice president, reports the New York Times.
The scene was filmed secretly this summer in Washington, D.C. If details had been leaked, NBC may have been forced to offer the Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan a spot on a show as well in order to make sure they were not promoting one candidate over another.
The scene was filmed assuming that Biden and President Obama would win re-election, but they filmed an extra line in case the vice president lost.
I hope they crack his knee caps for all the money that was spent for hardly nothing. Adelson will be hi-jacking it to Israel for sure or go to prison. He doesn’t have Robme to bail him out.
Hey, you’re not going to abandon us now that the election’s over, are you? Like go live a normal life and stuff? I would have the vapors if we didn’t ‘talk’ every day.
LOL. You know what? I bid giordano’s blog good eye on 6th Nov 2008. Before I even knew it, I was back fighting the friggin’ firebaggers at dkos. Unbelievable.
I join others in being fascinated by the impressive data mining of the Obama campaign——-what TV shows 29 yr. old females were watching in Miami and place an ad there, for example. I also experienced their “prioritized lists” which volunteers were operating from. When I first started calling Iowa voters, I got the “Of course I’m voting for Obama!” and “You betcha!” And then the last few times I called, I knew something was different because I was getting more of the denser “I’m not sure yet, maybe I’ll vote for Obama, maybe not”, and I think I reported here I was having to work harder during my calls the last few days. We—-the Ia. callers—–had already contacted the priorities—–and had reached the bottom of the list. My Chgo daughter felt she had to sneak in some calls from work the last few days and was surprised they had her calling Mn.! Since Mn. was not ever mentioned as a toss up, she rightly decided that everyone else in the critical states had already been contacted.
A brilliantly run campaign——of course aided by a brilliant, charismatic candidate.
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I’ll take one of these bear hugs!
Me too!
{{{{{{{{Yardarm}}}}}}}
Yo! Chipsticks, do you happen to have any stunning ship pics for the Cap’n?
I’m photo-ed out Pamela! 🙂
Thank you!
aloha yardarm!
here’s a pretty boat for you! you know, instead of horses and bayonets! 🙂
Oh susanne. You made me heart leap. Admiral Chips near showed me a vessel as fine as this. It’s a fine looking ‘bird farm’.
This brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.
you are so welcome! it’s a beautiful navy, we have, sir!!
And very functional too. 🙂
the good admiral has many heavy responsibilities and cares and woes, and also is partying somewhere right now. 🙂
Yes, I’m pretty sure there’s more than one empty keg rolling about the decks. 🙂
Me three! (I’m late to the party – damn computer!)
Vrooom. Did somebody say hugs?
Congrats Pam. I get to stay in the top 10 behind you.
😆 Pamela 😆
Up up and away, Chips! :lol:, I thought that was you away up there! Smiling!
Tick tock tick tock….. Tapping foot…
Dontcha fret now, Pamela honey. We’re just a little slow today. Everybody had a pretty long night, ya know? 🙂
Oh yeh, Congrats!
Okay, now I am scared, am I the only one left in the interwebz!?
So what am I? Cat food?
You Sir, are a Navy Man, all man — capital N.A.V.Y to the M.A.N and I loves ya for it! 😀
THANK YOU! (hook my thumbs in my waist band and jack-up me britches). 😀
😆 Evening shipmate!
Good evening Admiral. ’tis a great night for a stroll about the deck, eh?
It most certainly is Yardarm, I’m not worried about hitting rocks anymore!
Aye, aye. Rest a bit before we make ready the cannons for the congress.
Kibble, slow coach, it took you a.g.e.s to turn up!
Beautful!!! Inspiring!!! Thank you, Chips.
Hello TOD. Victory is still sweet nearly 24 hours after the election!
It really and truly is. I’ve had a grin since the results were called.
Chips, you gotta add that speech to the Video Vault. Please!
I mean the Speeches page… oh hell, you know what to do. You run this town. Do your thang! 🙂
Str8 up!
Will do tomorrow!
I like the self-portrait up there. The clouds look good on you! 🙂
Thanks Dudette – only, as you can see from the pic, I’m very skinny from all the recent worry 😕
I know, poor dear. Eat a samwich or somethin’, would ya? We don’t want ya witherin’ away. You’ve got 4 yrs more work to do!
And put a coat on — it’s cold up there!
Nibbling as we speak! 😆
Good girl!
Shouldn’t you be wearing a coat, or something, Ms Chips? Where did I get the idea that it would be cold up in the clouds? I know you love the idea of Obamacare(s) and the fact Pres O might visit you in hospital, but don’t you think it’s a bit irresponsible to deliberately expose yourself to pneumonia or whatever way up there? Another possibility, suppose you fall? Doesn’t look like there’s enough flesh there to cushion your bones. I think you should make sure you’re not alone up there, or carefully make your way down to a more reasonable level. Just saying because I love having you around.
Hearts
PROUD!! What’s shakin’?
i love how sasha and pbo are racing each other up the stairs of air force one!! what a beautiful family–thanks for the pix, chips!
Yeah, that was cute.
I still do that with MY dad – only in slow motion. My knees aren’t what they used to be. 😉
I’m sick of Winter already. Its snowing and wet and windy and FREEZING!!!
Gb, you okay up there? Got heat, light, necessities & such?
Yeah, I got all that. Just dreading the morning.
Good, I’m glad you’re okay. Stay warm friend!
also too i must say: i am sooo glad the fucking robmey fucking pop-up ads stopped appearing on every utube screen!! hallelujah, we are delivered!!
Aaaaa-men!
I am still wearing my wining smile. After all we have been through and what PBO had to endure, I will always be indebted to the right thinking Americans who trounced the buckets of evil/hateful money from the rwnj billionaires. We did it again.
Party time!
Did someone say party?
Whoooo hooooo!
🙂 yes!!
this one’s for michelle………….
oh HELL yeah!
Whoooo Lawdy!
And Joe and Jill are home safe too, I presume? So grateful for the two of them and the team that they are part of with our Prez and First Lady. It is just incredible. I have never witnessed a relationship like the four of have in the White House and the way they work with each other.
They truly are something special. The REAL Fantastic Four!
And aren’t we clever for putting them office twice? [pats on the back all around]
“The REAL Fantastic Four!” Yes indeed! I am always coming to the party late but I love the vibrations (I meat to say music selections) from you and Susanne. Coming to TOD makes feel young again.
Hello TODers, just wanted to drop in to say THANK YOU. I found this place to be an oasis in the midst of the storm of election season. I was so grateful to be able to drop in here after a long day when I needed my spirits lifted. I thank everyone in this community who worked so hard for the re-election of the President. Now the real work begins again. I decided to go to the Obama Victory Party at McCormick Place last night even though I was still feeling ill. I thought that it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I am paying for it today but I am not sorry. You won’t be surprised to know that I cried when the President started speaking. It was so moving and I felt to proud to be part of a large community of people who contributed to that moment. So I just wanted to drop in to say thanks to all of you and in particular to Chips for providing this wonderful space. FORWARD! Peace to all of you.
Thanks for dropping in, MK. Take care of yourself – you fought hard for this campaign; you deserve the rest. It was a spectacular day and night and day after. Next stop – inauguration 2013! 🙂
This is pure gold: ‘Unhinged’ Conservative YouTuber Goes On Priceless Drunken Hyper-Rant Over Obama Victory
http://gawker.com/5958673/unhinged-conservative-youtuber-goes-on-priceless-drunken-hyper+rant-over-obama-victory?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
DON’T watch if you don’t like your language fruity:
G-lorious!!!!!!
YIKES!!!!!!!! hear those icecubes swirling? She needs to pass out now….or she may just stoke out…and need that “socialist” medicine:) Drudge. What poison.
This shit needs to go viral. It is just too damn good! I listened to the whole thing. Just incredible.
hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Obamacare covers her conditions, and it sounds like she has multiple.
So much hate – but so wonderful to see the exploding head. They deserve to have their heads explode because of their racism and nonsense that we’ve had to endure. I’m going to love watching them during this second term, because there’s absolutely nothing they can do about the state of affairs! I love it!
Go ahead and speak the TRUTH Theo67! For four years they hated and plotted for the destruction of MY President. Guess what? They all failed. The tea baggers and fire baggers failed. Rush Limbaugh failed. Glenn Beck failed. Donald Trump and all the birthers failed. FOX News failed. Glen Greenwald failed. Jane Hamsher failed. Above all, and more deliciously, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Eric Cantor, with all their obstructionism, failed. President Obama won and was re-elected for a second term! All of us who kept the faith in our President won. There is nothing they can do about it now. Absolutely NOTHING! If their heads explode it’s all their making, not ours. May be they will finally grasp this truth: “NO LIE CAN LIVE FOREVER!”
And Rev Al spoke to this earlier today. He said that they threw every punch at President Obama, but he kept getting up and getting up – with grace and dignity. And he won. I can’t get over how happy I am about this win. It is so well deserved, and such sweet justice for so many. When I saw the Obama family on Marine One and Air Force One and then in the motorcade and finally entering the White House – I reveled in the fact that Romney and Ann will never know what that feels like. Never.
You forgot to include the word COWARD because this rightwing nutjob would not show her face.
Chips you’re such a card. And you’re the best…couldn’t have survived the last four years with out you. Personally I wasn’t worried yesterday. When the President went into that repub retreat they called the lion’s and he mauled the lion’s I knew this man was a genius. I just wished we’d gotten rid of both Smirky and Creepy…
Oh my gosh, love the images…especially the celebration image from India, the children in Indonesia and the image of the girl waiting for her parents to vote in Staten Island is absolutely amazing! So happy you ate on cloud nine Chips, we all are too! Oh happy, happy Day!
choo chooo!! (is this one for jill? 🙂 )
Ride that choo choo choo choo ride! Come on it’s a choo choo train.
Party rockin’ in the houssse tooonight!
Okay, we gotta spread these out a bit… here’s something to hold ya for a little bit. 🙂
Ms. Dudette, you are on fire today!
Wow, just watched that Martin B. clip Chips posted above, that is outstanding. Martin has become my favorite on MSNBC. Hate lost! Love that. He makes a great point about how Romney’s America does not exist in reality.
Really loved it too L, I was never much of a fan of Bashir from his UK days, but he’s been outstanding the last few months.
From what I am understanding the Inauguration is on MLK Day which is a Monday, right?
Yep!
Cool beans!
Slight correction: Inauguration Day is still on Jan 20th (must be that day by law), but govt holiday is the following day MLK Day Observance Day, Jan 21st. Btw, MLKJr’s actual birthday is Jan 15th.
well, then, we just start the party on the 15th and keep it going till everybody goes home later in the year!
I love the way you think, Susanne! There is absolutely no reason why we can’t make this a seven day celebration. No reason at all.
Michelle Obama’s is January 17th….perfect birthday present.
I hear they are already started preparing for the Inauguration in January.
http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2013.asp
Thank you, dudette!
This is for you to ponder 9t9.
Exceptional good music, but wow, somebody’s in a deep melancholy mood…
You’re one of those people who’d be sittin’ in the corner suckin on a doobie while everyone else at the party is sweatin’ & shaking their groove thang, aren’t ya? Whatever does it for ya bro. Somebody’s gotta hold up the wall. 🙂
I’m all about conserving my energy for the more important things in life. 🙂
The formal oath will be taken privately on Jan 20 to comply with the Constitution. But the public celebration and oath taking will take place on Jan 21.
Thank you, theo67.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States gave final approval on Wednesday to duties on billions of dollars of solar-energy products from China for the next five years, protecting U.S. producers against lower-priced imports and raising fears of Chinese retaliation.
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 6-0 in favor of double- and triple-digit duties in a case filed last year by SolarWorld Industries America.
Beijing has protested the case each step of the way, calling it a protectionist move that threatens the future of solar energy by driving up costs for consumers.
SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar-panel manufacturer, accused Chinese competitors such as Suntech Power Holdings of selling solar cells and panels in the United States at unfairly low prices and receiving government subsidies.
SolarWorld’s German parent, SolarWorld AG, is pressing the European Union for similar curbs on Chinese solar products.
Gordon Brinser, president of SolarWorld America, told reporters the unanimous vote showed “very clearly” that U.S. producers had been harmed the imports.
The duties should allow U.S. producers to start adding jobs, but stringent enforcement is needed to prevent Chinese companies from circumventing the orders, he said.
In the meantime, SolarWorld has invested $27 million over the past year in technology that is increasing the efficiency of its solar cells, Brinser said.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBRE8A61S420121108?irpc=932
Wooot!
Look at those shameless friggin’ indians celebrating the re-election of a kenyan muslin usurper.
tsk, tsk, tsk.
looks like you got the last word on that, amk !
What Ho TOD PEEPS!
I’ve missed checking in here so so much these last couple of weeks as I decided to go “all in” with my local OFA grassroots team and do whatever I could, for as long as I could to make sure our illustrious Prez got 4 more years. Missed everyone here and all the goings on.
I just got back home a couple of hours ago from Nevada. After working as volunteer coordinator staff for one of OFA’s So Cal HUMUNGO GOTV “phonebank on steroids” for 12 hour days the past two weekends, I went to Lost Wages, Monday night to be part of the Prez’ voter protection legal team that was being dispatched to polling places all over the Las Vegas area on election day. I spent 13 hours yesterday at a lovely little polling place trying to make sure that our voting process was not obstructed, compromised or just plain messed with by the Rethuglicans or anyone else who believed that that the path to victory lies in preventing others from participating in the democratic process. What an eye opening experience but in a good way.
When I arrived at my assigned polling place at 6:00 am yesterday morning, my heart kind of sank. One because I was at a newly built school in a lovely and newly developed subdivision in the outskirts of Las Vegas proper. Lovely newly built homes, overly manicured lawns, pristine sidewalks, lovely white church in the background with rolling green lawns, with a huge steeple and the Nevada mountains in the background. PLUS a huge SUV parked in the school parking lot proudly sporting a large Romney/Ryan 2012 bumper sticker. It looked like something out of the movie Pleasantville. And two, I walked into the polling place and saw the electronic voting machines. All of Tally’s tweets and articles about the voting machines and the ability to tamper with them came flooding back in a further rush of anxiety. But the team leader at the polling place could not have been a more ethical professional along with the rest of the poll workers there. He took the time to explain to me how the machines worked, the paper trail that they created and reconciled with the voter signature books and the CPUs in the machines, the chain of custody process they go through to ensure votes can’t be tampered with. It calmed me down some, and then they opened the doors to the polls at 7am. I saw a line of people of all ethnicities, socio-economic status, waiting patiently to cast their vote. Some with their children in tow to expose them to “democracy in action”. Others (of all ages) voting for the first time or second time. All of a sudden a calm came over me and I thought to myself, “we got this!” There were never any long lines, picketers or other drama, just a steady stream of people of all walks of life exercising their right to vote.
I met some other legal observers from Republican campaigns, (including Mitten’s campaign), all who came through the polling place at different times throughout the day. All of them were very polite and pleasant–but obviously hopelessly misguided! 😆 One of them shared with me later in the day that it was likely the President was going to win in large part due to early voting. Of course I demurred and was politely non-committal. But you KNOW on the inside I was yelling “OF COURSE HE’S GOING TO WIN DOOFUS! HA!”. I was so tired at the poll close at 7:00pm that I went straight back to where I was staying and went directly to sleep without watching any results. But I went to sleep with the unshakeable certainty that I would wake up this morning knowing that our illustrious Prez would be our illustrious Prez for another 4 years. And of course that’s exactly what happened. Plus I JUST KNEW Miz Chips and TOD would have EVERYTHING that has happened and I could relive it all as if I watched it unfold last night in real time. And of course she didn’t disappoint. Thanks Miz Chips and all the rest of you TOD Peeps. Without this oasis, Randi Rhodes and my OFA neighborhood team, I don’t know whether I’d still have my sanity by now. Off now to catch up on all the posts.
Happy & Exhaustedly yours,
PurpleShoesLA
Thank you so much for this purpleshoes:) You really went above and beyond, just as so many others did to deliver this for the President. WE DID THIS!! Hugs to you….and thanks again
welcome home, purpleshoes!!!!!! thanks for all your hard work, and dedication! indeed, miss chipsticks has been keeping us sane here, and also setting up the party supplies. so glad you’re back in time for the good part—celebration!
oops–meant to post this one, but don’t skip the other! you’ve got some catching up to do 🙂
My kinda peeps. I was just getting ready to post this. PAWTY!
Purple … that is a beautiful account. Thank you for all that you and others like you have done. Your tireless efforts is appreciated beyond words. My sister in Malaysia said how happy that PBO won, and so you have the gratitude of non-american citizens like us all over the world. We believe that the world is a much better place under PBO’s admin. Thank you, again.
Wow, purple. That was an amazing read. Thank you for the dedication and all the hard work. You all made this magic happen.
Now sit back and enjoy. A few shots of gin & tonic, perhaps ? My treat. 🙂
Purple, you were a Warrior Princess out there! I’m so grateful and proud of all the wonderful work you did on the President’s and OUR behalf. Thank you for sharing your adventure with us. Love you sooooooooooooooo much!!! {{{{PurpleshoesLA!!}}} Rest your bones, honey, you’ve earned a nice LONG, soothing rest! THANK YOU!!
Lovely work, PurpleShoesLA! I did the same work at a polling place here in Richmond, and I second a lot of the details you shared — down to cluelessness on the part of Mittens’ legal observers, and their tone at the end of the night. 😆 Overall I learned so much and was so encouraged at seeing our democracy (flawed and crazy as it is) at work. It was a beautiful thing.
Job well done! Get some well-deserved rest.
Awesome account of your day. You done good! Enjoy your well deserved rest.
I hope you get some much needed rest PurpleShoesLA! We are all indebted to the magnificent work you and other volunteers did to ensure the President’s victory. I wish we could do more to express our gratitude. For now all I will say is: THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE!
All of my friends have been so happy,full of hugs today, not because they understand or follow much of the US politics but because they have seen my enthusiasm and watch me every shift, following TOD between babies and seeing how many folks here are so faithful and true to PBO’s ideals. Thanks everyone for a great ride, especially you amk, vc and Theo who are always around at night and to you Chips for making this all possible.
Heh, I blame the time zones. Also. Too. That kenyan. 🙂
Hey there – I love that your friends celebrated with you. My friends all contacted me with celebratory messages, too. Everyone was happy last night! Well, all the thinking people, at least! I’m still happy, and plan to continue to be happy tomorrow.
You bet…this can carry over for…well four years!
Yes – the sane Republicans need to separate from the right wing loons, and then things can start moving forward. And we may see the beginnings of that movement with the emergence of compromisers in Congress. My fingers are crossed!
and mine, for a bright future.
Nov 12…..Hey Theo, thanks for the reminder about that Rudyard Kipling poem. I love it. I often snatch lines from songs or poems to create titles for my stories and A Walk with Kings was one I picked a couple of years ago.
Thanks again.
You’re welcome!
An estimated 66.8 million viewers watched election returns on broadcast and cable networks Tuesday, the Nielsen Co. said Wednesday.
The audience fell short of the record 71.5 million viewers who tuned in to the outcome of the 2008 contest and the historic election of the first African-American president.
NBC came out on top among all networks, averaging 12.1 million viewers during the three hours of prime time, 8-11 p.m. Fox News Channel held the No. 2 slot with 11.45 million viewers, the biggest average ever in the network’s 16-year history.
Among other networks, ABC drew 10.52 million viewers, CNN had 9.25 million, CBS had 7.92 million, FOX (broadcast sister to Fox News) had 4.93 million and MSNBC had 4.7 million.
Jovie … thank you for the news you bring us. I don’t know how you do it but I come here and get so much information that I wouldn’t know of otherwise. Thanks a bunch J.
Your welcome.
ditto jovie–you’ve brought so much info here, and such a warrior spirit! 4 more years!
I feel exactly the same way. You are fantastic at this. Don’t stop because our next four years will be just as demanding of good info and thoughtful reflection.
Ahhhh do ya do ya do yaha! Do ya love what ya feeeeel. Cause I luuuuuve whacha do tome!
😀
TIME FOR THE NAUGHTY MATS ! 😀
We just dancin’ that’s all, friend! 🙂
I bet you movin’ more than yo’ feet.
This indeed the day for dancing. We have the best DJs in the house. Go ahead and celebrate!
You know it Yard!
I dun told ya’.
Ok D.J., ya got me! My girl Chaka! Can’t EVEN tell you how many times I’ve seen Mega Diva in concert! “Cuz I love whatcha do to me!”
President Obama’s reelection, along with key wins by Senate Democrats, ensures that the federal government will press ahead with efforts to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency and to curb greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change.
But the scope of these policies could be constrained by congressional opposition and by concern over their economic impact, making it likely that a second Obama term will deliver some, but not all, of environmentalists’ top priorities.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-to-continue-efforts-to-curb-greenhouse-gases-push-energy-efficiency/2012/11/07/06c70c66-28f9-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html
A little old skool rap for PBO (er, I mean Luther the Anger Translator) 🙂
Ya’ll need to be carefull with this ‘ole school’ stuff. You gonna make me go to da basement. 🙂
I’d pay money to see that! 😀
Count yo’ coins baby ’cause it’s gonna come at the proper time!
Ms DJ, Dudette is relentless this evening! Some really good music.
Looks like mad wimmin have taken over this asylum. Have fun ladies.
Awww come on and dance with us, amk! You can wiggle those hips… go ahead, you know you want to! 😉
What hips ? I am a size zero. 🙂
Size zero? You’d disappear in the cleavage of my Billion Dollar Bust™ 😉
And what a great disappearing act that would be. 😀 😀 😀
(the blog tyrant is gonna be missed po’ed when wakes from her beauty sleepand comes here).
Nah, I’m Goddess of The Naughty Tent™. 😀
I see you’re still causing trouble, amk! tsk, tsk…
Iduntknowwhatchertalkingaboutwillis.
I’ve seen this comment before, and it’s no more believable now than it was then… *eyebrow raised*
This still wins the internets tonight. 😀
You betcher. Especially, with those big pics. 🙂
I’ll keep ya’ clam through the daylight, I’ll keep ya’ movin’ alllll throouuuugh the night. The funkier the music the better the beat!
Oh goodness – I remember this one! Dancing away here!
Oh yes WE ARE… One Nation Under A Groove
Come on amk, dance your way out of your constrictions! Woot!
Awww yeah!!!
Ready or not, here we come! Gettin down just for the funk of it!
Booooo oooohhh de oh dooooo ohhh de oh dooooo oh de oh doooooo. One nation under a groove. Gettin’ down just fooooor the funk of it. Nothin’ can stop us now!
et tu, vl ???? /smh
Just wait until his Inauguration! (smile)
Even I couldn’t resist going to watch a Faux News head explosion video or two today.
I felt ashamed for like 3 seconds, then it was back to gloatin’ like a mofo! 😀
Schadenfreude Santa made my day!
lol reading an article on HP about how they were wrong COMPLETELY about all the data that they collected.
I love these Election Day pics. Earlier today, on the NYT website, I viewed a whole series of people voting in NY and NJ in the cold and without electricity, in tents and shelters, and it brought tears to my eyes. I am so sorry they are still going through such hardship, but so proud and gratified at their perseverance.
I feel another gloat coming on (thanks a lot, Tally). Here’s a little something for EVERYONE out there who voted for Mitt the Shit
yessssss!!!!!!!!! that’s for myth, and lyin, and miss ann, and all the pox spews bots, and a whole lot left over for the rwnj voters!!!!!!!
Okay, now that’s out… I’ll scroll back up and look at some beautiful pics of my first family and get back to the postive vibe!
Thank you! Carry On! 😀
A lil sumpin, sumpin,.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MySoulTV
Miss Patti!
Man it’s great to see the president win so handily and to prove that I was worrying nothing over the polls. They were so wrong about the women’s vote about them being some mystical tie, etc. They were also very incorrect in believing that the minority turn out aka Hispanic, Black, etc would be smaller than 2008 when in fact it was MUCH larger.
By the way Ms. Chips, thank you for enforcing the “positively no drama rule” during the last couple of weeks before the victorious re-election. It kept us focussed and on point. We won!
I feel like such an idiot now clinging to that crap!
🙂
hey, jeff, we all had our moments, and the folks here talked us all off the ledge from time to time. that was before–now it’s four more years of the good stuff!!
Believe in math. Nate Silver was right. Math has a well-known liberal bias.
Last one from me tonight folks. Goodnight everyone!
I love you and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it! So glad we’ll be together for another 4 yrs.
g’night dudette! sleep the deep sleep of the deeply satisfied!
This is REALLY nice….
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/07/1158627/-This-election-feels-different
I’ve really missed Snark Knoller. I’m wondering when Chips is going to confess to being the real Snark Knoller.
LOL. For once, a good tweet from that idjit.
Ordinarily, I might have been angered by this bs…but as I read it tonight, well….I just ROTFLMAO.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/07/putting-the-dressage-horse-before-the-cart/
df – that is so funny – he actually spent time doing this BEFORE the election – when he had more than enough time afterwards. I am also ROTFLMAO – He really thought it was “his turn”
Also – they have some fun comments over there – I liked No 16
That works! If I never hear his name uttered again, it’ll be too soon. Time to move FORWARD….and time to leave these cretins in the dust. Night all…I will sleep like a baby:)
maroon:) Aren’t they ridiculous. I wonder if they even hear themselves…
Love seeing Chips in person…Where’s the little ‘9’ on that cloud, though? Seriously, girlfriend, life is good and you draw the same way I do! That makes you even more wonderful than previously realized with your all-powerful awesomeness. Chips (TOD) wins teh internetz.
Dear Friends,
At the core of what we accomplished is the fact that on 6 Nov 2012 the majority of those Americans PARTICIPATING in THEIR democracy REJECTED HATE and affirmed all the values that countless brave and caring individuals, for more than 2 Centuries committed their lives to enable.
#FORWARD
Good night Bob. Thank you for everything. Forward!
Good night Dakota – Thank YOU!!
More to come before I sleep 🙂
Thank you for all of the inspiration, Bob!
Thank you Jacqueline for all you have contributed to this amazing victory!
We WON, Bob. We won. Wow.
That sand castle is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
You’ve lived a good life, then, honey.
I can’t believe that Mathews said thank god for the hurricane and how PBO won because of that disaster. I am done with that fake left asshole.
To be fair, he did offer a heartfelt apology, and said he was looking at the situation from a political perspective, and lost sight of the real lives lost and harmed by the tragedy. It was a very decent apology.
But, I won’t forgive him for the comments about President Obama needing to be beholden to Clinton, and share the night of his victory with Bill Clinton and the Democrats who won (instead of being more presidential and focusing on an inclusive message). I’m done with Chris over that.
His apology wasn’t for insinuating that PBO got lucky (which was his primary objective with that comment). His apology was for his insensitivity to those victimized by the storm. And that was the only reason why his bosses probably forced him to come back and apologize the next day – because his comment ended up offending a whole bunch of people, not just the intended target.
You’re right – he was only apologizing for the insensitivity of the storm comment. In any case, I’m done with Chris Matthews. He’s just offensive on so many fronts, and patronizing in his “support”.
Is the party still going on? 😀
One more little tearjerker, heard tonight on The Ed Show. The head of the United Steelworkers union was being interviewed, and Ed asked him if he thought labor helped bring it home for the President. The union chief said ALL the unions were on the ground getting out the vote, and then said (paraphrased), “The union that includes bus drivers … the bus drivers were talking to their riders to encourage them to vote for the President.”
This President surely knows when he goes to sleep at night that so many regular, normal people – including those who get up every morning and hop aboard a bus on their way to work, or those driving the bus – appreciate his goodness and voted for him.
We got our second term, America. Let’s not waste it. And I repeat what I posted earlier in the day: Don’t anybody try to ruin my joy for the next four years!
Ok gotta go to bed and I’m not caught up yet here at TOD. I guess all the adrenaline is dissipating out my body. Listened to the Prez’ victory speech 3 times in a row, and cried/clapped/hooted/hollered in different places each time I watched it. Then you all had me rolling on the floor laughing at all your posts. Plus all the PAR-TAY music. So missed you guys. 😆 😆 😆 Thank goodness I’m taking a few days this week so I can get caught up here at TOD. Nite all. Fais de beaux reves.
Purpleshoesla – I’m right behind you. I’ve watched the President’s speech three times, and the third time, paused and rewound to see certain details again. I haven’t caught up, and at this point – I don’t know that I ever will. But I’m on Cloud 10, right next to Chips’ position on Cloud 9, and I’ll be happy to never come down again (although, I could do with a sweater). This was a very well-deserved victory. See everyone tomorrow!
It is essential that each of us do all we can to encourage our wonderful President Obama to GO DIRECT TO THE PEOPLE – be it in person or via the many ‘virtual’ modalities available to him.
In that spirit, following is a little missive submitted to the President via the WH comment portal:
Dear Mr President,
Congratulations! You have achieved so much, of incalculable value to so many, and now you have >4 more years to inspire Americans and, with them, expand on policy and implementation of CHANGE.
The following is a humble recommendation offered in the context of admiration and pragmatic awareness of the inertia and hate you will continue to confront.
Simply, between now and Inauguration Day – Jan 2017, yes, 2017, please, no matter what – BE WITH THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
Broadcast radio/TV and cable currently have distorted and usurped the fact that they only exist because WE THE PEOPLE allow them to have access to the public’s electromagnetic spectrum as shepherded by the FCC.
Beyond FCC regulation of that spectrum on behalf of every citizen of America, is a more central issue – how you, as our President, leverage it to ensure that EVERY AMERICAN is truthfully informed as to what YOU are doing on THEIR behalf.
In that context, the recommendation is that you do not allow others, be it your Press Secretary, ‘surrogates,’ or anyone else be the primary communicator to Americans. During the next 4+ years, YOU need to be ‘in our face.’
Doing so is no longer a technological or logistical issue.
YOU can CONNECT with ALL of US, easily and I’ll not insult your intelligence by listing all the options you have to do so.
JUST DO IT, Sir.
Not with staged YouTube videos, though those are useful, but use all the tools you have readily available to BE WITH US.
Most importantly – GET OUT OF DC, OFTEN.
You’ve got all you need on AF1, and in your various vehicles to be connected, constantly, with those whom need your guidance and authorization for ANY ACTION. That’s not a barrier.
By being WITH THE PEOPLE, you not only will destroy those forces manically focused on destroying you, the middle class and our democracy, but also how you enable all of us to be shoulder to shoulder with you.
Let’s Get This Done,
Bob
#FORWARD
Can no longer keep my eyes open, but will close with a link to something shared with all of you on 4 Nov …
We are living, breathing and making history my dear friends, please cherish every second of it …
#FORWARD
Yes I agree that we the people need to be more engaged in the process during the next four years. Working side by side with our President as he tries to push his policies and much needed reforms.
now some sleep … after listening, one more time to our President’s words yesterday evening at OUR moment of victory …
Good video until Barbara Wa Wa brought her doom and gloom, debbie downer analysis into the conversation.
What is wrong with Florida? They haven’t declared a winner yet.
it’s just crazy. they can’t think we’re going to believe they are sooooo concerned for precision, and for honoring all the voters’ ballots. we’ve seen how their governor tried to suppress and disrupt voting. it didn’t keep the president from winning, so just give it up, florida!
p.s. my husband is from florida, and his is embarrassed and angry about it. keeps asking me to check online for the outcome…..
we had problems here in hawaii, too. but of course with a much much smaller population. check out the blase elections officer–just not that concerned.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/20036263/poor-planning-led-to-oahu-ballot-shortage#
One of my closest friends grew up in FL and for many years she longed to move back, with her husband and kids from Chicago.
That ended in 2000. She wouldn’t move back to FL for anything.
I don’t and can’t understand how Florida elected something like Rick Scott. I don’t think he has a ounce of honesty in his body.
Because it’s so close (within 46,000) they have to count the provisional ballots prior to declaring winner. The other states didn’t have a close election so they declared winner before their provisional ballots were counted.
They said Tuesday night it would be announced on Thursday or Friday.
FL has an incompetent Gov and SS that allowed a ten page ballot on one of the most heavily voted elections in hopes that people would walk away (people meaning Dems). This time many R’s walked away too. The people they wanted most NOT to vote stayed in line no matter how long the wait.
The President to visit Burma this month-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/08/barack-obama-visit-burma
That is something I hope Senator Reid can do something about, cause it is shameful what McConnell and his Republicans Senators did with the filibuster, their obstruction.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s election victory on Tuesday may give him the opportunity to deepen his liberal imprint on the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Harvard law graduate who taught constitutional law, Obama, a Democrat, named two liberals to the high court during his first four-year term.
With his re-election, the retirement of one or more justices in the next four years could preserve the present ideological balance or, more significantly, move the bench to the left.
The court’s nine justices are selected for life and their appointments can rank among a president’s most enduring legacies.
Four are in their 70s. Two – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 79, and Stephen Breyer, 74 – are liberals. Two – Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, both 76 – are conservatives. The biggest shake-up would come if either of the last two stepped down.
A swing in the liberal direction could foster a new receptiveness to campaign finance regulation. The five-justice conservative majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has ruled against such regulation, most notably in the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission dispute.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBRE8A708520121108?irpc=932
I know, I know, it’s Huff Puff, but it’s also music to my ears
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/republican-reckoning-defeat_n_2090510.html
However, figures like Viguerie have limited influence within the GOP these days. The real lightning bolts being thrown on Wednesday were by the party’s super donors, who played a historic role in this election after a 2010 Supreme Court decision allowed them to give unlimited amounts to outside groups.
Many of the lightning bolts were aimed at none other than Karl Rove, the former Bush administration political genius who oversaw the deployment of nearly $400 million in campaign spending through outside groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS toward the presidential race and toward numerous Senate and House races.
“The billionaire donors I hear are livid,” one Republican operative told The Huffington Post. “There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do … I don’t know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got nothing.”
I think in a curious way, they did NOT play an historic role, because they changed basically nothing.
Music to my ears.
US election: Women are the new majority
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20231337
LMAO! Indeed. 🙂
Laughing so hard these days I have abs again. Priceless.
That’s so funny, Oxfarm
that is hilarious
Hi guys. This is silly, loud and now a bit outdated, and not really something to start a day with (it came up with something else I watched), but some of you might get a chuckle….who knows?
Did ya’ll see Colbert last night? The intro was so funny.
Letterman does impression of Karl Rove on Tuesday night (1 min in)
That was great:)
Oh, he also called him a ‘tubby weasel’. You should watch this segment, I think people will do a better job if they watch Letterman for news analysis rather than these pundits.
Brian Williams is the great pretender and artful dodger, always going for the easy laugh and whatever is in vogue. Notice how he replied to Dave regarding Dave’s statement that the news made it seem like it was a close election; “Oh but that would take collusion.” Yes, exactly it was collusion Brian Williams.
bw is just another pretty face.
Good morning, TODville!!
Cute. But, of course willard has not had any kind of real job in years and years and…………… arguably ever/
Good morning, meta! Love this, here in the afterglow …
whaaaat? Nice!
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Mitt Romney “began his retreat from public life Wednesday at a private breakfast gathering with a couple hundred of his most loyal and affluent campaign benefactors. The former Massachusetts governor, humbled by the thumping that ended his six-year pursuit of the presidency, reminisced about the journey and tried not to cry,” the Washington Post reports.
So glad he’s disappeared – now if Chuck Todd could do the same
It’s so telling that he didn’t sit down with campaign volunteers…..noooooo…the first people he hobnobbed with were greedy fat cat benefactors.
I read somewhere that Willard’s campaign “volunteers” were paid workers – as much as $16 per hr.
I sure Robme cried for ALL the money he spent and paid to those workers and did not get elected. He was not going to allow any of those commoners to attend his inauguration anyway. It would have been a parade of the wealthiest 1%.
Interesting that all these pundits who have been maligning President Obama daily for the last 2 years, at least, now find him the greatest thing since sliced bread, his team politically smarter, geniuses. All kinds of praise. It’s pretty amazing, this instantaneous turnaround, pretending all that constant anti-Obama pounding never happened, wiped clean from the slate.
Also interesting in the Reuters post-election analysis that after the 2010 midterms, with the election of all those tea party crazies who seized control of the Repub Party, Axe told Obama that “they just sowed the seeds of your re-election.” They knew that their nominee would either come from that radical wing or would have to bow down to it in order to win the nomination——and that the majority of the electorate would reject that extremism.
The lefty nuts ? Don’t worry, they’ll start bitching and moaning from today. As a matter of fact, the lefty limbaugh aka ed shultz, is already whining about the stupid holding the prez feet to fire nonsense.
My prediction. – Obama is will be much more aggressive now and will push his agenda regardless of the teabaggers, firebaggers, stupid pundtwits, msm morons and even his own democratic party if they stand in the way. Just watch.
Already heard it this morning. Not even 48 hours since the election. I think it will be a lot less, but it won’t be gone. the whiny left makes me insane.
Fuck’em.
A-fucking-men. And I seriously believe they’re going to be marginalized this time. The Democratic party and progressives had better learn how to effect the change they allegedly want, and that includes keeping your powder dry, working with and supporting the existing Democratic President and realize if we fucking behave, we’ll undo a great deal of damage in about a decade.
2010 was a major step back and I blame the whiny left and wimpy Dem’s for most of it.
LOL! I guess I would be pissed too if I had a 1% ROI….
Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn
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GOP donors are apparently angry at wasting so much money on failing campaigns. Wait til they realize it was also good economic stimulus.
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KARL ROVE “THE ARCHITECT” DIDN’T BUILD IT. OH TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL WHEN THE CALL FROM SHELDON ADELSON COMES THROUGH TO CHAT ABOUT WHAT HE GOT FOR ALL THAT MONEY.
those children in Jakarta, Indonesia, my country….are cute…aren’t they! told you they too wish PBO is their president too, just like me 🙂
thank you Chips for posting it..:)
Adorable. Love their festive outfits too.
yes, kids are always fun aren’t they. PBO and Flotus loves them all…
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/joe-biden-has-guest-spot-on-parks-recreation
Vice President Joe Biden will make an appearance on an upcoming episode of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” Nov. 15 where the vice president will play himself, the newly re-elected vice president, reports the New York Times.
The scene was filmed secretly this summer in Washington, D.C. If details had been leaked, NBC may have been forced to offer the Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan a spot on a show as well in order to make sure they were not promoting one candidate over another.
The scene was filmed assuming that Biden and President Obama would win re-election, but they filmed an extra line in case the vice president lost.
The New York Times as the story.
If I were Karl Rove I’d think about going to the mattresses, there are a lot of irate billionaires out there looking for answers.
Why would you ever want to be that ratfucker ? 🙂
I hope they crack his knee caps for all the money that was spent for hardly nothing. Adelson will be hi-jacking it to Israel for sure or go to prison. He doesn’t have Robme to bail him out.
Bang, bang, bang.
Chips, ’nuff with the beard trimming.
Hi-larious:
LMAO. Happily RT’ed. Fucking carnival barker.
One thing I appreciate about you, amk — your subtlety.
Heh, a spade is a spade.
Hey, you’re not going to abandon us now that the election’s over, are you? Like go live a normal life and stuff? I would have the vapors if we didn’t ‘talk’ every day.
LOL. You know what? I bid giordano’s blog good eye on 6th Nov 2008. Before I even knew it, I was back fighting the friggin’ firebaggers at dkos. Unbelievable.
I’ll be here everyday. Yes, that’s a threat. 🙂
You betcher. That’s what happens when you invite a pest into your home. Too late now.
True. I knew I should have had security at the door when you arrived.
pests/smh
Hindsight. The story of wimmin. /smh
Think of the peace we’d have though, 57.
You want peace ? Come to Himalayas.
Hey, this old broad needs excitement wherever she can find it.
😆 😆
I join others in being fascinated by the impressive data mining of the Obama campaign——-what TV shows 29 yr. old females were watching in Miami and place an ad there, for example. I also experienced their “prioritized lists” which volunteers were operating from. When I first started calling Iowa voters, I got the “Of course I’m voting for Obama!” and “You betcha!” And then the last few times I called, I knew something was different because I was getting more of the denser “I’m not sure yet, maybe I’ll vote for Obama, maybe not”, and I think I reported here I was having to work harder during my calls the last few days. We—-the Ia. callers—–had already contacted the priorities—–and had reached the bottom of the list. My Chgo daughter felt she had to sneak in some calls from work the last few days and was surprised they had her calling Mn.! Since Mn. was not ever mentioned as a toss up, she rightly decided that everyone else in the critical states had already been contacted.
A brilliantly run campaign——of course aided by a brilliant, charismatic candidate.
Moooooooorning everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/11/08/rise-and-shine-the-international-front-pages/