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Today (All Times Eastern):
9:05 AM: President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama depart the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
9:20: Depart Joint Base Andrews
11:15: Arrive in Orlando, Fla.
12:0: President Obama delivers remarks at the Disabled American Veterans National Convention in Orlando. He will be introduced by the First Lady.
1:05: President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama depart Orlando
3:30: Arrive Cape Cod, Mass.
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President Obama walks out of the East Room after holding a news conference, August 9
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https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/366017490179989504
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The People’s View: President Obama Slays Edward Snowden’s “Whistleblower” Myth
The president also hit the nail on the head on head when he called out the canonization of a traitor (Edward Snowden), by pointing out the fact that he and not Edward Snowden had called for a review of the surveillance programs and their transparency – and that Snowden’s only contribution to that process was to disrupt it and hurt the actual debate by generating heat rather than light, as well as the fact that it was the president that provided safeguards for whistleblowers within the intelligence community.
If Edward Snowden actually believed himself to be a whistleblower acting in the interest of his country rather than for the political benefit of himself and the global attention whores like Glenn Greenwald, he would have noticed that President Obama has, since taking office, been the strongest advocate for whistleblowers that has ever occupied the oval office. He took pains to stop agency retaliations against whistleblowers. Just a few examples
More of this fantastic MUST READ here
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RT and help me spread the word! On Oct. 1, 30 million w/out health insurance can signup for affordable quality care: https://t.co/DDwz6oF9t8
— Kathleen Sebelius (@Sebelius) August 9, 2013
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You have to check out Tommy’s timeline from last night. 140 characters never looked and felt so good
More here
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Cape Cod…..
2009:
…. touring the Gay Head lighthouse in Aquinnah while on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Aug. 27, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
… with lighthouse keeper Joan LeLacheur
….. with his young niece, Savita, Martha’s Vineyard, Aug. 25, 2009 (Pete Souza)
….. during a round of golf at Farm Neck golf course, Martha’s Vineyard, Aug. 24, 2009 (Pete Souza)
….. waving to an onlooker while playing golf, Martha’s Vineyard, Aug. 24, 2009 (Pete Souza)
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2010:
Pete Souza: “On vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, the President was golfing at the Vineyard Golf Club. I switched my digital camera to the black-and-white setting to capture the ominous clouds.” Aug. 22, 2010
…… at Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven, Aug. 25, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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2011:
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The Obama Diary 
Goooooood Morning……
Congrats! A pretty shoe for you!
How Fascinated I am by all things PBO///I have never watched with such anticipation to see AF1 take off….but I must say…I do indeed find it fascinating…..
Yup, we were saying the same thing the other day. How many of us cared about AF1 taking off/landing prior to 2009? Unless you were an aeronautics buff, not many of us can claim that we were interested before PBO came on the scene!!
Good morning Ms. Chips, UT and the TOD Family. I hope every have a wonderful weekend.
Good West Coast Saturday morning. Congrats PF on first!
thank you much…:-)
Goooooooooooooooood morning everyone!!! (Nice job PF!)
thanks…smilin
Good Saturday morning! Congrats, PF:) Now I have to go back and read all this good stuff! Thanks, UT!
thanksssssssss….DF…..you are the kind of teacher that I was blessed with when I was in high school…her name was Sr Mary Trainer…she was an extraordinary teacher….I credited her with expanding my humanity and inner searching of self…at a turbulent time in my development…she challenged me to think outside the box…outside of stereotypes…
{{{{{PF}}}}} Thank you so much. Thank you. Means everything to hear that. I hope that everyone has a teacher that does that for their kids….they ALL should be that teacher, but we know that won’t be the case…..so lucky that you had Sr. Mary Trainer in your life:) “Outside the box” is not just what I live in school…it’s how I live my life. Just how my brain works…that, and a passionate love of those kids. Thank you again for your kind words….
Found this article from June….this attests to some of what we have talked about…and why the Media is fascinated with the NSA vs say Stop and Frisk!
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-nsa-scandal-is-a-white-people-problem/
…According to TV Eyes, the NSA scandal has been mentioned on cable almost 3,000 times in a little over a week, since the Verizon story broke. In a sense, this is commendable, because despite the American people’s clear apathy about this kind of surveillance, journalists have decided that this is important. That’s one of the most important functions that the Fourth Estate can serve.
Would you like to know how many mentions there have been about a story in which the government systematically performs warrantless searches of millions of innocent Americans’ phone records? Two hundred and sixty-seven.
it wasn’t 267 this past week, it was 30. It was 267 mentions these past three months. Oh, and it wasn’t warrantless searches of phone numbers and call times, it was warrantless searches of actual American people’s persons, their physical, IRL bodies.
…Why is that? It’s hard to tell, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that the Stop and Frisk policy overwhelmingly affects the privacy of innocent black and Latino people.
…If the last several weeks have made one thing clear about the media, it’s that the best way to get them to care about government abuse, or anything, is to do it to white people.
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However….
.STOP and Frisk is a REAL abuse of civil liberty happening to REAL people ….whereas the hoopla of NSA is about the POTENTIAL for abuse… but what has been revealed over and over again is that there has been NO NSA abuse.
Indeed Pretty Foot – this same stop & frisk issue was part of my Twitter monologue earlier this morning.
yes …I saw,,….and what an awesome monologue it was….I cosigned your words by re-tweeting them….
This has been my response to every “libertarian” when they talk about civil liberties and they start throwing out the silly security and fear quotes. It shuts them up every time. They know that they are lying about caring about civil liberties. If rand paul is so concerned about minorities, why hasn’t he been fighting against these programs?
Good MORNING TODers, and congrats on 1st Pretty Foot! What a glorious morning to be alive. I have so much catching up to do here. I am in excellent spirits– I got a troll to apologize :). I have done my job.
Woosh! Good for you arkluvspbo 🙂 BRAVA!
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE! Mission Accomplished!
Thank you my friends!
G’morning, UT, Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone and congrats Pretty Foot on #1 🙂
I spy with my little eye a “Naughty Mat” pic captioned “Cape Cod 2009…”
Yeah hf, that is a goood lookin fella in that pic 🙂
GGail, please proceed straight to the naughty mat!
Move over hf!
I know HF, I am staying on the floor in the event of a “re-faint”!
Heh…here’s some excellent advice: Just bring a soft pillow with you as you make your way slowly to the naughty mat.
Good advice! Here is the pillow cover I will use!
HAHAHAHAHAhahaha….of course that’s the cover you would use. I mean, what else?
LOL>..I saw this comment after my post to your original! 🙂
Great minds think alike!
Hopefruit, I’m going to have to walk around with a pillow attached to my head — too many falls on the Naughty Mat with this president.
:seeing stars:
Good Rise& Shine morning. TODers!
Wow! What another fascinating week with POB and TODville. It just gets better with time.
Off today to my niece’s “Trunk Party”. She is going away to college and is having a party for family and friends to fill up her “trunk”. I thought it was cute until I visited her Registry. Why does every party have to have a Registry these days?
I plan to have fun!
I hope everyone here enjoy your weekend. I pray for a peaceful vacation for our President and his family. I am sure the “haters” are stirring up BS because he sure did dropthemic on their asses at the press conference yesterday. Including that coward Snowstorm. Why these idiots calling him a hero is so obvious they hate PBO. And frankly, Mr. President and TODers, DON’T GIVE A DAMN!
He should be getting homesick in about a month or two. What fool would trade the beautiful view of Hawaii for Russia? I just have a feeling they may try to plan something real stupid for the Olympics. That will show how insanely desperate they are. Hopefully, we will be done with them forever. It is one gorgeous day here in NYC. I hope it remains that way during the vacation of our FIrst Family. They sure deserve nothing but the best!
he sure did dropthemic on their asses at the press conference yesterday ….
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Yes LDS….
One of my favorite moments of the presser….brought a HUGE smile to my face and made me LOL…..have I said how much I love our President?….well…let me say…How PROUD I am to have Barack Hussein Obama as my President…smiling!
Another fantastic R & Shine….UT….
St Pete Tines frint page says Flieida residents may see Healthcare premiums rise under obamacare.
Ok this is misleading.
While Scott canceled Medicaid expansion, exchanges are still available…
Is this what they’re putting in every local newspapers across America?
Jovie your iphone knows what it’s talking about: Flieida residents may see premiums rise, but NOT Florida residents.
But but but Louie Gohlmert sez…
Mooooooooorning everyone, mooooooorning UT, thank you sooooooo much for R&S, a beautiful start to the weekend. PS Tommy Christopher = pure gold!
Thank you so much! Tommy was fucking awesome last night. He went H.A.M. and it was fun!
Ha, he really did UT, only saw the tweets hours later, but he was REALLY going for it! Thanks again UT.
Good morning, TODville.
We’ve been rightly criticizing Congress for working less than 1/3 of the year, but here’s a conservative Republican Senator who is making himself available today for a topic of concern in the Mountain West:
A lovely picture of our First couple
I see the gray, but hay FLOTUS said she love him even more.
Hey Anniebella, I’ll include the photos in the Heads Up post next so you’ll see them better, really gorgeous images of the first couple today.
Thank you Chipsticks.
Well, if Comcast, who owns Msnbc.., is part of ALEC then you got your answer.
PBO swagga!!!!!
President Obama is so GOOD with children.
I’ve never seen the video with his niece, just adorable. She kind of plunks herself down, and POTUS joins her! And then picks her up when she begs him too, and she gets tossed too!
How great would it be to have an Uncle Barack?
God morning all. Have a lovely Saturday. Rise and shine is really shiny this morning. Thanks UT
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nobel-peace-prize-94158.html
This is just too much, and here’s the kicker:
On Monday, WikiLeaks noted that Snowden joins WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and leaker Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in having been nominated for Nobels, but the organization in a series of tweets decried the committee as a “corrupt” tool of foreign policy.
Why would these morons want the the same prize that President Obama received considering that they think President Obama is the great satan?
Don, because secretly they love President Obama, and they would LOVE to have the NPP, but like young children who scream and cry when they don’t get what they want — to make themselves feel better they will put others down.
We just have to remember we are dealing with a bunch of 5 year olds, and then we just deal with them accordingly.
GOP may be waging internal civil war, but they haven’t taken their off their prize: Hillary:
This is a very interesting article, what I took away is that “Lord help us when President Obama leaves office in 2016.”
“It would also become something of an odd partner in what has become a contentious project, especially after Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, threatened to keep presidential debates involving Republican candidates off both NBC and its news channel MSNBC, if it went ahead with what he called a “promotional movie about the life of Hillary Clinton.”
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Is this a threat, or a promise —seems to me it’s the latter 🙂
I’m sick of Snowden and I’m sick of talking about the NSA. If anybody tells you that they are shocked that our government has spies operating inside and outside of this country, you should ask them where have they been the last hundred years. How do you think we got bin laden, by eavesdropping on cellphone calls, that’s how we got bin laden. How do you think most crimes are solved, they are solved by using technology such as tapping phones, reading emails, DNA, Fingerprints, checking bank statements etc. But no, everyone wants to act like spying began under President Obama. Every industrialized country in the world has spies operating inside and outside of their boarders. You want to tap my phone, go ahead. You want to read my emails, knock yourself out.
Also this:
It’s not misplaced; whoever is supposed to have the check, has the check.
Morning all. The video with PBO and his niece way cute.
https://twitter.com/josnoopy29/status/366210964217012224
Here’s the idiotic response you get from these Snowden-lovers when asked to give concrete examples of NSA abuses….
Oh they have a response, hf2, unfortunately their response doesn’t make any sense. I mean I really want to give these libertarians the seriousness they deserve, but I just can’t get past the thought that their libertarian idol Ron Paul got punked by Borat.
What is a Libertarian? If their idol is Ron Paul, Ron Paul is a racists. I do remember those racists papers which came out and Paul claim he didn’t write them or have anything to do with them.
They are uninformed.
Godwin’s Law!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Up and at ’em all you O’s!!!!! It’s a great getting up day in TODville!?!
Well, UT you sure know how to get a girl a-rising and a-shining real early doncha? I’m barely out of bed and down I go straight to the naughy mat. Sheesh, that pic in with the sun setting and a full body pic at that. I mean really. Try doing a very s.l.o.w. scroll down that pic. Good Lawd!!
This site is becoming more and more a vehicle for our female members to come discuss politics, and ogle President Obama. I’m not hating, I’m just saying.
yep, we women sure know how to multi taks. oogle, discuss politics, bring home the bacon, raise the kids, oogle, do house work, tend to the garden, oogle, volunteer, did I mention oogle?
I’m just saying, where are the pictures of Mrs. Obama?
Live video: President Obama arrives in Orlando – http://www.wesh.com/news/politics/live-video-president-obama-speaks-in-orlando/-/11788048/21404530/-/47q424/-/index.html
Thank you JER!
You’re welcome, Chips.
THIS:
I know a President is never off duty, but I am glad POTUS is on his way to Martha Vineyard for a week vacation with FLOTUS and Malia and Sasha.As I said yesterday I wish it was a longer vacation, but it’s not. So I hope they relax, and enjoy themselves.
Check out their vacation site photos: http://mvgazette.com/sites/default/files/article-assets/main-photos/2013/js_obama_house.jpg and
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Heads up!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/08/10/the-president-and-first-lady-in-orlando/