President Barack Obama speaks at US Central Command (CentCom) at MacDill Air Force Base
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President Barack Obama sits next to Commander of Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin III during in a briefing from top military leaders while at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida
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"Osama bin Laden is no more. Because of you, the core al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan & Pakistan has been decimated" —Obama to our troops
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"I will not commit you, and the rest of our Armed Forces, to fighting another ground war in Iraq." —President Obama to our troops
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President Barack Obama participates in a briefing from top military leaders while visiting U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base. From L-R are: United States Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco, National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Obama, Commander of Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin III and U.S. Special Operations Commander Joseph Votel.
President Barack Obama greets members of the military upon his arrival at MacDill Air Force Base
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"In three months, our combat mission will be over in Afghanistan & our war in Afghanistan will come to a responsible end." —President Obama
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"On behalf of the American people, I want to thank all of you for your service." —President Obama to troops at MacDill Air Force Base
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Obama greets troops after making remarks at U.S. Central Command @ MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa. http://t.co/mpaCorEnhZ
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President Barack Obama greets Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command, as he arrives at MacDill Air Force Base
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"When the world is threatened, when the world needs help, it calls on America." —President Obama: wh.gov/live
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"We support you. We’re proud of you. We stand in awe of your skill and your service." —President Obama to our men and women in uniform
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President Barack Obama touches the spiked hair style of a child while visiting the Clarence Tinker elementary school children while at MacDill Air Force Base
The Obama Diary 
Hello!
Congrats NCLB 🙂
So much happiness in the faces of all those service members – that’s what our President inspires and nurtures. Thank you NW!!!
Thanks, Bob.
Awesome Photographs NW.
❤ it!
You’re welcome, Nena.
Bringing over from the last thread.
Congrats NCLB on your Gold. 🙂
Thank you Nena!
And thank you NW for opening the TOD doors just in time for me to enter! Beautiful pictures of today’s event.
You’re welcome, NCLB.
And until We The People Take it seriously…….Guns, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse…..etc nothing changes.
LIVE NOW: President Obama departs Tampa – http://www.abcactionnews.com/video/abc-action-news-now
Where is the arrest?
He can show up and testify for four hours, but he couldn’t write an incident report after pumping a teenager full of bullets.
Such BS.
thissss
Just needed to memorize his talking points.
Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson testified Tuesday to the St. Louis County grand jury that is investigating whether he should be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Wilson testified for nearly four hours, according to the newspaper, which cited “a source with knowledge of the investigation.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/darren-wilson-testifies-ferguson-grand-jury-michael-brown-shooting
Funny how it’s a secret proceeding, until the killer wants to get the word out.
WTG Sam Wong. Dr Wong did his thing and has done it since without fuss.
Dr. Wang does not have time for Nate’s BS!!
Yes, and I have concluded that Nate Silver has a vested interest in depressing Democratic turnout and changing the outcome of elections. Dr. Wang does not in my opinion. Libertarians like Silver and Rand Paul are not trustworthy people in my estimation.
NW, thank you for this post with all of these wonderful, wonderful pictures!!!
p.s. – General Austin is a good-looking fella 😉
You’re welcome, GGail.
You’re a legend Mrs Costa, absolutely beautiful photos and a completely lovely post – thank you soooooo much.
Thanks, Chips.
Does my heart good to see an African American in charge at CentCom.
Trendy NYC Hotel Confuses 3 Black Women Out for Drinks at the Bar for Prostitutes
By Eileen Shim 3 hours ago
…AlterNet recently reported about three black women — one lawyer and two educators — who went out for drinks at the Standard Hotel in New York City a few weeks ago. After a man approached the women and offered to buy them drinks, a security guard reportedly accused them of being prostitutes and asked them to stop soliciting. According to AlterNet:
“After the security guard ushers the brotha away, he comes over to me and my friends and says, ‘Come on, ladies. You can buy a drink but you can’t be soliciting,'” Washington told AlterNet in an interview. “We were like, ‘soliciting?’ He said, ‘Don’t act stupid with me, ladies. You know what you’re doing. Stop soliciting in here.’ We were like, ‘Soliciting what?'”
Shocked, she asked the security guard if he was accusing them of prostitution. “Don’t act stupid with me, you know what you were doing,” Washington recalls the guard saying.
“Dude, I’m a lawyer and these women are educators,” she said in reply. “Why the hell would I be in here soliciting prostitution?” Washington said he answered, “I don’t know but that’s what you’re doing.”
http://mic.com/articles/99062/three-black-professionals-accused-of-being-prostitutes-by-new-york-hotel?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
Really, the man does not have enough hands to shake everyone’s hand. His left hand is going one way, while his right hand is way on the other side of the crowd, time and time again.
POTUS hates People …….RWNJs and their Media Puppets parrots 😉
PhotoShop, indeed 🙂
In_deed Nena 🙂
TOD favorite Chris Cillizza says Dems now have 51% chance of holding on to the Senate. Anybody believe him?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/16/democrats-now-have-a-51-percent-chance-of-holding-the-senate/?tid=pm_pop
When GOP shill Chris Cillizza says anything about the Dems/PBO – the reality is almost always much better that what he says. So in that case, if he says that D’s have a 51% chance, it means that their chances are much higher – more like the 90% that Sam Wang predicts…
Note just 10 days or so ago…..this Lizard was saying that the GOP had 95% chances of holding the Senate.
Would Lizard care to explain his 44% swing? Well it will be 44% + 5% = 49% swing?
I’ll go with Sam Wang’s 70%, much better record than the lizard.
I thought Wang’s most recent was at 90% – but if not, I stand corrected! I’ll take the 70%. Sure beats the 35-40% that Little Nate has been peddling all year…
Lord have Mercy, Japa…….You Nailed it!
It doesn’t want to share what it has with the majority of people.
❤
Then Dow Let out a Drop….. 😦
They Love Free Money $$$$$$$$
Surprisingly, it has actually gone up over the last hour.
Yes……back to the positive side.
Wednesday’s Trading:
Dow+46.91
17,178.88 +0.27%
Nasdaq+18.37
4,571.13 +0.40%
S&P+6.59
2,005.57 +0.33%
On this Day in 1787……Constitution Day…….formerly known as Citizen Day………How many school curriculum now teaches Civics today?
Happy Constitution Day, America!
Nena, thanks for the civic lesson.
In honor of our Yardarm.
He has been posting many Daily Historical events.
Hello Sailor……Missing you….. 😉
I love your tweets….
This is an interesting set of 26 predictions in 1901 by Ladies Home Journal about what things would be like in 2001. Some are absurd, but others are amazingly accurate.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/58851/fact-check-26-ladies-home-journal-predictions-2001-1901
So glad I was able to view this live, including the introduction and reception afterwards.
I wish the majority of non-RWNJ Americans (i.e., exclude those 24% of Americans who believe the sun revolves around the earth) could see this speech.
The President’s prime time address last week had such a somber and serious tone, very Presidential.
But most busy Americans have little knowledge of the geography and the various ethnic, religious and national interests of the Middle East, which is complex even for Foreign Policy experts who are paid to know such things.
Since it’s such a complex and enigmatic problem, I think most Americans react with their gut when it comes to the horror of the recent murders of Westerners by ISIS. They know it isn’t right, and they want revenge.
If such Americans could see the President’s speech today, they would be struck by his reception at the speech, accompanied by the soaring patriotic songs. And how he touched on the human aspect of the military throughout the speech.
After viewing this speech, this thought might occur to them:
When was the last time an American President was greeted in such an enthusiastic manner when he was essentially deploying some of them on life-threatening missions (to West Africa and Iraq)?
Wisc has had issues now……Wow…..a card carrying Racist……but he felt okay to pen his views publicly……Well, public enough for others to catch him right-handed.
Now he QUITS? Please don’t……Run Bigot, run.
How unfortunate! I hope his name is kept on the ballot.
Thanks, Nerdy!
Good afternoon, TOD! Now I have to go back to read the R & S thread
You’re welcome, Sjterrid.
There’s President Obama being unpopular again! Ha! In the spiked hair photo little girl in white blouse looks so tickled to have the President of the United States in her classroom.
Good afternoon, TODville!
You can sure tell Gen. Austin is not fakin’ the smile on his face! Nor are the troops, on theirs. Love it.
LIVE NOW: Awaiting FLOTUS’ arrival at Memphis – http://www.localmemphis.com/livestream24
I just now was able to watch his speech. Masterful, and CLEAR!!! What do people not understand about no combat troops in Iraq???!!!
When he finished, my first thought was: “I cannot imagine anyone else as president!” In big contrast to 2000-2008, when my constant thought was: “I cannot believe this man is President of the United States!”
Carolyn, I echo those words (or your thoughts).
There is no liberal bias but the campaign to convince America of that non-existent fact was highly successful. It became an accepted reality. Being “liberal” became a bad thing, something shameful, when its very definition is the opposite—–generous, tolerant, big-hearted, charitable etc. This should never have been allowed to happen—–there should have been a strong push back—–to correct the misleading, false accusations.
ODS
I saw that one coming.
Agree with BMaher on this one……
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MAHER ON THIS ONE…THE AMERICAN MEDIA IS SHAMEFUL…AND THESE ARE THE TIMES WHEN ‘FREEDOM OF SPEECH’ TRULY DISGUSTS ME…ALL THEY ARE DOING IS RECRUITING FOR AND ADVERTISING ISIS! SHAMEFUL AND MORE THAN DISGUSTING!
Awwww—–I love that interaction.
Thanks for posting this.
I absolutely ❤ these type of Pictures……President Obama……Hates people we are told by those who Loath him and those who distort and hide their own racial animus against president Obama.
What a Moment!
No Narcissist would allow his presidential Hair to be Touched…….Not ever haters.
President Obama is a Gem. No wonder Children of all ages ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ President Obama.
LIVE NOW: Secretary Kerry on ISIS Strategy – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Take that Gates……and Co.
Worth reading …
“Mohammad Javad Zarif: Yes, there is every reason not to have a nuclear bomb. If you look at Iran’s security environment, in the immediate neighborhood—by the immediate neighborhood I mean the Persian Gulf—we are already, because of the size, geography, resources, human resources, military ability…we are the strongest. By far. Most stable country in the region. So we need to go out of our way to convince our neighbors that we don’t have anything against them. We are engaged in confidence-building measures with them. So, not only do we not need a bomb for our immediate neighborhood, a bomb, or even a perception that we have a bomb, will further deteriorate our position, because immediately, our neighbors will seek security assurances from outside. So what we consider to be a conventional superiority that Iran certainly has in the region, if we try for strategic superiority, we will even lose our conventional superiority.
In the larger security environment of Iran—that is, against the threat by Israel or the United States—Iran cannot imagine to engage in any type of deterrence, either directly or even through proxy, with these external threats, or extra-regional threats, through a nuclear device, because we cannot compete in that area.
Again, a nuclear bomb will deteriorate our security. And at the end of the day, let me just make one point, that nuclear weapons have not created security for anybody. Just look at what happened to Israel.”
Some good stepping here, Ms NCLB! Way to go!
Thanks VC. Hard work pays off!! Nice seeing you.
😉 😉
Now…..here’s a great pic from the Count…..Von…..Knoller
So very important that that reads “Iraqi forces” (not US!!) ……
Anyone watching John Kerry slap the Republicans around ?
Corker is really being disrespectful, belligerent, angry and hateful in his questioning of Kerry. Really ugly. Even it’s because of the cameras, there’s no excuse for that kind of behavior by a U.S. senator.
My TL is aflame about Corker. I’m also reading that Kerry’s slapping the shit out him. True?
Yes, true ….I am watching this embarrassment .
You’re a brave soul, Linda. I can’t watch at work. Of course that keeps me from throwing a shoe through my monitor.
He’s definitely getting whacked hard on Twitter …. he’s such a piece of junk ….
WTG SoS Kerry.
So President of these USA is in favor of a United Kingdom…… 😉
Okay then……May Scots have their wish……
Full Confession…..I don’t know who Viggo Mortenson is….but he said it so well.
Him a very good and very sexy actor and apparently also a decent American.
I think that people should be saying: Fox Propaganda, Replace ‘News” with Pgda……Tweet it, FaceBook it and repeat it always…..until, it takes hold.
Lord of the Rings. Much longer and darker hair.
Full Confession again…..I have Never seen Lord of the Rings. I have a relative who is totally obsessive about the show.
I may never speak to you again…kidding.
You mean movies don’t you? Full confession, I’ve NEVER been able to sit through one, not even for the delicious Viggo Mortenson. 🙂
What about the OPTICS? Nonsense 😉
Lets see a Journo, Pol, Pundit who would have done what this particular President did…….
This after letting a small child to touch and feel the texture of his hair. No Body like pres Barack Obama…….None!
So Knoller lets ‘whole world’ know that Mrs. O sometimes travels in ‘unmarked aircraft’ – then they wonder why they cannot be trusted with ALL the info! They never seem to know when to keep their mouths shut and what to reveal. Have I ever told you how much I hate the US media? The fact is I never realized that I did until the Obama family came on the stage and I have had lots of opportunity to see their pettiness, venom and ignorance.
President Obama ❤ ❤ ❤ his wife……my goodness……president of the USA…..making a Hello call in between stops, CENTCOM speech and his busy schedule to let his wife know and to show his wife……how much he appreciates her.
Wow…..that is unbeatable.
Yet another good reason for me to continue shopping at Lowe’s or others.
I refuse to shop at Home Despot because of this loser….I shop at Lowes, OSH, or local independent stores.
Plane maintenance delay First Lady visit to St. Jude.
One Time…..in many weeks that I have enjoyed posting Count Von’s Tweets 😉
“GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS”
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/17/kids-love-president-obama/
[Bobfr, not sure if this was posted in earlier threads or this one, but thought you’d find it interesting. Methinks there’s overreach here by Vlad.]:
MOSCOW (AP) – The arrest of a Russian telecoms and oil tycoon has sent shock waves through the country’s business community, with some fearing a return to the dark days of a decade ago, when the Kremlin asserted its power by imprisoning the country’s then-richest man and expropriating his companies.
The criminal case against 65-year-old Vladimir Yevtushenkov marks the first attack on a billionaire businessman since the arrest in 2003 of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos, which was the country’s largest oil company at the time. He spent the next decade in prison on tax evasion and misappropriation charges and saw his company taken over by the state and sold in pieces.
The prosecution of Khodorkovsky had sent a clear message to Russian oligarchs: stay out of politics and your property will be safe. Russia’s rich have followed that rule for nearly a decade, and now fret the unspoken promise may be void.
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More here: http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20140917&id=17939109
Yes, thank you Linda. Vlad’s desperation becomes more obvious by the day ….
And another one….