Yes indeed he is. For all, and for all the ages. Thank you for this beauty. Congrats Jackie 4 Obama, and hey there, Don! Loving all the posts today and every day…
Any GOPer who claims that PBO is being a dictator with this decision – just fling this tweet their way and let them know that the Republican Senator from Alaska who filed the most recent petition to have the mountain’s name restored, and that she is in full support of the President’s actions. So if they want to have a bone to pick with someone – do it with the good Senator from Alaska.
Today we are honored to recognize America's highest peak officially as Denali, or 'The Great One.' http://t.co/lxd3HKAOBo
…but I’m not surprised. The mountain naming issue is largely (but not entirely) symbolic, but the Iran deal will have concrete and immediate implications for warmongers – i.e., ALL GOPers and some war-loving Dems.
All GOP will vote against it. This has been a given since Day One. I don’t have the stomach to read her reasons. I’m assuming the same lies told by everyone else: a better deal, we’re in it for punishment not resolution (okay, that’s my paraphrase)……
I just read some of the comments on the @POTUS site. I would be too embarrassed to say some of the dumb things that are written there – especially knowing that the President might read it and discover how STOOPID and uninformed I am. SMDH!
When Iowa Republicans are asked who they would support in their local caucus, Ben Carson
(23%) and Donald Trump (23%) tie for the top spot. The next tier of candidates includes Carly Fiorina (10%) and Ted Cruz (9%), followed by Scott Walker (7%), Jeb Bush (5%), John Kasich (4%), Marco Rubio (4%), and Rand Paul (3%). The last two Iowa caucus victors, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, each garner 2% of the vote. None of the other six candidates included in the poll register more than 1% support.
Nydia V. is a powerful member of NY Congress. This get is big, like Nadler.
Charles Rangel still quiet, not supporting his President. Rangel’s district (Harlem) failed to register a single vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 Primary. Yes, I hold grudges.
Why Isn’t Elisabeth Hasselbeck Classified As a Hate Group?
Kara Brown
Filed to: black lives matter
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the third runner-up on season two of Survivor, had a particularly stupid thought Monday which she helpfully shared on national television. Elisabeth wondered why the Black Lives Matter movement hasn’t been classified as a hate group. What’s funny is that we’ve all been wondering the same thing about her.
Hasselbeck pondered this question that was designed solely to further the narrative that black people deserve to be gunned down at the hands of their own government during a segment today on Fox & Friends, which attempted to make the very thin connection between the killing of a deputy in Texas by a man who happens to be black and the Black Lives Matter movement (h/t via the Wrap).
Elisabeth and [insert generic white, Fox New dudebro here] were joined by their resident Uncle Tom black person, Kevin Jackson, who described the movement as “nonsense” and suggested that black people are being shot by the police at alarming rates because black families can’t stay together.
His idiot remarks perfect set up Elisabeth to fear monger like only a woman of her limited intelligence, willfully emboldened by the backing of a truly evil conglomerate can.
Kevin, why has the black lives movement—the black lives matter movement—not been classified yet as a hate group? I mean how much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?”
“But DWS is quite another matter. Despite her constant presence in the nation’s Green Rooms, I’m damned if I can see what she’s accomplished as a national chairperson. (Priebus has accomplished Staying The Hell Out Of The Way, which is something.) She’s presided over a catastrophic midterm election cycles that produced the worst Congress in the recent history of the Republic. And now, on at least two occasions in the past year, DWS has gone out of her way to break with the president on important foreign policy initiatives. First, she took a dive on the opening the president made with Cuba, because she is from Florida and very frightened. And now, it appears she has decided to play shenanigans with the Iran nuclear deal, both as a congresscritter and, worse, as DNC chairperson.”
We know PBO won’t let her go because that will look like retaliation. But she needs to be pressured BIG TIME to step down. She’s an obstruction to progress on or Dem agenda and a demoralizing presence in our party.
And to think that I once staunchly defended this woman when folks raised concerns about her performance in the DNC. I truly thought she had done a good job in 2012 and 2013. But my opinion of her leadership changed after the 2014 midterm results….and currently, it’s in the sewer. She cannot be replaced sooner for me..
Among many of President Obama’s strategic successes has been his advocacy of independence from ME oil coupled with spurring expansion of the use of renewable sources of electricity. It is just such a strategy that can enable future Presidents (if we elect the appropriate folk) to continue distancing ourselves from any form of dependency on the current anti-democratic, misogynistic, Salafi-infused Saudi monarchy.
This is worth the time to read:
Saudi Arabia's reaction after Khobar provides insight on KSA's current position on Iran. Fascinating piece by Pillar http://t.co/h50tjNtnpF
“Notwithstanding Saudi Arabia’s recent tough talk about Iran, and the (mistaken) interpretation of leaked cables supposedly showing that Saudi leaders would like the United States to cut off heads of snakes, the preferences and concerns in Riyadh in 1996 were much different. As David Kirkpatrick accurately recalls in his article in the New York Times about Mughassil’s reported capture, Saudi leaders were worried back then that the United States would react too strongly against Iran, especially with reactions involving military force. The Saudis were trying to improve their relations with Tehran, and they did not want any U.S. response to the Khobar attack to upset that process. The Saudis thus dragged their feet in their part of the investigation, so much so that senior U.S. officials complained publicly about the inadequate Saudi cooperation. Saudi officials were reluctant to join the United States in blaming Iran even after indictments of the suspects were announced. The foot-dragging strategy worked; by the time the slow-moving investigation was completed, too much time had passed for a military response to be politically feasible, especially given the election in the meantime of the moderate Mohammad Khatami to the Iranian presidency.
clip
Without diminishing for a moment the reprehensible nature of the attack at Khobar, one additional lesson can be drawn concerning the circumstances that stimulated it. Anti-U.S. terrorism with an Iranian dimension always involved U.S. military deployments in the Middle East. As in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, so it was in Lebanon in the 1980s, most notably with the truck bombing by Lebanese Hezbollah of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983—the deadliest terrorist attack against Americans until 9/11. Iran and its allies are by no means the only ones who react this way to the placement of U.S. military power in their neighborhoods and their homelands. The U.S. military build-up in Saudi Arabia following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990—a build-up of which the airmen who died at Khobar were still a part—was the development that most radicalized Osama bin Laden and stimulated him to take the violent anti-American course that he did.”
But this call to “manliness” from our leaders hasn’t just come from the right. While not as harsh or widespread as the conservative version, there have been many suggestions that President Obama needs to “man up” or take off his tutu and put on his boxing gloves. Calling Obama “feminized” is the heart of Maureen Dowd’s critique of this President.
All of this is a kind of sexist dog whistle. Men and women who call themselves feminists need to recognize it for what it is and call it out. We should be very clear that the presidency is no place for bullies. And rather than signifying weakness, traits like compassion, thoughtfulness and cooperation are exactly the kind of thing we’re looking for in a leader. That’s true whether the next occupant of the White House is a man or a woman.
Of course they will say that for they want VP Biden to run……JoScar per Mediaite was gleeful today that Sanders is closing in in IA and they were urging VP Biden to enter the race so they can start tearing him down too.
Note how Snaders is hardly ever scrutinized by either the MSM, Fox or the GOPers.
All they have to do is run several ads attacking Sanders as a Socialist, using his own words and Independents would run away and so would some Conservative Dems.
The Obama Diary 
NERDY!!!
Riiiiiight!
Congratulations Jackie.
Thanks NW.
JACKIE!!!
Congrats J4O on First 🙂
Hi Jackie 4 O! Happy Denali Day.
Yes indeed he is. For all, and for all the ages. Thank you for this beauty. Congrats Jackie 4 Obama, and hey there, Don! Loving all the posts today and every day…
Any GOPer who claims that PBO is being a dictator with this decision – just fling this tweet their way and let them know that the Republican Senator from Alaska who filed the most recent petition to have the mountain’s name restored, and that she is in full support of the President’s actions. So if they want to have a bone to pick with someone – do it with the good Senator from Alaska.
Apparently there is legislation proposed every year for this name change, to have it blocked by OH pols.
Ohio: where it is possible for the likes of Boner to be elected, over and over, ad nauseum.
HF, do you know if she has said how she’s going to vote for the Iran agreement? I wonder if she would vote yes.
She’s against it…
…but I’m not surprised. The mountain naming issue is largely (but not entirely) symbolic, but the Iran deal will have concrete and immediate implications for warmongers – i.e., ALL GOPers and some war-loving Dems.
Thanks, I hoped there might be one reasonable person in the republican party.
All GOP will vote against it. This has been a given since Day One. I don’t have the stomach to read her reasons. I’m assuming the same lies told by everyone else: a better deal, we’re in it for punishment not resolution (okay, that’s my paraphrase)……
She is just another puppet .
I just read some of the comments on the @POTUS site. I would be too embarrassed to say some of the dumb things that are written there – especially knowing that the President might read it and discover how STOOPID and uninformed I am. SMDH!
New Poll Out:
When Iowa Republicans are asked who they would support in their local caucus, Ben Carson
(23%) and Donald Trump (23%) tie for the top spot. The next tier of candidates includes Carly Fiorina (10%) and Ted Cruz (9%), followed by Scott Walker (7%), Jeb Bush (5%), John Kasich (4%), Marco Rubio (4%), and Rand Paul (3%). The last two Iowa caucus victors, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, each garner 2% of the vote. None of the other six candidates included in the poll register more than 1% support.
Click to access 85775b52-ec99-4ad3-bbee-14826bdf86e5.pdf
I rest my case.
Another NYer:
Nydia V. is a powerful member of NY Congress. This get is big, like Nadler.
Charles Rangel still quiet, not supporting his President. Rangel’s district (Harlem) failed to register a single vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 Primary. Yes, I hold grudges.
Vicki, you are fierce ❤
That rigged machine scam against Sen. Obama and favoring HRC is something I will never get over.
What? In Charles Rangel’a district not one person for PBO in 2008 primary. That’s hard to believe.
Excellent news!
Congrats Jackie on your Au ⭐
Fabulous retort.
Awesome…
Great news.
This is No Child Left Behind.
Also a NY power. Wonderful. Jose Serrano yesterday.
Still waiting on a few favorites—Hakim Jeffries, where are you?
uh huh
uh huh
Why Isn’t Elisabeth Hasselbeck Classified As a Hate Group?
Kara Brown
Filed to: black lives matter
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the third runner-up on season two of Survivor, had a particularly stupid thought Monday which she helpfully shared on national television. Elisabeth wondered why the Black Lives Matter movement hasn’t been classified as a hate group. What’s funny is that we’ve all been wondering the same thing about her.
Hasselbeck pondered this question that was designed solely to further the narrative that black people deserve to be gunned down at the hands of their own government during a segment today on Fox & Friends, which attempted to make the very thin connection between the killing of a deputy in Texas by a man who happens to be black and the Black Lives Matter movement (h/t via the Wrap).
Elisabeth and [insert generic white, Fox New dudebro here] were joined by their resident Uncle Tom black person, Kevin Jackson, who described the movement as “nonsense” and suggested that black people are being shot by the police at alarming rates because black families can’t stay together.
His idiot remarks perfect set up Elisabeth to fear monger like only a woman of her limited intelligence, willfully emboldened by the backing of a truly evil conglomerate can.
http://jezebel.com/why-isnt-elisabeth-hasselbeck-classified-as-a-hate-grou-1727753207
PBO HAS TO BE ENJOYING THAT FRESH AIR….THE CARBONS ARE SO BAD IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD…MY EYES BURN!!!!…:(
This is reminding me of some of the great Alaska Dems videos (and support) from ’08!
I’m not seeing this verified anywhere…….Anybody else?
naw I can’t believe that.
Huh ? He will still be President for the entire year of 2016……..
I thought they already said they will stay in DC until Sasha is out of high school. Would he commute ?
It makes zero sense.
I’d heard a while ago that grandma will be staying in DC with Sasha. This is UNCONFIRMED. Rumor only.
This was on her twitter feed as well. I’m going with Malia!
President Obama will still be President the year of 2016, and why are they making the announcement and not POTUS.
I find this hard to believe and I’ve thought for a while that this is where Malia is going to go to College.
I DON’T BELIEVE THIS EITHER……………..
We will wait to see what the White House have to say about this.
I’m so glad Bernie has decided not to say one mean thing about Hillary. After advocating for PBO to be primaried in 2012.
Just had to get that disgust off my chest.
This!!!
Good Afternoon TOD
I’d change the work ‘talk’ to ‘replace”.
A Snippet from the article. He speaks for me!!
“But DWS is quite another matter. Despite her constant presence in the nation’s Green Rooms, I’m damned if I can see what she’s accomplished as a national chairperson. (Priebus has accomplished Staying The Hell Out Of The Way, which is something.) She’s presided over a catastrophic midterm election cycles that produced the worst Congress in the recent history of the Republic. And now, on at least two occasions in the past year, DWS has gone out of her way to break with the president on important foreign policy initiatives. First, she took a dive on the opening the president made with Cuba, because she is from Florida and very frightened. And now, it appears she has decided to play shenanigans with the Iran nuclear deal, both as a congresscritter and, worse, as DNC chairperson.”
We know PBO won’t let her go because that will look like retaliation. But she needs to be pressured BIG TIME to step down. She’s an obstruction to progress on or Dem agenda and a demoralizing presence in our party.
And to think that I once staunchly defended this woman when folks raised concerns about her performance in the DNC. I truly thought she had done a good job in 2012 and 2013. But my opinion of her leadership changed after the 2014 midterm results….and currently, it’s in the sewer. She cannot be replaced sooner for me..
She is totally useless Donna.
SO WHAT TIME IS PBO SPEAKING OR IS HE…IF I REMEMBER RIGHT…AK IS ABOUT 7HRS. BEHIND ME…EITHER 7 OR 4……………….DAH!!!!
WILL CHECK BACK LATER…………:)
Is there a livestream for his arrival? Looks like most are covering the GLACIER conference.
Among many of President Obama’s strategic successes has been his advocacy of independence from ME oil coupled with spurring expansion of the use of renewable sources of electricity. It is just such a strategy that can enable future Presidents (if we elect the appropriate folk) to continue distancing ourselves from any form of dependency on the current anti-democratic, misogynistic, Salafi-infused Saudi monarchy.
This is worth the time to read:
clip
“Notwithstanding Saudi Arabia’s recent tough talk about Iran, and the (mistaken) interpretation of leaked cables supposedly showing that Saudi leaders would like the United States to cut off heads of snakes, the preferences and concerns in Riyadh in 1996 were much different. As David Kirkpatrick accurately recalls in his article in the New York Times about Mughassil’s reported capture, Saudi leaders were worried back then that the United States would react too strongly against Iran, especially with reactions involving military force. The Saudis were trying to improve their relations with Tehran, and they did not want any U.S. response to the Khobar attack to upset that process. The Saudis thus dragged their feet in their part of the investigation, so much so that senior U.S. officials complained publicly about the inadequate Saudi cooperation. Saudi officials were reluctant to join the United States in blaming Iran even after indictments of the suspects were announced. The foot-dragging strategy worked; by the time the slow-moving investigation was completed, too much time had passed for a military response to be politically feasible, especially given the election in the meantime of the moderate Mohammad Khatami to the Iranian presidency.
clip
Without diminishing for a moment the reprehensible nature of the attack at Khobar, one additional lesson can be drawn concerning the circumstances that stimulated it. Anti-U.S. terrorism with an Iranian dimension always involved U.S. military deployments in the Middle East. As in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, so it was in Lebanon in the 1980s, most notably with the truck bombing by Lebanese Hezbollah of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983—the deadliest terrorist attack against Americans until 9/11. Iran and its allies are by no means the only ones who react this way to the placement of U.S. military power in their neighborhoods and their homelands. The U.S. military build-up in Saudi Arabia following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990—a build-up of which the airmen who died at Khobar were still a part—was the development that most radicalized Osama bin Laden and stimulated him to take the violent anti-American course that he did.”
POTUS has touched down in AK
Live stream
http://www.ktva.com/stream/
Hey, I’m confused: exactly what kind of information was supposed to be transmitted via email by any SoS? Recipes? Sports scores?
Requesting a moderator free my @TheIranDeal thank you note 🙂
Some levity. From KUSC, our classical music station.
I loved this lil’ Twitter exchange…
….and saved thousands of lives by making healthcare available & affordable to working and middle class.
Live Streaming: President Obama arrives in Alaska
http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/26079576
Now that is truly spiritual!!!! TY hf2 for sharing the info!
You’re welcome Sir Bob! 🙂
how awesome is thissss…..mercy mercy me
SWEEEEEEET
But this call to “manliness” from our leaders hasn’t just come from the right. While not as harsh or widespread as the conservative version, there have been many suggestions that President Obama needs to “man up” or take off his tutu and put on his boxing gloves. Calling Obama “feminized” is the heart of Maureen Dowd’s critique of this President.
All of this is a kind of sexist dog whistle. Men and women who call themselves feminists need to recognize it for what it is and call it out. We should be very clear that the presidency is no place for bullies. And rather than signifying weakness, traits like compassion, thoughtfulness and cooperation are exactly the kind of thing we’re looking for in a leader. That’s true whether the next occupant of the White House is a man or a woman.
❤
But maybe not for long, eh, JO’B?
That would be a two-fer. 🙂
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/08/31/welcome-to-alaska-mr-president/
Heard on the elevator:
Republican woman pundit on MSNBC said she thought the GOP could beat Hillary Clinton but “I’m not sure we can beat Joe Biden.”
Just kidding about the elevator.
Of course they will say that for they want VP Biden to run……JoScar per Mediaite was gleeful today that Sanders is closing in in IA and they were urging VP Biden to enter the race so they can start tearing him down too.
Note how Snaders is hardly ever scrutinized by either the MSM, Fox or the GOPers.
All they have to do is run several ads attacking Sanders as a Socialist, using his own words and Independents would run away and so would some Conservative Dems.