First Lady Michelle Obama follows her daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama, as they arrive to welcome the Official White House Christmas Tree to the White House
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First Lady Michelle Obama watches as daughter Malia Obama, adjusts the collar for her sister Sasha Obama, as they walk out to welcome the Official White House Christmas Tree to the White House. This year’s White House Christmas Tree, which will be on display in the Blue Room, is an 18.5-foot Douglas Fir grown by Chris Botek, a second generation Christmas Tree Farmer from Crystal Spring Tree Farm in Lehighton, Penn. Dogs Bo Obama, left, and Sunny Obama also participated
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What we missed
Marian Robinson (FLOTUS’s mother), First Lady Michelle Obama, Kathleen Biden (Hunter Biden’s wife), Maisy Biden, Sasha Obama, and a friend attend a women’s college basketball game between the Princeton Tigers and the American University Eagles at Bender Arena on November 23, 2014 in Washington, DC. The First Lady’s niece, Leslie Robinson, was playing for Princeton.
Leslie Robinson #45
The Obama Diary 
Hello!
Merry Advent!
So sorry CarolD2……I missed your time stamped entrance.
You and LDS both have scored the Au ⭐ Congrats.
Carol congratulations!
Sharing Is Caring.
Our First Lady is a great as well as a great Mom-In-Charge.
I love to see Mrs. Robinson out having fun. So glad to see her passing on her wisdom to her her granddaughters.
There is something about a grandmother’s love and wisdom. It is hard to explain.
Okay. Off to see an Off-Broadway play. I have no desire nor money to shop.
HOLY BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
After what J.J. Abrams did to Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness, he has me again with this trailer.
I. CANNOT. WAIT.
O.M.G. I got chills when that familiar music started to play!!!! 😀 w00t!!!
Iknorite! 😀
Major Squeeeeeee!
^Our First Lady is a great Aunt Asa well as a great Mom-In-Charge.^
WHEN did Sasha grow to be the same height as Malia??!!?? WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!! WOW!!!!
^as well as^
That’s what I get for cleaning the screen…..too many eras…Oh, just forget it!
Thanks a traaaaaaaaaaaaazillion Nerdy!!!!
You’re welcome, Chips.
Hope you got some sleep today Nerdy, you must be wrecked after last night – and here you are posting. #WonderWoman
There is a news blackout on the activities of the VP….
time and time again…our MSM has let us down..
Unless they can make up a story about some silly “gaffe” that he did or said. //smdh
very true….I think of the important role that the VP is playing re: the Ukraine….
sigh…the Media is so important…however mostly there is RWNutJob media or libertarian media masquerading as left media…
it seems to be a rise in Spanish radio…I should take a course in Spanish…
My, Leslie Robinson is a gorgeous young lady! Likewise for the Presidential daughter, Sasha. All grown up!
Yep! And, Lesile’s team is 5-0 for the season 🙂
Good tweet pf – thanks for putting it out there.
🙂
The benefactors of all their money were calling for “drill baby drill” so now they are complaining there’s a “glut baby glut”.
Congrats on 1st LDS 🙂
So many fun pictures, NW. Thank you.
Won’t post it here, but if you want to have a little fun it appears Bill Clinton made the news …. just google his name and ‘selfie ogling’ …
Gag on that Bubba thing. EEK.
Yep. That’s why I didn’t post it, but it’s all over the news and twitterverse …
I’ll try to avoid it. Ha!
Love how TOD keeps us informed.
Agree with JO’B re: WJC, but since I live in the LA area, let me say this about that photo.
Seems that it’s a given that women who spend a lot of money on bosom enhancement feel compelled to force others to look at the surgeon’s handiwork. I pretty much avoid the LA area in general because of this relatively recent phenomenon.
Don’t care how people spend their money, but I really dislike their need to shove in people’s faces — I’m short, and in crowds I mean that literally.
You’re welcome, Bob.
“Bo Obama” and “Sunny Obama”! How can we not love that!? 😉
NW, wow, you give us treats every day! Thank you ❤
These pics of them at the b-ball game are fantastic! Good to see Sasha being a normal teen with her girlfriends. Great to see Mrs. Robinson, looking well and it's always good to see our First Lady – anytime – any where. 🙂
LOVE Mrs. Robinson!
I truly hope that she is writing a book — OK with me if it’s a ghost writer who can frame the narrative starting with Mrs. Robinson’s parents/ancestors and then cover everything else in her remarkable life.
I’d wait in line for this book.
Thanks, GGail.
I’ve watched the video over and over again, I just love the first family. Just before the end of the video and Mrs. Obama hugs the two gentlemen that donated the tree, the man standing in front of Sasha tells Mrs. Obama that he thinks Sasha looks like Mrs. Robinson and that Malia looks like her….so cute. I personally think Sasha looks so much like Mrs. Obama who also looks like Mrs. Robinson. Malia is 100% the spitting image of her dad and late grandmother Stanley Ann. Mailia is definitely a Durham.
Lovely pictures. I know FLOTUS is busy with the holidays but it is always great to see her.
Good afternoon, TOD! Had a wonderful day yesterday, five generations of my family were gathered at my cousin’s home in NJ for a delightful meal and fellowship. I was physically having a rough day; considered cancelling; so glad I didn’t, because even though I wasn’t feeling that great, being with family lifted my spirits. BTW, my E-A-G-L-E-S served up a azz-whooping on the cowgirls as a tasty side dish.
Off to do some work; just realized today is the last banking day of the month…
Have a Blessed day!
hopefruit2 as I said before I remember some polls coming out before the election where it said that most of Americans felt the country was not doing better, it was going in the wrong direction.
Me too bella2758…I heard the same story on NPR that most Americans felt the country was going in the wrong direction. In another NPR story, consumer confidence was up? I think America is just schizophrenic.
Wow…..What a Pictorial Bonanza, NW. Brava!
LDS has the TOD Au ⭐ , YES!
Folks…..Crude Oil is off now $7 plus. Now at $66.30…….Wow….Holy Freaking Smokes 😉
Thanks, Nena.
Wonder when Putin will start crying?
Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Or at least one w/o drama. 🙂
Dear GB How are u feeling?
It was wonderful gb, outside of the Dallas Cowboys getting their butts kick by the Eagles, everything was wonderful. Hope yours and your family was wonderful too gb.
Hey, otter. The same. But, I had a fun Thanksgiving with my family. 🙂
Hi, GoB. 🙂 🙂 It’s so good to see you! {{{{GoB}}}}
(((Hugs))) VC! 🙂
Isn’t our First Family lovely? 🙂
Hay haters, isn’t our First Family lovely? 🙂
I love the picture were big sister is helping out little sister.
Yes, lovely First Family – we will miss them in 2017. After 2017, we probably will no longer feel like watching any of the WH holiday moments like pardoning of the turkey, arrival of the Christmas tree, or the Christmas in Washington, etc., shows in December.
🙂
Yes hopefruit2, you are so right. I remember I never used to watch such things as this.
Passion for education ….
Quite a few updates, via RTs, in the sidebar ….
Oh my goodness. What an image!
This is amazing. I am going to print this and put it in my kids rooms.
Awe inspiring.
I am intrigued by the fact that the Obama ladies almost always are colour coordinated. Usually makes me wonder if it’s a fluke or planned.
Could be a bit of both… My Mom and I live 5 miles apart; at 5 of the last 6 events that we’ve attended together, we’ve shown up color coordinated! Total fluke…
I know it’s possible. While I used to do ironing weekly for offspring and I, we’d be heading out for school and work sometimes when I’d notice that we were coordinated, without conscious thought. Of course that’s different from when you have physical distance between you, but yea, it could be both.
it is possible. I have four kids, each have their own bedrooms and almost always they come downstairs dressed in the same color.
Must be something in their mental unity/communication. 🙂
Mooooooorning VeeeeeCeeeee!
Morning, TOD Rabble Rouser! How are you and the ‘kid’ today?
You do realize that you could be charged with using a torture instrument, don’t you?
O, wait! You’re just the person to consult. There was a request that the Bryan Stevenson town hall be placed in the side bar for a while so more people might check out his views and the work he has been doing. They deserve added attention. Here’s the link… provided by Smartypants
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/11/26/mpr_news_presents
I’m not sure if you saw the interview Taiping shared previously – which is when I first ‘met’ Mr. Stevenson. Here are the links for that – Part 1 and Part 2
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/20/just_mercy_bryan_stevenson_on_ferguson
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/11/20/part_2_bryan_stevenson_on_executions
VC, will you remind me about this later today or in the morning? Haven’t time to do anything with it now, but will do – thank you!
No problemo, Chica Chile! Have yourself a productive, yet restful day!
Are you sure this kid is 12?
Wow! That kid has got some pipes on him! Chills! 🙂
I’m sure PBO will be having left-over pie from yesterday’s dinner, this evening. If he hasn’t already helped himself to a couple slices for the day.
Sorry, Hopefruit; no matter how you hint, PBO is not going to share any of his pie with you!
Well I don’t know about THAT!
In fact, I’m patiently waiting for him to send me a text msg inviting me to afternoon tea at the WH – where leftover pie, and other goodies will be served.
Yea, you’d need to patiently wait. 😀 This is probably one of those very few days/times he can enjoy his pie without any hesitation.
Good for him! 🙂 Something tells me that PBO has probably consumed the equivalent of two whole pies between Wednesday and today. But unlike the majority of us who will gain weight by just smelling pie, his lean-mean machine body will process those calories as if he were just drinking water…
‘Good for him!’ I agree.
And had the White House chefs hide some more slices of pie for him! Ha.
Pope Francis is so wise. We really need him and he is here. He has the spiritual truth and the wisdom about applying it in the physical world in the way of Christ.
Totally agree. President Obama and Pope Francis both came along just when we needed them.
Teach, Doc, Teach. I read the darn thing and my useless 4eyes saw and read it as “alone”…just as you have educated the NYT ;), but failed to see ‘along’ as written.
🙂
I truly marvel at the writing and acting that is Scandal.
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/538353979034714
That is The Dick Cheney Redness……
What a relief it is to visit TOD! Pictures, videos and news about dear POTUS and family. And a community that I know has his back. Love it!! I’ve been retweeting your news. I think I just have one to add right now. POTUS’ and FLOTUS’ work for veterans always impresses me. Their push to end veteran homelessness is a BFD.
Proud of Phoenix for this:)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/us/program-to-end-homelessness-among-veterans-hits-milestone-in-arizona.html?_r=0
Phoenix to become the first community in the country to end homelessness among veterans with long or recurrent histories of living on the streets.
Right now on Book TV …. Chuck Todd is interviewing Ben Carson.
hahaaaaa
Did you actually watch this? If yes, all I can say is that you have a strong stomach!
No…. I immediately clicked.
Phew! Your rep with me remains intact. 😀 That Carson character has revealed himself to be a real narrow-minded ‘one-intelligence’ idiot! IMHO 😉
And an angel just lost her wings.
Yes….and I hope NO ONE EVER SHOPS AT WALMART!!
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_11/the_real_deadbeats053095.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29#
no ma’am. I don’t. And not ONLY just because of how they treat their workers. If you are a manufacturer (like who I work for) they squeeze you till you squeak. it’s kind of like trying to do business with Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life”. So I won’t support Mr. Walton or his family as he surely does not support mine.
Semyonchenko is correct ….
#DefeatingPutin … must be the focus.
On comment in moderation another in spam …. 🙂
From the article :
In North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio, to name just three, GOPers have recast state and congressional districts to consolidate black voters into what the political pros call “majority-minority districts” to diminish the influence of these voters. North Carolina is an especially glaring example: GOP-redistricting after the 2010 elections led to half the state’s black population — 1.1 million people — being corralled into one-fifth of the state legislative and congressional districts. “The districts here take us back to a day of segregation that most of us thought we’d moved away from,” State Sen. Dan Blue Jr., who was previously North Carolina’s first black House speaker, told the Nation in 2012.
And it got worse in 2014…
non presidential elections are notoriously known for low voter turn out…esp among DEM Voters….in 2014…when it was imperative for the Dem voters to vote…it did not happen… in addition to Dems not voting…There was Voter Suppression (big time)…the DEM candidates attempted to appeal tot he racist vote by spurning the President and the forces that elected him…the MSM depressed the vote with doom and gloom and doom and outright fear tactics…
with Reid’s most recent stint to capitulate to the GOP re: tax breaks for the rich…Schumer bashing PBO re: Healthcare…it does not seem that the DEMS have learned much….
paying close attention to the President…. and what he will be saying and doing…as the primary season heats up..
Thank you, PF. Had inserted the link in a comment, then got distracted by a phone call. Hit post only to fine you’d not only shared my link, but also provided and excerpt. THANK YOU!
thumbs up!
“an” vice “and”
🙂 He’s in deep doo doo 🙂 EXCELLENT! (too bad the Russian people have to suffer for his arrogance)
It is unfortunate for the vast majority of Russians, but the reality is that they are the only ones who can make their society different.
Now, I happen to know this was shared here previously but some of you may not have had the time to listen, and it probably slipped your mind. Today is the perfect time to tune in. It’s audio. Do it now, if you haven’t already!
Smartypants shares ….
Someone we should all be listening to: Bryan Stevenson
Today I was in my car running some pre-Thanksgiving errands and listening to Minnesota Public Radio between stops. I was absolutely blown away by a speech they were airing and kept wondering “who IS this guy?” It wasn’t until the end that I heard it was Bryan Stevenson, founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Once I got home, I located the speech on MPR and listened to the whole thing uninterrupted.
I know you are all going to be busy with family and loved ones over the next few days. But if you have an hour to spare, I can’t imagine a better way to spend it that listening to this one. Here’s a link where you can do that.
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/11/26/mpr_news_presents
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http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ie/2014/11/someone-we-should-all-be-listening-to.html
Twitter link for those who would like to pass it along.
Thank you VC.
EJI Tops List of Civil Rights Organizations
http://www.eji.org/node/1008
I’d never heard of it or of Stevenson before Taiping brought him to our attention last week. He seems very committed to a sector of society many have been deaf to, and I’m hopeful this will be the start of him getting a wider and wider audience that will join him in his efforts.
He is well known in the criminal defense community. He successfully argued 3 cases in the Supreme Court ending death penalty for children and death in prison verdicts (life without parole) for children tried as an adult. His organization Equal Justice Initiative has been a model in providing free legal aid for those on death row in the South, training lawyers and investigators.
Well, Taiping, it’s definitely time he gets known more widely! We know the idiots prancing around and making asses of themselves before the media but many are unaware of this man’s valuable contribution and message. I walked into Target’s book section to see if they had his book, but they didn’t. Books and magazines I’m interested in always take a while to reach my corner of the world, but I’ll keep looking.
DM me your address. I have an extra copy and will mail it to you.
Are you serious? 😯 I don’t mind waiting till it becomes more readily available, you know.
Yes. Will send it today. I’m taiping2 on twitter
I’m not in the States, but …if you’re sure, okay.
Perhaps it could be on the sidebar for awhile. I think it is that awesome and full of factual data!
A good idea, Smiling – do suggest it to NerdyW, or Chips Chica. My computer keeps crashing so I don’t know how much time I have on line. 😀
Good!
Lots of protestors started last night!
Pardon Me 😆 🙄 😆 but the Juvenile in me could not resist…….and The Virgin Airline too 😉 ❓
Oh look…..all the Newstainers gathered to bitch and moan about access to President’s and how it is getting worse and worse.. boo hoo hoo.
October 25, 2014
Reporting from the White House
White House correspondents shared their experiences covering presidents from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama. The first panel of former correspondents discussed some of the changes since their White House assignments, including access to the president and how contemporary media had influenced these changes. The second panel of correspondents currently assigned to the White House focused on how the Obama administration controls access by the press.
“A Tribute to Our 40-Year Veterans” was held by the White House Correspondents’ Association at the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?322332-1/discussion-reporting-white-house
I caught a little of this in the middle of the night a couple days ago. Mike Allen was in the back of the room taking notes….
Mark Knoller was also there……
Most of them just whined….
Sigh.
“I will have justice for what they did to me,” Conner wrote on Facebook Thursday. “But I’m happy I’m alive.”
Sadly, doubt that she will. There is no justice when A-A’s are harmed or killed by police or any random white person as evidenced by what happened to Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin. They will say that the cop felt threatened, the powers that be will accept this, and she will be added to list of thousands of African-American victims and their families who know for sure that there is no justice because we are considered to be animals who deserve to be slaughtered.
From the article it seems the cops are claiming that her boyfriend was running down the/a cop. In fact there’s apparently now a warrant out for his arrest, so I don’t doubt that nothing will come of it from the perspective of justice for her. I wasn’t there. I don’t know. But, I sure do know that law enforcement has the terminology down pat and is quick to find their counter argument which is not often truth. In short, I don’t really trust law enforcement’s word when there is a POC on the other side.
Is the Ferguson police department fill with KKK members.
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/28/chat-away-472/
Another Walmart infographic that explains shrinking local economies and more….all because of Walmart and their greed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025882599
wish I could’ve gotten that picture in but it was so big