On This Day:
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Today
3:30 EDT: The President delivers remarks recognizing emerging global entrepreneurs; South Court Auditorium
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On This Day: After some early morning basketball in Los Angeles, the President talks with the players who included actors Don Cheadle, Tobey Maguire, and George Clooney, along with two of Clooney’s long-time friends. Stacy Keibler is also at right.” May 11, 2012 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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(A lazy Monday) MoooOOOooorning!
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning Chips. GM TOD!!!
Good Morning Allison! Congrats on being the earliest bird this morning! 😀
GM swbluega. Thanks!!
Hooray Allison on 1st. 😉
Thanks, Roberta!!
Mooooooooooorning Allison, moooooooooorning everyone!
Good Moooorning Chips, Danny & TOD
Good Monday, Chipsticks…TOD Family!!!
GM swbluega have a sun shining day.
Good Morning Roberta! I hope your day is just as shining!
Morning TOD. Lurking per usual. On way to Dr appointment. Have a blessed day 😀
G’morning Chips & TOD!! Happy Monday everyone. 🙂 Congrats Allison on #1!
MooooOOOoooOOOoooooOOoooooorning Hopefruit!!
GM hopefruit2. Thanks!!
wow! I was just thinking how nice it would be to see both POTUS & George together this morning 😉 thanks for that Chips 🙂 🙂
🙂 Mooooooooorning sherijr!!!
ohhh even better, thank you Ma’dam 🙂 and a very good morning to you!
WOW, what a great way to wake up. Thank you, thank you. Before I got out of bed I was going thru twitter and especially BWD’s timeline. Boy the emoprogs are upset that the President set Warren straight. They are as bad as the teapartiers.
Yes mtmarilyn, they are the equivalent of the Tea Party from the left. They can’t see the gray areas in a situation – it’s with us or against us 100%.
And they always align against PBO. When he does something they actually sort of like, they either ignore it or try to take credit for making him do it. Nuts.
A woman after my own heart:) Was just thinking the exact same thing to myself:) PBO AND George? Monday’s good! Morning, sherijr:) Morning TOD:)
yes indeed, Monday is good- with George & POTUS
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Well, our corrupt cm got acquitted today and she will be back in power next week. Only in india.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
GM, TOD. Traveling back home from our daughter’s today. Thoughts and prayers for safe travel appreciated. Will be lurking as we travel. 😄
Will be thinking of you. Let us know when you get back home safely.
Safe travels Tn.
Great toon, AMK. Life is so simple when you put yourself in the center of the universe. As long as the I, me, ego is satisfied everyone else can got to hell.
They should only get a bonus if the investors show a profit and all the workers get a livable wage.
Morning all. Yesterday was such a lovely day that I’m really not ready to face a new week of aches, pains and Democratic meetings. We’re only one week away from a very contested primary and there will be lots of pressure to GOTV and then lots of wounded feelings when somebody inevitably loses. Sometimes running for office (however minor) brings out the best in people and you find something really outstanding in a person that makes you want to support them. At other times, elections bring out the worst in people and you discover a lot of petty, hateful anger that you would have been happy never to have seen or known about.
Good morning TOD from a very calm, clear lovely Oklahoma. We are between storms…..but the good thing is, our reservoir lakes are filling up, and the world is beautifully green. More storms expected by Wed, but at least today we can have our lawn mowed. Texas got the worst this weekend, as many of you might have seen on TV. Our son and family didn’t come up Saturday, as they got caught in a torrential storm in Denton (north of Dallas) and turned around. Good thing too, because later Denton had terrific floods, and people were being airlifted to safety.
With this part of the country it seems to be either drought or flood.
Have a wonderful week everyone. So glad to be alive and kicking in the Age of Obama.
GM Carolyn,
I’ve missed quite a bit of TOD recently, glad to hear you’re doing well, considering that the lead story on CBS radio network news is about the unrelenting spate of tornadoes in the Oklahoma/Texas area.
ICYMI, did hear a single report on CBS radio yesterday that said President Obama called a few mothers who had written him, and mentioned that he doesn’t have a Mother to celebrate Mother’s Day with. 😦
And I know you’re all curious to know if that AZ call was to me:) I wish…(heavy sigh)
DF, I did think about you, but since you weren’t screaming here last night, well… 😊
Dead giveaway:) I’d have written a front page article for TOD noting every breath:)
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Stay safe.
Great site exposing the serious hypocricy of the .01%ers…. http://hedgeclippers.org/paul-tudor-jones/
Meet Paul Tudor Jones – hypocrite.
Founder of the Robin Hood Foundation, Paul Tudor Jones takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
Paul Tudor Jones claims he wants to end poverty but . . .
Rather than pay his fair share of taxes, Tudor Jones invests money in for-profit colleges, for-profit prisons and politicians he can manipulate for his own financial gains. Apparently he thinks blocking taxes on private yachts and helicopters is a better solution to income inequality than raising the minimum wage.*
DAMN!!!!
Good morning TOD folks!
Good morning, TOD.
Two items in the news today that are spun negatively for President Obama in the NY Times. Let me set the record straight.
Number one is that King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s decision to send his Foreign Minister AND his Defense Minister is not a snub of POTUS as Andrea Mitchell and The Times would like you to think. More likely, it is a decision signaling an intent to make policy. As a tweet on BWD says, “He reigns. They rule.”
Number two is the fear mongering about PBO getting the fast track authority he has asked for in the vote on Tuesday. The Times is uncertain that The President can get the support he needs in the House.
FAILING to mention that 150 Democratic Congressmen signed a letter of support and of course the GOP is for trade. The Times appears to be propping up the emoleft nonsense of EW and others, elevating it to actual threat level. I don’t see it that way.
Am I missing something?
Or is the desperation to have President Obama fail at something, anything completely obliterating common sense???
Same shit, different day…we can add different players for different reasons. Meanwhile, in real life, PBO just keeps moving forward and moving the world to a better place. I’ll take that any day!
Yes indeed!
And I am very grateful that PBO raises above the noise.
Amennnnnnnnnnn to Halleluhiaaaa
Good Morning, Vicki! And it *is* a *good* morning – we are alive in the Age of Obama!
FTR, the desperation to have President Obama fail at something, anything, completely OBLITERATED (political and media) common sense *years* ago!
Whiners, moaners, critics and haters aside, have a joyous Monday!
Vicki, the snub of President Obama by the Saudi king were all over the news cycle this morning, that is all I heard. Starting with CNN to CBS.
I wore my fingers out flipping the channels, putting it on mute. And then this guy who has written some book about the WH lied about something dealing with they got bin Laden. I see now why I had stop watch the morning news, specially cable.
I left ‘how’ out of the sentence.
bella—The Morning “new’ to me is the morning propaganda. ignore most of it.
or write an angry rebuttal as I did today.
Don’t forget they’re now trying to run with the story that President Obama lied about the bin Laden raid.
SMH, so damn desperate.
AxelFoley, some journalists name Seymour Hersh is the one who is saying that the WH lied. Just what the right wing love to hear. But I do not believe that the President lied. And Peter Bergen of CNN is not believing Seymour Hersh either.
I’ve heard Hersh has been wrong on Iraq (or Iran, I forget which one) so many times, his credibility is shot to hell now.
Vicki this is no different than what we’ve seen for the last 6 years. How many “Katrinas” has he had at this point? Even PBO laughs about it. Why would you expect anything different at this point? It isn’t going to change now, if anything it is going to get worse as he refuses to play the lame duck role the media and GOP want him to play. And like the countless ones we’ve seen in the past, a few months from now you will see no mention of it.
Personally, I am through with the media, have been for awhile, and just intend to enjoy his accomplishments. As we all know, he’s gor more to come!
Foxfire—absolutely agree and I don’t expect anything different.
I do however enjoy mentioning when the NY Times tells 1/2 the story. That still amazes me although, obviously , it shouldn’t!
Speaking of basketball, the LA Clippers beat the Houston Rockets to go up 3 games to 1. Their “hack a Jordan” in the First Quarter did them no good, HA!
/hands over eyes – O lord, GGail has chosen another sport!/
😀 😀 Good Monday morning, Ms Sports Fan!
GGail, don’t respond to the haters.
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Morning, Don! 🙂
Good Morning, my favorite TOD’er.
Hahahahaha! Suuure. 🙂 🙂
The basketball gods just might smile down on the Clippers this year.
Karma
GGail, that was stupid to me. Jordon kept hitting the free throws.
And Don you might be right, because Golden State is not ;looking to good right now. They are struggling with the Grizzles. But the series to watch is the Cavs-Bulls series. It is almost like the old one where Michael Jordon broke the Cavs heart.
My life will be complete once the Bulls bounce the Cavs out of the playoffs.
I don’t know Don. I want the Cavs to win, Lebron to bring a championship home. Then I remember the Bulls from the MJ days, I was a Bulls fan all the way. Plus it would be nice to see President Obama invited the Bulls to the WH. So who do I want to win? ?????
I think the Bulls have a good shot at winning the whole thing, I don’t think there’s a team in the East that can stop them. They will face trouble from the West.
I don’t think so Don. Chicago has too many offensive droughts. They really had a chance to put Cleveland in the hole but that 4th quarter was abysmal.
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Good morning, Allison. Congrats on your first place start on this week! 😉
Greetings TODobots, wherever you are.
Monday’s good – not as good as Friday of course, but we *are* here on the live side of the mortal coil, so it’s ‘good enough’! 🙂
Here we are, VC, clocking in together, almost twins! 🙂
Oh wait – maybe I should read more before yapping. And drink this green jasmine tea! Then comment!
How does it go these days – your twin from another father? Monday greetings, MP! ❤
So, how do vertically challenged folks, no names, touch that Hokie Stone. I wonder?? Do we jump up and down, won’t be as graceful as our FLOTUS!
Good Morning Everybody.
Gooooood Mondayyyy moorrniinginggg, Chips and TODville.
Some official news tomorrow:
WOW!!! I can’t wait, I’m off tomorrow so I can sit back and enjoy it.
Good Morning
Peter Bergen says the story about the bin Laden raid by Seymour Hersh is ” nonsense “.
Yes I saw Bergen and he did not think to much of the B.S. Hersh is pushing.
Well, we can always ask bin laden about the raid. Oh wait a minute, he’s dead.
What a surprise. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like Peter Bergen even more, now.
Did you know that he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota?
He grew up in UK and spent his early years there, hence, his British Accent 🙂
His Parents heritage could have been British……I am not sure on that front.
I once heard he and his father interviewed on the same show, and also looked into why Peter had the accent and the father didn’t!
This may have been mentioned here already … I heard late last night that Raul Castro – following his visit at the Vatican with Pope Francis – reportedly stated that he may return to the Catholic Church (having been an atheist in Communist Cuba, according to what he said), because he’s so impressed by the current Pope. He reportedly added, ” … and I am not kidding.”
I laughed to myself because just as some of us mention that our President seems to “sprinkle magic Obama dust” on some naysayers, winning them over, Pope Francis sometimes causes a little dust-up of his own! Sad that the President and the Pope are seen as rare individuals in the 21st Century, but I’m glad they’re around to make some other worldly issues bearable!
Thanks for posting that!
Has Texas , the Hate State, asked the evil Federal Government Invaders for any help yet ?
Maybe since Jade Helm 15 is in town they can provide some assistance.
Good article on the medical tax the LW in Congress want to repeal. HRC has also stated she’s in favor of considering a repeal. I’m not hearing any proposals about how to replace Obamacare funding, though.
Not that you’re not on fire all the time, but you have positively kicked into campaign mode, these last few weeks, meta! You’re covering a gazillion issues, too, keeping some of us slugs educated. You go, girl!
Oh, thank you so much. I guess I’m feeling like I have to stand up for POTUS 24/7 but especially now that he is also facing incoming fire more and more from our own party. It’s so reprehensible.
But I do have to say these mopes are starting to wear me out.
ALSO: Thanks so very much for being our conduit to Canadian Barb. She’s been with us for such a long time and I’m thrilled to hear she’s really on the mend. Such a great spirit.
Thanks. Barb is doing extremely well, and even has her “giggle” back when she laughs! (Yes, CanadaBarb, I wrote that. Ha!)
i have been following this issue also, meta, and it is Infuriating.
The goal seems to be to destroy Obamacare by any means necessary.
Warren is joining the Dems “must lose” strategy of 2104. If she and other PUMAs keep this up they will get their wish in 2016.
It’s thoroughly frightening. Sometimes I can’t believe what I’m hearing and seeing.
That piece from CBPP is very thorough and convincing, IMO. There’s zero evidence for EW’s hyperbole. And like all her arguments: entirely speculative. Like POTUS implied, it’s like she thinks she’s still teaching law instead of legislating.
One of the things that makes our President special is his ability to listen, and think things through to address the problem in a complete and comprehensive way to actually solve it without letting the usual politics of the issue get in the way thus ACA aka Obamacare was born. It was designed to work and bring DOWN the cost of the healthcare system. It requires sources of money coming into it. Changing the parts constituents do not like is the political thing to do, like it has always been, but it throws the carefully crafted comprehensive program into the Government over reach entitlement failure category the GOP like to rant about.
Precisely! PBO and team worked on finely tuning ACA for a very long time and it’s working splendidly. But everyone else wants to put their fingerprints on it. UGH.
This guy…….
Gag.
The embedded tweet:
$82K for snacks?
Wow!
This guy knows how to waste Tax Payers $$$$$$……time after time.
$12M plus to stage 2 separate elections.
NJ were getting $800M annually on their side of Port Authority until Christie signed it away for $1.00 annually.
Then there was Bridge Construction. He lied and killed it. It was already in progress. Today to re-start it will cost Millions more.
NJ has been down-graded over 8X since he came in.
The man is a disaster. NJ voted for him. Now they have to eat his mess.
$82,000 for snack, dam did he eat that much.
$300,000 in 5 yrs?
Talk about fleecing NJ Tax Payers.
Vice President Biden Speaks on the Importance of Investing in our Nation’s Infrastructure –
http://about.bgov.com/events/america-on-the-move-investing-in-americas-economy/ OR
http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/live-biden-on-rebuilding-infrastructure-443209283581?hootPostID=40f0167a1292f86f6f31a6490a000023
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live – Audio Only
Thank you!
❤ He's soundin' GREAT this morning! He already mixed in one of his Irish stories – Ha!
NOW: VP Biden – http://about.bgov.com/events/america-on-the-move-investing-in-americas-economy/
In re ‘snub’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32694184
the devil is in details inside despite the clickbait bs headline.
What a complete joke! 95% idiotic speculation. Not until the end of the article do you read the truth of the matter.
Hello TOD on a Monday Cloudy, Nippy Morning from MN,
Just read this. It gave me a Chuckle 🙂
Netanyahu? Poor baby.
Mornin’, Nena!
Hello JacquelineOboomer 😉
down but not OUT, where he belongs.
Thanks Nena. i enjoyed this tweet.
I read this yesterday…..I didn’t post it here at TOD. It is sad that I used to Respect and read this man. It is so sad that a once respected Journalist has allowed ODS as his old age blanket cover.
Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame…..Shame on H. Seymour.
Those in the media trying to once again marginalize a Heroic Accomplishment by Pres Obama……these people are pathologically wicked and evil minded.
I am only posting this now………because, the MSM are now devoting time to this idiocy.
FYI is what TOD is part of…..I believe. Information is Power. TOD Twitter Brigades are Fierce.
Morning all. The kids are at school. I don’t have work today. There are some bushes out front that need trimming, but for right now all I am thinking is something involving bacon.
Anytime you “involve bacon,” it’s gonna be a good day!
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/11/chat-away-579/