President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the memorial for victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting at the Marine Barracks, September 22
22
Sep
13
152 Responses to “‘I’ll be there’”
Comments are currently closed.
Obama White House.gov
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
WH Tumblr
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
The People’s View
- Follow me at my new venture: Reclaim the Fight
- Ignore the bait: Why itâs the right strategy for Democrats to focus SCOTUS fight on health care
- BIG: Judge halts Trump administration attempt to shortcut the census
- Trump doesn't want peaceful transition of power. Legally, it doesnât matter.
- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul
- Rule 44: Why Obamacare is not lost even in a deadlocked Supreme Court, but only if Biden wins
- Time to suit up. This is war.
- BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed
- Bothsidesism comes to fact-checking: CNN's âfact-checkâ calling Biden ad 'misleading' proves the opposite
- Pardon me: How Donald Trump's stooges conspired with Julian Assange to exonerate Russia and undermine US Intlligence
Smartypants
- Durham to Right Wingers: "Blame Hillary"
- That Time When Refusing to Negotiate With Hostage-Takers Worked
- The Other Christian Nationalists: Leonard Leo and Opus Dei
- Hawley Demonstrates That He's an Ignorant Liar
- DeSantis Board Votes to Counter-Sue Disney Over Something...Anything
- Hunter Biden's Laptop Is a Total Nothingburger
- What DeSantis Couldn't Say in Response to Disney's Lawsuit
- Disney Skewers DeSantis With His Own Words
- Populism Without Civil Rights Is Fascism
- Glenn Greenwald gets triggered by smart competent women like Rep. Stacey Plaskett
Steve Benen
- Joe: The Judicial Branch didn't mindlessly follow Trump on Jan. 6 rioters
- Vets from different wars bond over fly-fishing in 'Mending the Line'
- Outlines of a deal in Washington are starting to emerge
- Joe: We are grateful for the men and women who serve across the globe
- The sage example of Timothy Keller
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: The accountability of law is holding up
- 'Real-world impacts' of debt stalemate will only get worse as we near deadline, says Treasury
- 'Party of One' looks at the life and political rise of Xi Jinping
- CPAC treasurer resigns citing financial mismanagement
- Training seeks to ease mental health crisis among first responders
The Obama Diary 
WIth you all .
Hey MightyP.
Hey Chipsticks.
And we’re with you. Congrats on #1, MP!
GE Chips, TOD. Thanks for the comprehensive post on today’s memorial.
Hiya LP.
Hello there! ……..in a little shock Kerry Washington just got robbed đŚ
Who won lovelyplains?
Claire Danes… Homeland… for the 3rd time, and Jessie Pinkman from Breaking Bad, got robbed too. By a guy that was killed off in Boardwalk Empire.
Emmys?
Yes, Betsy. Bears game is at halftime, and I’m tired of writing my stupid paper đ
Ha, I’m not watching LP, but I saw my Twitter TL erupt!!
Rightfully so in my opinion! Jeff Daniels won for Newsroom, beat Kevin Spacey(House of Cards) & Cranston from (Breaking Bad)….. these Emmy’s have been really weird. The “Voice” won best reality show…… the first time “The Amazing Race” has lost in like 10yrs.
I don’t watch the Oscars,, the Emmys, or any shows like that because who I think should win doesn’t, so I just don’t watch them.
I’m with you, Annie. I end up throwing things at my TV.
Much deserved win IMHO.
This is the first year I didn’t watch in eons and someone I thought should win finally wins!
Such sadness. When will we say, ENOUGH?
We need to keep saying it every day to our Congress critters that they must act in the best interests of public safety. The gun nuts as well as the NRA lobby them mercilessly, so we must rise up and make our moral argument louder and stronger than them. I don’t ever want to see such sadness on POTUS’ and FLOTUS’ faces again. They have borne this grief publicly for us too many times already.
I know. I hate to say this but if meeting with the parents do of Sandy Hook couldn’t do it, it sure is an uphill climb. We desperately need every Democrat to come out and VOTE in 2014 and get the gavel back to Nancy Pelosi!
Congrats on 1st Pamela!!!
Thank you, once again, Chips!!!
BTW, when the Fox clowns start challenging #teabagger Cruz you know the “GOP Establishment” is totally freaking out over any notion of a government shutdown or default.
#TrustBarack or get out of Dodge
Incredible, isn’t it?
Something to smile about tonightâŚâŚ the warmth and generosity of our wonderful President.
What time will POTUS and FLOTUS be heading to New York tomorrow?
11:25 AM THE PRESIDENT and FIRST LADY depart the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
Thanks Chipsticks.
President Obama has now addressed the seventh mass shooting of his presidency, and we certainly heard the weariness in his voice Monday as spoke about the massacre at the Washington Navy Yard: âItâs a shooting that targeted our military and civilian personnel. These are men and women who were going to work, doing their job, protecting all of us. Theyâre patriots, and they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they faced the unimaginable violence that they wouldnât have expected here at home.â
Sen. Morse and I started the 2013 legislative session amid a constituent outcry to curb gun violence in our communities. The movie theater shooting in Aurora last summer and the Newtown massacre in Connecticut had brought guns to the forefront of our agenda. We passed laws that extended our stateâs background-check system to include private sales, to keep guns out of the hands of criminals; limited ammunition magazines to 15 rounds; and made sure that domestic abusers arenât allowed to buy or keep guns.
Each of these laws is already making Colorado safer. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, 28 criminals have been denied a firearm through a private sale in the first eight weeks of the expanded background-check law. Thatâs more than four criminals a week, when we know all too well that it takes only one person with a weapon to shatter a life, a family, a community.
I can actually feel the hurt that is showing on FLOTUS face as she looks at her husband.
This must stop!
FLOTUS knows him, and she know how this truly affects him. It isn’t any show for the camera , POTUS is truly concern.
Yes, that expression on Michelle’s face just seared me. She is worried about him and what he carries. She knows how he cares, and how he is hurting for the families and the country. We need to continue to keep her in our circle of concern and prayers as she sustains him.
And POTUS would love to do something about these mass shootings. I remember FLOTUS talking about how she and the girls can make POTUS smile. Probably right when he need it the most.
Anniebella and Carolyn, you both read those expressions from POB’s and FLOTUS faces right on point. He is strong and she is strong; but these shooting situations are very heavy on him because he knows that Congress is just doing thinking that will wear him down; but trust me when it seems the darkest, there are so many people who are right at this moment on bending knees praying for POB. Many who are very close to him know for sure how strong POB is; however they also know that he is human. This really hurts him because it is so cowardly done and Congress can change things, but because of the hate that they have on him, that hate affects others; and that really hurts POB.
We will just have to stand steady with him and really do all that we can to lift him up in our prayers. Also, POB has many things that we do not even know about. But not to worry, just keep praying for our president and FLOTUS. I sometimes just spend long times in my music room/library/prayer room and just cry out in supplication on his behalf. That will count a lot for his space. Let us keep doing whatever we personally feel we can do in that spiritual realm to keep his space as peaceful as possible.
But know this for sure; he Will be Fine. He Will get through all of this. He Will. Trust me on this one.
Everyone have a great evening and thanks so much Chips, our beautiful soul for the beautiful haven here and all of the support you give to President Barack Obama. Things will get rugged before they get smooth; but they will smooth out. President Obama has faith, and Lord knows he is working as hard as he can. We Will Get There Together as our TOD family always does. (((((Good night everyone)))))))HZ
Has anyone heard of another shooting in Michigan??
Yes—–3 dead, 4 wounded in Muskegon, Mi.—-outside of an Elks Lodge last night.
I’ll never stop ….
Yes We Can
Thank you, Bob. That’s what a warrior does and it’s what our president shows us every day. Never give in and never give up. We are on the side of humanity, decency and the true ‘right’ to life that every living person deserves. That’s why we can’t ever surrender to the darkness of ignorance, greed and madness.
“We are on the side of humanity, decency and the true ârightâ to life that every living person deserves.”
Yes we are, Jackie. Thank you!
#FORWARD Together
Thank you, Bobfr for your faithfulness. HZ
You are such a profoundly kind person, HZ. Thank you.
Thanks Bob! You always propose sensible solutions. I wish members of Congress, and members of state legislatures, would seriously consider them. I strongly support the concept of liability insurance for all gun owners. I also support holding accountable “gun/ammo manufacturers & sellers” for manufacturing and selling products which are exclusively intended to kill. In addition, I think that at least 30 days should be the minimum time required to conduct a thorough background check, to find out the mental health status and records of prior criminal convictions, for any individual trying to purchase a gun. After all the right wingers have no qualms legislating all sorts of restrictions and checks before some one can be allowed to vote. So why the objections about trying to make sure that guns don’t fall in the wrong hands?
“After all the right wingers have no qualms legislating all sorts of restrictions and checks before some one can be allowed to vote. So why the objections about trying to make sure that guns donât fall in the wrong hands?”
We both know, nath, that any form of logic to ideologues is pointless.
Can’t thank you enough for your kind encouragement.
We Will Prevail.
Yes We Can
Morning, Nathk! Hope your Monday is going well.
As Bobfr notes below, these guys/gals don’t deal in logic, but maybe your question may appeal to one more logical voter out there.
Colbert finally getting some deserved love—-2nd emmy—-that I’ve noticed anyway—-checking during breaks in Bears game.
Colbert deserves it.
Colbert won twice over Stewart so good for him. Talent over mediocrity.
Kerry Washington got robbed big time.
These awards shows have got to get some color. It’s 2013 and the viewing public is not 99.9% white as what I’ve seen tonight. It’s way more diverse.
“These awards shows have got to get some color. Itâs 2013 and the viewing public is not 99.9% white as what Iâve seen tonight. Itâs way more diverse.”
This is exactly the reason I stopped watching these award shows years ago. Hollywood isn’t as liberal as they’d like you to believe.
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/the-house-republicans-ghoulish-defunding-rally/
There was something ghoulish about the rally that House Republicans held today in the Rayburn Room after they voted to defund health care reform. The party atmosphere was so boisterous, the cheers and laughter so loud, that it was easy to forget everyone in the room had just voted to keep tens of millions of people from getting health insurance.
By keeping spending at its current levels through mid-December, they had also voted to continue the sequester, which is preventing millions of people from getting public housing subsidies, Head Start seats, and unemployment benefits. The sequester is also taking a serious toll on scientific research and investment in infrastructure, not to mention its infuriating drag on employment and the economic recovery. How about another round of applause?
This shouldnât come as a surprise, of course, from a House that had voted the previous day to cut food stamps for 3.8 million low-income people, including many very young and very old recipients. But at least they didnât have a party to celebrate that vote.
Today, though, everyone was in a great mood.
âWhen we acted, it wasnât just a group of Republicans, but it was a bipartisan vote,â said Kevin McCarthy, the Majority Whip. (O.K., fine. Two Democrats voted for it, and 188 voted against.) âLet me state that again because I want to make sure you write it correctly. [Huge laughter.] It was a bipartisan vote because weâre Americans first! [Cheers, applause.]â
These are sick, despicable creatures. HOUSE/SENATE 2014!!!!
DF, these are vile, very, very, very, very, Evil people. They are haters , but there will be a time when their laughter will turn gravel in their stomachs because of the evil acts that they are doing to so many helpless people. And these Congress persons always want to quote some scriptures. Their day will come when there will be no grace for them. HZ
This a-hole must be kidding. Isn’t he the one who called the President the “d—” word?
Their skins are so thin. Telling the truth is “negative” to them. Attacking the President (this President) is fair game. Confronting their lies and biases is attacking them. They are a joke.
You nailed it. The schoolyard bullies who run away when you confront them. They quiver and shake. I think I heard one of ’em call for his “Mommy” the other day.
On the flip side, they spout negatively 24/7 about the President, as you said, and he just gets STRONGER. I’m standing with the President, because he even gives me strength to keep going!
You made me chuckle with this one. I stand with the President, too – on the right side of history.
I know you do! đ
đ
” Attacking the President (this President) is fair game. Confronting their lies and biases is attacking them. They are a joke.”
Very well said, Theo! This is exactly what we are facing with respect to the so called mainstream media (MSM). They want unlimited freedom to use any lies, hype, exaggerations, and spin, to attack President Obama. But pointing out their unethical attacks on the president is interfering with Freedom of the Press. I am so delighted that TOD twitter Warriors, like JOBoomr, have been relentless in exposing the hypocrisy and the unethical behavior of members of the MSM. It’s so funny to read that Chuckie Todd wants his remarks put into context despite the fact that he routinely attacks the President, using GOP talking points, or using some of the President’s remarks completely spin out of context. to make the President look bad.
JOB, this comes from a guy who called The President of the U.S. a fowl name and still has a job? Still has health insurance. Not on food stamps. Probably lives in a gated community or a secured building.
How about you go to hell with the GOP?
I think he and the GOP are already in their own version of hell on earth. They just don’t know how shallow and awful and unfulfilled their lives are. I just want them to stay behind their gates and count their “hush” money (for keeping quiet about the truth) and leave the rest of us the hell alone!
So true….
THIS!!!
Yep – Halperin IS that creep. I cancelled my Time subscription right after he said that, and every time they send me another offer, I mail it back saying not until they get get of him. I can more incisive political analysis here at TOD than Time Mag every day!
Good for you! There’s something so liberating about sending back the solicitations with “a little personal note,” isn’t there?
I called them and told them why and who was causing me to cancelled my subscription when it happened. They got an ear full. I did not leave anything thing unturned. They got it.HZ
Love it! Let ’em have it, HZ!
Way to go Judith!
This from the man who call PBO a D***….yeahhh
Yes, that tortured soul. He needs to go away, just like Chuck Todd and some others. A whole lot of others!
Great toon that I can’t get off here:) Oh, and Paul Ryan is evidently writing a book on company time ( YOUR DIME!) Best comment from that on the thread:
missliberties ⢠14 minutes ago â
Ryans book will be the story of how to put the lazy people back t’werk. Because twerking is kool.
LOL:)
They are unbelievable! They spend their days calling other people “takers”, while they collect their paychecks from Congress after doing nothing – and Ryan specifically feasts off the government contracts that have kept his family business going for decades. Unbelievable!
Millions and millions worth!
Da Bears are making Yardarm very happy. My daughter says, “Don’t gloat mom.” Moi???
DA BEARS!
Yay!!!
Looookinnnn’ goooooood! đ
Hadn’t heard the petition was up this high:
Good way to support the U.S. Postal Service:
will be buying this stamp
Thanks Jacqueline. I will definitely buy some. I love your reminders.
Thanks, COS. Very important to “save” the Post Office from the actions of Republican dawgs!
Thanks JOB for sharing the Info. I will be at the post office tomorrow to buy this stamp.
I’m hoping it’ll be sold online, today, because that’s how I order from the post office!
I’ve got to call it a night….have the rest of my oral surgery in the morning. I’m anxious and just wanting to get it over with at the same time. 2 1/2 hours with my mouth wide open and not able to talk…sheer torture to me:) Then my back starts killing me…..I never did think that dentist chairs were all that comfortable to begin with…..
Anyway, I’ll see you all over coffee bright and early! Night all. Sleep tight.
Just think that 2.5 hours after they start, it’ll all be finished. This time tomorrow night, the whole ordeal will be behind you! đ
Hang in there, df. I hope the meds keep you comfortable during the surgery and all goes well.
Dear df, hope it will goes as well as possible and the outcome will mean you don’t have to endure anything like it again.
Good night all. Be Bless.
Nite, Df. ((((((((((((( Lots of hugs for tomorrow, my special angel))))))))))))))HZ
Ha Ha Ha. First, Bob, I thought you were callin’ amk a “condescending, pathetic pimp,” but then I realized your target was Markie, and I laughed and laughed. Every day is but another day to call out these fools.
Night everyone. Thank you, May God Bless you. And may He keep President and Mrs. Obama close in His Heart for Eternity.
LOL! đ
What, he’s not already doing this?
The answer is to tune in out in massive enough numbers that even his bosses get the message. Make him the most hated, least watch “pundit” on tv.
đ
time for some rest …
#TrustBarack or get out of Dodge
Time to start a new #hashtag on Twitter
I like that hashtag
âWhy Barack Obama looks so exhaustedâ
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/why-barack-obama-looks-so-exhausted-97191.html
—-
Barack Obama looks exhausted these days. He looks about as tired, in other words, as the nation feelsâŚhe said that people are always telling him to âhang in there.â âDonât worry about me!â Obama said. âI am still fired up, because I still see the work that needs to be done!â
âŚin the worldâs greatest democracy, our national government is so broken that it cannot act to save the lives of its citizens from mass slaughter. And the president admits it.
I do not blame the president. I do not blame the nation. Nor will I say âthe systemâ is to blame. The system is not to blame. The scorpions are to blame.
There are scorpions among us. They sit in Congress, committed not to solving problems, but blocking solutionsâŚThey would take the food out of the mouths of children. They would put the insurance companies back in charge of health care. They would shut the government down, refuse to pay the nationâs bills, destroy the trust that other countries place in us when they buy our bonds, they would do all this rather than give President Obama the slimmest of political victories.
They donât have real alternate plans to help people. They werenât, they believe, elected to help people. They were elected, they believe, to keep the other side from helping people.
This is an excellent analysis, SW, and I’m glad that the article singles out the source of our national problems–the scorpions. I would add that the goal of the scorpions is also to wear the president out and then to discourage all of us from ever again voting for someone like him who seeks to change this country for the better. Well, they are in for a big surprise. The president may be aging, but I believe he has infinite sources of strength–from his faith, from his own internal convictions, from his beautiful wife and daughters and from the certain knowledge that all of us love him. It isn’t some mysterious “other” that is going to save the US at this point. It’s us, working together to get every single one of the nasty scorpions out of the Congress and out of our state houses.
” The president may be aging, but I believe he has infinite sources of strength…”
I agree. Listening to him speak at the memorial on yesterday, I had a sense that the President was fed up and will not hesitate to call people/groups out. But all the craziness, the deliberate acts of sabotage, the constant obstruction, the attacks on his character, etc., wear on a person; a lesser person would have given up in defeat.
The scorpions definitely need to be swept out.
BTW JackieG…if I remember correctly today is your son’s birthday. Birthday wishes to him and hopes that he has a marvelous day.
The comments screaming that the unemployed/poor should not get any assistance just prove the truth of Roger’s words
“Unlike some, I donât fear a shutdown of our national government. I fear a shutdown of our national conscience.”
Direct Link: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_banned_sff.asp
Direct link to list of banned sci-fi & fantasy books:
https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_banned_sff.asp
https://twitter.com/BlazePhoenix_/status/381844656230658048
Let’s get rid of them in 2014.
#Yes, We Can!
Pat Toomey started stammering when Sam Stein reminded him that their budget maintains the savings from Obamacare.
đ
Me, too!
Them, being the scorpions that have infested our country with their greed, hypocrisy, lies, hate, racism, sexism, evil, blood suckers, news stainers, NRA, GOP, funded by the KKKoch bros.
I hate starting a beautiful day like this. But I am so angry that families are still suffering because that lazy do nothing Congress does nothing about it. Spent most of the night tossing and turning.
“Tears are not enough” says our President. He is so right. I am all cried out from growing up under the Jim Crow laws down south.
Prayer and hope is all I have left for the new Jim Crow laws under the disguised of the name Congress.
My prayer is for the safety of our POTUS and FLOTUS while in NYC today and always……
LIVE NOW: Mall Stand-off – Nairobi, Kenya – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Thank you, Ms. Dudette. Good morning.
All I can say is….hmmmmmmmm.
Makes you wonder sometimes.
Good Morning LDS. đ
Peter King is talking about Omar Hammani…the American that went to Somalia to fight but was killed over an internal dispute while talking about American Somali’s being radicalized here.
Hammani is of Syrian discent, not Somali……
…..but the guy is black, so there.
Don, you took the words right out of my mouth.
When we all learn to accept and appreciate where civilization started, this race thing will be moot.
There will be NO color in heaven. It’s Spiritual, y’all.
Hammani was the subject of a documentary titled ” The Jihadist Next Door ” . I saw it on Current TV’s Vanguard Series….
Gotta know about the lies so we can fight them…
From USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/09/23/obama-united-nations-iran/2853233/
“…Obama’s first meeting Monday is with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria. The two leaders will discuss efforts “to advance transparent, democratic governance, expand trade and development, improve security, and create opportunities for youth and entrepreneurs,” says the White House schedule.
Later, Obama will host a reception for heads of state, and what the White House calls “representatives of civil society, multilateral organizations, and private foundations.”
The group will “explore ways to protect the critical role civil society plays from growing restrictions in a number of countries around the world,” the schedule says.
In the evening, Obama will meet employees with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
The day ends with the president and first lady Michelle Obama hosting a United Nations General Assembly reception.”
Busy day! Somewhere in there he might squeeze in a meeting with Iran President Hasan Rouhani. đ
I just love how our President keeps on keeping on. He is truly divinely equipped for this job. after yesterday, I would have wanted to stay under the covers or run off to my “Dude Ranch” to hide.
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has banned the Muslim Brotherhood group and ordered its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Egypt state TV said the court issued its ruling on Monday.
The Brotherhood was outlawed for most of its 85 years in existence. But after the 2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, it was allowed to work openly, formed a political party and rose to power in a string of post-Mubarak elections. In March, it registered as a recognized non-governmental organization.
The ruling, which can be appealed, opens door for authorities to track down the group’s elaborate network of social services, dealing a deadly blow to its pillars of grass-root support.
Hello everyone, just checking in…. Ms Chips, thank you so very much for the incredible, heart-wrenching coverage of the Navy Yard memorial. All I could do was get a box of Kleenex, and wipe my nose and laptop keyboard from time to time. Heartbreaking, and all so unnecessary…… if we only had a Congress made up of people with souls. Thank you (and all wonderful blog tyrants!) for all you do!
How VA is Making Progress in Reducing the Benefits Backlog
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2013/09/how-va-reducing-benefits-backlog/70602/?or
NBC Today instilling fear—–had a report re. possibility of Americans among the Somali attackers which prompted them to ask about the strong possibility that this same kind of terrorism could happen at a mall in the U.S.—–saying they’re all vulnerable with numerous entrances and exits. Control thru fear.
CNN is doing the same thing…..
BBC story about zizi’s mentor
For Zizi
The Light from his Soul shines through his eyes, beautiful man.
Oh my goodness. Rest in peace, poet.
What a peaceful aurora. Soul is at peace.
The kind of man we should all try to remember in our own lives, even if we never met him.
Latest: Nairobi Westgate attack: ‘Assault begins’ to break siege
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24206913
Riiiiiiise and Shiiiiiiine!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/23/rise-and-shine-621/