Krugman: 'Obama has emerged as 1 of most consequential & successful presidents in US history'
rollingstone.com/politics/news/… http://t.co/QhAWu04Rhd
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) October 08, 2014people who say BO blew it w/ ISIS never say what they would have done except give arms 2 moderates which would have ended up in hand of ISIS
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SportsGirl101 (@Arianna8927) October 08, 2014****
Talked with Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. Here is what I came away with. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 08, 2014These are @Walmart heirs, literally richest family on the planet ... they cut health insurance for 30,000 employees. http://t.co/93nmDL8OXJ
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Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) October 08, 2014****
if a baby boomer lectures you on college tuition it is ok to pour bedbugs down their chimney bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-1… http://t.co/HqZt1ZV5RC
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Jason Horthees (@crushingbort) October 06, 2014This line from the Robert Gates memoir looks more and more ridiculous http://t.co/IwtSkky87u
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Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 07, 2014****
Nothing like a same-sex marriage debate to remind yourself how often conservatives think about relations with animals and multiple partners.
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(@LOLGOP) October 08, 2014Ebola’s lesson? Don’t let right-wing ideologues wreck disease-fighitng public health agencies like CDC, NIH, and WHO. nationalmemo.com/ebola-virus-tr…
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Joe Conason (@JoeConason) October 08, 2014****
Control of Senate could be partly decided by GOP laws restricting voting, new report suggests: washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 08, 2014Republicans hate cumbersome government regulations -- unless it solves a big problem like black people voting.
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(@LOLGOP) October 08, 2014****
Georgia polls may be underestimating the black vote. If so, Nunn has a better chance than it seems. @Nate_Cohn: nytimes.com/2014/10/09/ups…
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David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) October 08, 2014The freedom to marry: Law v. Public opinion. (Source: xkcd.com/1431/) http://t.co/NYXJovhOkI
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 08, 2014****
Thanks to #ACA, women saved $483M on #birthcontrol. @CoryGardner wants to take us back to the days when women paid out-of-pocket. #COsen
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Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) October 08, 2014Tens of millions have gained the right to marry, 10 million have gained health insurance, 1.5 million found jobs. A good year for freedom.
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(@LOLGOP) October 08, 2014****
.@GovMikeHuckabee tries to speak for Jesus. "Jesus" replies. Twitter FTW. #Noh8 #LoveIsLove #MarriageEquality http://t.co/GWprM1rYY5
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Steve Marmel (@Marmel) October 08, 2014Man practicing open carry law robbed of the gun he was openly carrying. #MomsDemand #GunSense wp.me/p4yR81-oFF http://t.co/yJGvXgJQFr
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KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) October 08, 2014****
Welcome to America! Do you know how to swim? Because I wouldn't want you to drown in all this freedom! Just kidding, buddy. Here's a gun.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) July 25, 2014Congrats on passing the citizenship test & welcome to America! Don't get shot haha. But seriously you will probably be shot
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(@Ristolable) June 12, 2014****
A protester in Las Vegas threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately it was a TOMS shoe, so some kid overseas just got hit with one too.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) April 11, 2014Why would America make the bald eagle its national bird when all they do is attack things and fly away and nevermind I think I get it now.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) September 30, 2014****
Don't be offended if someone doesn't text you back. They probably just forgot. About you. In general. Because they don't like you very much.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) September 23, 2014Why do we use fireworks to celebrate America? Fireworks are just loud and obnoxious and violent and okay it's starting to make sense now.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) July 04, 2014****
Restaurants that serve potato chips instead of fries with your hamburgers, the damage you are doing is real
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Bridger Winegar (@bridger_w) June 21, 2014The year is 2044. America elects the world's first non-human president, but it's a white iPhone, so unfortunately racism is still an issue.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) June 11, 2014****
This is your résumé? A picture of Obama that you literally set on fire before you handed it to me? Welcome to Fox News. When can you start?
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) June 04, 2014It's what's on the inside that counts. Just look at burritos. The outside is plain and ordinary, but the inside is where dreams come true.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) May 30, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Squee!
Oooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!
I want to hug and kiss this puppy right now!
Evening NW and TOD folks
Great roundup of funny and serious tweets!
Thanks, Vetivera24.
LIVE NOW: Vice President Joe Biden to speak at the Oregon Convention Center – http://www.katu.com/news/live2
Thanks a billion, BFF!!
Looks like our Judy Fairdig is there! On the left side.
I was just watching and wondering if it was our Judith, JER – the woman on the left? Aweeeeeeeeesome!!!
Kind of fuzzy picture…
Our own Judy!!
Judy!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so, so, so much JER for the link!!
YAY! That’s her on the left! She’s a ROCK STAR!!
Woooooooooooooot!! The only downer in this exceptional experience watching Judith was I was recording her, but the flippin’ stream froze half way through 😥 So I only have half of Judith! I just hope she can get a complete recording, she was wonderful!
I completely missed it so half a Judith is better than no Judith. I’d love to see it!!
Uploading as we speak!
But when I track down the camera person, I will make them listen to Billy Joel – s/he pulled away to show the crowd when our Judith was speaking. Grr.
chances are CSPAN will have the complete program – at least they usually include the introduction
Ah, didn’t even think of CSPAN – thank you Linda!
Chica, this reminds me of that time aeons ago when you recorded a clip of Ison’s son getting a hug from PBO and she was so surprised and touched (not having thought to take a pic) that her allergies started acting up! 😀 You may not be Scout, but you do credible work ….. sometimes.
😆 And the picture quality was terrible VC, but I nearly fell off my seat in excitement when Ison confirmed it was her and her son – cor blimey, we’ve had a beautiful trip!!!
Yes, we have! smh >> Obama’s fault again. 😀
[Did you see the pat on the head? – I always try them before posting and I can always see them…until I post. 🙄 ]
I fixed it for ya VC (although my ‘puter’s been acting up today, so maybe I was the only one who couldn’t see it 😕 )
It’s sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!! 🙂
{{CC}} – Thanks. I couldn’t see it in the village, but when I’d pretested it on my ‘puter, I could.
Thanks a bunch CC’s BFF! You does fine ‘photography’ too! 😀
There she is!
Giddy with excitement!
Go Judith.
So hoping that @VP Biden embraces her and her friend Kathy with a big grin.
And hope she posts a pic of hubby/chauffeur-for-a-day with his tie alongside @VP too.
Yay Judy! Woohoo!
wow! That’s Awesome! 😀 #GOJUDITH
Have I told you lately that you’re the awesomest Nerdy? No? Well, you’re the awesomest – thank you Lady Jose.
So grateful to you and NW for sustaining TOD. Thank you!
You’re a sweetheart Bob, love ya. Thank you.
Thanks, Bob.
Awwww……thank you so very much, Chips.
Howdy folks at the top!
Thank you NerdyW!
Howdy folks below the folks at the top!
You’re welcome, VC.
Our Judy Fairdig speaking?
http://www.katu.com/news/live2
Leon Panetta Is What’s Wrong With DC
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/08/leon-panetta-is-what-s-wrong-with-dc.html
What is wrong with all of these fair weather Democrats?? Why did they decide to pile on PBO just before midterms? I read Huckabee’s tweet re SSM. Did Jesus weep while he was all over the tv lying about the ACA? He suppose to be a so-called minister.
Jose has my unswerving loyalty as Chelsea boss. But on some things he just shouldn’t make mouth sounds.
First of all let me say this, any respect I might have had for Leon Panetta is “GONE”. What is more important, the Democrats keeping control of the Senate or Leon Panetta’s book? It seem to Penetta, it is his book.
shows a person who is so full of himself that he thought the positions he had been selected for makes him superior to PBO – the Commander-In-Chief and that his decisions (rather than POTUS’) should overrule everybody;
I hope PBO ignores him completely and doesn’t dignify him with any response – no matter how many questions are asked
I have noticed McCain and others running for POTUS mostly Republicans have always answered they would listen to their advisors and follow their advise, even Hilary criticized Obama for stating he might make a decision different than their advise. PBO was the first candidate for POTUS I remember emphasizing that he would gather many experts to listen to then consider their advise before deciding. He said he would decide what was best not just do what his advisors said that his job was to make the decision. PBO read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals about Lincoln’s administration team and his manner of decision making. He patterned his own decisions with that in mind. This unusual approach was a major change in itself.
Chips, more from Keane:
LL, my niece texted me that earlier and my sides are still aching – the man is a flippin’ LEGEND!!!! 🙂
FLOTUS recorded a radio ad for Wendy Davis. And she will be in Orlando Florida October 17th at a fundraiser for Charlie Crist.
ANOTHER LIVE STREAM: Vice President Joe Biden in Portland – http://koin.com/koin-video-extras/
re: @arianna8927 (sportsgirl101)
The source of ISIL’s armaments are NEVER discussed by MSM/Koch. It’s as if the disastrous/unjustified Iraq invasion by GWB/Cheney/Rumsfeld never happened.
(posted late yesterday)
Whoa.
Straight female here, but stunning does not begin to describe @FLOTUS.
We’ll need something stronger than naughty mats to pick Japa21, yardarm, amk and ll off the floor now, LOL.
🙂 arapaho415, the next post is Nerdy’s ‘The First Lady’s Day’ – the gentlemen will be cold-showering for a month.
Don’t worry about us. It’s you lot that bear watching, eh?
Dunno what yer talking about!
PBO just sent a text saying that he’s got names and numbers and he’s monitoring all of y’all. Yardarm, Japa, amk, Don, etc., etc., etc.,
I got that text too Hopefruit, and it sounded quite stern. Watch out dudes.
Yes, I saw that he had cc’d you on it. 🙂 He trusts us to pass his very important messages to the TOD fellas.
It was the look he gave Yardarm in the pic he attached, yikes:
Hmm…I guess Yardarm will be fetching his own PBO-mandated naughty mat soon….
He’s too busy and SS is broken! 🙂
She is so fit and so beautiful that the RWNJs have decided she’s really fat. LOLz.
She is even more beautiful in person. And can I just say that she has the most elegant hands.
dang. time for my daily ten.
Is that ten cold showers or laps of the gym?
both.
Are you exhausted?
ok, I looked at it for 10 minutes, My daily ten is so done.
Police Kick Ferguson Protesters Out Of Council Meeting To Protect Darren Wilson Supporter
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/08/police-kick-ferguson-protesters-council-meeting-protect-darren-wilson-supporter.html
This is really bad…and it worse as you read on.
Linda, it is really bad with no satisfactory end in sight.
The only way to begin healing is to arrest the murderer who shot an unarmed teen and left his body in the street while he (the murderer) made his getaway.
Everybody can see the way out is via the door.
Failure to make an arrest and charge Darren Wilson is very alarming. What happens next?
REPORT: Missouri Authorities Planning for Riots if Ferguson Officer Not Indicted « CBS St. Louis
FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS St. Louis/AP) — Missouri officials are reportedly planning for possible riots if a Ferguson police officer is not indicted in the death of an 18-year-old African-American.
Reuters reports that state authorities are meeting two to three times a week to draw up contingency plans in case of riots if Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson is not charged in the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown. A grand jury is expected to decide next month whether Wilson will face criminal charges.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar fears violence will not only encompass Ferguson, but that riots could spread to other meetings
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/report-missouri-authorities-planning-for-riots-if-ferguson-cop-not-indicted-in-browns-death/
Yes, I saw this on my computer yesterday.
My computer came with a Yahoo! news feed that I see whenever I’m on the “Start” page, and this was one of the headlines yesterday.
I’m not one to borrow trouble, but things are gonna be tense in #Ferguson when the Grand Jury *finally* announces its “findings.”
A riot hurts the people who are already hurting. Not to mention enabling the bullies another opportunity to display their tanks.
I’d like to see other ideas explored. Such as a general strike or legal action that impacts the enemy, Not the righteously aggrieved. Easy to say, tough to do, i know.
And it’s gonna get worst. The “At least I’m better than you” syndrome is in jeopardy.
VP Joe is fighting for us ALL THE WAY!!
Immediately after the Tucson Massacre, doctors had a grave prognosis for Gabby speaking again.
She’s made tremendous verbal progress since then, am always pulling for her.
If this doesn’t make you want to move to Tucson, I don’t know what will.
Southern Arizona is so, so different than Phoenix — it’s much higher in elevation and has wooded riparian areas that bird watchers flock to.
One of my favorite places in the America West.
Gabby has made tremendous progress but my heart always breaks to think of how her life and career were forever changed.
The air and light in AZ is so different and beautiful.
Welp.
First up, apologies everyone for the rudeness of this tweet 🙂
LL, there are loads of fake Roy quotes from his book doing the rounds, this is my fave – I just wish it was true.
Nicky Butt, windmill, I may never recover.
Welp, I’m now officially dead.
And the thing is, when I first saw it I assumed it was in the book – such is Roy’s low opinion of Gary.
#Disappointed
😆 Knowing UK libel laws, even if Roy had wanted to write something like that, the solicitors would have vetoed it.
It would have been a great libel case, though – Gary Neville called to the stand and Roy’s barrister asking him to pull his pants down while presenting him with a ruler.
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Just lovely, Shipmate 🙂
Hmmmm!
Nena posted a couple of links from @tpm on the previous thread on this.
I’m scratching my head because @tpm says it’s Lawrence @Lessig’s superPAC, not Dems, who are (deluging) funds to SD.
From what I’ve read about Weiland, I like him a lot. IIRC he isn’t distancing himself from PBO.
From the article:
“MayDay PAC’s $1 million is a serious start. According to a TPM review of Federal Election Commission data, outside groups have spent about $350,000 in South Dakota since Sept. 1 — and all of that came from Every Voice Action PAC, another campaign-finance-centric group that is allied with MayDay and backing Weiland.”
Also from the article:
“Some recent polling prompted MayDay PAC to get into the South Dakota campaign, its founder, Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig, told TPM in an email. A Survey USA poll released on Tuesday found Rounds, a former governor who has been dogged by a scandal about alleged corruption involving immigration visas issued during his administration, at 35 percent, Pressler at 32 percent, and Weiland at 28 percent.”
OK, I’ve read the @AP article and see that Weiland is getting $2 million, $1m from DSCC and another $1m from Lawrence @Lessig.
One of the reasons I was confused was this in @tpm’s article:
“National Democrats have been almost entirely absent, which led to a public spat between former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) over the lack of support for Weiland.”
So I guess @tpm’s news has been superseded with @AP’s.
Posted at the bottom of the previous thread …
but didn’t have time to comment.
Apparently, a few days ago Ukraine decided to give Putin’s boys a message including, but not limited to, an expression of just how unhappy they are that the ‘cease fire’ is not being honored.
Ukraine is no slouch in the production of sophisticated, accurate surface-to-surface tactical weapon system. They proved it. Moreover, they demonstrated that they can destroy substantial structures, over a wide area, without risking their air force or ground troops.
OMG, this is nuts.
“Russian attempts to fabricate anti-Semitic attack in Ukraine have yet again clashed head on with reality. This time the Odessa Jewish Community has been forced to issue a statement denying every part of the ‘story’ after being deluged with anxious calls from around the world.
The claims were indeed alarming. In an article entitled “Right Sector” has declared war on Jews in Odessa”, Izvestia asserted that “radicals” had desecrated graves and the monument to victims of the Holocaust with swastikas. 20 Jewish people had supposedly been savagely beaten up by ultra-nationalist Right Sector members and an anonymous police source was reported as claiming that another 36 robberies and attacks had been carried out by the Right Sector, all on members of the Jewish community. All of this was eagerly repeated by Russia’s LifeNews and other pro-Kremlin channels.
The official response from Berl Kapulkin, Press Secretary of the Odessa Jewish Community states that the phone calls to members of the community were prompted “by several statements made by a person calling himself the leader of the Jewish community of Odessa. A person with this name – Mikhail Maiman – is not only not the leader of the community, but is not even a member of it. Mikhail Maiman is not in any of the community’s databases and it seeks likely that he doesn’t exist.”
I have reached past the point when the media’s 24/7 hysteria on Ebola has me saying : “enough” !
some people with media platforms are even giving out false information and stroking more fearl
it seems as though most media personalities are not aware that Ebola has been infecting people for a very long time (officially first identified in 1976) during which we have had open borders and free flow of people back and forth;
I am also aware that for many months, the majority of the Western media ignored Ebola as it spread and devastated many African families. A few weeks ago they even ignored PBO’s speeches on Ebola;
so going forward, I will only share information on Ebola which is educational or important to the prevention efforts of public officials, scientists/researchers, or elected officials
Thanks you, Linda, for your voice of sanity on this issue.
I’ve posted a couple of times here that, IMHO, this is an example of the MSM/Koch pulling out all stops in their effort to prevent #LandslideDems2014.
ebola is code by MSM to say, yes, you’re right to be afraid of Africa (and African Americans).
It’s despicable, but cannot see why the airways are nonstop ebola, 24/7.
I mentioned there were a couple of fictional best sellers nearly 20 years ago about an ebola epidemic (by Richard Preston and Tom Clancy, neither of which I have read).
my country of birth has had Ebola multiple times and in each case, the spread of the disease was contained;
in fact some of the medical personnel from my country, that have been previously involved in containing this Ebola outbreak at home, were among the first to go and help out in West Africa and are still there now
this SCOTUS!!!!!!!!
There are specific times in a month when one bowl of cereal just doesn’t satisfy me. I need 2, 3, perhaps 4 bowls. I solve the problem by fitting 3 bowls into one bowl. I’m sure you can relate to those times! 🙂
Um, are you okay there Hopefruit?
ROTFL! Yes I’m fine now but that was me at some point today 🙂 Hahahahaha….
I feared we’d lost you to another planet, Hopefruit. Everything okay now? Cereal freakery over?
Freakout over – for now until some other time! 🙂 Perhaps Halloween Day I’ll have another one…stay tuned. 🙂
Yikes, that’s quite soon. You remind me of someone….
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President Obama thanks troops as he leaves the Pentagon.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzdVDbNIEAAsUhr.jpg:large
@joshledermanAP
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzdVDbNIEAAsUhr.jpg:large
First lady does a great tv ad for Il. Gov. Quinn. Hoping she helps stir the estimated 1 million! Dem “drop off” voters—-those who don’t vote in non-presidential elections—-to vote in this election.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/michelle-obama-boosts-illinois-gov-first-midterm-tv-ad-n219561
First Knicks pre-season game happening NOW!
Ok, here’s the recording of the legend that is Judith (she is the second speaker), the one that FLIPPIN’ FROZE half way through!1!1!
Judith, you were fantastic!!!
So cool to hear her, but I wanted to see her speaking too!! What’s up with the camera person?! Oh well, still very exciting to see a TODer in action! 🙂
GREAT job, Judith! You’re a PRO. Thank you for all you do.
great work !
Great Job…..
Don’t Boo!…VOTE!
part of me wishes that Dems would not reveal which races they are shifting resources to (or from) – until after the election and hopefully a surprising win ;
Yes, I am evil because I want to see some of those devastated and un-believing/stunned looks of republicans that we saw when they lost races they thought they were going to win
If you’re “evil,” Linda, then I’m your evil twin. 🙂
I guess we are!
And proud of it!
hello folks, question: has anyone here ever received an email from twitter saying they believe your twitter account has been compromised and you need to go change your password? I didn’t click on it as I didn’t trust it.. but when I went to twitter to check it out, sure enough theres a note at the top of my account telling me my twitter is locked and I must change my password via the email I received… do you know if this is legit? thank you for any feedback.
okay, got my answer… thanks Sheri 😉
Great tweets Nerdy!
That tweet about the TOMS shoe being thrown is bleeping hilarious!
You’re welcome, MadameSoph.
This is important.
Very positive—Go Michelle, go! Also, Go Jason!
The President was at the Pentagon on 9/11/14. How rare, according to politico. Of course, he’s the Commander In Chief, so the Pentagon comes to him, but this is politico.
Gee, how rare.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/11/remarks-president-911-memorial
Hey, I’ll go on record, I love men, big time, but this reminds us why more women need to run for office!
Our wonderful First Lady is making the rounds!
OMG, she’s amazing, she is working so incredibly hard in this campaign. Love her. Intensely!
As do I! And COULD SHE GET ANY LOVELIER, inside and out?
Part of me resents her, though, Jacqueline, because she makes me feel entirely inadequate as a human being 🙂
That would not be her wish! And you are far from inadequate, sugar! 🙂
Ha, definitely not her wish Jacqueline, she actually makes you feel anything is possible!
you could exercise.
/runs
Coming. Right. For. Ya.
you cal that exercise?
My goodness…FLOTUS is being deployed left right & center… 🙂 🙂
The Closer! 🙂
Indeed. No wonder Tweety was trying to go after her last week – using Mitt Romney (of all people)’s nasty misogynistic line of attack.
I would love for FLOTUS to stop here in North Carolina. We have a big Senate race going on and I am about to make sure my family is ready to vote and remind my neighbors that it’s voting time, do whatever I can to get people I know out to vote.
She might be called in closer to the time. Fingers crossed 🙂
So glad I never watch him any more. He used to be one of the people I’d listen to … no more. His brain’s gone!
It is ashame that people who claim to be such christians is trying to win elections by cheating. Anyone with any dam sense knows what the Republicans are doing with all these voter ID laws. This is their making the blacks count the amount of items in the jar, if they get it wrong they don’t vote. From the Koch brothers and the other millionaries, to the Supreme Court to the Republican politicians they are all guilty of this B.S.
Of course, I totally agree with you!
now bt, go do your daily ten.
Good morning 🙂
Good morning Bob.
🙂
Oh flippin’ heck, EXACTLY!!!! I am worn out from opening the door! 😆
Dessert is served! Enjoy. 🙂
New post in 7-ish mins
😀
You know, I thought the -ish clock had been broken! What’s up, DannyO, wasn’t that the deal we had?
Good one 😀
FLOTUS, POTUS, VP Biden will be called upon time and again in 2016 and beyond to help energize voters for Dem races.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/08/the-president-and-first-ladys-day-10/
Great. fucking twitter has replaced the me button with messages button in notifications page. #idjits
This is Mother Nature telling us that her heart bleeds for our President while the GOP and MSM are acting the damn fool, blocking his agenda, not doing what’s best for the country and for our planet earth.