Doug Mills: Obama gets a fist pump as he pays for his lunch during a surprise visit to Franklin Barbecue in Texas #obamaaustin
Doug Mills: President Obama gestures as he arrives to make remarks at the The Paramount Theatre, Austin TX #longhorns #ObamaTX
President Barack Obama meets with Kinsey Button at Magnolia Cafe in Austin, Texas. Kinsey, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote the President a letter in January explaining her family’s struggle to lead a middle class life when both of her parents lost their jobs in the wake of the Great Recession
President Barack Obama waves prior to boarding Air Force One before his departure from Austin, Texas
President Barack Obama jokes with patrons as he orders barbecue for himself and the people in the front of the line at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas. At right is Kinsey Button, who introduced the President in his speech earlier that afternoon
Dan Pfeiffer, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, and traveling aide Bobby Schmuck carry President Obama’s order from Franklin Barbecue onto Air Force One
President Barack Obama fist bumps the cashier after paying for his order at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas
The Obama Diary 
Hi. Bye.
Short. Sweet? Night Mister!
Thanks a trabillion Nerdy for the goooooorgeous photos!
I was pondering an evil genius way to mess w/ AMK…… my solution bring back the Blue Stars for a few hours for the sole purpose of getting everyone at TOD to ‘Like’ all his comments from previous threads & so when he wakes up he has like a 1000 emails/notifications to dig through?
*You* are an evil genius LP!!!!!!!! 😆
I’m proud of myself for coming up w/ that one
You can be proud, but you shure are wrong. I am effing evul.
Now that we have exposed your military tactics……our next move will be done via DM……stay frosty my friend!
sf. gn lp.
GN
way ahead of you. disabled the notification the moment I recd the first like. ha ha.
…..sneaky S.O.B. still lurking!!!
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
ha. ha.
Hahahaha!
He got you LP! 😀
Thanks, Chips.
Yeah
Tied with Amk, Japa. You poor thing.
I prefer to think of it as showing a kindness to one much in need of it. My charitable gift of the day.
Are you calling him a heartless, cold, insensitive, inconsiderate, stony-hearted meanie?
Just as well he said gunnite.
Yes, he is. (will let you break your head over that while I zzzzz away).
Go to sleep.
No, I am saying he receives little kindness from people around here. See lp’s comment above as an example. I could mention some others, but I don’t want to be banned.
Japa, have you been hacked?
you, go find your own effing heart.
An Irish heart.
yes, as soulless as suspected.
say gunnite
vcbt.my man. (insert heart symbol)
nite amk ❤
“Just another day”
Look at those Baby’s eyes…..looking straight down to TV/Camera, something……Focused 😉
That is a CUTE baby——looks remarkably like my little grandbabe—–so, of course—–CUTE to the max.
I really love this man 🙂
Move over, CTGirl! 🙂
Reading on my TL that ole Ed Schultz is gonna have Dinesh DSouza on his show today. I’ll just say this right now Ed is full of Do-Do and if you can spare yourself please do not support his show today!
I have given up on Ed as stated over a week ago. But was told by a relative who still watches the show……Ed has been off his show this week.
Thanks! I don’t watch him for many reasons. I guess whoever is guest hosting his show thinks its a good idea to have D’Souza on smh…
I don’t watch him any more, either, because I remember a few of the “many reasons.”
Thanks O’Sista much ❤
Right back atcha. Pretend I know how to make a heart!
(< 3) without the spaces or the brackets. Go ahead give it a try. You can do it 🙂
❤
You CAN teach an old dog NEW tricks! ❤
Yah!!!!
Dr. Dyson has been sitting in.
They are now talking about the militia are talking about heading to the borders.
It appears that Sean Hannity is egging this on. This thing is getting serious and uglier. Dr. Dyson is pleading with people to stop this kind of talk.
This is just scary and sad. Someone is going to be killed before this is settled; atmosphere is getting worse, Bundy (Nevada) claiming that these people have diseases.
DSouza coming up next; “CLICK.”
He was off for two weeks, back for one and now off again. Michael Eric Dyson is subbing.
COSTCO had this Obama hater’s book pulled from their shelves. Why is MSNBC giving him any air time?
egg.sack.lee
Congrats to Amk and Japa for their Gold Medals 😉
Austin ❤ Pres Obama is indeed a great thread…..LOVE it. Thanks NW 😉
You’re welcome.
If there has ever been an unfortunate name, it has to be PBO’s traveling aide’s name, Bobby Schmuck.
Thought that too LL, most unfortunate!!!!
PS Quite like the name of a Tory MP I saw yesterday: Mark Reckless. Perfect.
The fact he’s an apparent success in life with that name means he’s just the kind of person PBO would want on his staff!
Excellent response, Ms. J’OB!
Thanks, sugar.
I wonder if he is related to my girl friend who grew up with the name of America Virginia Schmuck. Needless to say she got married in college, her husband was killed in Vietnam. She never married again, but always kept his last name. She did stand much teasing in college. Her parents are dead and she thinks she doesn’t have any relatives. I’ll have to ask her. Thanks for the heads up on his name.
I’d heard about this and it slipped my mind: that the owners of Hobby Lobby are literally funding and trying to push upon us, Christian biblical teachings in public schools. These are the nuts that SCOTUS has given power over their employees. The world has gone mad:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/10/1313048/–Hobby-Lobby-long-term-goal-Mandate-4-Year-Bible-Curriculum-that-HL-writes-in-Public-Schools
The religious radical right got their majority on the Sup. Ct.——they are the most powerful branch, can void decades of accepted law, the ultimate decision makers. There is nothing more horrifying.
Okay, I’m going to say what POTUS love to say…..VOTE don’t boo. If Austin love POTUS then in November get your behinds out to vote. It’s find to cheer and yell during speeches, but we need our base to come out to Vote in November. If we come out and keep the Senate, and if we can’t get the House, but maybe gain some seats, that would show we really do love POTUS. We can no let another 2010 occur. We can not folks.
That message wasn’t just meant for Austin. The 2012 election was important, but this one is just as important.
Vote….Vote…Vote.
Just back to TOD after a couple hours, and…
– Blue stars are gone (sorry, 57F 😦 )
– Lots of pics of our President in Austin, but WHERE’S NW??? Wish she had been in the audience behind the President’s speech or at Franklin’s BBQ.
– Bobby Schmuck may have an unfortunate last name, but we love him anyway. Maybe he could be in the forefront of marrying and adopting his spouse’s last name (if his spouse’s name isn’t Bobby or Hobby or something else that rhymes, LOL).
Such a treat to get Texas BBQ takeout to the WH!
Hoping PBO makes it to NC, cause I love the NC BBQ visits!
Forgot to mention that CBS radio news played a portion of PBO’s speech, something that they rarely do. They intro’d the clip by saying something to the effect that PBO was fired up in Austin!
The gift that keeps on giving!!
Dyyyyyyyyyyyyyyying!!!! 😆
Honestly, I. Can’t. Stop. Laughing.
BWAAaahhhahhhaaaaahahahaha!!!!!!
Energizer Bunny…….man!!
CUTEST selfie!!
As I always say Meta, it should be illegal to be that beautiful.
I HEAR YOU
Whaaa?
Whoops….can’t wait till the select com. hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) – The testimony of nine military officers undermines contentions by Republican lawmakers that a “stand-down order” held back military assets that could have saved the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans killed at a diplomatic outpost and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya…….continued
The media for weeks has been hair on fire about Speaker Boehner suing President Obama…..they never failed to mention for what:
From the party that wants to repeal the whole law – who screamed this was unfair to the employers – they have all lost their minds – Boehner is led through the nose by the truly insane.
DEMS. NEED TO REPEAT THIS CONSTANTLY….TAXPAYER FUNDED LAWSUIT…BOEHNER IS RIDING ON AMERICA’S MONEY….PEOPLE ARE VERY TIRED OF THIS TRASH AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. BOEHNER NEEDS TO LOSE HIS JOB…HE CAN ALWAYS WORK SOMEWHERE AS A BARTENDER!
Posted this on the previous thread by mistake.
Totally OT, but look what @CarolMaeWY sent me!
I told her that I love silver bangles because my roommate in college (from the SF Bay area) wore them, and so did Janis Joplin, who no doubt inspired Stevie Nicks to do likewise.
Here’s my reply (@CarolMaeWY was thanking me for a small gift that I sent her):
And the best thing is that yesterday UPS delivered some silver bangles I ordered from Etsy over the weekend — fast delivery from Hawaii — which I’m thrilled with because they are my size (most stores/websites sell only sizes that are way too big for me).
Love that Janis is being honored by USPS
🙂 Congratulations on your bangles Arapaho415, we want pics!!!!!
Happy BEAUTIFUL Thursday Arapaho415!
Thank you for sharing.
How is CarolMaeWY doing? I haven’t seen any of her posts here lately, unless I have missed them. I do hope that she is doing well and that her eyes are much better.
Have a WONDERFUL DAY!
She was having vertigo problems, but it appears that she is posting again on Twitter. I will send her a DM and hopefully she’ll be able to fill us in.
So sorry to hear this. Thank you 57andfemale for the follow up. I don’t always catch up with reading the posts that I have missed, so I was always wondering if I was just missing her post, due to my hectic schedule at times.
I hope that you and Mr.57andfemale and of course; Miss Pearl, Mr. Kasper, and Mr. Nickelby are all doing well.
Have a WONDERFUL DAY!
So cool! Arapaho415, I used to travel to Mexico every year for about a decade and I would buy 3 – 4 gorgeous silver bracelets every time. I had a big collection and wore them stacked like that. Then my apartment was burglarized and all my jewelry was stolen. SADNESS.
Oh dear, sorry to hear that.
I was burgularized a year ago and lost some of my favorite jewelry items, so I understand how you felt — not good, for days, weeks.
I’ll tweet a photo, maybe after Labor Day when the RWNJ/MSM idiocy really goes into overdrive and TODville’s thoughts will turn toward Christmas/holiday shopping.
Or if I see Susanne here, since she’s probably neighbors with the wonderful artist whose wares are on arm now.
Holy shit. They’re kidding, right? RIGHT?!?!?!
54 Time to repeal ACA….netted them Nothing.
Not to mention the GOP asked for the delay for all mandates.
Not to mention the many more time the House voted for Replace and Repeal.
They literally have no shame – what an excuse for legislators is this lot – be nice if a few employers came out and supported the delay – but no doubt they’ll support Boehner against their own interests.
House Repubs just voted to sue PBO—-because he changed the healthcare law re. employer mandate, or something. What a crock.
This is seriously hilarious. There won’t be enough paper in D.C. to document similar administrative changes like this, made by damn near every American president.
And they decided to choose the issue that businesses wanted.
Hilarious.
A letter by Boehner to the POTUS in 2013.
Okay it sounds like he didn’t have a problem with the employer mandate delay back in 2013. It’s was just that he wanted the delay to extend to individuals as well. Am I correct? Cuz then that makes his lawsuit a big fat meaningless stunt just like PBO predicted it would be.
Of course not. It was a giveaway to big business. GOP loves big business, doesn’t it?
Yep and now He is suing for what and The DC/NY Media would eat it all up and Never would question the Validity or better yet, call it what it is……..A Gimmick and unworthy of national coverage.
The Media would be on the sidelines cheering as during the BIRTHER crap…..Not ever calling the GOP out for Criminalizing pres Obama’s Constitutional Executive Authority.
Exactly Donna!
They started out saying that the lawsuit was supposed to be about PBO’s overreach through EO’s. Now it appears that the lawsuit is more that the EO did not go as far as *they* wanted it to.
Yes, GOP wanted ALL mandates delayed, because without the mandate it was possible that ACA could be seriously crippled.
Frankly, at the time I didn’t think the delay should happen: they had 4 effing years to plan for ACA – businesses and the insurance industry. It was the reason ACA got muddled in American brains – they saw few benefits and therefore didn’t support it and fell for GOP lies.
Bush made similar administrative changes to Medicare Part D. As I said earlier, there isn’t enough paper to document administrative changes.
This was not an executive order, was it? Wasn’t this just an administrative change? That’s what the executive branch does – it administrates.
I think Boehner dreams up anti-POTUS schemes over drinks at his local watering hole. His buddies slap his back and say what a good idea it is, and JB moves forward the next morning.
By afternoon, when the hangover’s gone, reality hits him and he realizes he has no plan and has to make something up. This seems to be a pattern for him.
The President made this important fact clear many times but I don’t think it has penetrated:
The border is Secure.
The kids that are being held, surrendered to Border Agents.
They did NOT cross the border undetected.
Nevertheless, the endlessly patient POTUS nodded along with Doofus Perry that we need to add agents and re-position agents.
Enforcement is not the issue.
Refugee children fleeing horrific danger is what we need to focus on. Mexico needs to contribute BIG to this effort. Where is the Mexican government in this?
Imagine if King Abdullah of Jordan treated Syrian refugees the way the GOP wants us to do in Texas!
Millions—yes, I said millions of people fleeing Syria’s Assad are being housed and cared for in Jordan and Lebanon and probably in Iraq as well at least until ISIS.
The United States is sending aid to Jordan to assist.
WTF is wrong with the GOP/MSM?
Hatred for President Obama seems like an inadequate answer to this current display of heartlessness. The day of conciousness returning to the befuddled brainwashed Americans can’t come too soon for me.
Refugees are a world problem that some folks (including in my world) want to call “illegals” because they want to send the problem some place else. We are part of the issues that create the refugees then want to give them away. Interesting that we weren’t this way post WWII. Wonder why that was?
Thanks Vicki. Excellent point.
LIVE NOW: President Obama returns – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Thank you BFF!
Dear god……take cover we are entering a war zone……..I mean the Rio Grande: The flack jacket is a fine touch (what actually are they going to shoot at?)
🙄
CHIPS!!!!!!
I had already seen the pic when LP posted it, so I was wondering why would Chips post this pic again…and there is my answer. 😯
Hurt my face funny!!!
I just felt the pic needed the addition of some facts, GGail 🙂
And those are important facts too Chips!
Oh you betcha – ROFL!
All charged up to go shoot some children – heroes of the RWNJs – So pleased PBO told the press visiting the border was politics that solves nothing.
Breaking News: Perry and Hannity are going to shoot the children!
Ha, they would probably love to, Layla!
Sad thing about this Layla, is that Hannity is talking up the Militia going to the borders. Dr. Dyson was pleading with people to stop this talk because the two police officers were killed by individuals who hated government and had gone to Bundy’s ranch.
Dr. Dyson showed a clip of Hannity talking to pouty face Perry about the militia. These people are absolutely crazy and it’s not; if they do something, it is a matter of when because they are filled with hate, and that hate will cause a nut to kill a child and mother in cold blood as they did those officers.
I know Cindy, I was just making fun of the pic! Did not mean it to be insensitive to the dangers to the women and children…
I wrote my comment above before I saw yours Layla – like minds 🙂
THINK ABOUT IT…IF THEY INVITE DICK CHENEY…HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO WING BOTH OF EM!’…3 STOOGES!
The stupid is just too much. Guns=penis = search for missing manhood.
Meanwhile, PBO shows everyday, without stunts, yelling, or chest thumping, what a real man is.
Yes CEB, And PBO will take off his suit jacket, roll up his shirt sleeves and hold a conversation with the average person on the street or the billionaire in the boardroom.
So what exactly did James Richard Perry solve by this pose he struck? I thought it was about the Border Invasion? Where are they? Why would standing next to a Border Patrolman with a heavy loaded ‘machine gun’ be something that would entice the TBGOPers to give Perry another chance in 2016? Dream On……is indeed a song. All I have seen is a Large Body of Water.
What a pathetic FOOL.
😳 That was Sean Hannity?
I didn’t recognize him.
Oh Oh….
This is my asshole govt.;cannot want for Golem to be voted out. You should see the adds where he tries to reinvent himself, as if we have forgotten what a disaster he has been for the state.
Good morning – and where are the little stars!!
🙂 Don’t mention the war, 99ts!!! GGail said they’re back where they belong, in the sky!!
Guess I will have to read back a thread or two to check out the war – it’s so cold in my world at the minute I don’t go outside in the evenings so thought TOD was my night sky for the season. 🙂
Why Yes, yes I did 😀
🙂
Danny eated them!
As there is no more “liking” I’ll have to send a smile 🙂
Perhaps we can all send Hobby Lobby a gift. Something in the form of a vagina?
Hobby Lobby Corporate Office
7707 SW 44th St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73179
There was that picture with an exchange US student stuck in a sculptured vagina in Europe somewhere……I laughed at the poor man….but it could be a good one to tweet to HL
I. Am. Dying!!!! LOL
The GOP is constantly wailing about government overspending. There is not enough to fund food stamps, extend unemployment, repair our infrastructures, etc. But it is okay for tax payers to pay for this stupid lawsuit…just as it has been okay for tax payers to continue to pay *them* a salary for doing nothing.
POTUS, the Constitutional lawyer, will deal with the fools…..the countersuit should a thing of beauty!
I was watching Rev. Al discuss Boehner release what he was suing the President about. All I can say is, to those who stayed home in 2010 and didn’t vote…….I want to thank all you for allowing us to have a sorry stupid ass speaker. This mess make no sense at all.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/10/the-president-at-the-paramount-theater-austin/