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Today (all times Eastern):
11:0 – 4:0: The Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action Ceremony, The Lincoln Memorial
2:45 (moved from 3:05): President Obama delivers remarks
Live streaming starts at 11:0 on C-Span and CBS
6:0: President Obama is interviewed by Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff – the interview will air in full on PBS NewsHour and on the PBS website
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr, August 28, 1963:
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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Five years ago today: Senator Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination for the American presidency:
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Morning everyone, it’s going to be a beautiful day
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Aug 28, 1955 – Emmett Till murdered Aug 28, 1963 – Dr King's 'I Have A Dream' speech Aug 28, 2008 – Barack Obama nominated by Dem. Party
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) August 28, 2013
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The Obama Diary 
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Morning rikyrah, morning everyone!
Congrats on first rikyrah. Have a great day.
Morning Betsy, morning everyone!
Good morning our fearless leader. You have to read this excellent post by Spandan in The People’s View!
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/08/why-2011-debt-ceiling-deal-is-smartest.html
Great article, Betsy (poorly edited, but that’s ok. :).
This part:
Now, the fact that the president’s administration has drawn an absolute red line against negotiating over the debt limit is seen by some of the liberal intelligentsia as a tacit admission by the White House that the 2011 negotiations were a mistake. In truth, it was the smartest political move the president made against a united Republican opposition. Not simply because the deal itself left John Boehner hat in hand, but also because the president foresaw its repercussions on the Republican party coming a mile away.
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Loving the part about the “Liberal intelligentsia” thinking they are so much smarter than the president.
I can’t wait to check back over the day and see TOD’s coverage of today’s events 🙂
YEAH CHIPS:)
Rickey Smiley Shares His Experience Meeting President Obama [EXCLUSIVE AUDIO]
Aug 27, 2013
By Rickey Smiley
Rickey Smiley had the chance to meet President Obama over the weekend along with others like Rev. Al Sharpton, Tom Joyner, and Russ Parr. Listen to the audio player to hear all the details of the two hour long meeting with the president including some hilarious moments like Russ Parr asking about the weed in D.C.!
http://rickeysmileymorningshow.com/1290874/rickey-smiley-meets-barack-obama/?utm_content=buffer54cf5&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
Art Laptop for Sylv
I’m a disabled artist trying to raise funds to buy a new art laptop for my wife Sylv – also a disabled artist. Help me get her back in action!
Short Summary
My wife and I are disabled artists – I was born with a birth defect and am in a wheelchair, and my wife has severe auto-immune issues and is legally blind. She is able to create art digitally by working on a tablet screen with her face only a few inches away. Her current laptop is on its last legs, is past its warranty, and fairly outdated besides. I’m trying to put together funds to get her a Lenovo Thinkpad – a tablet-screen laptop capable of heavy-duty processing for art software. The laptop is also her only real link to the outside world as her health issues have left her housebound since 1999. You can see a portfolio of her work at http://somnambule.deviantart.com/. Once she’s back up and running, she’ll be coloring my covers for my Image book.
The Impact
You will be, simply put, keeping my wife’s connection to the outside world alive, and helping her to once again create art as a healing process. We live below the poverty line, and there’s no way that I could buy her this laptop myself before the new year. I’d hoped to be able to wait until then, but her current laptop is dying, and it probably won’t make it.
I have several successful Kickstarters that helped me get my comic book deal, and a successful Indie Go Go campaign that helped me upgrade my own computer equipment last year and pay a few bills. I’m very transparent and keep in regular communication with my contributors, and have built a reputation for honesty.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/art-laptop-for-sylv
Good Morning Everybody!
ABC has listed: 11:30 am ET Special Live Coverage: 50th Anniversary of MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ – http://abcnews.go.com/live
Good morning, Friends!
Mooooooorning Bill, mooooorning everyone!
ok, this morning I have to gush about ORPHAN BLACK!!
It was in a word – FABULOUS!!
If you can watch it, please do. The young woman who plays the lead is absolutely a wonder to behold playing a new character pretty much every week, and doing all of them convincingly. She was totally robbed of an Emmy nomination.
Orphan Black had me from the first episode. You just want more and more of it.
Rikyrah, I’ve been hooked on this show since the 1st episode. The lead is fab — damn so many characters she carries off! I can’t wait for Season 2! I keep checking BBC America & I’m not sure when that starts. You can see Season 1 on demand at BBC Am.
Good Morning all – congrats on 1st rikyrah – and thank you Ms Chips for saving my sanity. I tuned in to MSNBC hoping to see the march & Chuckie T. had 3 minutes of the MLK Speech – followed by a great discussion on all the good things Bill Clinton is doing. I near lost it completely.
I shall now revive the calm by reading all the good news of TOD.
They complained because PBO did not get rid of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (signed into law by Clinton) fast enough or did not sufficiently replace the bank regulations that lead to the 2008 economic crash (which Clinton allowed to be taken away in the first place). Now they are breaking their necks heaping praise on Bill Clinton. It makes ZERO sense, then again racism never made sense to me. This yearning for a white President is sickening to behold. Where was this Bill Clinton fetish during the Bush years? Anyone claiming this is not racial is naive or dishonest.
Morning Chips, morning TODers. What a day, filled with history and emotions. I am glad to be alive at this time.
Morning Africa!
LIVE NOW: Interfaith Service Shiloh Baptist Church – MLK, Jr. 50th – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Dr. King’s daughter is speaking now.
Just listening – she is a delight
Perfect for today .!
I really enjoyed this. thanks for sharing.
Hello!!! The guide for the Temple of Comcast shows regular programming on MSNBC and CNN….. I don’t know if it’s just the guide that hasn’t been updated? Does anyone know where I can record the whole thing? ABC…..CSPAN….uuuhh….?
C-span says it is starting at 11am
What a blessed life.
INDEED!!!
Morning! It’s going to be an amazing day today:) Hope to see some video here from the day….as usual, I’ll miss everything. It’s a work day! Thinking of all out TOD family that will be there today and looking forward to their words on this day. Hugs all around
I will be missing it too. Gotta teach my new kids, have classes of 38 & 39 kids :(. I teach in a very Republican enclave in CA. It’s challenging as our board has money to hire more teachers to ease the load, but they won’t spend it. Sigh.
That WAY too many kids in a classroom! Don’t get me started on this so early in the morning:) I could have a full blown rant. Enjoy your second day at school, Betsy:)
Good Morning Chipsticks, TODers…Everyone!
Since I cannot be physically be there, I will have a virtual presence by coming to TOD for posts, comments, reflections, tweets, videos/pictures, etc. Thanks in advance to you Chipsticks and the Blog Tyrants, as well as bloggers for helping us to be a part of the spirit of all that will be taking place during this commemoration.
That’s strange, the bell-ringing is at 3:0, so they’re only allowing 15 minutes for the speech?
What a day! What a wonderful day! I am in the office but I will find a way to listen in. Good morning everyone!
Mooooooorning CTGirl!!!
Last night MSNBC advertised day long coverage of the celebration, with a full hour of MLK’s 1963 speech at 8 Eastern time, 7 Central time.
Joy Reid was on LOD last night. He asked her if she would be at the celebration today. She said, oh yes, I’ll be in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial……and the wonderful confluence of events that an AA president would be the one speaking on the steps of the Memorial commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march. It is positively spine-tingling.
I thought after she spoke……yes, that is why the racists are so angry. They cannot tolerate seeing part of the Dream come to pass. This is just too much for their pitiful, puny minds. I think this is thrilling…..and I also think this anniversary has reawakened the country to what still needs to be done. The President has been telling us this for four years, and people slept on. But, events of the last six months, particularly, have awakened people, and this commemoration will, I believe galvanize millions of people.
And in the midst of this commemoration/celebration the president still has to deal with Syria and all international situations! When I walked out of the bedroom this morning, my husband was sitting in his usual chair, and as I walked by he said “The really hard stuff always lands on the President’s desk doesn’t it. I would hate to have to make the decisions he does.” And I responded, yes, and have everyone jump on you and criticize you whatever you do. I know all of us on this blog hold him up in prayer and in our thoughts every day.
Good morning all. Looking forward to the events of the day.
What a great rise and shine! MLK’s Dream speech has always been one of my favorite, from its style to its substance. Have a great day everyone, enjoy it! Its a once in a lifetime event with PBO at the helm.
Thank you Kyle!!!
MLK-related story in the Des Moines Register (and Washington Post, but by a different reporter) about who now has the written pages of The Speech from 50 years ago. Apparently it is basketball coach George Raveling (used to coach at U of I, hence the “Iowa connection”). Interesting…
Here’s the link to the DSM Register (if you can get in):
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130828/NEWS/308280036/Former-U-of-I-coach-Raveling-says-he-has-copy-of-King-speech?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
Here’s the Washington Post story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/08/28/where-is-i-have-a-dream-speech-now-george-raveling-has-it/
Wow, that’s excellent. Morning Amk!
Morning bt. Says it all, doesn’t it? Brilliant toon.
WOW, this says it all. Thx, amk.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
Today is indeed a beautiful day and that is all that I will focus on today. No negative thoughts or words allowed.
Thank you Chipsticks for this is where I will follow MOW today 🙂
Moooooooooooorning GGail!!!!
Good West Coast morning, GGail and TODers.
Thanks to Chipsticks for this space.
Mooooooorning Meta, a complete pleasure, I get to spend the day with you!!
O, is that the greeting from the west today? Well then,…
Good West Coast morning, TODobots all (my last chance to use the expression as I’ll be ‘en route’ tomorrow this time. The sun is shining and all is well!
Hey, so glad to hear you’re enjoying our coast. Hope the weather has been nice for you.
If you like being cooked, it’s been great! …Kidding, it has been great, Meta, especially viewed from the comfort of an air-conditioned room. 😀 I confess though, that I’ve had to become more purposeful in keeping myself hydrated. Never thought I’d say this, but I’d recommend a touch of winter cool to you guys. In fact, Meta, you could come visit the north sometime in winter and I’d show you what I mean. 😉
VC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Morning you!
Morning, O Mayorial One! /bowing head briefly and slowly/ How goeth thou this fine/rainy morning?
All is highly fine VC, hoping it is with yourself too!
Well, in my city up north, it’s always pretty temperate, cool and perfect. I’ve been in NYC in -9 degrees and snow – fun in a weird certain way but not my cup of tea!
Excuse me here, Meta. Who says you should stick with tea? I vote for further experimentation. Stick your neck out and try a little milk, now and then. I feel sure our snow will be more welcoming; after all, since you do like the north, it will be more ‘northern’ than NYC’s
Plenty of syria war drums being beaten from both left & right. There are no easy options here for PBO. Would be interesting to watch how he moves the chess pieces.
It’s a nightmare, the whole damn thing. Cameron seems gung-ho about it all, like he’s lusting for a friggin’ war – God, I hate Tories. It’s an impossible situation, I’d love to see some kind of intervention to stop the horror, but the last thing on earth that’s needed is the west getting directly involved in another Middle Eastern country.
Yup. It’s shite if you got in, it’s shite if you stay out. I’d say hollande is worse than camie boy. Methinks it’s a distraction from their dismal track records in their home turf.
Ah, true. I remember in the innocence of my youth (last year) thinking lefty/socialist leaders didn’t like war very much …. then along came Blair. And now Hollande. In other words, everything I ever ‘knew’ was wrong.
Morning Amk. On this issue I like Smartypants ‘Past as Prologue’ take which she posted yesterday.
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We know that the content of the meetings the President has been having about Syria the last few days is different. But I expect that he will have demonstrated the same process…identifying the questions that clarify the goal and then demanding options that offer the best chance of reaching that goal. That’s the same process that was described when he made the decision to go after bin Laden.
As I’ve listened to the current debate about cruise missiles/no cruise missiles, I suspect we’re once again missing the point. The question we should be asking is “what is the goal in Syria and what are the options for reaching that goal?” That’s the discussion I’m sure the President has been having.’
http://www.immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2013/08/obama-on-syria-past-as-prologue.html
i agree VC
yes AMK…it will interesting indeed to see how PBO manuevers…i must say that i do Trust and have faith him…but i am fearful nonetheless of where this might lead us and the world
GM, Pf. I’m not fearful per se, as I do THINK, like SP, that the President will first set a specific goal, then step in to accomplish that goal before stepping back.
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President Obama has demonstrated that he does not simply shy away from the use of military force – much to the chagrin of many people on the left. What he has also demonstrated is that when he makes that call, it is often in support of giving the people of a country the opportunity to decide their own fate…and live with the consequences. We saw that in Libya where the goal of intervention was to stop a massacre of the Libyan people, not regime change. As Chait points out:
The argument for intervening in Libya was not that doing so would turn the country into a peaceful, Westernized democracy moving rapidly up the OECD rankings. It was that it would prevent an immediate, enormous massacre of civilians. Libya remains an ugly place; it would have been so regardless of whether NATO intervened. But the narrow, humanitarian goal that drove the U.S. to act was unambiguously accomplished without the larger dangers of mission creep that foes warned against.
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http://www.immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2013/08/president-obamas-pragmatic-foreign.html
Must Read from Bob Cesca this morning
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/08/50-years-after-the-march-new-enemies-of-racial-equality-have-mobilized-against-the-dream/
Remarkably, however, there’s a malicious conspiracy underway to roll back the mandates of those advancements, 50 years later.
A new generation of Jim Crow-inspired legislation includes measures with cute nicknames like “Papers Please,” a descendant of vagrancy laws requiring that anyone who’s stopped by police in Arizona produce documentation verifying citizenship. Another racially-charged law in New York City of all places, far from the backwoods and bayous of the South, is called “stop-and-frisk,” allowing police officers to profile and pat-down anyone who they judge to have possible criminal intent. Guess who’s stopped-and-frisked most often.
The great irony with stop-and-frisk is that the real criminals are the tailored, preening white guys in lower Manhattan who are actively thinking of new ways to circumvent the Securities & Exchange Commission in the name of fueling the wealth of other tailored, preening white guys who are actively polluting our environment; who are selling us poisonous food; and who are marketing in slave labor both overseas and in the Midwest, exploiting undocumented workers smuggled across the border from Mexico. Indeed, the people who really ought to be stopped-and-frisked, aren’t.
Meanwhile, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that Voter ID laws, like the legislation that was recently passed in North Carolina, are designed to do one thing and one thing alone: disenfranchise minorities in order to improve the electoral odds of the monochromatic Republican Party. How do we know this? They’ve confessed to it. Repeatedly. Thanks to conservatives on the Supreme Court, a wave of new Voter ID bills were rushed into law following the atrocious Holder v Shelby County decision.
Good morning TOD family. Wow, Chips what a beautiful way to start the morning. I also am very sad that today is a busy work day and I don’t know how much I will be able to watch. I do have the DVR set but it’s not the same as being here at TOD. I am so thankful for all of you leaving comments so I can live it later. Also have a meeting tonight so the day is gone for me. At least I will be able to check in on my phone.
Have a wonderful day everyone!!!!
Moooorning Marilyn, so sorry you’re caught up with work, but you can catch up with everything later. Have a great day!
Our beautiful and impressive College Kay!!
What a gorgeous photo!!
Inorite? I just wish it were BIGGER.
Here’s an enlarged version Meta, but it’s lost a lot of its sharpness:
Oooo, you’re a peach! A cheesy peach.
Ugh, a cheesy peach? Replace ‘each’ with ‘uff’ and we’re in business!!
errrrrr, puff!
Yaaaaaaaay, better!!!!!
Susan Page is disgusting.
She just said ” What a failure in communication ” that PBO has to ask Bill Clinton to ” explain ” the Healthcare Law.
I say… ” What a failure from the entire media “…..that should be challenging all the misinformation they allow from the Republicans.
What will Bill Clinton say that hasn’t already been said? Is it that when he says it, it somehow becomes clear as a bell…is the language being spoken one that only he can translate for the masses?
He talks white
He IS white. That is the point. The MSM has been peddling this tactic from the Karl Rove playbook for years (use your opponent’s greatest strength against him). So as a result we have a media pushing the narrative that PBO (a great and gifted orator) somehow cannot communicate his message to the American people. Left out of this nonsense is the fact that the MSM rarely shows more than a snippet of PBO’s speeches and have pundits lying about what he actually said spewing their nonsense once the speech is over. The MSM’s yearning for a white President is sickening to behold.
I agree. The failure is in the GOP’s decision to take a stand against something that would benefit so many. Ramesh read the MLK speech. He was moved by it and yet he is still a member of the GOP. That puzzles me.
Dog whistle. Just like I sat around a group of white and some Hispanic women say that the President doesn’t respond to things appropriately. Excuse me!!!!! All they see is color so they are listening with a diffferent ear. It’s just like when someone you don’t like says something and then someone you do like says the same thing.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO We Walk in Solidarity! Good Morinng TOD!
Thank you, MightyPamela. You are so faithful. (((((( Love you)))))HZ
{{{{{HZ}}}}}. I love you back!! 😉
It seems to me that the media is trying to put PBO in a near impossible position with his speech today. I’ve heard “he’s under tremendous pressure” and “the stakes have never been higher” etc., as if he was in some kind of contest with MLK to match or surpass his speech—–just so they can criticize afterward. I’m not going to pay any attention to those agenda-driven creeps. They have proven their opinions do not merit any respect or consideration. Their rabble-rousing has grown tiresome.
I too hope we don’t get to hear the nonsense from the pundtwits here. I would rather see posts about PBO’s speech – a la our great ut style – than angry retorts to the morons.
A-Men. Thank you, amk, hoping your voice is heard! There are so man more meaningful aspects to be followed and remarked on!
Yes, please! I don’t care what the whining MSM have to say. They cannot spoil our day to celebrate this historic progress.
AMEN. I don’t care one bit what Chuck Todd and his ilk have to say about anything.
And you know how it is Dotster, even if he delivered the greatest speech in history, the MSM would dismiss it as a pale imitation of MLK’s speech – in fact, they probably have the script written before they even hear it 🙄
Agree—-response script was written yesterday.
“What should he say ” bull, forget them is right. What a bunch of amazingly stupid people.
If he says everything everyone wants him to say, he’d be talking for 4 hours. People are expecting too much of him. As for the media, whatever he says, you can be sure that they will say Clinton’s speech was better. What ever the President says is what he should say. No one needs to be giving him advice.
Found this on Twitter, confess I haven’t read every word, but the just of it is hilarious!! http://noblekraken.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/a-guide-to-australian-politics-and-parties-for-non-australians-and-also-australians-too/
*jist
Good Morning my Chips and TOD family. This is a beautiful bright and gloriously hot day from the West Coast. However, my heart will ring with joyfulness to the bells from my patio, and my soul will be refreshed from the warmth of the lovely candles lit in my home to remind me of the light that each of us can carry to shine above all of the chatter of the people who will be messengers of naysaying. But we will look within to our beautiful resources of goodness of heart to help to display our prayers, thoughts and meditations on good things, and our hope for things to be renewed in our nation as we listen to our President, Barack H. Obama today.
I have only space for those things that are of goodness, loving, patient, kind, gentle in spirit, and honorable in truth toward our President and each other. I will not allow clouds of despair to shatter my hope today.
Lift up our President. Lift up the former presidents. Yes. We honor them as well. Lift up someone who is a fellow citizen who just need to hear a word of encouragement, hope, and feel the love that we here at TOD feel daily, thanks to our beautiful Chips and all of the beautiful contributors.
I will lift my voice in gratefulness for our President and VP today. I will lift up my voice in thankfulness for the sacrifice that our military families are making for me and all of you today.
I will lift my voice in joyful singing as our TOD family move in spaces that bring hope, love, and encouragement to our nation.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Hug someone today and say what you hope for our nation.))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) My loving brother woke me up very, very early this morning with a beautiful gospel song. I sent him a text back and thanked him and expressed how our spirits seem to be connected from the thread that runs from our loving mother, father, and grandparents. I am grateful to be alive and living in thi this nation with this president today. HZ
Beeeeeeautiful as ever HZ, endless love to you!!!
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You are the best. {{{{HZ}}}}
(((((((((((((TY, our beautiful meta.)))))))))))))) We Are One. We Will Enjoy This Day because of you and what you bring to this beautiful table today. HZ
Wonderful words to wake up to HZ!!!!!!! You have made my day already!!!! Love you so!
Don’t want to boast too much, but I’ve just been retweeted by @DripDropOneStop – ‘One Stop Plumbing set out to bring quality service at an affordable price”
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I’m so proud of you.
Thanks 57, if your plumbing is ever dripping or dropping let me know, I now have a friend who can fix it.
I’m so relieved.
Hello, our brilliant TOD family member, our brother, Amk. (((((((( Lots of strength to you, amk.))))))))))HZ
Thank you so much, Hz.
Good morning you lot. What a great day!
I have always loved their version of this song.
Good morning all. Thank goodness for this site, can’t wait to get home to review all . Btw, thank you for the written speech here. God bless.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/08/28/let-freedom-ring-part-1/
It started. Hil Harper is just simply fine! That’s all. 🙂