President Obama holds a stuffed bear alongside New Jersey Governor Chris Christie after playing an arcade game along the boardwalk as they view rebuilding efforts following last year’s Hurricane Sandy
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President Barack Obama high-fives children as he tours the boardwalk at Point Pleasant in New Jersey
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Marielda Medina, 3, seated left, along with her grandmother Marie Jean-Baptiste, center, and mother, Gilberthe Jean-Baptiste, right, wait line up along Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park to hear President Barack Obama speak at Convention Hall.
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People watch as President Obama greets people after speaking about rebuilding efforts following last year’s Hurricane Sandy at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in Asbury Park
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Thank you LovelyPlains for lots of the photos in this post!
The Obama Diary 
Fast and Furious, Chips!
Go Maryl1! Congrats on First!
Thank you so much, Dudette! I was surprised because normally this site is blocked at school, so I can only see the beginning of the post, not the replies etc. Today I forgot and clicked the link and, lo and behold, it’s not blocked anymore! Finally our IT guys must have realized what a truly great and worthy site this is!!
why does it say “Move to trash” under the photos? NEVER!
Ha, it’s fixed DF, major weirdness going on with the post!!
There was another new post, but it disappeared!
poltergeists
Lovely round-up, Chips! Excellent work as always!
Jersey came out strong for POTUS. They looooooooooove him.
WONDERFUL round-up, Chipstarrrr!!!!
Ha, thank you Meta – but the mighty LovelyPlains has the right to put a custard pie in my face! He had already posted … and I didn’t notice 😳 Any way, the post is now a combination of our pics, thank you again LP! And Meta!
I think that’s called an embarrassment of riches!
You’re too kind Meta, I deserve to have my ass whupped! 🙂
Top 5.
That sound you hear are GOP heads exploding in reaction to all these happy smiling faces LOVING ON OUR POTUS!
Christie just wants some of that stardust from the President to spread his way for the 2013 election!
A million sorries to LP, I was working on this post and then clicked publish …. and didn’t realize he had already posted 😳
SO sorry LP, I’ve combined the two posts – thank you HUGELY for gathering photos!
Did you combine the comments? Where are the inspiring words that were already entered? 🙄
Did you see the news I posted for you from amk, vc??
Yes thank you dear, and I responded, but Lady Mayor sent my creatively worded response into cyberspace. 😛 Just as well ’cause i was expressing surprise that you so easily accepted Amk’s assessment of me as a sleepy-head.
🙂 I think it was the TOD wormhole…..scary stuff. Hope that never happens again! Very welcome…he wanted to make sure that you, specifically, knew about the good news:)
Yeah, I replied to him. That was such great news. He is blessed with two very smart young ‘uns (from their mother’s influence as I always tell him). 😆
All the good stuff always comes from the mom’s side. Goes without saying…thought that was universally understood 🙂
Ooooooo. Sure hope Amk sees this truth when he returns! 2 to 1, he’s outnumbered!
No worries Chips! I had been editing the whole time and did not see you had a post in the works….. I had sent you a DM a few hours ago and assumed it was a go……then my computer froze for the last 15 minutes!!!
SOOOOOOO sorry again LP, I wasn’t on Twitter for the last couple of hours so missed your DM, as Amk would put it: I am an eejit!! Monster huge thanks for the post and for all your hard work, now combined with the pics in this post – you’re brill!
No reason to be sorry, just crossed the tracks at the same time….I am having computer issues anyway…hopefully will be cleaned up in a few. Chat in a bit!
Waaahhhhh!!! Can’t anyone hear me knocking on the WP door??? Open up the door please!!!!! This is a test to see if anyone hears me out in cyberspace bumbling around on the innertubz all by my lonesome. Wah!!!! I can’t be with my O peeps on another great getting up day in the land of TOD!!!
OK Whew!!!! I see I managed to kick the door in.
Tee Hee Hee! Sorry, but I could just see you were taken by surprise when the door opened (in the middle of your rant).
I think I was a victime of the great TOD double diary merge. I must have been posting at the exact moment Chips decided to double our pleasure
Most likely, Cookem, but for some reason I had this fast mental image of you beating on the door all hyped up in frustration, then a deflated ‘Oh. Okay. I’m in.’ What can I say but I’ve been frequently accused of having a weird sense of humour. 😛
Glad you got in…really. 😛
Oh you got it right, just as I was about to leave to finish painting bathroom walls, the door opened.
I had made 3 different comments during my attempts to enter the halls of the mighty TOD. The statements were profound and would have been an enlightenment to all those privy to them. I dare not try to recapture them now, they are forever lost in pixel pixie land.
I see you and I both feel the same way about our lost comments! For some reason it’s always my masterpieces that get lost – mostly my long ones too. Very aggravating! 😀 😀
Good. Thanks. Meta
Is it possible that old kook, Senator John McCain, does not realize he is not SoS and what he did by seeking in the back door and said about our President is treasonous?
Former U.S. Intelligence Linguist Scott Rickard says Senator John McCain’s visit to Syria is “high treason” as Washington does not have relations with Damascus more than a year.
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/305927.html
So is there even a Dem running for Gov in New Jersey? Too bad Christie gets to put PBO’s 2nd visit as a new notch in his much looser post-lap band belt.
Barbara Buono is running. A good candidate but she needs more support to shine a light on Christie’s terrible record.
I am not sure what happened here. I was commenting on a post and I was lost in Limbo and the more I tried, Nothing. Then it dawned on me that the the post just vanished in ethos. What happened?
Never mind…. 😦 I figured it out. OK 😉
That must have been you who I was bumping into in Cyberspace trying to get into TOD. I see we both made it.
Thank goodness, I was not alone. 😎
Always try the door on the left.
And I was 1st on that post whaaaahhhhh. 🙂
No sweat, Mellesia, I noticed. 😉
Today’s GOP is fundamentally unserious about governing
BY Greg Sargent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/28/todays-gop-is-fundamentally-unserious-about-governing/
You know what, Ladyhawke, the GOP will continue to be “unserious about governing” so long as the media are always ready to to enable it. If, for once, the U.S. media were as serious about exposing the GOP’s “un-seriousness,” as they are about helping the GOP manufacture scandals to hurt the President, Republicans would quickly quit their BS.
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Without comment, the justices turned away Indiana’s defense of a 2011 law that would ban all Medicaid funds to an organization such as Planned Parenthood whose work includes performing abortions. The high court let stand decisions by a federal judge in Indiana and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago that blocked the measure from taking effect.
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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-planned-parenthood-cases-052813?src=rss
Those tinfoil hats are just about twirling all over the place from their owner’s heads exploding right about now.
I think those tinfoil HEADS should be fined for wasting the court’s resources when they keep taking ‘silly’ issues before the court. In the same way I really, really thing House members who vote 30+ times on an issue already settled by the courts should be
impeachedhave to repay a portion (100%) of the budget money (salary, light, heat, etc etc) wasted.Nurses explain Obamacare in 90 seconds
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/05/nurses-explain-obamacare-in-90-seconds.html
That’s a great ad! Thanks, Ladyhawke, for linking to it.
Will have pics of the First Lady in the next post
I love fennel…..especially in salad.
haha—kid doesn’t look overly thrilled with his whiff of fennel.
He’s definitely NOT excited Dotster!!
The thing about FLOTUS is she act just like a Mom with these kids.
She really does Anniebella, and every kid she meets adores her. So full of warmth.
By the way I don’t even know what fennel is.
5:30 PM EDT: President Obama Speaks at the AAPI Heritage Month Celebration
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
PBS will be running the Carole King In Performance at the White House tonight. Check your local listings!
Thanks!
Wow… how exciting…..
Great for the kids, they did get the chance to see POTUS land, how great for them. They had a wonderful day.
Pardon me, but I’m outta the loop—–what is Electric Daisy? 65,000 showed up for this wild and crazy looking carnival, of some sort–in Chgo area. And why is everyone wearing stacks of those adolescent girl plastic bead bracelets?
http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-photos-electric-daisy-carnival-20130525/
Oh that’s the music concert that Joliet gave permission to have at the Speed way four 4 days. They gave them a variance on the noise ordinance and said they could play music til 4am. The neighbors are livid. One guy said the sound shook the siding off of his house. The amps and speakers were so loud that folks many miles away were disturbed. Some likened it to fireworks that never ended. The city said they’d take the complaints under advisement for next year.
The promoters, being neighborly voluntarily lowered the noise level by a few amps. Now the siding is safe, but windows, not so much.
Wow—that’s loud—-so sorry I don’t live in the vicinity and didn’t get to enjoy those 4:00a.m. sounds. I was just curious—-the gathering looked like it had a unique flavor, so to speak—-and wondered if ‘electric daisy’ had any special significance that everyone knows about but me.
Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert 20h
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“Once again: Only one-third of the groups checked [by the IRS] were conservative groups.”; http://bit.ly/10wm1YC
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Someone please alert the media….especially Tweety
As I said on the vanished thread…..Lawd! There is something about his man and rain that makes your heart go a flutter….
Wowwie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🙂 You feeling a little warm there Donna??? 🙂
Is it time for a naughty mat? They haven’t been used in a while.
We’re definitely in the danger zone, shipmate! Hey, you might need one soon, I’m working on a First Lady post … and she looked even more stunning than ever today. Be warned!
I’m digging me mat out as we speak! 😀
Grab your dictionaries! It’s Nerd Week!
Now they also going to be asking for the meaning of the words too? Why now for that requirement? I am not OK with this today. I know my opinion doesn’t count here…..but I think it is way too much.
Wha…? It’s too much studying? Too much competition? Too much pressure? Are you kidding?
Not Kidding sweet Dudette. I heard on the News today.
Here’s a link. 😦
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/09/176723940/new-rule-spelling-bee-will-now-include-definitions-test
I’ve got three GIRLS from my area! GIRL BEE POWER!!
Where did that opposite reporting come from?
Alexrod on his reply today at MJ…..Funny….indeed.
I really don’t know why Mr. Joke tries to take on people like David Axelrod. Mr. Axelrod can eat him for lunch with both hands tied behind his back! I mean really!
PBO outside in the rain. Nobody does it better. #wetdreams
Wet POTUS!!!!!!
Whoa. Naughty mat for you. 🙂
One day a golfer accidentally overturned his buggy.
Elizabeth, a very attractive and keen golfer, who lived in
a villa on the golf course, heard the noise and called out,
“Are you okay, what’s your name?”
“It’s Jorge, and I’m OK thanks,” he replied.
“Jorge forget your troubles. Come to my villa,
rest a while and I’ll help you get the buggy up later.”
“That’s mighty nice of you,” Jorge answered,
“but I don’t think my wife would like it.”
“Oh, come on,” Elizabeth insisted.
She was very pretty and persuasive.
“Well okay,” Jorge finally agreed, and added, “but my wife won’t like it.”
After a restorative brandy, and some driving and putting
lessons, Jorge thanked his host.
“I feel a lot better now, but I know my wife is going to be really upset.”
“Don’t be silly!” Elizabeth said with a smile ,
“She won’t know anything. By the way, where is she?”
“Under the buggy!” he explained.
Ha!
Finally, the assholes responded. Starve the wallet, people. That’s how you get corporations to take notice.
Now streaming:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Nice thing about being on vacation? I get to see things like this in the middle of the afternoon:) He’s more than wonderful.
Of course I just missed it! Story of my life!
I laughed at this because this is what I think every time I watch. I’ve decided Tweety is a certifiable goofball——he just spits out nonsense nonstop—–all sounds like it’s off the top of his head—–or from a lower place—–or some whim of the moment (Fineman whisper?) that has no basis in reality. Yep, he’s a goofball.
I had to mute him again today……..
He was challenging Richard Engel…as if he knows more than Richard about Syria………
Did anyone around here hear cheering when the news of rapid declining deficit was written about? Republicans?? That’s what I thought:)
New post!!!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/28/garden-party-3/
Senate GOP asks High Court to invalidate recess appointments
Julian Hattem
05/28/13 04:48 PM ET
All 45 GOP senators signed a brief calling Obama’s appointments an unconstitutional abuse of power.…
What’s next?
These recess appointments have happened under every administration.
But I guess not this one.
They are just determined to blow up government.
They are late…PBO already file a brief challenging a lower court’s decision to invalidate Corduay’s (sp) appointment as head of the CPB..