On This Day: Senator Obama holds 10-month-old Claire Von Bergen of Iowa City while shaking hands with supporters after speaking on the Pentacrest at the University of Iowa, April 22, 2007
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Today (all times Eastern)
10:20: The President Departs White House
1:0: Arrives Miami
1:50: Tours the Everglades
3:55: Delivers remarks; Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida
5:45: Departs Miami
8:10: Arrives White House
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11:0: ‘Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day’, White House
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On This Day
Senator Obama gets a hug from his wife Michelle Obama after he spoke at the Roberts Stadium, April 22, 2008 in Evansville Indiana
Sen. Barack Obama shakes hands outside of the P&G Pamela’s Diner in the Strip District section of Pittsburgh on the morning of the Pennsylvania Primary election, April 22, 2008
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President Obama greets actress Sigourney Weaver after he spoke at an Earth Day reception in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 22, 2010
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President Obama looks at a piece of a wood-alternative fuel made from biomass waste while touring projects presented at the White House Science Fair in the East Garden of the White House, April 22, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)
Trying out a bike that powers a water-filtration system built by young student inventors, April 22, 2013
President Obama greets New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz during the White House Science Fair, April 22, 2013
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MoooOOOooorning!
The Obama Diary 
Morning all!
Moooooooooooorning Taiping!!
Congrats Taiping! And good morning!
Good Morning! Happy Earth Day!
Gooooooood morning Carol!
It’s Greeeaaaat Chips!
Can’t believe I’m first. Was just refreshing after a great detour to Awesomely Luvvie. Started with Dyson then read the Scandal recaps.
Her Scandal recaps are everything. EVERYTHING.
Can’t wait for Scandal tomorrow!!! 🙂
THAT IS ONE OF THE CUTEST PICS. I HAVE EVER SEEN…PRICELESS!!!!..:)
GOV. SCOTT, YOU’RE MISSING A GREAT OPPORTUNITY
By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board
Dear Gov. Scott,
There is a perfect opportunity for you today, governor, to do something positive and productive for our state, and perhaps buff up your image, too.
But before it even happens, well, to put it bluntly, you’ve blown it off.
Honestly, we weren’t surprised when your communications staff told us you wouldn’t be visiting the Everglades this afternoon to meet President Obama, who is in South Florida this Earth Day to discuss climate change. …
It’s not unprecedented for a Republican governor to show respect when a Democratic president visits his or her state. … You wouldn’t have had to give him a hug, like then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist did … when Obama brought stimulus money to Florida in 2009.
Must read the rest here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-editorial-everglades-gs0422-20150421-story.html
Shame when your newspaper calls you out
I just watched the POTUS Hardball round-table and played this game of “drink” every time Tweety mentions “Pennsylvania”. I’m already drunk before 9a.m.
😆 I think it’s the first PBO interview I haven’t watched Forus, my stomach just isn’t strong enough for Tweety.
Was so afraid he’d spit on our President. . .
My TV doesn’t go to msnbc anymore or cnn. Never went to fox.
Ah, your TV must be related to mine, Carol!
Yes I’m sure it is. . .
Actually, the clip of Elizabeth Warren upset me waaaaay more than Tweety.
The President was magnificent and worth every minute of viewing!
Maybe I’ll be brave then Meta, I can always mute the sound when Tweety’s speaking 🙂
Chips, I share your revulsion with Tweety, but he keeps himself in check during this interview.
PBO is BRILLIANT thruout.
Ah, thank you Vicki – you have all persuaded me it’s safe to watch, will do!!
There you go! Honestly, PBO just is so brilliant. He has every argument at his command, inside out. Tour de force!!
Lol, actually Tweety isn’t obnoxious in this (doesn’t interrupt or spit while speaking). Other than almost always prefacing every question with his blue collar PA roots he did some really thoughtful questions as well as gave POTUS an opportunity to address critics of the trade deal which sounds amazingly detailed, much like EVERY policy/law that POTUS is involved in.
I’m still wondering what the hell those shitty Democrats were talking about in 2010, 2012 and 2014 when they kept mentioning Obamacare as needing to be “fixed rather than repealed”. WHAT exactly needs to be fixed? Looks to me like nothing other than the stupid typo before the Supreme Court. Every aspect of the law is working much better than expected. I don’t doubt POTUS knew it would work this well but didn’t want to over-sell it.
“doesn’t interrupt or spit while speaking”
LOL, we have such low expectations, Forus!!
Agree with you on the ACA remarks. What the shitty Democrats were doing is making the Democrats fail so that they could swoop in with Lady Walmart and “get their party back.”
I continue to worry that if Hillary comes into office she will somehow mess with the ACA trying to put her own signature on it and throw the fine tuned comprehensive elements into chaos. Then it will not offset the costs as it is intended to do. Of course if the GOP comes in we would be lucky to keep any part of ACA and most likely Social Security and Medicare would be privatized.
Morning BFF!!
Good Morning again BFF and TOD.
OH YIKES…WHO’S IDEA WAS THAT…LOOKS LIKE A GATOR BUFFET LINE!…YOWZA!
“LOOKS LIKE A GATOR BUFFET LINE!”
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Dear Sue, you read my mind.
Too damn close for comfort!
LMAO:)
True. I live in Florida and this can easily happen even in the NE section where I live (almost tripped over one of the gators that lived in a pond on my college campus and it is common for them to show up in backyards). This site in the Everglades is an all you caneat buffet for the gators. I hope they have some our our storied alligator wrestlers on hand to protect PBO.
THE ONLY WAY YOU ARE GOING TO CUT AIR POLLUTION AND UNECESSARY FLATULANCE IS TO DUCT TAPE THE MOUTHS OF CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS WHO ARE A COMPLETE WASTE OF THE TAXPAYER AGENDA…:)
DO YOU PREFER KETCHUP OR MUSTARD BEHIND THE EARS??????????????????
😆 You’re on fire this morning, Sue!
THANKS CHIPS…COOOOL…HE’S GOING TO HOMESTEAD…AND TOURING THE EVERGLADES…I DO HOPE HE IS NOT …I REPEAT NOT…WEARING A TIE IN GATORLAND….AND KEEP YOUR FINGERS AND FEET OUT OF THE WATER MR. PRESIDENT…WE DON’T WANT ANY DAMAGE TO THAT PRECIOUS PACKAGE!..:)…BBL………………….WILL BE WATCHING HIM THIS AFTERNOON…I LOVE MY ENERGIZER PBO!
😆 Morning Sue!
MORNING CHIPS…I HOPE JACK HANNA IS INVITED TO THIS SCENARIO WITH A GATOR LASSO…GEESH!
A CLIMATE DE-BAIT PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…I AM ON THE FLOOR!
Good morning, TODville, and happy Earth Day to all.
Please always keep in mind what you can to take good care of our planet. Every little bit helps. From the air we breathe, the energy we consume, the safety of our oceans, the health of our natural habitats and all the garbage we dispose, let’s be more and more conscious of our actions and give back everywhere we can.
TRUST ME…I WOULD LOVE TO GIVE RUSTY AND TURTLE BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM………………..
Good morning, Ms. Chips.
I am stuck somewhere in between the old geezer turning himself in for healthcare and the Pope visiting Cuba.
Can you release me, please?
By the way, I really like the both of them.
😆 Found and freed LDS!
Hmmmmm………A crack in the machine?
OMG!!! great news, meta. Now I am off to read the story.
Well, it’s just a tiny fissure but at least someone is standing up and supporting him! That’s how a movement begins, right?
Oh, and it’s Miami. Heh.
Uh-OH…
And so it begins…
That was exactly my thought hopefruit.
EVERGLADES DOOR PRIZES TODAY…BELTS AND LUGGAGE…AND FREE GATORADE….I AM PRAYING THAT THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT COME OUT SHORTER THAN WHEN HE WENT IN TODAY…BBL…TO WATCH THIS GATHERING…I AM ‘SWAMPED’ TODAY…LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Good Morning TOD Family and GM HZ we miss you, hope all is well.
People are so focused on the drought in CA while other areas of this country and around the world are also experiencing a drought. I was watching PIVOT tee vee (cable station) about several lakes in China have dried up. China is building aqua ducts to channel water from other lakes to farming communities.
{{{{{ ❤ Mother Earth ❤ }}}}}
Of all of the many “in-Chief” titles that our PBO has, Scientist-in-Chief as he was dubbed by the scientist themselves, is one of my favorites. It encapsulates his intellectual curiosity, knowledge, respect for facts and data as well as his advancement of and excitement for STEM. To think that we have a president who holds Science Fairs, and astronomy watch nights and honors and showcases STEM and understands how it is connected to all aspects of our lives fills me with such pride and awe. Our president is all about moving the country forward and he rightfully utilizes the intellect and skills of the people who actually how to help us to do so. One of the worst things about the horror of the Bush years was how anti-intellectual it was and how this was evidenced in budget and policy decisions. It was a virtue to be stupid, dismissive and insular. So thankful that PBO has delivered us from this. One of my recent favorite science anecdotes is when the advance team for PBO’s visit to some University’s lab, told school’s president that “This president is intellectually curious and that they should choose a guide who could answer his questions.” Their response was to have the dean of that particular department who was also an expert in the field show PBO around and from the pictures of the event that I recall, she was in awe of him.
GM TOD!
Gooooooooooooood morning LP!
GM Chips! Did you get lost in the woods yesterday? I’ve noticed lately you have been taking ~6-7 hour vacations from us 😀
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Indeed.
Here we are: http://www.princeea.com/latest/
Boy, you guys have said a lot on this post already!
I got to catch up😄
Chipsticks, have sent you an email, can you read it right away, please dearest! ? ❤
All sorted MightyP, no worries!! 🙂
Have I told you lately that I love you?? ❤ 🙂
🙂 Now you’ve put that tune in my head!!
Mine too! Can’t have that, so posted it and now it can be passed on! I learned years ago with a song stuck in one’s brain – sing it aloud to someone else – Boom! It will pop out of your brain and into theirs ~ they may not thank you, but you won’t be singing it all damn day! 🙂
I’m going to be humming it all day!!!!
OMG these anecdotes….no need to read the actual story 😆 😆
He would “unravel” when competitors deployed humor against him, according to former Yale debater Austan Goolsbee (an economist who later served on President Obama’s cabinet). Cruz also fared poorly when he made jokes himself. From the Times report:
Mr. Cruz’s own attempts at humor sometimes missed the mark. In one debate, he proposed a method to detect infidelity, in which God should “give women a hymen that grows back every time she has intercourse with a different guy, because that will be a ‘visible sign’ of the breach of trust,” according to a recollection by David Kennedy published in a Harvard debate team reunion booklet in 2001. Mr. Kennedy’s debate partner mocked Mr. Cruz’s knowledge of the subject matter by contorting herself to see how the anatomy in question could be “visible,” according to the booklet. In another debate against Amherst College, the opposing team argued that Ricky Ricardo of “I Love Lucy” fame should have let Lucille Ball’s character work. Cruz responded “Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work,” according to the Times.
No way this is reading material, however, I suppose it is possible he is dumber than we thought –
Exactly what I was thinking…Couldn’t have said it better, MP!
It’s HUMP DAY!
It’s Shipmaaaaaaaaaaaaate!!
Aaaaaaaah, red roses – thank you Shipmate!!! 🙂
AND THE THORNS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TOO….:-D
😆 With your teeth, I hope?
😆 I am Shipmate, I am!
So be it then….Enjoy the rest of your day. 😉
Will do, you too Shipmate.
I swear that Knoller gets a foodgasm every time AF1 takes off. It’s like a glazed donut drops from the sky and straight into his mouth at the precise moment the hind wheels of AF1 are off the ground.
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Hmmm… I guess Sue’s prayers have been answered?!?!?
In other words, climate change.
Bummer. I always look forward to his remarks about this day.
Fossilized Eggs….
they cannot be hatched?..can they?
But there’s DNA. Never understood why they haven’t done any genome studies on dinosaurs. Maybe they have and I just haven’t read about it.
ohhh idon…i was just saying this tongue and cheek…i hope that there is not a mad scientist who things to revive the dinosaur..YIKES
I love this man and am so grateful for all his tireless work
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/22/chat-away-571/