On This Day: The President is applauded by House Democrats as he is introduced to speak at the House Democrats Issues Conference at the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va, Feb. 5, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Today
12:30: White House Press Briefing
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President Obama speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast (forward one hour)
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Barack Obama, the first African American elected President of the Harvard Law Review, 1990
(I can’t work out if he was elected on February 5 or 6 in 1990, different places give different dates – maybe the election was one day, and the results the next? So, we’ll make it a two day anniversary celebration!).
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On This Day
Sen. Barack Obama and Michelle Obama during a Super Tuesday primary campaign rally at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago, February 5, 2008
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President Obama wears a AF1 jacket on his first flight aboard Air Force One from Andrews Air Force Base to Newport News, Va., Feb. 5. 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama talks with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office, Feb. 5, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Obama shows Washington, D.C. area students, who were featured in the Washington Post, the valet button on his desk during their surprise visit to the Oval Office, Feb. 5, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Feb. 5, 2011 – Pete Souza: “The two coaches for Sasha Obama’s basketball team couldn’t make it to one of her games, so the President and his then personal aide, Reggie Love, filled in as coaches for this game one Saturday. Here they along with Sasha’s teammates react during the game.”
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MoooOOOooorning!
The Obama Diary 
Whaaaat!
It’s Desert Warrior!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is grotesque.
😯 Apologize to Desertflower right now – that’s her on the right.
DF for the win! How are your muscles?
GM all. I know a lot of people think the President (any President) should not attend the National Prayer Breakfast and I understand the reasoning. But, I have to say, President Obama has always used this event as an opportunity to attempt to open people’s eyes. Today he is doing so in a really big way.
I was happy to hear POTUS speak this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast.
I tend to agree more with your thinking though I also understand other’s opinion. He did what he always does–take any opportunity to get his message across to people who need to hear it. And, as his first point this morning, he always does it with humility and grace.
they are who we thought they were
Wow.
Good catch, NW.
When I saw Schock’s “Downton Abbey” congressional digs, the first thought that crossed my mind was “dog-whistle” to those who hide under the banner of Euro supporters, today’s equivalent of white sheets and hoods (KKK). But I know nothing about Schock and his district.
However, this person is ” senior adviser for policy and communications to Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) posted racial comments and endorsed gentrification of his neighborhood.”
Hope the twitterverse has a long memory for this, and makes Schock squirm when he’s up for re-election in 2016.
Yay and congratulations!!!
Congratulation to the proud parents.
Number 25……
NOB!
Congratulations Mr. Sherman.
Welcome to the Jungle World little one.
Awwwww, you just gotta love that man! Kitty will be walking on Cloud 9 for years to come 🙂 Thank you President Obama ❤
🙂 Yes she will! Mooooooooooorning GGail!!
Good mooooooooorning sweetie 🙂
Morning Sugarplum!!
GARYT.
ran out of flower names already? Now palming me off with plastic ones?
You be quiet – we got a room, it’s called TOD 😀
😀
‘sup?
‘sup? this is up.
Hahahahaha! wish I could use that cute excuse today
Ha! I had those dancing in my head last night while happy that VC had to go to work today too 😀
Such an honor to serve President and Mrs. Obama!
I bet her heart was racing a mile a minute. I applaud her for being so steady. I would be an embarrassment for sure 🙂
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/02/05/michelle-obama-to-visit-upper-west-side-to-help-announce-major-donation/
Sounds reasonable to me – especially sealing the border.
Thanks meta for posting this.
Okay, this person wants me to “normalize relations with Russia”
How should I reply?
This?
“No chance muthaf***a, nukes on the way – bo”
LOL, Chips.. you are scary!
My greatest fear, sherijr, is that one night I’ll have had a couple of glasses of wine and I *will* reply like that – and possibly start World War III. It’d be funny, but kinda not funny too.
lol.. no drinking while tweeting.. ever, for the sake of the planet please 🙂
Meh, you’re no fun. 🙂
Do it! And instead of signing it bo, sign it “kim” and watch the fallout. 😯 (oyi, it’s too early in the morning to be caught up with you Chips)!
Mmmmmmm……… tempting. I might just do that 🙂
Thanks for all the gorgeous photos from the past. Congratulations to Richard Sherman and his girlfriend on the birth of their son. Have a lovely day, TOD!
And you have a perfect day too, Judith!
Thanks, Chips! Planning on it.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Good morning TOD folks! wishing everyone a beautiful day.
Beautiful heartfelt speech at this mornings Prayer Breakfast. PBO can inspire on do many levels.
vetivera24, Yes it was a lovely heartfelt speech by POTUS.
GM Chips, TOD…………congrats DF 😎
😆 Goooooood morning LP!
My mom broke her wrist 2 weeks ago and had an outpatient surgery (was in the hospital for 5 hours) …….I just got the bill $44,657.00!!!! ….the orthopedic surgeons bill $2100…I’m going ballistic right now
Oh my God LP, have you any cover for that??
She is on medicare, but still has to pay 20% until she hits her out-of-pocket for the year. I don’t understand how putting a plate in someones wrist (was 90 min procedure) is more expensive than a hip replacement…. I’m waiting on the EOB before I burn that hospital down!!!!
Don’t worry. The bill will come down to about 8-10,000 for the hospital, if that. The doc will be about 800. I forget what the out of pocket is for Medicare, but it is one of the reasons my wife has a gap plan. Costs her $1,200 per year which is way below the OOP for Medicare.
I know they have negotiated prices w/ the insurance companies, but 44G’s as a starting point seems beyond ridiculous. Another reason I’m so pissed is b/c I had to take her to the ER Sunday during the Super Bowl due to extreme pain (cost $65 co-pay) they would not admit her after giving her morphine for 6 hours & come Monday morning had to go again to the ER and they found 2 blood clots after doing another surgery……I haven’t got that bill yet!!!
One thing you will see, over a period of time, is the actual bill sizes will go down. There are two reasons for the inflated bills. The first is to make up for treating the uninsured and people that can’t pay. The second is a little more devious. Private hospitals (I don’t know which this is) tend to charge an extremely high amount and also tend to push with insurance companies (not Medicare) to pay on a percent of charge basis.
I know the hospitals have to cover for uninsured costs….that is usually built in, but this is a public hospital… part of the Indiana University network. I’m just kind of pissed that after two surgeries I’ll probably be out 6-7K & the only solace will be that she has hit her OOP for the year in Feb 😦
I am well familiar with the IU system. Believe it or not, those hospitals associated with university systems tend to charge even more than others. IU charges more than any other system in the Indianapolis area.
This new hospital (IU west) is where we went to b/c it is literally 3 miles from our house. She fell in the parking lot on an ice patch after going to temple back on Jan. 19th. They did the first surgery on the 22nd. All my dad’s cardiologist/physicians are in the IU system, but his surgeries were done at the Indiana Heart hospital (I think it is part of the St. Vincent network) I had all my foot surgeries at the Iowa University hospital…they took real good care of me & didn’t even charge me for my 3rd foot surgery after I applied for financial assistance (I was selling insurance at the time and my income was commission based..b/c I had been rehabbing prior to tearing my tendon again I had no taxable income, but did have health insurance)….. I definitely will avoid the IU network if god forbid something happens in the future.
Regarding Brian Williams- I remember someone else high up in 2008 lied about being fired upon in a war zone. The difference? Why should that 2008 LIE be forgotten. It speaks to a ego driven soul –>HC
~There is a lot at stake here. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that among children born during 1994-2013, vaccinations prevented 322m illnesses, 21m hospitalisations and 730,000 deaths. The lesson for politicians and the media is clear: everyone should tread carefully when they enter the fray on public health. Exploiting such wedge issues may be politically expedient, but playing politics with health information has an ethical dimension. Everyone would do well to remember the common medical phrase: Primum non nocere. First do no harm.~
only on health issues? how about on every effing issue?
Thumbs UP!
Part of the equal time for both sides that has become so prevalent seems to be equal value to opposition. There is no weighing of significance as has been stated.
On the February 5 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, political analyst Harold Ford, Jr. raised the issue of net neutrality, claiming that the proposed FCC plan to regulate internet service as a utility would “stifle investment.”
FORD: Whatever your thoughts about what Obama said in his State of the Union message — some of it I liked, a lot of it I didn’t like — but one take away that both parties should take from it is that he talked about empowering the middle class. Now if you’re about raising wages and creating jobs you ought to do those things.
I think what’s happening in Washington today — you saw that F.C.C. Chair come out and say we’ve got to regulate the internet like a utility. That’s not going to create higher paying jobs, it will actually stifle investment. You talk about wanting to reduce taxes on small businesspeople, Republicans want to reduce the corporate tax, Democrats want an infrastructure plan — government, I’m old-fashioned, I think you are, too. We believe government can work. You’ve got to come together and compromise if you want it to happen.
Neither Ford nor MSNBC disclosed that the analyst is an “honorary co-chair” of Broadband for America, an industry-funded group whose members have included major national broadband providers like Comcast (a parent company of MSNBC), Cox Communications, and Verizon. Among its members, Broadband for America received a $2 million donation from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, which has spent millions of dollars to lobby against net neutrality regulations.
This is not the first time a Comcast subsidiary has failed to disclose telecom industry ties during coverage of FCC broadband regulations. In 2014, CNBC’s Kelly Evans interviewed Ford and John Sununu about proposed regulations, introducing the guests as “Broadband for America honorary co-chairs” without disclosing the interest that the telecom industry-funded Broadband for America has in limiting government regulation of broadband access.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/05/morning-joes-net-neutrality-conflict-of-interes/202428
When Ford admit is nothing but a lobbyist ? He plays the same role advocating the Keystone Pipeline.
I saw Sununu on Hardball last night….and Chris Matthews fawned over him…….
During the 2012 campaign Matthews consistently called him out for his race baiting comments about PBO.
Both Ford and Scarborough are paid propagandists who use their access to the “microphone” to further the agenda of those who are paying for their services. You will be disappointed time and again if you expect these folks to disclose their ties because the appearance of objectivity key to the effectiveness of their propagandizing. I am very pleased by the hammering Brian Williams is taking for his lying about being under fire in Iraq. I always viewed him as a smug asshole and he was never supportive (or honest) in his reporting concerning PBO. He was just another GOP shill in my opinion, rooting against PBO and the country. Kudos to CHips for her hilarious tweets.
Where the heck did that sorry loser Harold Ford come from?
A paid contributor at MSNBC……Mojo and occasionally, Hardball, MTP or CNBC are were his “Service” are needed to spew “Dems” point of view……unfortunately.
The DLC……
Not to be confused with the democratic wing of the Democratic party.
Ugh… is that Jake Tapper next to the young woman with the yellow headband ?
I don’t think so.
I don’t think so Linda – similar, though!
What’s Morning Joe’s Solution To Plummeting Ratings? Book More Republican Guests
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/05/morning-joes-solution-plummeting-ratings-book-republican-guests.html
John McWar – 78
Bill Bennett – 71
Want better ratings, get rid of Joe and Mika
Question :
How long can a story be called ” Breaking News ” before it becomes a laughable joke ?
I know right Linda, that always cracks me up!!
Chips the WP
death hole got me………..I wonder what magic word I used this time?
😆 Found and freed!
Morning sugarplum fairies.
Morning sweety heart!
GARYT
LOL. from now on, you’ll be getting only dried and day old flowers from me.
What, like the ones I was getting from you before my fame were fresh? Huh.
that’s it. only #twigs.
Well lookitchu on CNN. Star.
LL, do you know what’s the best investment option for my furst $million? Property? Shares? What do you think?
ahem ….
Bitcoins.
Critics have latched onto it as an example of why they believe unnecessarily generous benefits will drive up health costs, complaining that having children is a choice and not everyone will need maternity care.
A choice ? I thought they were against a woman having the ability have a choice. They are against birth control and terminating a pregnancy…. What choice are they talking about, abstinence ?
This is what I don’t get, is when you purchase an insurance policy as a married man, single man, married woman, single woman, etc., how can a insurance company carve out maternity coverage? Companies have ALWAYS included maternity coverage and the cost is spread across the board to young and old employees. Now that it is in the ACA for everyone to share in the cost MEN who don’t want to pay for it want it eliminated. People can be really be selfish sometimes and maybe women should just not have children now that birth control is included in ACA.
I remember watching this live.
Because, seriously, Congress (and GOP members of SCOTUS) literally are ignorant of how insurance works.
This is what gets elected these days.
What does it take to gets Dems out to vote against THIS?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/05/1362483/-Repubclain-chairmen-offer-warmed-over-alternative-to-Obamacare?showAll=yes
So after getting pestered by DNC et al for money, i decided instead to donate to OFA. They always are putting in the hard work organizing and supporting our president. that made me feel much better!
At last, world fame!1! 🙂
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/05/living/feat-brian-williams-memes/index.html
And USA Today!! 😆
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2015/02/05/22920671/
and bbc
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31143744
wow, I missed the bt / tod references. Congrats, bt.
When is the party and where is my beer?
Here are the directions to my new home, party starts at 9:0 EST
wagon before horses?… who cares? I’ll be there.
I’m Number 3, Bodden Town Pirates’ Cave, by the way – don’t knock on Number 2, that’s Mitt.
can I bring a stink bomb?
Only if it’s intended for Number 2
goes without saying
With you I couldn’t be sure – so just thought I’d double-check.
Oh, I’d heard Myth was at Booby Point!
WOOOOTTT!!
do it already.
A-Friggin-Men
Good Morning Amk and TOD
I wrote my Representative yesterday and asked that she boycott this mess. There is no reason that any Democrat should be attending this stunt!!!
Good morning dd4ob. Zero reason for them to attend this farce.
the entire effing Democratic party should be making this an issue and calling out Boehner and the GOP for
1. Being ignorant of how the Constitution works.
2. Outrageous, insulting, treatment of the Executive branch.
3. “are you just stupid and ill-informed, or are you trying to cause a constitutional crisis?”
4. Trying to cause an international crisis for political gain.
5. Undermining peace to benefit warmongers.
6. “GOP HATES AMERICA.
They call PBO a tyrant for any number of lies. Why can’t the entire Democratic leadership show outrage over this insult to the Executive branch. Keep screaming about it until the MSM effing notices.
But nooooooo. We’ll whine that we can’t get coverage so we’ll be tepid and careful so Chuck Todd isn’t mean to us.
Unbelievable.
I remember in 2004 and 2008, the GOP complained about both Kerry and PBO trying to get endorsements from European leaders (which they weren’t) and how people from other countries should stay out of our politics. But they have no problem injecting themselves into Israel’s campaign.
There may be peak oil, but there is no such thing as peak GOP hypocrisy.
Yes, saw a WHPB where the attacking jackals asked Josh Earnest “how is Bibi’s address to Congress any different than Obama’s speeches in Europe in 2008?
Earnest said there’s a lot of difference between July before a Nov election and Bibi’s which is two weeks prior.
Funny, haven’t seen any coverage about @PressSecretary’s response.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
That’s our Jim! Our kids went to school together…
Hello TOD.
This Post is Just Perfect. Job well done, Chips 😉
Congrats DF on your Gold ⭐
Congrats to all the Au ⭐ winners 3/4 posts back.
Hang on Senate Dems 😉
nice to see dems getting some backbone for once.
Tis curious isn’t it how when the Dems were in the majority it was always how the Senate voted down, etc. It wasn’t how the GOP blocked, etc.
Now it is totally the Dems even though, obviously, at least one Republican also voted against cloture. But that is that darned liberal bias the media has.
In_Deed.
Word matters.
BLOCKED………
good point.
I was tweeting about that a couple of days ago. Infuriating.
how often did the Press call the gop on filibusters
Funny thing is that this well known Fact…….POTUS won his Dist 2X…..Yet, his actions didn’t get him defeated. This guy needs to be defeated in 2016.
Last year, just a few weeks back, he was in Argentina or Chile……again misbehaving. He knows his spokesman. I say……this time, he is a walking Dead Rep………
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/02/05/chat-away-511/
2-5-15
WH Presser with Josh “The Voice” Earnest, LIVE momentarily.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-58