On This Day: President Obama plays with Leo Chaudhary, son of White House Videographer Arun Chaudhary, right, and Chaudhary’s wife, Laura Moser, prior to a Seder with friends and staff in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 18, 2011 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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(If Chelsea hold this 1-0 lead against United, I’ll have a Billy Joel special later – just to complete the day’s misery).
The Obama Diary 
Hello and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!
Damn it, you would be furst on this post. Did I mention I HATE football?
PS Helloooooooo Nerdyaroo.
Don’t fret Chips, it’s only ONE goal and there’s plenty of time for ManU to at least even the score
Oh, Congrats NW on First 🙂
{{{{{{{{GGail}}}}}}}}} 🙂
Hiya Chips 🙂
I’m watching those dirty Chelsea players Grrrr!
Savages, GGail, savages!1!1!
Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…..Chiparooo
Did you see what almost happened?! Drogba and Hazard. So close.
Let’s go, CHELSEA!!!!
Gooooooo BLUES!
Yeah but United almost scored three in the last five minutes – so, morally they’re winning 3-1 😎
Hahaha, Yup!
Tell that to Ferguson. He looks like he just ate something rotten.
Drog deserves a Red card!
Di Maria! Di Maria!
As soon as De Gea is given one for what he’s been doing, then maybe Drogba might deserve one.
It wasn’t definitatively determined that De Gea stepped out
Afternoon all
you can best believe that if Barack Obama was Joe Schmoe….there would not be this attempt to gain fame and revenue from this President..
another group pimping off the President
It is history, after all. I had no idea that President Obama was descendant of President George Washington.
Wow, your take is totally different from mine. I think it’s kinda cool that he’s preserving this history. He’s creating a non-profit to help with restoring and maintaining a home with historical significance.
I see how that’s “pimping off the President.” It’s not like he’s on some street corner hawing cheap junk that he slapped together with the President’s picture on it.
I meant “I don’t see how that’s pimping off the President…”
2 things that struck me…one is that this was at one time a Native America reserve….and 2ndly…this is a money making venture….nonethless…it is entitled the Ancestral Home of Barack Obama…i can’t help but think what those folks back in the 1800s would have thought to have a Black man in the lineage…
I will keep an open mind…
Racists white people is something else. If there were a home which belong to G.W. Bush or any other Republican President in my neighborhood I would want it to be preserve, because it would be part of history..
Exactly bella! I appreciate what this gentleman is trying to do. What a shame it would’ve been if he hadn’t found out about its history or cared enough to preserve it.
Rolling out again. Catch y’all later! 🙂
He looks soooo much like his grandfather in that picture.
Jesus, the rest of the 20 minutes will be squeaky bum time.
My bum is all squeaked out, so to speak.
It’s freaking nuts that Man United hasn’t gotten any warnings or cards for their handballs, but no matter, FIGHT ON, Chelsea.
Hmmmm… how much does Falcao earn a year?
Possibly too much. 😦
It’s squeaky bum time. Let’s go, Chelsea! Let’s go, Chelsea!!!!!
BTW Chips, did you see where St. Cantona declared that Pastore is the best player in the world? He’s not even the best player in Paris.
Yikes, did he?? I used to think I’d love Eric to be United manager ….. now I’m not so sure!
http://www.espnfc.us/blog/the-toe-poke/65/post/2398214/eric-cantona-thinks-javier-pastore-is-the-best-player-in-the-world
Had he been drinking? Or is he his agent?
Jesus, 8 fucking minutes left.
And all subs used up, van Persie left on the bench when you need a goal. Where’s my brandy?
Awwww…..poor Hazard.
He’s been so wonderful and is still fighting on.
Wasting time with these replacements
Thank you for the goal, Hazard!!!!!
(1) Football is crap
(2) Congratulations LL and Nerdy – and I mean that. Ish.
(3) Gonna take Danny for a walk and cry in the river.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha….10 points atop the table.
😀 Somebody’s happy!
Enough of that!
YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!
Chelsea CRUSHES the crap Man United and is 10 points atop the table.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!
CHELSEA! CHELSEA! CHELSEA!
Go, Chelsea….Go, Chelsea….Go, Chelsea….We’re number one! We’re number one! We’re number on!
Girl, you crack me up 😉 🙂 😉 🙂 😉
It’s a fantastic day. Join me in the dancing, Donna. Chelsea’s number one! 🙂
She’s been gloating… she’s gloating! 😀
As I told one family member of mine today……NW, LL would be dancing in the streets and Chips, GGail, perhaps, Amk would be singing the blues. So per Rooney, they played better and lost to Chelsea, by One to Nil. Chelsea is Number One and Manchester United is Number 3. Good Luck Bts.
Hello TOD.
Partly cloudy. Nice and not too bad in MN today, 😉 weatherwise
Congratulations to all the gold ⭐ winners, starting with this post and 3 posts back.
It is a beautiful day here in North Carolina, in the high 70’s. Beautiful day to be out playing golf, or just outside. I hope POTUS get the chance to play alittle golf.
thank you ,…JER….i was just hoping our President would be out and about playing golf…any word on what FLOTUS is doing today…..sunny and mild here in Willow Grove…(township just outside of Philadelphia)
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/progressives-need-to-stop-looking-for-a-hero.html?utm_content=opinion&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
If everyone voted, progressives would win
Which is why the RW tries to make voting SO HARD! Don’t let them take your voice away!!! VOTE. EVERY.TIME.
There is No Radical Islam…Words mater
Need We Not Forget the insane attack engineered and mounted by McCain, Graham and Co against Dr Susan Rice to deny her the SoS job.
Jeff Gauvin is absolutely spot-on! The way right wingers, Republicans, and I confess some leftists Democrats/progressives. have behaved ever since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, is so reminiscent of the way whites, including so called progressive whites, reacted to the Reconstruction period after the Civil War when finally African American were recognized as citizens and allowed to participate in the governing of the country.
wow…how long is indefinetly
I say, Hell Yeah!
Without Liberalism, many changes in USA, EU and elsewhere would have been impossible.
i wonder if the press will give him the kind of coverage that they give to the others…
Prettyfoot, I am absolutely certain that the so called mainstream media/press will never give the NY mayor, Bill de Blasio, the same kind of coverage that they routinely give right wing nuts on the Republican party. Obviously, if the mayor decides to attack President Obama and his policies then the media will give him all the coverage he wants.
Wonderfulllllllllllllllllll…!!!!!
good morning todville
did you folks see this? first i’ve heard that our troops are in ukraine.
http://www.stripes.com/news/europe/us-troops-arrive-in-ukraine-for-training-exercises-1.340697
🙂 🙂 🙄 🙄 🙂 🙂
ya think???????
pf58, he not only think, he knows. People are tired of the Bushes and the only thing in Hillary favor is she is a woman. Alot of people say it’s time for a female president.
At least GW Bush is honest. He knows exactly the horrendously fucked-up domestic and foreign reality he left to President Obama to try to clean up. People promoting Jeb Bush are trying to capitalize on the short term memory of a great many of American voters.
Now Trump is Trolling fluffy Christie on Social Security 😉
Sweet.
do not know much about WEBB
Interesting Man. Is he angling fo VP. I think most of the others in the Democratic field are just auditioning for that role against the inevitability of Hilary.
i remember when PBO ran…he stated why he ran for President Hillary Clinton said that she was running to be America’s Champion…O’Malley and Webb…and the VP….have yet to say why they want to be President…i await to hear the news
I guess their TV chatter is all meaningless until they actually commit but Webb sounds serious. In the end, its all about getting the money to mount something. A message without money has got to be compelling enough to make people take notice. Should be interesting.
that is so true vetivera…let me tell you about an exchange i had the last time i worked on the polls…it was November… 2014…i was working with a long time dem person in my new voting district…he was anticipating a low turn out…(he was wrong we got 51%, un heard of in the midterms) he talk about how it was when the President ran…high turn out…i told him that the President was able to pull out 4 classification of voters…1. voters who vote all the time..2. voters who only vote in the Presidential elections…3. voter who are registered but hardly ever vote and 4. unregistered voters…he told me that it takes money and organization to pull out all 4 classification of voters….he said that they only can concentrate on voters 1 and 2…so yes….it requires money..but it also requires a grass root organization…i sometimes think that party bosses want enough turnout to win…but they are not interested in organizing or empowering the grass roots
A big mistake. GOP seem to be able to do that. Their base is strong. I can’t believe that approx 18% of the total population voted in the current Govt. Elections are personal. People have to be invested in the outcome of an election but it does start with the grass root organizations finding, reaching and educating the heart of those voters.
The GOP uses hatred and fear and racism to get their voters out…they use lies and voter suppression as tools….the President has shown the DEM Party that if you empower people…call on them to be active citizens…we will come out to vote….because HOPE is stronger than fear..i hope that the DEM Party learns these lessons
Amen! Hope is what keeps us breathing. Whenever I feel like giving up I listen to any one of PBO’s speeches and come right back to fighting for what’s important
Saw Webb interviewed on one of the MSNBC shows and was not impressed. He had actually been a Republican for quite awhile and sounded worse than Hillary to me. I was not impressed about how he stood on issues.
I saw that interview…on The Last Word w/Lawrence last Thursday. I was not only unimpressed, I was totally turned off by him…IMO Jim Webb is not the one!!!!!!!!
Tehran, April 18, IRNA — First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Saturday that Iran and G5+1 are on the last step, they have reached agreements on all points except writing context of the deal.
In Iran all people fully back the government, even the opponents of the government call for removal of economic sanctions.
If the Zionist regime and certain Arab governments and US congress not to create any obstacle in the coming two months, the comprehensive deal will be achieved, he said.
Media should reflect the realities and avoid creating irrational expectations among people, he said.
Ebola was the “News” before the 2014 Nov elections so were ISIL/Daesh and Influx of Immigrants from The TX borders.
HIV and the Jailing of an Indian American to 20 yrs for having had a miscarriage from a Violent Rape crime in Indiana are currently being ignored by the US Media……WHY?
So why is HIV epidemic in a town in 2015 in IN…….Is not a nationally worthy News?
Next Weekend…..that means, starting this coming Thursday, the Annual WHCD event begins anew for 2015. Next Saturday.
My take on this is Bull Pucky.
Careless about who to or not to hurt and care more about delivery Great Jokes.
I only want to see POTUS when he speak and see FLOTUS.
Disgusting. Money trumps all. Trumps our national treasures, trumps our water supply, trumps a Wonder of the World…this is so repulsive I want to crawl out of my skin!!!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/18/the-grand-canyon-is-getting-a-mall.html
If the thought of popping in to Olive Garden for some never ending breadsticks while a critically endangered California Condor spirals overhead isn’t horrifying enough, just last week a federal judge overturned a 20-year ban on uranium mining at a site just miles away from the canyon’s edge.
This decision, coupled with the potential Escalade and Tusayan projects, led to the Colorado River—the venerable, powerful river that carved out the Grand Canyon and provides water to 30 million people—being named our nation’s “most endangered river” by the American Rivers Association.
As for the Escalade project, it’s currently awaiting the final green light from the Navajo Nation Council, which could come as early as this spring. In the meantime, if you had been dreaming of a Grand Canyon vacation, better do it quick.
Global Citizen Earth Day Live Stream..
After I posted about the whoring out of the Grand Canyon…then I post this call to action about Earth Day…the juxtaposition isn’t lost on me…
The President is back at the White House.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/18/a-tweet-or-two-283/