(2008)
****
All times Eastern:
1:15: President Obama arrives Austin, Texas
1:45: Tours classrooms at Manor New Technology High School
2:05: Delivers remarks (White House live)
****
4:15: The First Lady Hosts Mother’s Day Tea (White House live)
****
6:0: The President tours Applied Materials Inc.
5.40: Delivers remarks (White House live)
6:35: Departs Austin, Texas
9:45: Arrives the White House
****
****
Chat away!
****
“Rick? Are you experiencing some discomfort, or do you always walk like that?” twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/…
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 9, 2013
****
“Obamer, I’d like to ask you about Bingazzer – what when on in that there Mexican town?” twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/…
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 9, 2013
OMG! POTUS is in Austin!!!!!
Yea! Looking forward to seeing him in action
OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!!! Pres. Obama just landed in Austin. AF1 is circling and there is a ground freeze at ABIA. Everything is shut down and cleared for Pres. Obama’s visit.
OMG!!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!!
Naughty Mat for UT, stat!
I think a whole floor carpet is probably needed at this point.
😆 You okay UT????
Some day, maybe, I will post the video of PBO flying over my house in Marine One ….. the only reason I haven’t done it yet is because it features, well, extraordinary heavy breathing 😕 And, if I remember right, a thumb over the lens…..
A couple of summers ago, my young visiting grandson and I were the only ones out on the street at the exact moment AF1 shoulda been overhead, leaving my city. We only saw one plane, and he spotted it and was running around, totally enjoying himself, pointing it out to me. Now, I don’t know if that was AF1 or not, but I told him that would be the only plane flying when the President was in the air, and that he was watching history, and he bought it! (Well, I bought it, too, there’s that.) Fun moment.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!! 🙂
You were probably right, Jacq. They do clear the skies before he arrives and until he’s away from the airport. I just moved away from LAX, and I’d always know when to look out the window to see either the plane landing or Marine One lifting off because the skies would get very quiet. Never failed! So – you and your little grandson did witness history.
That’s what I thought. We’ve talked about the exciting adventure we had a few times since!
🙂
WootWoot! Right there with you utal!
Oh My Utaustin, last summer Marine One (three of them) flew over my house as I sat out on my deck. The neighbors thought someone must have pulled out my toenails. I wanted to run into the house to tell everyone to come look, but I knew PBO would be gone before they could get outside So, I just stood out there screaming and waving and carrying on like a banshee in heat. I swear PBO had to hear me, and I just know there was a rotor tip in my direction. They were so low I could see all of the markings.
Let me just say, I know how you feel.
Cookemom that reminds me of when PBO was in london a couple years ago and I saw him real close up in the beast and I screamed ‘President Obama I love you ‘ and i swear he looked back in my direction.
omg Rick Perry.
Morning all.
Ugh, my head feels like a subway musician is playing a dull bass drum inside it.
Yuck.
Hi all! Hope everyone’s fine.
AFI arriving in Texas: http://www.kvue.com/live-stream/Live-Streaming-Video-President-Obamas-visit-206772991.htm
And Joe BIden in TNT in a little over a week!
Pres. Obama steps off AF1 to huge cheers from those waiting for him. Mayor Lee Leffingwell (D) is super chuffed. He keeps taking pictures of AF1 and is so enthusiastic to meet Pres. Obama.
LOVE IT!!!!!
God sure does have a wonderful sense of humor.
So the Lord lies to him?
No, the Lord doesn’t lie to anyone! Old pr is hallucinating most of the time, delusional, we call it! 😆 Fools. Such fools.
No! Pat Robertson heard Karl Rove’s voice in his dream and mistook it to be the Lord’d voice.
True. Instead of letting them try to shift the blame.
Yes Indeed, Tally! Just imagine, all the money the GOP is wasting over Issa’s Benghazi witch-hunt could be used to bolster embassy security.
Will always be fond of Austin – the town where I met my wife 🙂
#JustImagineIf
#TrustBarack
Nice. Well done bobfr! Meeting your wife, I mean…. 😉
Austin ♥ Pres. Obama!
Are you anywhere near, Utal? Will you get to SEE him with your very own eyes, or are you too emotional to actually see him even if he were standing in front of you? 😀
———–> “…..or are you too emotional to actually see him even if he were standing in front of you?”
🙂
Highly likely! I noticed those hyper-ventilating ‘OMGs’ above. 😀
Duh, guys, utal is on the naughty mat, remember…
Bette Midler for the win.
Bette, compare to what’s already in Congress, specially what’s on the Republican side, Sanford is a perfect fit. Another right wing crazy.
Trust me, this is worth the link. This is an absolute riot: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/08/1207697/-Dinosaur-Extinction-Update-Fossil-Fuels-And-Fossil-Fuelishness
Gov. Steve Beshear (D) announced Kentucky would participate in a key element of President Barack Obama’s health care plan to enroll more people in Medicaid.
Announced today: More than 300,000 uninsured Kentuckians will now have health coverage under new #Medicaid expansion #healthierKy
Go, Kentucky Democrats!
Thank goodness they have a Democratic governor.
Yes. I so hope we are next…
Local Live Streams for Pres. Obama’s Austin visit are now on.
http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/live-events/
http://www.kvue.com/home/related/Live-Streaming-Video-President-Obamas-visit-206772991.html
I love my President and so do the good people of Austin TX. 🙂
But Benghazi….
I was trying not to comment, but the view of Rick in the tweet Utal shared above (approx. comment # 15) reminded me strongly of McCain in that awful pic after his debate with PBO years ago. I guess senior GOPs get addled/befuddled when in the presence of greatness.
That’s his AR15 walk.
Hope, yo is bad too! 😆 Here is poor old Rick, trying to study PBO to learn some swaths, and all you girls can think of is how silly he looks! Of course he does! He is silly! He ain’t nevah gonna have what PBO have…. Not in this lifetime…. 😆
**SWAGGA!**. But you got that, right? (good old predictive text….) 😳
🙂 🙂 🙂 What happened to Rick?
Something is wrong with Rick Perry legs, isn’t it? He sure walks like it.
Yo is bad….. Chipsticks! 😆
Me?!?!?!?! 😯
Funny..LOL 🙂
For some reason, his walk calls to mind this song:
Hey, good news, and a better use of McCain’s time … and the time of you-know-who at the stupid link:
Maybe mcStain can do something about getting that free wifi system into place, that would help a lot of people…. Really help them – they could even afford to buy food if the Internet service providers weren’t gouging them so badly…
I’m all for this.
JOB…Trash pick up…wouldn’t that mean we would loose most of congress?
lose….not loose…yikes!
I’m a huge proponent of a la carte tv. Really, of the hundreds of channels I get, I watch maybe 20-25.
White House press secretary Jay Carney says any U.S. troops left in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of combat troops in 2014 will only be there to train Afghan forces and that the United States is not seeking permanent military bases there.
“The United States does not seek permanent military bases in Afghanistan, and any U.S. presence after 2014 would only be at the invitation of the Afghanistan government and aimed at training Afghanistan forces and targeting the remnants of al Qaeda,” Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai had said earlier Thursday that he is prepared to allow the United States to have nine military bases in the country, the AP reported.
Carney said negotiations about troop levels after 2014 are “ongoing” and the administration expects the resulting bilateral security agreement to “address access to and use of Afghanistan facilities by U.S. forces.”
Hehehe
John McCain wants to unbundle cable and to stop broadcasters like CBS and Fox from moving their stations to pay TV. The Arizona senator right now on the Senate floor is introducing The TV Consumer Freedom Act of 2013 (read it here).
The legislation is intended to “allow the consumer, the television viewer who subscribes to cable, to have à la carte capability. In other words, not required to buy a whole bunch of channels that that consumer may not want wish to subscribe to,” McCain said moments ago.
The former GOP Presidential candidate also went after broadcasters like CBS and Fox who have said that they could move to cable if they lose in the courts against Barry Diller’s Aereo streaming service. “We’ll also establish consequences if broadcasters choose to downgrade their over-the-air service,” McCain told the Senate. His legislation would also eliminate the sports blackout rule “in events that are held in publicly financed stadiums.”
—–
I have been hoping for something like this forever .! I think there should just be a base fee and then we get to pick the channels we want.
Ok, wait, McCain is doing something GOOD?! My mind was just blown.
Oh trust me, there is more to it than that, for sure. He doesn’t do anything that doesn’t help business in some way. Perhaps he is going to weave in some negative language re net neutrality or something. I will believe it when I see it.
I’ll have to read the bill. If it passes both houses, we’re talking at a revolutionary makeover to the broadcast industry.
Hello Austin! Hello utaustinliberal! Hello my President! (And just for today, hello Rick Perry; maybe your proximity to our President will enable some smarts to rub off on you. Maybe.)
Ok, I feel dirty. I just helped a patron to UNregister to vote. SMH.
Briefly, what was his/her reason – fed up with GOPs? And why would s/he need to UNregister? I’m sorry, but American voters are a puzzle to me.
You know what, I didn’t ask. I’m sure it was some spurious reason.
Hmmm, why would a person unregister to vote? Wouldn’t one just not show up at the polls, or did they consider it an act of defiance or something? Maybe they’re getting ready to go underground, and don’t want a paper trail. Hmmmm, I say….hmmm.
Yeah, I was gobsmacked when he asked me if he could unregister. I just gave him the number to the registrar-recorder. Let them handle it.
strange indeed.
So you are puzzled too, CM? I guess the person just wanted to ‘make a statement’ 🙄 – hope s/he was satisfied at the end.
“Damn your democracy! I want to re-establish a feudal aristocracy with a state church!”
And inn the next breath they talk about ‘freedom’. 🙄
SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!! That’s me rounding the corner just in time to see PBO speak. Utaustinliberal, I hope you survive PBO’s visit to your neck of the woods. I replied to your OMGs upthread on how having three Marine One choppers fly directly over my deck caused my neighbors to check to see if I needed resuscitation.
Here`s a bottle of water, friend! That brake job probably calls for some lubrication. 😉
Yea, an oil job may do the trick. I’m not sure though since the screeching came as I ran around the corner and through the door on foot to take my seat at the ‘puter.
Maybe a soak of the tootsies in a tub of lard should remedy that awful sound. Then again, there’s something to be said about seeing PBO gets to the soul of my soles.
The water was for you as I (wrongly) assumed the sound was vocal. 😉 😉
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Thursday lashed out at Republicans for what he called a “historic level of obstructionism” on President Obama’s cabinet picks, including EPA nominee Gina McCarthy.
“There has been a historic level of obstructionism from the Senate on this nomination and others,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. “…It just demonstrates that predilection for obstructionism that is bad for the functioning of the federal government in important areas.
“We call on Republicans in the Senate to stop gumming up the works when it comes to the confirmation process, when it comes to nominees who are enormously qualified,” he said.
Republicans staged a last-minute boycott of a scheduled committee vote Thursday on Gina McCarthy, and Republican Sen. David Vitter alone has submitted more than 650 questions for her, an amount Dems decried as a record-shattering barrage.
“We believe that the Senate will confirm her to her post, and we call on Republican to stop the theater and to move forward with the process,” Carney said.
Republicans also threw a wrench in the confirmation process for Labor pick Thomas Perez, insisting a committee vote scheduled Wednesday be delayed.
Carney suggested that was part of the “pattern and practice” of GOP obstructionism.
“It’s regrettable because these are highly qualified nominees,” he said. Still, Carney pledged, “We’re going to continue to work with the Senate to move these nominations forward.”
😆 😆 Though the truth of it is not really funny.
Just look at all those stupid people!
Hi C-Barb, you still in celebration mode, or have you sobered up? 😆
seems this birthday celebration lasted for a week…..out to dinner and margaritas last night also!
You’ve figured out the right way to celebrate a b-d! I think I’ll try for a week if I get another one myself – if I remember since it’s a loooong way away. 😛
They all need some pubic action then they can go read up on public action. Might rev up the brain a little, who knows.
You know what? (RePUBICans) are really dumb for the most part. Wonder why?
Soooooooo excited for you to have POTUS in Austin, ut!!
President Obama will not entertain any discussions about debt limit negotiations, National Economic Council director Gene Sperling told reporters Thursday.
Echoing President Bill Clinton’s famous 1996 declaration about the “era of big government,” Sperling said there is no space in Washington for members of Congress vowing to refuse to increase the debt limit, as they did in 2011 in a showdown solved with the sequester.
“The president has been crystal clear, the era of anyone threatening default has to be over,” Sperling said. “The era of anybody using the potential of default or tarnishing the full, faith and credit of United States as a budget tactic or a negotiating tool has to be over. And so he’s made clear that he is simply not going to negotiate on the debt limit, that it is the responsibility of the United States Congress to authorize payments of debt that have already been obligated.”
The sequester, Sperling said, does not deal with any of the long-term entitlement spending that Republicans profess to be most concerned about.
“What’s in place right now is a sequester that was designed by both parties to be so stupid that it wouldn’t take place. It doesn’t deal with any of our long-term challenges, it hurts job growth in the present and it makes it more difficult to invest in the future.”
Uh huh, uh huh…
GoBama, GoBama! He The Man!
#JustImagineIf
#TrustBarack He Earns It, Everyday
How many pictures of POTUS and Rick Perry do we need to see? How about one is enough. I’m surprise he showed up to greet POTUS.
Just having a laugh Anniebella, relax!
{{{{anniebella}}}} remember he was so deeply impressed when PBO cam to West…. He may have had some change of heart. Chipsticks, on the other hand, cannot help herself! It must be cheesy puff break time somewhere in this country… Like in Seattle!
I am loving the student introducing Pres. Obama.
Wonderful introduction by that young man. That was as good as any I’ve heard.
You hear that. DO YOU HEAR THAT.
Welcome fellow Longhorn Obama! 😀
Is he wearing his cowboy hat? We need a new shot of him in it…. IMHO. 😳
Oh, whoa! I keep forgetting, today, this very day: New Moon in Taurus 19degrees 31 minutes. Also an Annular eclipse of the a sun: an annular eclipse is when a narrow ring of the Sun is visible beyond the dark mask of the Moon. The annular phase will be visible across a 107-141 mile wide path through Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Gilbert Islands. A partial eclipse, the Moon’s penumbral shadow, is visible in Australia, Indonesia, Oceania and much of the central Pacific Ocean. Sorry, guys, that’s on the other side of the world, but maybe 99ts will see a bit of it, tho it is north and east of her. We all get to feel it, even if we can’t witness it!
What a jackass.
Jovie, I mentioned the other day that PBO would stand fast on the debt limit and NOT negotiate. When he said that, I knew he would not go back because he’s very concerned that he not set an intolerable precedent for future presidents. I love that Sperling says, “there’s no space in Washington for members of Congress vowing to refuse to increase the debt limit.” In other words, you are not qualified to be a member of Congress if that’s your game. The Republicans would be profoundly stupid (well, more so than usual) to cause an international default on our debt and they would feel a great backlash if they caused a government shutdown. It’s all very well to showboat and brag to your base about how defiant you are, but it’s another thing altogether when the SS checks don’t come in. I think the president will make it VERY clear who’s gumming up the works and I wouldn’t be surprised if he told House Democrats last night that they better get on board on roundly condemning the Republicans if they let this happen.
Msnbc is covering Benghazi, can’t be bothered with a Leader who wants to solve problems… :(. 😦
Come on now !
The media is a joke! I don’t know how to tweet, but I”m glad people are pushing back on the lies the repub are spewing.
I would hope so…
What Darrell Issa really wants out of Benghazi hearing
By Anthony Clark
————————
Others have covered many aspects of his story. They have written about his alleged misdeeds, before and after he entered Congress. They have ably discussed Issa’s illegal disclosure of wiretaps; his irresponsible release of sensitive unredacted State Department documents; his political misuse of official funds; his use of his public office for personal gain; his inability to be honest about his own military service record; his treatment of his private business partners; his youthful (and not-so-youthful) experimentations with borrowing other people’s cars without permission; his failed attempt to recall and succeed Gray Davis as governor of California (and his Boehner-esque acceptance of his failure); his characterization of the Sept. 11 attacks as “simply a plane crash”; and his disregard for tradition, House rules and plain decency in the selection of Democratic Minority witnesses.
Sure, these and other issues call into serious question Issa’s integrity, or fitness to serve in the United States Congress, much less chair a House committee vested with personal subpoena power.
But I’d like to look instead at Darrell Issa, Oversight chairman.
——————————————
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/09/darrell_issa_the_man_behind_the_benghazi_hearings/
Thanks, that is a great article
FLOTUS gave a “wonderful” shout out to her lovely Mother, Mrs. Robinson.
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/09/and-next/