On this Day: Sen. Barack Obama is silhouetted as he speaks at a rally in front of Morrill Hall at the University of Nevada at Reno, Sept. 30, 2008
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Today (all times Eastern)
10:45: The President meets with Indian Prime Minister Modi
1:0: White House Press Briefing
5:45: The President meets with Defense Secretary Hagel
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The Week Ahead
Wednesday: The President will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. In the afternoon, the President will welcome Sporting Kansas City to the White House to honor their 2013 MLS Championship. In the evening, the President will travel to Chicago where he will spend the night.
Thursday: The President will headline a fundraiser in Chicago for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. Later, he will deliver a speech on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. He will then return to the White House and in the evening he will deliver remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual awards gala in Washington.
Friday: The President will attend meetings at the White House.
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@dougmillsnyt: President Obama heads back to the White House following a DNC roundtable in Washington
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On This Day
Sen. Barack Obama at a rally at the University of Nevada at Reno, Sept. 30, 2008
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President Obama peers into a microscope during a tour of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
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President Obama participates in the Armed Forces farewell tribute to Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, in Arlington, Va., Sept. 30, 2011 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Obama with Mexican band Mana at a rally at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, September 30, 2012
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MoooOOOooorning!
The Obama Diary 
Hello TOD. Have a great day.
Morning Mariele, morning everyone!
Congrats Mariele 🙂
Thank you Chips for a fine, as always, R&S.
FURS
🙂 Moooooorning Jackie!!
Morning Chips and TOD. Just glad to be posting at all. Thanks to IOS8 I was down for days and now my posts freeze.
furst.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT OBAMA!!! Just LOOK at all the $$ back in my pocket!
http://time.com/3433301/sometimes-the-government-puts-money-in-our-pockets/
Morning everyone. Always remember that it was on October 3, 2012 that the first presidential debate took place and every pundit in the US tried to convince us that the president was doomed. We fought back gloom at that point and we have to fight back today. There are still four weeks to go, which means tens of thousands of phone calls, door knocking and other GOTV events. Four weeks is a lifetime in politics. Let’s make it count.
Remember it well, JackieG.
The MSM’s reaction (especially Chris Matthews’) shocked me. Could not believe that they watched the same debate as I did — and could not figure out why.
After years of MSM/Koch ODS and now with @NYtimes unfurling their proud racial bigotry, it’s now note-worthy when you stumble across an article about President Obama (or any Dem, for that matter) which doesn’t have a barb or two thrown at Obama/Dems.
My main concern was the Obama’s 20th wedding anniversary, LOL.
That night and the next day were an absolutely vicious pouring on by the media, Arapaho. The message had clearly gone out to destroy Democratic confidence in the president, underline enthusiasm and depress turnout and they are attempting the same thing in 2014. The president proved all them wrong. Our only recourse is to follow his example and double down on our efforts. Right now I’m holding on to that smile on PBO’s face when Steve Kroft asked him if he would hold the Senate. He said “yes.” Remember that and let that be our North Star.
“Right now I’m holding on to that smile on PBO’s face when Steve Kroft asked him if he would hold the Senate. He said “yes.” Remember that and let that be our North Star.”
Excellent advice 🙂
Recall that PBO said, when asked if he would be re-elected….his answer- YES !
That’s the spirit, Jackie!!!!!!!
#OWNthe114th
Yes We MUST
I remember it well and hope I’ve learned that lesson. Channel President Obama’s confidence and optimism. We Democrats have much to be proud of and should be running positive campaigns of accomplishment.
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone and congrats to Mariele on #1 and to amk on furst! 🙂 Thanks Chips for another fabulous R & S!
Good morning All!
POWER thy name is Serena!
Those shoes are fierce!
She’s fierce!
Serena – you GO girl!
With a few minor edits, repeating what I said on one of last night’s threads:
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All of this news about the Secret Service has my head spinning.
I’m with HF2, wondering where this is coming from and why now?
I’m not a believer in conspiracy theories, but our dishonest and shameless MSM has me wondering about:
1) Who are the Secret Service “leakers” (Saturday’s blockbuster reveal about 2011 and today’s reveal about 2014 are from WaPo, who cites the same anonymous sources). On Sunday I heard a *single* report about 2011 on CBS radio news, but yesterday and today’s reports about the 2014 incident are blanketing their airwaves.
2) Darrell Issa must have broken Congressional speed records to convene a hearing on this matter — Congress has more days off than on, and they don’t work on Mondays. Who lit the fire under Issa?
3) WaPo also cites anonymous tips to the House Oversight Committee on Homeland Security chairman, teabagger Jason Chavetz (R-Utah).
And at the 5 pm PDT hour yesterday on CBS radio news, I heard someone (an author, might have been Ronald Kessler) #BlameObama. He was critical of the arrogance of the Secret Service, and said “It goes back to Obama, who keeps defending them.”
But something is afoot — WaPo was the only news outlet “reporting” this info, and the rest of the MSM/Koch lapdogs have obediently followed suit. Now @PeterMaerCBS refers to CBS’s “independent sources,” but I wonder if these sources are the same ones who spoke to WaPo, or others who don’t like their new (Obama-appointed) boss?
arapaho, I thought the same thing this morning – where is this old news coming from and why now? Is it because of the newly appointed head of the SS – who happens to be a woman? Who are these “whistle-blowers” as I heard they were called this morning on the news?
Yup, and that alone should alert anyone that all these sudden WH intruder incidents along with media reports of SS negligence going from all the way back to 2011…are someone’s idea – and not someone who is truly concerned about the well being of the President & First Family.
HF, my thoughts too, as I just replied to arapaho up-thread.
Right! Obamacare is confusing! It may be less confusing to hear “No, you cannot get insurance because of a precondition.” Give me confusion over no help any day!
All healthcare is confusing if one cannot read. Been at this for over 40 years. Gotta read.
LIVE NOW: House Hearing on White House Security – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
Hong Kong update:
And LOL:
White House supports Hong Kong protesters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/hongkong-china-whitehouse-idUSL2N0RU1LC20140929
Good to see Mr Earnest being crystal clear on the issue of ‘universal suffrage’ ….
“”We believe that the basic legitimacy of the chief executive in Hong Kong will be greatly enhanced if the Basic Law’s ultimate aim of selection of the chief executive by universal suffrage is fulfilled,” Earnest said at a daily briefing.
“We have consistently made our position known to Beijing, and will continue to do so,” Earnest said.”
Just wish our SCOTUS felt the same regarding ‘universal suffrage’ in the USA!!!
“Protesters set up a first aid station on Tuesday in Hong Kong. Participants said the movement’s attention to hygiene, good manners and trash sorting as well as its self-organized medical teams helped send a message of determination.”
HONG KONG — They sleep by the thousands on what are normally the busiest boulevards of this crammed, nonstop city. They live on crackers, bananas and bottled water. They clean up their trash, even taking the time to pick out plastic and paper for recycling. Their shield of choice, and the symbol of their cause, is the umbrella: protection against the sun, rain — and pepper spray fired by the riot police.
The pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, which expanded into additional neighborhoods on Tuesday in defiance of new government warnings, has been a diligently clean, exceedingly polite and scrupulously peaceful insurgency that supporters have taken to calling the Umbrella Revolution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/asia/in-hong-kong-clean-and-polite-but-a-protest-nonetheless.html
Power is indeed with the people. I pray that his time they will prevail.
Should be “this.”
Time will tell …
I have to say that I find it ridiculous that some democrats are already going along with the doom and gloom narrative for the senate races. I hear that Mark Begich is done, Bruce Braley is done, Mark Pryor is done, Mary Landrieu is done, and Mark Udall might be done. Yes these races will be tough but I can’t see any evidence that suggests that the Democrats can’t win these races. We have over 30 days which is a lifetime in political campaigns, and right now the democrats are doing really well when it comes to early voting. The Alaska race can go any way since polling has never been that good in Alaska and every poll I see shows a large amount of undecided voters. Braley has not run a solid campaign but he can come back if he stops being nice and goes for the jugular. The good thing is that the democrats have reserved a lot of ad space for the final 4 weeks of the campaign, and the democrats are dominating the early vote. This race like the others can be won.
If they are getting the same “doom and gloom” emails from Democrats that I get everyday is there a wonder?
The daily assault of “doom and gloom” emails is definitely a downer. It might help if they would periodically give some feedback on how the donations are being applied and the hopefully positive results. Some good news AND a reduction in the voluminous requests might cause people to stop ignoring/automatically deleting these email.
You are right. There are way too many emails sent everyday. I contribute some but not everyday. And, I don’t like the Dems running from the President. Because of that, my donations are down.
One thing to note, these “bad” polls often look very different if you look at the Registered voters, may have the Dem ahead in in RVs. At this stage of the election they begin to manipulate the LV or Likely voter screen to favor Rs. For instance in the poll below, just out, has Dem generic LV advantage +2 but a +7 generic advantage in RVs. If you look at the internals of polls you can see where this can make a huge difference in the actual polling data. In 2012 the polls were way off in final results which in the end really reflected RVs rather than LVs. The pollsters were playing on the “enthusiasm” gap to skew the voter screen.
REALLY want this, America???????
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/us/politics/midterm-elections-house-republicans.html?ref=politics&_r=0
One nominee proposed reclassifying single parenthood as child abuse. Another suggested that four “blood moons” would herald “world-changing, shaking-type events” and said Islam was not a religion but a “complete geopolitical structure” unworthy of tax exemption. Still another labeled Hillary Rodham Clinton “the Antichrist.”
Congressional Republicans successfully ended their primary season with minimal damage, but in at least a dozen safe or largely safe Republican House districts where more mild-mannered Republicans are exiting, their likely replacements will pull the party to the right, a move likely to increase division in an already polarized Congress.
My theory: John McCain is the cause of this. By saying an idiot like Palin was worthy of national office, he unleashed this “I’m ignorant and proud of it and damn it I can run the government!”
And yet he is paraded out every Sunday as an “expert”. The rise of the tea party Congress can be traced back to Sarah Palin.
No, the rise of teabaggers was due to the msm mainstreaming them and abetting them instead of calling them out.
John McCain and Palin put a big ol’ foot in the door – aided and abetted by our treasonous press.
wow, first time I am seeing the dood in a suit.
#WhatCeaseFire
While awaiting ‘moderation’ …. a bit more news about that ‘cease fire’ ….
Found and freed, thanks Bob!
Thank you Chips!
I’m watching the oversight hearing and I’m not getting a warm and fuzzy from Dir. Pierson. She seems more reactive than proactive. I thought she was brought in to, in part, address some of the issues/scandals that plagued the SS. The fact that there are questions even being raised about the culture, and agents being afraid to express concerns makes me question her effectiveness.
she has been on the job, for what, three/four months now? I don’t blame her. Many incidents precede her and you can’t change its culture overnight.
She’s been on the job since February 2013. I agree that everything can’t be changed overnight, but the answers she’s giving does not seem like has a true grasp, or even tried to get a grasp, of what has and is going on.
A lot also went to hell when Bush pulled the SS out of Treasury and put it in Homeland Security – subject to sequester and new layers of bureaucracy to get anything done (not that there wasn’t bureaucracy before, but apparently it’s now a lot worse).
that long? just seemed like only y’day.
That’s what I’ve been hearing lately: that she is really not an effective administrator.
She seems to be a convenient scapegoat because she is a “PBO hire” – and I see some folks on Twitter taking the GOP/media’s bait in that regard. The incident which occurred in 2011 preceded her – yet we’re only hearing about the details of incident NOW. Sounds to me like someone did not like Pierson in that job and wants her fired — hence all these “mistakes.” My thing is, if she’s incompetent and needs to go, she should, but lets not pretend that the SS follies are all her doing, and therefore the President’s fault because he hired her.
There are some moles in the SS (GOP cells) who are trying to cause trouble….
Seems to me that the opportunity to blame Obama for incompetence in hiring her is what the investigation by Issa is all about, not increasing the security. A new Benghazi scandal!
Yes – this is what I’ve been most concerned about….the media’s sudden interest in this is not by accident. It’s another GOP-manufactured scandal. And the
No sense in getting our hopes up that Issa would actually do something decent.
I heard she was the last Administrator’s COS. Most of the scandals happened under his watch. Maybe she needs to be replaced. Security hasn’t gotten better. It’s the same or worst.
I can never understand women still voting for these extremists.
I deleted 52 e-mails yesterday….
So far today 18.
I received calls all day long begging for money… I have stopped answering the phone when I recognize the number…
“So maybe the overall theme here is that Soviet history is worth remembering, so long as it’s not critical, and isolated to victory in a vacuum. The reality is that only the people can decide what monuments are erected and stand in their cities, as they are the ones who have to live with them and be reminded of what they represent. Opinions are varied and often divergent, and it is for this reason that monuments should be unifying and representative of figures or concepts that all of society can rally behind. In the case of Soviet monument to tyrants in Ukraine, that simply isn’t the case, and for many, history is still being written.”
^5
Thank you NW for tweeting these important facts. I’m happy that we’re not all taking the GOP/MSM’s bait and shrieking on Twitter that “PIERSON NEEDS TO GO” while ignoring just about every other contributing factor to this situation.
Yesterday, when I saw the witness list, I wondered shy Sullivan was not included since he was director during many of the issues/scandals that are being discussed in this hearing. My conspiracy theory mind has wondered about the intent of some individual agents given their actions.
My lack of warm and fuzzy with Dir. Pierson is more about her performance in this hearing; her seeming inability to answer questions or knowledge gaps about what happened, even in this most recent situation. This may come down to lack preparation. I’m not ready to say she needs to go. That would be the President’s call. *He* is the one who must be satisfied with the job she is doing and I yield to his judgment.
Scheduled for a brain MRI this morning: http://www.hyperacusis.net/hyperacusis/what+is+hyperacusis/ Find myself wondering if it’s somewhat like having your head examined!! Back later on – big hugs all ’round! ❤ 😉 🐻
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Take good care, MP, and hope all is well!!
I pray you have a better outcome than I did……Be blessed.
Praying that all goes well. So sorry that your hearing is acting up. Hyperacusis must be very uncomfortable. My aunt suffered from Tinitius for a long time. I occasionally get ringing in my ears and later learned it was due to taking large dosages of aspirin. When I was young I suffered from very bad cramps and took large dosages of Tylenol and aspirin before discovering medications that help with pain.
Did she actually say this?
I thought the shooter was 650 yards away from the WH and besides….they were told to stand down.
I presumed this is how they were doing it; and know it can be very effective ….
“US warplanes have been flying close air support missions for Iraqi and Kurdish forces through a complex tactical arrangement that avoids having US troops on the front lines to call in the strikes, an Air Force general said Monday.
“We think it’s being very effective right now,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, the assistant deputy chief of staff for Operations.
Harrigian said that Kurdish and Iraqi forces in close contact with Islamic State fighters have been calling in suggested targets to U.S joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs) based at Joint Operations Centers in Baghdad and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
The JTACs then check the suggested targets with live stream video from intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets overhead “so that we know where the front lines are” to plan strike missions, Harrigian said.”
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/29/airstrike-agreement-keeps-us-air-controllers-away-from-combat.html#ixzz3EoZGgqWm
#TrustBarack
Greetings Everyone
I wanted to address the “Dems doom and gloom”. We can’t control the pundits or the email, but we can control our own actions and decide how we spend our time.
Could each of you who are kind enough to post here, tweet here, and even lurk here commit to volunteering on a tight race.
If you live in Northern California use this website. – http://keepthesenateblue.org/ – We are calling today for Hagan @ 4 PST. as
Others who want to volunteer can go here on Wed. and Thursday
http://act.democracyforamerica.com/survey/DFADialer_supercaller_2014/
If you want to focus on the house – fill out this survey that was sent to me by the DCCC
http://bit.ly/1xtxqt7
Visit this website
http://act.democracyforamerica.com/survey/DFADialer_supercaller_2014/
I know that this page may not have an event near you (yet) but please bookmark it and check back often.
If anyone has an address for a senate virtual phone bank please post it here.
When the President had a rough first debate we all committed to working harder and donating more. Let’s do that again whenever doom and gloom hits.
OOPS
the last link should have been
https://secure.dccc.org/page/event/search_simple
“I wanted to address the “Dems doom and gloom”. We can’t control the pundits or the email, but we can control our own actions and decide how we spend our time.”
So true, Linda! And, thank you for your continued leadership in getting stuff DONE!!!
#FORWARD Together
Thanks for the tweet.
I’m going to the DCCC tomorrow night to phone bank. Thank you for all your efforts out on the west coast. People have varying degrees of talents that they can contribute to this years election. With a little coaxing some people will step outside of their comfort zone but I have found that not everyone is comfortable phone banking. Honestly, it’s not one of my favorite things but I do it so that I’ll have no regrets on election night.
I wish that they had nationalized this election and called on people from all over the country to help register voters and knock on doors where needed. Also, why don’t they let us continue to fundraise? This is what makes the GE engaging. It gives everyone no matter their skill set something to do.
Thanks again!
Agree with your suggestions 100%. Thanks for what you are doing tomorrow.
Of course, Linda! Happy to assist any way I can.
Thank you WIW – excellent suggestion. Going to a phone bank tonight to use the predictive dialer system at my local Dem HQ.
What the hell did they think was going to happen? The budget for the White House and everything pertaining to it, should NEVER be messed or trifled with. You give them the funding they need to make sure things run smoothly.
#benghazi redux with media abetting redux.
Poll: Do you have faith in the Secret Service?
http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20140930-secret-service-head-takes-onus-for-white-house-breach.ece
See my post downthread…it’s going to gradually morph into “trusting the government on matters of national security..”
1:00 PM EDT – First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards Luncheon
1:00 PM EDT – Vice President Biden Speaks at the Luncheon in Honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India
Thanks a trabillion JER, I completely missed these – will post a heads up. Thank you again!
Evansville, In. preparing for a visit by PBO on Friday. He is expected to appear at a business in that southern Indiana county, possibly Millennium Steel, details not yet known.
http://www.14news.com/story/26654389/white-house-president-to-visit-gibson-co-business-on-friday
Very well done, Gov O’Malley!!!! 🙂
Excellent!
I so badly want to sneak out of the office and take the metro over to the Mall. I wonder if anyone would notice that I’ve left for the day ❓
Go for it!!! If you’re fired, I’ll hire you as a full-time dog trainer!
Did you get that laptop before Danny finished digging to China???
🙂 I just saved it in time!! A little mucky, but it still works. #Phew
Serves him right, Danny had a traumatic morning – he found an angry swan in his river.
That is one handsome healthy shinny Danny…….Hello Danny! You Never looked so Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!
Nena, don’t give him a swelled head!!! 🙂
Teach Danny that swans are Mean Machines. One latched onto the back of my neck once when I was on a paddle boat and unaware that we had paddled too close to his/her swan babies. (swanlets?) Dumb killer swan. I had my own kids, was not at all interested in confiscating his/hers.
“I had my own kids, was not at all interested in confiscating his/hers”
😆 Dote-ster, you make me weep, EVERY day!!!
Alas, Danny thought it was a good idea to swim after the swans, so we had a lovely scene with me howling from the riverbank for him to come back, then squealing even louder when the angry swan headed straight for him, flapping his wings and doing all kinds of aggressive swanny things, all the time Danny still doggy-paddling towards him and his lady. At which point, he finally got some sense and scarpered.
Folks, plan on seeing a few MSM “polls” along these lines…. –> “do you have more or less confidence in government (wink wink – POTUS) on matters of national security now that you’ve heard about the WH SS security breaches?”
CNN/ORC has one out Now.
POTUS is at 48% and the GOP is at 39% or so…..different from NBC/WSJ Todd polls out on MTP two days ago.
Right – so they need to bring his numbers down because the public trusts him too much….which is a major headache for the war-mongering GOP and their friends in the media…;
Yep…….And 65% per CNN/OCR are saying the Economy is their Most important issue. Terror and ISIL were below number 3. NBC/WSJ could not really harp on their lower numbers including saying that Many of Us want boots on the ground. The boots on the ground, per CNN/ORC is conditional……only if the Military is recommending it…….once again…..different from NBC/WSJ.
Hello TOD on a Tuesday Sunny Day from Minn.
Fantastic R&S.
Congrats to the Gold winners, starting with this thread and 2 back.
FCC is calling OK Stop on the Blackouts……for NFL Home Teams.
Another Week, another school shootings?
Would the Media Tell Us the race and the religion of the Shooter?
They would if black/Latino!
Or Muslim.
A KS Chiefs NFLer scored a TD and knelt to Thank Allah….he is a practicing Muslim, and NFL fined him. Today, they are trying to revise their idiocy. Tim Tebow and Many NFLers who did theirs were Never Fined, you see.
Touche’.
I’m for fining any athlete who demonstrates religiously during a sporting event—-just because it is so ridiculous and has no place during any kind of game. No one’s God is deciding which team wins, who scores a touchdown or who shoots the winning basket. Should be banned—-just for the utter stupidity alone.
I have no problem with individual celebrations. It’s part of sports. My only objection is when it is censored for some and allowed for others.
Sports are emotions, body and loads of money.
It is what a few gets to do. They trained hard and they get to decide how to celebrate for a few seconds.
Disagree—-don’t believe that it’s “part of sports”. Why would it be? What in the world does any religion have to do with sports/playing games?
Some actually asked the Police Chief for the students grades ? How the hell would he know ?
What next…the shoe size or if he wears boxers or briefs ? Gawd reporters are just awful in this country.
Good question:
Better Answer: Because the GOP moles in the SS (coordinating with WaPo & MSM) set it up that way. This was PLANNED. They waited until PBO was safely up in the air on his way to camp David, and then allowed that “intruder” to make his way in – all the time KNOWING he was there…..
The Doc that brought the disease, came from MN then to Liberia. He got infected in Liberia and flew to Nigeria for business. It ended up infecting 24 and 4 died.
Howdy, TODobots and friends! I’m working so near to home I got to come home for lunch. 😀
Thinking of you and your MRI today, MP. Sending good, solution-oriented, healing vibes your way!
Hi! 😉 ((((VC)))) ♥ ♥ ♥
O my goodness, PJ!
*hmmmsssmmooch* {{{{{PJ}}}}}
♥ What a ♥ pleasant ♥ surprise ♥to come home to! ♥♥
So, I bet this is a great sign for that lottery ticket for tomorrow night’s draw that I bought on the way home – something I haven’t done in quite a while. We can go on that TOD cruise we’ve all been dreaming about if I capture the big one! Girl, it’s great to see you! I think it was Hopefruit (and a couple others) who was asking about you a couple of days ago. 🙂 🙂 🙂
(((((VC))))) Play those numbers, girl! LOL! Nice to know I was missed. Missed you all too! ♥ ♥ ♥
You were missed!
So, are you just passing by or are you here for a one month, 5 days visit? 😉 😉
One day at a time, dear VC. One day at a time. 😀
😀 😀 😀
O. kay. 🙂
https://mobile.twitter.com/deaconmill/status/516992274266599424?p=v
Heads up:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/30/coming-up-82/