President Barack Obama speaks at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., about the fight against Ebola. The president is highlighting advances in research for an Ebola vaccine and pushing Congress to approve his request for $6.2 billion to confront the disease abroad and to secure against its spread in the United States
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President Barack Obama tours the Vaccine Research Center with Dr. Nancy Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of HHS Sylvia Burwell, and Dr. Anthony Fauci to talk about Ebola, during a visit to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
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"I’m calling on Congress to approve our emergency funding request to fight this disease." —President Obama #Ebola http://t.co/waIFFNyACz
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 02, 2014"The American people have sent Washington a pretty clear message: Find areas where you agree…work together and get the job done." —Obama
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 02, 2014****
The Obama Diary 
Good evening NW! Another fabulous post. We have an amazing President.
Nath! ⭐
What a surprise I am usually here last. Now I have to run to go to work.
Pardon my manners meant to say thanks MP
Your manners are always perfect, Nath, and match your excellent commentary! 🙂
Yes we do nath ~ completely amazing.. congrats on first and my thanks also, Ms. Nerdy for keeping us so well informed 🙂
Thanks, Sherijr.
Congrats, Nath, well deserved #1.
Think this is the first time for a year or more that we’ve been on TOD at the same time.
Did the San Diego area get rain today?
I’m 5 miles south of the Ronald Reagan library, and it’s rained during all of the daylight hours (not raining now).
Great soaking rain, only rained hard for a few minutes around noon. Since it’s early in our rainy season, hope this picks up after the holidays in January — can’t wait for our parched brown hillsides to become green again.
Thanks f\Arapaho. Yes we got plenty of rain and it’s still raining. But I am now off to work until 10PM our time, 1PM Eastern time. Blessings to all Toders. from my fellow SCalif. Dive carefully and stay safe.
Thanks, Nath.
Aaaaaand…yes, we do.
Evenin’, nath. Congrats on 1st. And thanks for this important post, NW!
You’re welcome, Ms. J’OB.
Indeed Nath. We LOVE OUR PRESIDENT! Congrats on #1 🙂
Thanks Nerdy for highlighting our President’s visit to NIH and his remarks on Ebola progress and funding for research and vaccines. Considering how much media attention Ebola got in the weeks and days leading up to the midterms, I’m just *shocked* at how little media coverage this got today…
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We are wise to their ridiculous games.
Thanks, HF.
Yes we do, nath! Congrats!!
NW, so appreciate each of your “President’s Day” posts. Thank you!
Thanks, Sir Bob.
Thanks a traaaaaaaaazillion Nerdy!!!
Thanks, Chiparooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Thank *yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou*!
Pres Obama has a closed-door meeting tomorow with Turtle.
🙂 I’m relieved it’s closed BFF, I don’t want to see ANY photos!
😀
Something tells me that Turtle won’t be very happy after that meeting. PBO is in no mood for nonsense….this is not 2010…
Yes, ol’ Mitch will come out of that meeting, walk up to the cameras, wipe a tear, and call the President “Emperor.” They really have no idea how they look to normal people with brains, do they?
JOB, I don’t think people like Turtle care what they look like to normal people with brains because that’s not for votes for them or who pays them their millions under the table. Keep the rubes and the money men happy and they do okay.
So true and so very disgusting!
Listening to POTUS talking about the science, only POTUS can make it look like he knows what he is talking about when he has no idea what he is talking about.
huh?
Listen to POTUS at the beginning of his speech were he is talking about what the scientists do.
yeah, so?
Forget it.!
yes, your post was forgettable.
Can I say I feel the world is just a tad bit safer because your fierceness is in it. (If that makes any sense.)
I still don’t understand the insinuation of her post. But heh, as I said it was forgettable.
But it’s true. ‘voters’ rewarded the traitorous thugs handsomely.
Well if there is another Government shutdown, just remember all those who couldn’t bother to go vote Nov. 4th. Kept your darn mouth shut.
If some of us Democrats had let a little thing like that stop us, we’d have given up when Reagan was elected. Not gonna happen.
It’s a pendulum which WILL swing back. The wait is what makes it so hard, but the knowledge that we’ve seen this before is what lets us see that distant light at the end of the tunnel.
ironic that from raygun to dumbya to corrupt mcturtle, boner & co, the right wing has gotten worse, while the left has progressed from carter to clinton to PBO.
Makin’ me ever so glad I had “Democrat” in my veins when I was born back in the stone age!
Posted these earlier today, but as usual, at the tailend of a thread:
And Colbert never fails to crack me up (start giggling when I think of his getting on a dime-store horse ride impersonating Palin/teabaggers):
These are great, arapaho! And good evening to you.
Thank you Arapaho!!!
Lost in the Fifties-for the “geezers” among us.
Almost brought tears with all the memories.
http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu
Oh, Yardarm what a treat!!! Loved it. Thank you. The toys got me. Especially the jacks and old-fashioned roller skates. Add a jump rope and you have my childhood activites with my friends.
Nice share. If not for the first couple shots, I might have been duped into thinking these were the good old days for me. But, I take a bit of it and enjoy my share of childhood. Thanks !!
I remember all of it…..Sad to say. 😆
Geez, Yardarm, you really got me chocked up with all the memories–I remember every single one of these things. Thank you.
We’re living history books, I think. 🙂
Yes, we are and good for us. Though there were rotten undercurrents in the US then and now, there were still good times, especially for the young.
‘Twas but a wee lass during the 1950s, but many of these references endured during the first part of the 1960s too, so definitely recognized most of them.
I’ve been to NYC only twice, the first time in 1969 with my mother, who was eager to show me the automats (her most vivid recollection of NYC in the 1940s I think) which never made it to San Diego.
And Hollywood’s Golden Age — (my fav was Audrey Hepburn) — always admired the shorter stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor.
I remember very well that my next door neighbor boy and I would be glued to the Superman TV show after school (must have been reruns because the George Reeve died in 1959, when I started 1st grade) — and then jump on the bed in an attempt to fly, which I’m sure didn’t please my Mom much.
Thanks for the memories, yardarm.
You’re welcome…..Young’uns have no idea. 🙂
Great collection of photos, NW. Love it when PBO gets to tour facilities and learn about their work.
Thanks, Meta.
#GivingTuesday
I’ve supported them from the beginning and through the horror caused by #60Minutes hack attack on the Founder of CAI. The Institute has persisted and is doing wonderful work.
BTW, lots of updates, via RTs, in the sidebar.
In case you’ve missed it, Erdogan SUCKS and is emerging as a pariah on a scale comparable to Putin, Assad & Netanyahu.
We are a nation of immigrants.
For more than 200 years, that heritage has given America a big advantage over other countries. It has kept us young, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. But today, our immigration system is broken.
When I took office, I committed to fixing our broken immigration system. I began by doing what I could to secure our borders. Today, we have more agents and technology deployed to secure our southern border than at any time in our history. Over the past six years, illegal border crossings have been cut by more than half. Although this summer, there was a brief spike in unaccompanied children being apprehended at our border, the number of such children is now actually lower than it’s been in nearly two years. Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is at its lowest level since the 1970s.
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‘President Obama has said that he’s not interested in leading a national conversation on race. He’s busy having a different kind of conversation that’s going right over the heads of most pundits who are whining about leadership. ‘
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ie/2014/12/a-nugget-of-hope-from-chris-rock.html
I had meditated on Chris Rock’s comments for several hours before I wrote the letter to President Obama linked in the tweet, below.
I agree that President Obama should not lead a ‘national conversation on race,’ because I do not think that Any black or brown person should lead that conversation.
That conversation needs to be led by white folk and participated in by white folk because until white folk face the truth and reconcile THEIR racism, the problem will persist.
My hope is that President Obama will challenge white Americans to take up the cause of #TruthAndReconciliation, and then just keep trucking with all he’s doing. He might give a Tim Wise, or a Nicholas Kristof, or Tom Hanks, or …. a call and encourage them to step forward and lead, but the malignancy of American Racism is for White Americans to admit and comprehensively vanquish.
#BackBarack
I like the tone of your letter, Bobfr. Wouldn’t it be something if some influential white Americans stepped forward to lead a movement like this?!! It’s way past time for America to truly move forward to a point where the killing of all citizens is viewed through the eyes of justice and not of colour.
Thank you, VC.
I’ve often wondered how different it might have been in RFKJr led the March on Washington instead of MLKJr.
Without any doubt, many prominent white Americans need to step forward and face the reality that this malignancy of racism is OURS to cure, not POC.
I’ve tweeted Tom Hanks and Tim Wish and encouraged them to support a #TruthAndReconciliation Movement. Just now decided to also send this missive …
#BackBarack
Well done, VC!!! Thank you and RT’d!!
Bobfr → ⭐
You’re very sweet, VC. Thank you
Might as well seize the moment! 🙂
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Very important and well stated message to the president, Bob. I hope you will share with us any response you get.
Thank you Jackie – and, should I ever be graced with a response, the TOD community will be the first to know!!!!
Wow Bob. This is fantastic and I wholeheartedly agree. It is us, the white Americans, who need to lead and I too would help in whatever way I can.
Thank you Jackie and I’m shoulder to shoulder with you. Just wish I had the clout, but maybe some of those I’m nudging will step forward.
If I remember correctly, Tom Hanks and his wonderful wife will be hosting the DC Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Who knows, maybe he’ll have read the tweet and the letter and have a convo with the President. It’ll only take someone of Tom Hanks’ stature to hit the go button and #TruthAndReconciliation will be the title of a major movie and much, much more!!
I do not think that white America can rid themselves of white privilege alone…i think that it has to be a joint effort between all of us..i do think that the first step has to be for white america to acknowledge that racism and institutional racism exists…that it is not imaginary…and to listen to how racism manifests itself in the day to day life of people of color….
As I’ve noted before, pf, POC are the source of knowledge, insight, inspiration, encouragement and moral support that a bona fide #TruthAndReconciliation Movement in America will depend.
But, the malignancy of US Racism is a white America disease, and it will never be vanquished by anyone other than white Americans.
American POC are not the problem. They are the manifestation of how resilient the human spirit is in the face of centuries of systemic, unrelenting abuse.
White Americans willing to pursue #TruthAndReconciliation until US Racism is vanquished will need to emulate the resiliency of their POC brothers and sisters.
Thank you.
I agree that we are not the problem…but the eradication of racism and and the ensuing reconciliation cannot happen in a vacuum…we must stand together…
Of course, pf
You are so cool 🙂
Very kind of you, edp4bho 🙂
Methinks, Sir Bobfr, you may be packing a bag for your trip to DC before too long. Your vision will be needed. ❤
That’s very generous of you, MP!
But, while my shoulder is always willing to lean into the wheel, the scale of this several centuries long US malignancy is going to require white Americans of enormous stature to recognize that the greatest contribution they could ever make to American and humanity is to vanquish US racism.
‘The other day I suggested that one of the people we need to be listening to about this is Bryan Stevenson. He brings it all together for me when he says that these kinds of policies are the result of “a political vision that is fueled by fear and sustained by anger.” In the end, he sounds an awful lot like President Obama when he says that we have to find a “voice of hopefulness to turn these things around.” ‘
Go read the post in its entirety if you haven’t already.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ie/2014/12/where-anger-and-fear-have-brought-us.html
Frankly, I’m amazed that a week ago I’d never heard of Bryan Stevenson, and now I see him each time I turn. That’s good, as he has a strong and always timely message. It feels really good to see another leader who is not focused on himself gaining traction!
He is an inspiration, VC, for sure. I’ve listened to several of his presentations. However, as noted above, he and Rev Dr Barber and other fantastic POC should be and are sources of inspiration. It’s for us white folk to do the heavy lifting of #TruthAndReconciliation because WE are the problem and have been for hundreds of years.
As a side note, 13+ Centuries of ‘institutional’ enslavement of Africans is a stain on Islam’s legacy and is only now being challenged, largely thanks to Twitter & YouTube! What was particularly perverse about those centuries of enslaving Africans is that their Muslim slave traders castrated the males to ensure no propagation from one generation of slaves to the next.
Us humans have a lot of evolving to do before we emerge as an empathetic, truly civilized species.
Us humans have a lot of evolving to do before we emerge as an empathetic, truly civilized species. Hmmhn!
I’ll cross my figurative fingers as I wait to see where all of what is happening today (in Ferguson and around the country) leads.
Me too ….
Ok all, off to have some leftover turkey fricassee made by Mother of LL, black beans and rice, and some wine given to me by a grateful patron. See everyone on the flip.
Enjoy! It sounds so delicious, upscale from my boiled potatoes and salmon (leftover from yesterday).
I’d take the boiled potatoes and salmon! Sounds delish, as well.
So true.
Now, that’s like a kick in the face!!
You really should resuscitate your @amk4obama Twitter account and Tweet that!!!
it’s done & dusted, Bob. tod is the only place I occasionally visit now. 🙂
Well, all I can say is I’m thrilled you are still with us, amk.
And a good thing too.
One of a very, very few cartoonist I can ‘recognize’ before seeing the signature AND really like!
Some new polls on the CLOWN CAR circus that is coming to a town near you in 2016.
Mitt Rmoney beats all with 20% (there must be 20% of the population that are multi-millionaires)
Dr. Ben Carson, the famous neurologist, who is also famous for saying palinesque things (and a great hater of POTUS) pulls 10%.
Chris Christie is far down below with just 6%, followed by Rand Paul who made it just in time before they reach 100%.
On the Dem side, like it or not, our presumptive front-runner that has yet to disclose her intentions, recorded 68%. But so did she in 2008.
Whatever the CLOWN CAR circus is bringing to us, I am voting for a Democratic candidate, because on the other side, they are all scary and crazy.
Ben Carson and Mitt Romney sounds like dumb and dumber…
…with the rest (Christie, Paul, and Perry) looking more like the three stooges.
The Clown Car of the Republican Party is actually very frightening.
the republicans probably believe that Carson would win the black vote. Yes, they are that racist.
It’s all fun and games for the corrupt media and their corrupt pollster shills while the real issues get side tracked.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/02/ben-carson-feminism_n_6254444.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
I still have a cousin and his family in this small town and spent many a summer vacation there at my aunt’s house when I was young. There’s no escaping racial profiling, no matter your small-town address.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for someone fresh and uplifting with ideas to continue to move this nation ahead on the Crats side to enter the ring….forward we must go…not backwards…NO RERUNS PLEASE!!!!
That ‘new car smell’ that President Obama has not been the least be restrained in indicating is what is needed, Lynn, will emerge. We won’t be electing a Clinton in 2016 or any other flavor of Republican.
So proud of our Scientist-in- Chief who believes in facts and reason; who knows that great break-throughs that benefit us all take time, dedication and funding. He is steady as a rock; through all the yelling and hyped-up media driven hysteria (which is all over now that the elections are done) he has been getting things done. We lost so much ground in scientific research and discovery because of the anti-intellectual Dubya years. In this areas, as in so many others, PBO is cleaning up the mess and putting us on the road forward for the betterment of our country and the world. I am so thankful that he came our way.
I also just got the chance to see the video that shows how the 3D bust of PBO was made; that is so cool on so many levels.
Iran has made air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq in recent days, though not in co-ordination with the US, the Pentagon says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30304723
Relevant ….
As it should be ….
The Bear is on the loose. You go, President Obama. Show ALL of them what love if country and true leadership is.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/12/02/tuesday-calls-for-hahas/