U.S. Senator Barack Obama re-enacts being sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 4, 2005. With him are his wife Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha.
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Senator Obama talks with his daughter Malia, 6, outside the U.S. Capitol after he was sworn in on January 4, 2005. Chicago Tribune photo by >> Pete Souza <<
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Sasha almost not shaking hands with Cheney? One of the very great moments!
The Obama Diary 
Sashaaaaaaaa is so adorable……
I love this family
Prettyfoooooooooot!
Ms Chipsssssssssss…smilin
🙂 ing right back at ya!
Wonderful! 🙂
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!
Katttttt…we tieddd…but I will take it….its fun!
Love these pictures.
They were so young with so much ahead of them and the commentary, in retrospect, shows just how smart and forward looking Dems were. They “were placing their hopes in him” and, Boy, did he deliver. We’re still placing our hopes in him and he keeps on exceeding all of our expectations.
^^^ THIS!
Love the pics and video 🙂 The girls have grown so much and little Sasha was as cute & spunky as ever 🙂 Congrats prettyfoot on #1!
Sasha 2026 starts now!! 🙂
No joke…
🙂
Hopefruittttttt…ty..
A journey to be admired and celebrated for sure.
This is totally unreal today. CNN leading story on their site is M. Harris apology today. They stated that high profile Republicans called for an apology; Sarah Palin and Scott Brown. They have a picture of Mitt and the 22 grandchildren, and talked about how MSNBC host are being fired for this kind of stuff. They pointed out that 2 of her guest were the individuals who poked fun at the kid, and MHP said that the boy was handsome, and asked; can you imagine if he married North West and the two families are related? This is overblown to the max-just saying.
For what they’re worth, I had just added my thoughts on the previous thread, after Chips posted this new one.
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Disclaimer: I have never met MHP personally, so I have no clue what she’s “really” like. Also, I respect both sides of this issue (from OUR side, since our side is the only one that allows discussion), because both sides we are discussing have merit.
I’ll add my take, if I may, and it’s convoluted. First, in hindsight, using a photo of a white family with one new black grandchild in it during a segment with comedians was asking for trouble (it wasn’t used as a “learning” experience, not with the comedic “give us a caption” concept) – and did show not even so much poor judgment as immature judgment. Second, crying on air during an apology on a TV show (or when you’re Speaker of the House) signifies immaturity. Third, just like when I was MHP’s age “back in the day” – and, let’s face it, even now – for women to cry “on the job” only adds credence to the old-timey remarks that women shouldn’t be in responsible positions because they can’t emotionally handle it.
That said, to think of all the hateful, dangerous, slimey, bigoted, disrespectful comments made about and directed at President Obama’s two children makes the fallout from this incident even more ridiculous. Also, I believe DURING MITT’S LIFETIME (no doubt he was brought up that way) African-Americans couldn’t fully participate in his Mormon Church, much less be adopted by white Mormons. I’m hoping their motives today were the right ones, and not something “political” or attention-getting (because I wouldn’t put the latter past any Romney).
Finally, I say anyone of prominence on our side who wishes to apologize for any of their words or deeds should go right ahead and do it, even if it’s just to save their jobs (and who hasn’t done that?). We’ll never know if MHP meant it or not, and I don’t care either way. I do know that if we don’t apologize because “the other side wouldn’t,” then we’re no better than the other side. And that last part’s REALLY being ridiculous!
Again, my convoluted take, only, but there ya go.
Jacquelineoboomer,
Your thoughts are true. This is Romney running for President again, and he is going to milk this for everything he thinks that it is worth. Old man McCain and out of touch Romney will never recover from their ____ whipping that they took from President Obama. So they will always seek attention and play the victims.
Make them go away. Please!!!!
Chips – This clip is so wonderful! I hadn’t seen it before. Thanks so much for sharing! (Kinda sorta wish that Sasha had “accidentally” stepped on Darth’s foot, but that’s just me.)
LOL! I actually thought you were going to say…accidently stepped on Darths’ heart!!!!
Ha! If he had one of his own.
🙂 I always laugh at my reaction to Sasha in that video Jacqueline, when I first saw it I was howling “DON’T SHAKE HANDS WITH HIM!!!”, and was sad when she did! Which is exactly how I react to PBO sometimes when he is being so mannerly and civil, when I want him to punch someone (usually the press). The moral of the story: the entire Obama family have waaaaaay more manners than I ever will!
She showed she had the manners … Cheney showed how he doesn’t react well under pressure! Any pressure!
My favorite was how happy and confident Sasha was to just sashay right up there!
When she turned and started waving I cracked up, she’s a hooooooot!
Needless to say, she’s a bit more reserved (“Oh, dad, please stop”) today!
I think it’s great that in both pictures everyone else is looking off to the side and Sasha is looking straight at the camera!
yah! just talking away to meself last thread. Geeze, huh? Posted this in answer to Bob’s awesome LGF find:
Huh, you guys I just went over to Linda’s site whatisworking.com and I get this “godaddy” site. Does anyone know if she took her site down?
Aaaaaaah….wonderful memories.
Darth Cheney; I look at you and laugh at how irrelevant you’ve become while the man you mock is respected all over the world.
Liberal Lore (@Britpoptarts) has tweeted out all kinds of fine #GOPcalendar entries … here’s one:
..that should say ‘little fetus baby Jesus’
Right!
Wow!! Nine years ago. Wow, just wow…
“One of the most shocking political developments of last year was the speed with which Southern, Republican-controlled states embraced voter identification laws after the Supreme Court overturned section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. To critics, including myself, this was an easy call: GOP lawmakers were taking advantage of a newly permissive policy environment to suppress minority voters, and African Americans in particular”.
Here is what happened in NC in 2013 by the Daily Show
College students are targets too—–trying to put up all kinds of obstacles and hoops to jump through so they can’t vote. Targeting all Dem constituencies.
yes….placing obstacles to vote for some members of the so-called Obama Coalition…
chips, don’t get swept away! Run for your life! Danny too! (or maybe you don’t live there?) Stunning photo tho.
wow. Hope their houses are OK
Chips this cracks me up. A child knows… 😉
Oh mine goodness. Not even in a DECADE…….Mr Obama has been a US senator and a 2 term POTUS with such great accomplishments.
It took FDR 4 terms and 3 terms as NY governor and a LOAD of political backing and Lots of money with HUGE Dem advantage in DC and 48 states then.
When the media, the rightie mega media echo chamber or the emoprogs say otherwise, they are LYING.
9yrs. Only Lincoln can claim better…….that my friends is over 150 yrs ago.
this made me chuckle
Bringing it ….
Yes We Can
You’ll like my upcoming piece, Bob.
I watched MHP’s apology, and I watched the segment in question. It was an unfortunate choice, and the format was indeed asking for trouble.
But, one apology was enough. The second one was sincere, for whatever reason, but that she had to do it smacked of some kind of ugly double standard, reverse racism, and it left me feeling queasy. Somehow, it reminded me of the scene in 12 YEARS A SLAVE when the young woman was beaten mercilessly by the man who used her, because his wife wanted retribution for HIS unfaithfulness.
When Sarah PALIN, Glenn Beck, Shawn HANNITY, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, Mark Halperin called the president a “dick” on national t.v., apologize for all the despicable, untrue, racist, and deplorable garbage that they spew daily, then I will be able to see equivalence.
Not one of those people have lost their jobs, nor will they. And frankly, it pisses me off.
I am sick to death of these people and so many others saying things, ( even suggesting the assassination of PBO(!) as recently as two days ago)
And getting away with it. They can say anything to the president, about the president, his family, black people, young black men, poor people, Hispanics, gay people, and women and get away with it over and over again.
I am sorry that MARTIN and Melissa made the errors they did, but lose their jobs over it? Why? So that the folks who live in right-wing America don ‘t get their feelings hurt?
All those people I named,and many others,insult and hurt the feelings of the groups above, nearly every single day! They pay no price, show no contrition, and never, ever apologize. It’s sickening and humiliating to have to hear the crap they spew, and then have to watch Melissa and MARTIN grovel at the feet of their masters. I am, personally, offended by the things they say. Because I know that whatever they feel about the president, his family, and all the others they disparage, they also feel about me. MARTIN almost got it right, but it is people like these who defecate in our faces and we have to stand there and smell the stink. That’s how it feels, and I hate it.
We are living in a night-mare which is over two hundred years old. I despair that it will ever end.
I share your pain at the injustice and horror. Sometimes it’s hard to see a happy ending.
My hope is that the more evident the inequity becomes, the greater are our chances to defeat it.
PBO is going to highlight which legislators want to extend UI.
There will be a spotlight on who wants to raise minimum wage and who doesn’t.
Who wants compassionate immigration laws and who doesn’t.
Which party wants sensible gun regualtion and which party doesn’t.
Which party is plotting to take away rights and which party is defending them
And so on……
Good time to remember the arc of the moral universe.
I am trying to remember, but it gets really hard. I feel like I’m living in the fifties and sixties again. At 67, my time is short. I thought the world would be better for my sons and grandson. I am pretty screwed up over all this.
Eveingeorgia,
As an African American, I can’t tell you the number of times that I have felt hurt from how the mainstream has treated our First Family. I can’t tell you the number of times I have been offended by the way this President has been treated. It hurts, and the mainstream gets a way with it. I grew up in Georgia and I was exposed to racism at the core of what hate means. I was called N______ almost daily and humiliated in ways that I could write a book on. This bothers me so much because these people encourage hate because they have a platform, a national platform. The guy on CNN a few minutes a go stated that MHP should be punished, taken off air for a while or fired. In the same breath he said; he defended Duck Dynasty Phil Robinson because he is a Christian and loves the bible.
He shouted to the hills that MHP is mocking white families for adopting a black child; she hurt the Romney family and she should be punished. MSNBC should never have paraded her on TV like this because this is a storm in the making. FOX will blow it up to a new level tomorrow and these are the same morons who allow people to call President Obama every name in the book. MSNBC is sickening and disgusting. They are catering to Joe Morning Joke and the right wing. It’s okay that Trump can parade around on MSNBC as though he owns it, talking about the President wasn’t born here in America, and that is okay, now the cry; fire MHP or at least punish her because she talked about this white family and hurt them. Does anyone not believe that President Obama has been hurt? He works tirelessly for all the people and they do nothing but call him names and try to destroy him.
CNN is saying that the apology wasn’t sincere and that she was forced to do it to save her job. I suspect that it is a matter of time before she is gone.
She is Not going to be fired. MSNBC can’t afford to fire a 3rd person in less than 6 weeks……especially with their ratings where they are today. If she leaves, she does on her own…….pushed due to pressure from some on the left mocking and jeering and from those on the right wanting a pound of flesh.
Nena,
The way MSNBC is going, nothing would surprise me. I can see them pushing her out and asking for Joy to come in to quiet the noise. MSNBC use to be the only cable news I would watch and now they are as bad as the rest. Keith Oberman was my favorite, although, he was way out in the park sometimes. Now it has been the Rev., Maddow and Lawrence. It was real good to see Maddow take a stand against the Kocki boys (Koch brothers), she stood tall and challenged them to come on her show to defend themselves with no interruptions, must say, it was awesome. I have a feeling that they are having a talk with the Rev. and he is probably being warned because he definitely calls the right wing out.
When I see persons of color greet the President and he them I see the love course through the brief interchange. Its like a bright light shining out, a mutual glow of respect and recognition. I want to reinforce that with my own spirit, though I am watching from afar because that is the kind of humble admiration, deep trust, respect and gratitude I hold for the President.
I agree with you on this.
I don’t watch any cable “news” show anymore. I very rarely even watch the local news, but I’m not going to be distracted from the Senate taking up extending unemployment benefits when they get back on Monday.
Cyndi, see that is what I am talking about. Who the heck is BEN Fergusen, and why does anybody care what he says? If Mitt Romney gets on television and plays the ” oh so offended father” then I will be totally through. After I throw up, that is.
“If you want to know what makes right wingers afraid and many leftists suck their teeth about President Obama, this is it. Both sides of that coin panic at the thought of letting go of their belief in the inherent evil of those with whom they disagree”.
Here’s the TRMS segment on the KOCH brothers……she will NOT read their script.
Ben Ferguson on CNN is pushing for MHP to be fired or take a leave of absence. He is saying that she needs to be punished because she picked on a “white family” who adopted a black child. He says that MHP loved hurting the Romney family and laughed at the child with her friends on air. This guy supports Phil Robinson and said that Robinson believes in the bible and Robinson situation is different. Ben is promoting that MHP said that a black child should not be adopted by a white family, this is a lie. He said that she brought out the picture to show that a white family should not adopt a black child. This guy is dirt and says MHP should be punished. I don’t think she is going to have a job for long. This man loves Robinson and says MHP is mocking whites for adopting black babies. Unbelievable where this is going. Next target, Reverend Al S.
click off
I’ve never even heard of Ben Ferguson. Problem with these kinds of stories on CNN and FOX is that the people watching BELIEVE them, having not seen the MHP show themselves. Disgusting that CNN and FOX and the rest of the media give them the platform to lie.
Yes jacquelineoboomer,
I had never heard of him, he is a strategist of some kind-Repuke. He was loud and obnoxious about the whole thing. The loud noise that he focused on; she (MHP) made fun of a white family adopting a black child, he repeatedly echoed this statement, while praising Phil Robinson.
Sounds as though I haven’t missed much!
He is a radio talk show host. He started his gig as a teenager.
No wonder he was so loud…..thanks Nena20409
What age is he now – 14? (Yuck.)
The MHP thing is being blown way out of proportion. She should move on and stop letting people create mountains out of nothing. I too am tired of the hypocrites feigning outrage when they themselves are bigots with nothing but hatred in their hearts. Move on MHP.
Ditto——-and there’s this…
This says it all!
Wonder if the Mittster will be asked about that on FOX tomorrow—-hahahahaha.
Great find Dotster!
I won’t know, unless I read it here! Plan to sleep in and miss it!
You got it, jacquelineoboomer. HZ
This! This!
Dotster3 THANK YOU for this!
I knew a distraction was put forth for something and have felt that it is because President Obama will speak on Tuesday about the 1.3 million families who have lost the UE benefits. This says it all.
Thank you for exposing “black baby gate” for what it is.
Sasha: “No, nope, mister bad guy, I don’t wanna shake your hand. But I I will because I know I’m supposed to be nice to everybody.”
When those on the left defend the rights of those at MHP show to have free speech then I know that lefties have come back as they were originally.
MHP has apologizes. Not the right want her fired.
Hilary Rosen was skinned alive for 6 weeks. Now MHP has a show and wins in the 18-24 yrs demographics. This is what it is all about. Keep TV hosts with left leaning views muffled.
Congress comes back next week. The distraction machine have started again. This is once again for the media to chase their tails instead of focusing on the 1.3M who lost their UI or reporting on ACA great stories or reporting on US economy getting better under the tutelage of pres Obama.
hey here’s some good news:
Mitt Romney is being sued in Federal Court on RICO charges. The unfortunate remark by MHP must seem like a great gift. Here everybody look over here.
Vicki,
Everyone should tweet FOX and ask them to please ask Mitt about the Rico charges.
Perhaps. Our court system is long and slow. The MHP segment was about end of the year Not a planned event. The issue is to make the lying bishop and his family likable and more sympathetic. Just like what the media does these days with GW Bush and with John Boehner. The media bend over backwards reporting of these two failures.
THANK YOU BOB!
You are always on top of things. I must find your discipline and stop watching the cable fake news.
I thank you also Bobfr. I knew of the case and as much figured that Mitt friends in the MSM would be trying to find something to move the eyes in another direction.
Bobfr, you are such a brilliant blessing to this wonderful TOD family. Your quickness and brilliant tweets are so appreciated by all of us. TY so much,HZ
K. Your moment of Happy:
O.M.G. Tooooooooooo cute!!!
Chipsticks,
This puppy is really happy. Does Danny act like this? Danny seems to have such joy about all of his adventures. Are you guys in snow?
Ooooh..I could just grab him/her from that gif and take him/her home!! 🙂
Ok all, new posting goodness: http://theobamadiary.com/2014/01/04/maddow-to-kochs-drop-dead/
This is great!