From Henry Healy to TOD:
I got to meet with the President yesterday and I wanted to share with you this drawing that I presented him with. It’s a pencil drawing of the president in front of his ancestral home and the White House. It was by Brian Fogarty a school teacher from Co Tipperary now living in Galway.
Kind Regards,
Henry Healy
Thank you Henry – love that drawing, it’s beautiful.
(I asked Henry if his head hurt today, he said “it’s coming ’round” – so, good news!)
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Next up:
2:05 PM EDT President Obama and PM Netanyahu Hold a Press Conference
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CNN and CBS are showing a lot of live streaming from Israel today, so keep checking in
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ENORMOUS thanks to LovelyPlains for this morning’s Rise and Shine – it was just ** magnificent **
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Will be back a little later with photos and videos from Israel, just getting some work done – see ya then.
The Obama Diary 
Good late morning or early afternoon
WTG Japa21! You are lighting this morning. Happy Spring.
And Happy Spring back, although it hardly feels like it here.
Oh, it’s a beautiful day here. Magnificent sunrise.
That is a great drawing, BTW. OFA should make it available as a print for purchase. With, of course, something back to the artist.
Morning/afternoon Japa!!!
Good afternoon/morning. And thank you for the twitter promo.
My pleasure Japa, you’re the Twitter business!
Still a rookie compared to others here.
And thank you Chips.
1st ?
Dratz.
Almost a threesome. 🙂
Whoa.
Okay, behave, you guys.
😉
I can’t tease you any more about your non-firsts ever since you became a TOD blog tyrant 😆
‘substitute bt’. big diff.
Oi, a tyrant’s a tyrant, substitute or not!
uh,uh. I’m not taking the fall like those mysteriously disappearing aq no. 2’s.
Too late, once you become a tyrant there is no going back – and fear not for your safety, we are all now joint No 1s!
How about blog tyrant junior? That should set him off.
Hello & congrats Japa & Carol on #1 🙂
Amk you win the Silver medal – congrats!
(((Group Hug)))
Stupid, childish fool. Good riddance!
I hope the press, even if its not MSM, will keep putting this out. We can twitter and Facebook it around.
It was the dinner in “Obama’s honor” that probably irritated Cantor, the petty little creep. It’s such a joke to say he’s busy with congressional duties when Congress does nothing but say no and undermine the economy. No one would notice if Cantor disappeared for a year.
my fanyasy timeline for his disappearance is more like ‘forever’ !
Too busy in congress – they vacation when things get too busy – what partisan racists are this lot
I was wondering if he was going then figured he couldn’t let his RWNJers see him in such a position. He’s as bad as DarthCheney
Wonder if Chuck Todd will report this.
I don’t want to hear anymore crapola from the media talking about how PBO needs to reach out to these people.
He’s a moron as usual.
Updated version =
I was starting to wonder why the heck would POTUS invite Canter to Israel.
I’m going to pass this around to individual lawmakers if that’s ok with you AMK?
Take it away and spread it around.
Thank you. As a gardener I love to spread “it” around! 😉
🙂
I posted the last paragraph of an article from Haaretz just before new thread.
“In honor of the visit we scrubbed the highways and the city streets, and hung about 1,000 Israeli, U.S. and Jerusalem Municipality flags,” said Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. “We will illuminate the walls of the Old City with decorative lighting during the entire visit, at night too – so that the president will be able to see the walls and the beauty of Jerusalem from his hotel window, and the many media teams will be able to broadcast from here on the backdrop of the illuminated walls, which will be exposed to the entire world.”
Gee, Carol, I thought the Israelis were supposed to be so unenthusiastic about the president’s business. Could our peerless media have gotten it wrong?
Our lowlife MSM got it wrong. 😀
Had to share this. An earlier tweet of mine was passed on by someone else and a RNWJ responded to that tweet. Reading the response says all you need to know about the mentality of some of the pro-gun crowd.
https://twitter.com/MarkTwainII/status/314413309006856192
Yes, it says it all. I had re twitted that from you. Idjits. My husband owns guns, but he agrees with everything our POTUS wants to ban, including assault rifles. He has no problem with it. But he has to work with idjits like this guy. And a couple of his brothers went out and bought assault rifles because they were scared of something. Crazy relatives. My children’s drunk uncles. 😦
Should someone break it to him that guns are a recent invention?
In all seriousness it’s the phrase ‘ my god given birth right’ that speak loudest. Clinging to their guns and bible… -PBO 2008
And I have always, when using that phrase, used a capital G when spelling God. Guys a winner
You must be referring to the 1 God. Theirs is a pliable yet always hateful & vengeful god. #BigDiff hehehe
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And of course, as is typical of this type, he can’t spell!!! al Qaeda buddy????? Concerned?????
Good day LP & Chips!!
Thank you, LP, for the Rise & Shine thread and for featuring the ongoing investigative reporting of Bob Parry. The crimes of Nixon, Reagan and GWB are astonishing in their extent of needless human suffering and death and damage to every aspect of our values and our economic stability.
And to think that americans re-elected all of these traitors to a second term.
Yes, I so agree. That is why we should look closer into what got us into Iraq and the idiot decision to use Afghan rebels in Torah Bora. It’s my understanding that a Seal had him in his sights, but not given permission to shoot. That decision SHOULD have been made when they went in. I was a little young to understand LBJ, but by the time Nixon ran for office in ’68 I understood what he was doing. And of course Reagan on. We have to let the Sunshine in.
To be honest I have mixed feelings about this visit. I trust POTUS will connect with the hearts and minds of the sane ones there but…
On the one hand there’s POTUS and those Israelis who want peace and are prepared to work toward it and on the other is Bad Boy Bibi who is using this visit as a prop in a ‘dare’ to their neighbors.
Bibi’s with the one that keeps building the settlements, even after Palestinians agreed to most of their demands, including the new settlement when VPOTUS visited, who went to OUR Halls of Congress and talked smack about our president when he was out of the country, who interjected himself into American politics, who began a massive bombing raid into Palestine right after the 2008 elections that ran for days (immediately following a visit from Can’tor).
I don’t like Bibi one little bit and don’t trust him one iota.
Now, do you want to know what I really think of him? 😆
BLEEP CANTOR! Sat here blubbering that “Hallelujah” chorus had me blubbering. I had lunch with some American friends yesterday and wanted to tell you what they said “we are fortunate to have a man like Mr Obama as President” no dissenters and absolute pride in the man.
That’s what happens to red blooded Amirkuns when they get around soshulist thinkers. LOL
(hope you know that was just my impression of our RWNJs if they heard your friends saying that) 😆
Seriously: Nice!
Those kids singing had me crying too! Thank you for your words about the president……We should have absolute pride in this man! He has had to rescue America from eight years of GWB’s degradation! And he has done it, quiety, graciously and thoroughly.
Gunnite folks.
Hope the kenyan would kick the butt of nut n yahoo for me while he is there. After all, the nut is within his
arm’sleg’s reach.Rest well, amk!!!
😆 Nite Tyrant!!!
Five reasons why immigration reform is moving forward
Posted by Suzy Khimm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/19/five-reasons-why-immigration-reform-is-moving-forward/
“17,946,004 hits” Seems like just yesterday we were celebrating 4mil.
And if we want to live to see the next million someone else better do the baking. We’ve all seen ChipsChica’s hazmat kitchen.
Oi, I saw that LunarSea!!! If you’re not careful I’ll bake YOU a cake!!!
****tiptoes quietly away thinking OMG OMG better be careful’****
Sorry, gotta go along with LunarSea on this one. When the time comes I’ll hire us a cook.
And I thought we were friends. Well, well, well. 😥
Friends are always honest with each other.
Japa, there’s honesty and there’s hurt-inflicting – you crossed the line. Putting my wedding dress on eBay as we speak.
You were planning to bake my cake while wearing a wedding dress??!! Weren’t you afraid you’d …ahem….cough… ahem…spill …cough something on it…. Smart move putting it up for sale BEFORE any damage has been done.
Perfect segue: The special day is Friday, so, procrastinators, there’s still time to pick out my present . Just saying.
I like your cakes. They’re fun! [Not to eat, mind you… just to marvel at them!] 😀
Why did the MSM pretty much ignore the President’s other overseas trips but this one to Israel not so much? There have been live snippets of his trip since this morning’s news.
I was wondering the same thing. They are probably trying to get some “gotcha” news.
Because only Israel matters.
Exxx….actly. The mainstream media is pretty much aligned with conservative interests and for conservatives, the only foreign country that matters is Israël. They’re much too ignorant of the world to grasp the long-term implications of America’s foreign policy, so they don’t see the importance of the president’s visits to Europe, to China and to other asian countries.
Cause war – none of the other visits were to countries that want the US to go to war. Something changed when the cold with the USSR – boots on ground wars started
Girl Power!!!
Get your easy peasy contact set up here. Take action.
Our President’s messages are always JUST RIGHT!!! Amazing graciousness and understanding.
Great to hear from Henry. Love the pencil drawing. Lots of great memories all in one.
Heads up:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/20/heads-up-president-obama-and-pm-netanyahu-press-conference/
The pencil drawing is magnificent. Just awesome.
It certainly is! Someone is quite talented!
Excellent drawing, Brian Fogarty, I love it. Way to go Henry!! The POTUS surely loved it.
Lovely artwork, IMO. I would buy a copy of that to add to my small O collection. 😀
Gorgeous drawing! Many thanks to Henry for sharing it with us!