President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at a reception hosted by President Pranab Mukherjee on India’s Republic Day at the presidential palace
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave as they pose with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi smile as they talk during a reception in the Mughal Gardens of the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi, India
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet guests
President Barack Obama speaks during the India-U.S business summit in New Delhi. President Obama urged business leaders to find ways to seize the “untapped potential” that could unleash greater trade between the U.S. and India
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Honeywell CEO Dave Cote and Prime Minister Narendra Modi laugh at a remark by President Barack Obama during a CEO Roundtable and Forum at the India-U.S. Business Summit
The Obama Diary 
namaste tod!
Namaste Susanne.
Sending you the medals! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
🙂
5:45 PM EST – Vice President Biden Speaks at the Major County Sheriffs’ Association/Major Cities Chiefs Association 2015 Joint Winter Meeting
aloha jer! i guess we’re first to the party. where’s the snacks?
Hi there Susanne. Where did the others go. Congrats on first.
possibly out shoveling snow… ? that’s how i snuck in the door 🙂
Don’t make me laugh. I am staying in door. I am not going outside for no reason whatsoever. The office might see a bit of me Thursday or Friday. And that depends.
sorry, no child. not funny to mention snow right now. hope you have some good books and snacks and a cozy lap blanket.
this cracks me up– modi has his name woven into pinstripes for his business suit 🙂
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/26/381581077/indias-modi-makes-a-name-for-himself-literally-in-meeting-with-obama
He had more outfits than FLOTUS. 😉
can’t deny i was liking his sunglasses. and that turban with the fanned topper! glorious!
exactly what I’ve been thinking–LOL
Is PM Modi marry?
Did the jacket with his name did you in? Me too.
Giiiiiiiiiiiiinornous thank yous Nerdy, a beuatiful recap of the day!!
amen. love that first photo. pbo does not need a pretty turban to look fabulous.
Thanks, ChiparooooodiMaria.
NW, thanks for the coverage. Love FLOTUS’s outfit.
the dress with jacket combo is so pretty and still formal in that lush fabric.
No Child Left Behind, I love FLOTUS outfit too. She’s the best. I can imagine how she feel to be away from her daughters.
Thank God everything was alright, but it doesn’t stop you from worrying. You know folks might want to do them hard just because their father is the President.
I’m sorry, I meant to say harm.
I love it too but I want to see a closeup because FLOTUS’ dresses always have the most unique and/or intricate designs.
You’re welcome, NCLB.
Spectacular images and links, Nerdy Wonka, as is always the case. Missed a lot since their first events, but I feel relieved knowing I can check in for the latest from TOD, and also go back and meander through every single glowing shining fascinating nuanced bit. There is SO MUCH here. Thank you for all of it.
You’re welcome, Nancie.
Was this story already posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/26/nyt-columnist-charles-blow-says-hes-fuming-after-his-son-was-held-at-gunpoint-by-yale-police/
And the comments are full of white privilege – would like to see their reaction if they were accosted by a policeman – had gun pointed at them & told to get on the ground
Yes I believe it was posted here
I saw this tweet last night.
Amazing; 100% of the population is literate and other stats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
Religion 2000 1990
Catholics 78.4% 84.9%
Reformed Church 7.9% 9.4%
Christian-Orthodox Churches 1.1% 0.7%
Undeclared / no religion 7.0% 2.4%
Other Christian Churches 0.4% 0.1%
Muslims 4.8% 2.4%
Jewish 0.1% 0.0%
Other religions 0.3% 0.1%
I guess everyone there must own a gun. *snark*
Beautiful, beautiful photo collection, Nerdy. I would love to think that PBO feels all the love we send him on these trips. We worry about every detail, feel pride at his every word and look and treasure his interactions with foreign leaders in places where he’s admired and respected. There’s no one else in the country, aside from those traveling with him. who get this close to experiencing his trips. It’s just an amazing and wonderful gift we get only here and that makes us very, very lucky people. Thanks to you and Chips for all the very hard work it takes for us to travel with our president.
I believe in my heart he does know, jg. And FLOTUS knows we hold her dear, so dear. Love knows no borders or boundaries, love is real time, they feel it when we are feeling and emitting love.
Intriguing
Oh I love murder mysteries.
Brava 🍸 Brava 🍸 Brava 🍸 NW
Wow!
Au ⭐ for Susane.
Thanks, Nena.
oh, no– gold goes to nerdy wonka and the rest of the tod gang who keep bringing superb coverage here.
but thanks 🙂 it was fun to arrive with the ‘post comment’ offer at the top.
i hope sp
“so”
‘for whatever reason’– sorry to say, it hasn’t been apparent that congressional dems are standing with the president and his plans. evidenced by the recent election, when they pretended there wasn’t a popular, 2-term democratic president whose many successes they could have championed.
i know…talk about shooting themselves in the foot…according to polls…if you believe polls …most Americans agree with the issues that the President outline in his SOTU address
Indian PM had his name woven in his Outfit. Interesting.
I remembered that The deposed Egyptian president, Mubarak had his name woven in to his Western Designer Suit in 2009 or so.
I don’t really get the reason why, frankly.
The Patriots coach probably called Fox’s science reporter .
DeGrasse Tyson is so amazing. he can shut the crazy down so fast.
gah! science! 🙂
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was released from the hospital in Washington on Monday afternoon after successful surgery to remove a blood clot in his right eye, his office said.
His spokesman Adam Jentleson said the senator was resting at home and in good spirits, “cracking jokes” with his wife. He added, “Doctors have said they are optimistic about his prospects for regaining vision in his right eye but there is no definitive verdict yet.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/harry-reid-hospital-vision-right-eye
How your whole life can change in an instant! Hope he’s well soon.
Best wishes to our Minority Leader. He is one tough cookie.
I think the Keystone vote is tonight.
Lisa Murkowski is on the floor of the Senate speaking to an empty chamber about how great Alaska is and how the pipeline will create jobs.
GA Linda,
Saw on the “watching” segment of @nytimes that all House and Senate votes scheduled for the first part of this week were canceled due to the weather.
Does WP have a correction function?
Looks like I was all wet. 😦
You’re welcome:) This will come in handy when you come across a RWNJ climate denier that makes fun of the blizzard in the winter…..
And they are setting aside $1 BILLION to buy the 2016 election for themselves. What’s $1B when you have $40B ?? They aim to kill us all…and make more $$ for themselves….
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924
we should symbolically sue the Supreme Ct for allowing this travesty to happen in the first place!
however…i remind myself…the PBO was able to defeat the big money in 2012…Romney was so convinced that he was going to win…that he did not write a concession speech…Rove did not accept the President won Ohio….but the President will not be running in 2016…i do not know what will happen
Yes, PBO beat the big money and so did Mayor de Blasio and just yesterday PM Elect Tsipras did the same – and in all three cases the vast majority of the media was set against them, as well.
If VP Biden announces he will run, he will win because he will motivate an enormous turnout and he will have PBO & First Lady Obama working overtime on his behalf. As all of you know, I think if he teams with Senator Warren he will not only win, make history, but have an incredibly strong partner in restoring the middle class.
thank you for this Bob…i know i have been a lil bit down at the prospect of 2016…
Understood, pf58. We’re all in this together and we will prevail and continue to expand on President Obama’s many successes. No better person than VP Biden to take it to the next level.
Yes We Can
Must Read! Pass it!
http://www.eclectablog.com/2015/01/while-were-laughing-at-republicans-theyre-warping-our-economy-our-politics-and-our-brains.html
Does this look familiar to you, Df?
No…but it sure is beautiful1
Am still trying to figure it out (instead of looking it up ). 😀
Looks like somewhere around Antelope Canyon maybe….Navajo Reservation in N. AZ
I was thinking more along the lines of what exactly is the makeup of what I’m seeing. Not very creative, I know, but it makes me think of onion skin. 😉
This is in the Page, AZ area on the Utah border, where the old-timers had “uranium on the cranium,” according to historical markers.
Page is about equidistance from NV and NM — across the Utah border is the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which is remote, sparsely visited and spectacular. Further east is Monument Valley, the staple of Westerns and advertisements — always photographed from the eastern entrance.
End of US Geography class for now, LOL.
Always appreciate any geography class, arapaho415!
Thanks, Arapaho. You have one fantastic memory, a terrific love for trivia/travel info, or else excellent research skills. To get a picture of what you described above I’d have to look up EACH little piece – and you know I won’t do that. 😀
I’m a true blue Westerner, and since I hate to fly, my vacations are almost always west of the Rockies.
Alaska was the exception — I split the trip into two segments — first to Seattle for a few days, then to AK — you know I prefer window seats, and the scenery from Seattle to Anchorage is spectacular from the air.
That’s funny. I hate to fly too and I also prefer window seats. Of course, *I* don’t check out the scenery – I bury my head in a book, and being at the window means I don’t have to get up to let anyone in or out.
YES!!!!
This is why I was so bent out of shape when I realized about a year or so ago that both Ed Shultz and Rev. Al use most of their airtime poking fun at the GOP.
We give them/ allow them to take up all the oxygen in the room.
Or we allot our teensy tiny bit of “Democratic” (HA) coverage to campaigns-in-waiting.
Where is Our voice?
Exactly! Where are the Dems?
currently on the new york times frontage i cannot find a single mention of the historic trip to india by president obama, and certainly nothing about all the incredible accomplishments he’s having while there. not one thing. stuff about kobe bryant. the small drone crash. koch bros spending $1 billion to buy the white house. i’ve scrolled to bottom, and even looked at the “world” and “politics” sections on the front page. nothing whatsoever by this so-called liberal paper.
MSM’s coverage is tempered down because PBO and PM Modi have reached agreements that will benefit business and the military-industrial-complex, thus they have nothing to report.
LL thinks it might be a white (Europe, Australia, etc.) vs. brown (India) phenomenon, but my personal opinion is that it’s because they are at a loss as to how to spin this negatively against PBO.
Yup—-$$$$$ Even Peter Baker was not his usual despicable self
i’m convinced it’s because they haven’t found a negative spin yet. if they do find something, it’ll be front page for days, with opinion pieces to back it up and tons of unchallenged quotes from random republicans.
Agree. PBO created billions of dollars of new biz opportunities for an array of US companies, and he trumped Putin, big time, and he didn’t wear a tan suit …..
The print version I got this morning had excellent coverage.
Front page full color photo of PBO,headline “Pomp and Progress in India.” Story on page 5 two more good photos, one with FLOTUS, the other with President Obama’s hands in namaste prayer position.
Story by the usually revolting Peter Baker was extensive and stressed our new and strong ties to India.
Final quote is “The traditional reluctance to be seen with the Americans is over.” Said by aide to Modi
I’ll say Bearhug.
Still 4more you are not wrong. India one day story
deflategate NFL Wow!!! 10 day story
that’s surprising, especially since it’s so the opposite on the web site. maybe they people who made the print edition got in trouble for practicing, you know, journalism, so the management compensated by “fixing” the site! 😉
PBO now has to contend for media attention against the #2015Blizzard, so no hope for online coverage for the next couple of days.
But this is funny (just started raining [YAY!] where I am about a half an hour ago — but it’s warm (about 70F), so this must be tropical, not arctic winter storm).
We ❤ Obama also!! ❤ FLOTUS is grace personified.
And that tall handsome man in the lavender tie ain’t too bad! 😉
Maybe he should be named Duncecap (although his actual name is appropriate too)?
GREAT FALLS – The United States Attorney’s Office announces that Everett Skunkcap, 75, of Browning, Montana, was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution for shooting three grizzly bears. U.S. Magistrate Judge John T. Johnston ordered that Skunkcap also be sentenced to six months jail, which was suspended on the condition that Skunkcap timely pay all restitution.
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When questioned about the shootings, Skunkcap admitted that he indeed shot the bears. He then asked investigators if he could have the grizzlies back when the investigation was complete. Skunkcap stated he was going to “tan them and put them on the wall [as a] souvenir for what [he] did.”
Five months prior to the shooting, Skunkcap told Blackfeet Fish and Wildlife Technicians that he shot a different grizzly bear last year, and, if any grizzlies were on his property, he would shoot them again. Skunkcap was instructed to call the office if there were bear management issues. Skunkcap responded that he would just shoot them anyway.
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Should be $300,000. Maybe just shoot him. eff’er.
Nah, cause then the sympathy would shift to *him*. He does seem obstinate though.
That’s our crazy folks here in Montana!!!
Hi MtM! He’s also kind of heartless, imo, particularly when you consider that he has/had the option to call for help to remove the bears.
There are so many folks here that would never call the government for anything. They all think the government is bad. My husband worked for the census and he got chased away many times with guns. It was scary at times. The thing is most of them get some kind of government check.
A bunch of Duncecaps
If you need any further proof of MSM spin, here’s a negative tweet from LAT/Chicago Trib DC bureau chief about… (wait for it…) PBO’s approval going up.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/how-climate-change-may-lead-to-bigger-blizzards/
With every winter storm, including the blizzard hitting the Northeast this week, climate change skeptics return to a familiar argument: If the world is getting warmer, why am I stuck out here, shoveling so much snow?
Climate scientists tell FRONTLINE that blizzards don’t refute evidence of climate change — in fact, climate change can make blizzards more intense. The first thing people need to understand, they say, is the difference between climate and weather.
In the mean time…Republicans say don’t get sick, or hurry up and die.
Will cut uninsured rate TO 8% by Jan 2017!!! That means that virtually almost everyone will have some sort of health insurance for themselves and their families!! Holy shit, that’s amazingly awesome!
BOOYAH!!
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/26/senate-democrats-payback-gop-obstruction-successful-filibuster-keystone-xl.html
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/26/a-tweet-or-two-219/
Rashida Jones, one of Quincy Jones’ daughter is asked about her ‘ Tan’ complextion at awards yesterday…..her answer…..I am Ethnic Kaboom!