I loved Alaska and met so many inspiring people. Have to keep up the fight on climate change for their sake—and ours. snpy.tv/1JQQYbZ
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The Obama Diary 
Hello!
Congrats to No Child! Thanks to Chips and Nerdy for taking us along with President Obama on this important journey in Alaska to learn about climate change impacts.
Congrats Winner! 🙂
HOLA FROM THE MIDWEST…SOON TO HOP A PLANE AND JUST GO WEST!
looks like they are getting closer to the filibuster.
He’s in the House…
Wonder if these late decision makers ever considered that them taking so long to decide has eroded any possible excitement they may have intended with the delay?
I sometimes think they’re just looking for attention.
Exactly, but who’s going to tell them they forfeited a lot of that (at least from average voters) by taking so long to *decide* on an issue that seemed pretty obvious. Case in point, I don’t feel in the least like thanking the late comers. I feel more like asking ‘What took you so long?
Yeah, I totally hear you. I just hope Sec Kerry, Moniz and POTUS are have their feet on a good cushion tonight and are taking a deep breath. They’ve worked so hard and now we are here.
I love Alaska myself … Lots of wilderness and when I was a kid dad and brother went there to go camping. So much fish to catch and everything. What an experience it was. 🙂
Wish I could have gone with the president. Especially liked the part with the fish and how the president wanted them to filet a fish and the secret service took all the knives which actually made sense.
POOR PBO….NO PRIVATE LIFE…CAN’T EVEN PREPARE FISH DINNER!
I THINK PBO’S VISIT TO ALASKA HAS MADE SOME SIGNIIFICANT DENTS IN RATHER AWKWARD AND INSANE CLIMATE CHANGE THINKING…GREAT JOB MR. PRESIDENT,,,,THE DANCING BEAR IN SMOKIN’ SHOES!
Mitt Romney again? Behind the scenes for 2016
Could the third time be a charm for Mitt Romney? The former Republican presidential candidate is making moves to explore another possible White House bid, according to sources. The Post’s Karen Tumulty explains what’s happening behind the scenes, and what it could mean for the 2016 GOP field. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post)
By Robert Costa, Philip Rucker and Karen Tumulty January 12
Mitt Romney is moving quickly to reassemble his national political network, calling former aides, donors and other supporters over the weekend and on Monday in a concerted push to signal his seriousness about possibly launching a 2016 presidential campaign.
Romney’s message, as he told one senior Republican, was that he “almost certainly will” make what would be his third bid for the White House. His aggressive outreach came as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) — Romney’s 2012 vice presidential running mate and the newly installed chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee — announced Monday that he would not seek the presidency in 2016.
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I can’t wait for the 47% Guy.
oh brother not again.
He might get the nomination because the republicans really are lost right now.
THEY CAN ALL RUN TILL THEIR SOX CATCH ON FRE…UNLESS BIDEN IS OUT THERE IT WILL BE A DARK DAY FOR THE WH…CAN YOU IMAGINE THE DONALD IN THE WHITEHOUSE?????????????????????
MAYBE HE’LL BUILD A NEW WHITEHOUSE WITH HIS OWN MONEY……………LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW….THEY CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPED ON THE BEST PRESIDENT THIS COUNTRY WILL EVER SEE…THE FOLLOW UP WON’T BE PERDY!
RMoney getting into the race might spark VPBidens decision to run with HRC campaign floundering and who knows what’s happening with BS. One day BS is within pouncing distance to HRC next day he’s so far behind.
Hey No Child, that’s from January – although it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it happened. Can it happen? When’s their ‘closing date’?
Have said for awhile that Willard was waiting in the cut for Jeb to fail.
I’ve been particularly thrilled with the TOD news of the Alaska trip because I was just there. Luckily I had 6 weeks instead of three days, but PBO packed in a lot. I never got to the Arctic, but I was in Snow City Cafe, hiked to Exit Glacier, had gelato from the same place in Seward, and joined in with Native dancers at the Alaskan Native Heritage Center outside of Anchorage. Plus I spent 4 days in Denali and actually got to see the wonderfully renamed mountain on one of those days. It’s notorious for hiding in the clouds.
So it’s been a blast watching him. My favorite part, and the pictures of it, were when he was with the kids at school. That’s the kind of subtle gesture that he is changing the world with — telling those kids they are worth the time and attention of the president of the US, that their life, their art, their rituals matter to the most important man on earth. There are so many good things that are coming of this time, despite the radical insanity we are suffering.
I purposely waited until Pete Souza and the Department of the Interior pictures were gone to post my own, but if you’d like a taste of that amazing state, here are two:
http://thesouloftheearth.com/in-love-in-homer-alaska/
http://thesouloftheearth.com/timeless-in-alaska/
And my bear video!
Thanks, as always and ever, to NW and Chips for this marvelous community.
Those pictures look good, and so did your commentary, BetseyC!! I read the first paragraphs of both and will have to make a return trip to your blog soon. 🙂 🙂
Love this!! How awesome you got a chance to film a bear foraging! 🐻 ❤
HAVE A BLESSED NIGHT EVERYONE…I HAVE TO CHECK INTO A NICE BUBBLEBATH…………….:)
And in USA, the MSM has refused to report Accurate News from Israel.
Or from the USA.
How much coverage have #35, 35 and 37 got?
Blanket on Iran vote now that PBO has won.
WSVTV Reporters
How cool would it be if tonight VPOTUS Joe went ahead and made that announcement we’ve been waiting for?
One of my favorite mentors:
Yay!
Danny! Check this out.
😆 A bomb sweep? Damn it, my fella would just eat the bombs!
🙂
Congrats NCLB on your Gold ⭐
An oldie, but goodie…
Wow, amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks, Alycee. We truly are one underneath it all. We all want peace and justice …..positive interactions.
thank you so much for sharing this – had not seen it before;
gave me a glimpse of the immense sacrifices so many in the First Americans community have made and continue to make
did we already add Heidi
Unreal. Why so many Limos?
9-3-15
WH Presser with Josh “The Voice” Earnest
That is a great video. I love my president.
Article from last month about VPOTUS’ speech tonight
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/08/03/joe-biden-to-speak-at-atlanta-synagogue-sept-3/
Mentions there will be a live stream here:
http://icu.aasynagogue.org:81/
Details about the speech here:
http://aasynagogue.org/caring-communitysocial-action/eizenstat-lecture.html
Congrats on 1st NCLB 🙂
Thank YOU, NW!!!
Yet ANOTHER “Thank you OBAMA” moment in history!!!
Thought I’d do the #TBT thing!
looking good meta….
That is you, Meta?
Yes, getting close to 50 years old there. LOLz.
Looking young and lovely, in my opinion.
This is your professor mode?
Yeah. I was speechifying to graduates.
😎 très 😎 Meta! 🙂
Go Girl!
HHhaaahaa! I know I can always count on you for some tunes, girl!!
😎
You look fantastic, meta! 🙂
xoxo!
More on VPOTUS’ speech tonight
Former Eizenstat Lecture Speakers:
2014 Thomas L. Friedman
2013 The Honorable Ron Dermer
2012 Justice Stephen Gerald Breyer
2011 David Brooks
2010 The Honorable Michael B. Oren
2009 The Honorable Al Gore
2007 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2006 Paul Wolfowitz, Ph.D
2005 The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
2004 The Honorable Ehud Olmert
2003 The Honorable Bill Clinton
2002 The Honorable Jimmy Carter
2001 U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
2000 The Honorable Joseph Lieberman
1999 Herman Wouk
1998 Professor Alan Dershowitz
1997 Cantor Benjamin Muller & Choir
1996 The Honorable Shimon Peres
1995 Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
1994 The Honorable Itamar Rabinovich
1993 The Honorable Simcha Dinitz
1992 The Honorable Teddy Kollek
1991 The Honorable Dr. Henry Kissinger
1990 The Honorable Abba Eban
1989 Natan Sharansky
1988 Elie Wiesel
http://aasynagogue.org/caring-communitysocial-action/eizenstat-lecture.html
Thank you Dudette!
Audio only?????
Joe’s not playing
VP Joe is a bit unleashed as well. 4th quarter for him, too.
Haha! Draft Biden GA just followed me on Twitter! Guess I got their attention! 😀
AWESOME!
Hank is my Rep. He represents me well! 🙂
Again with the Just Joe Biden… pfft. That really chaps me. Sorry, but he’s the freaking Vice President of the United States! Show some respect for the office!
If the speaker was Jill Biden I guarantee you that the Dr. title would be included. My people never miss a Doctor title. They might say ” Obama” but just watch, it will always be Dr. Carson. I’m not proud of this, just pointing it out.
“The Honorable Joseph R. Biden Jr., Vice President of the United States” is what should be on that program!
THIS right here.
I was just about to complain that there was no mention at all on their TL. Finally!
“The unfortunate problem with Prime Minister Netanyahu is that he prides himself on being the Israeli who knows America the best,”said former Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler (Fla.), who now runs the D.C.-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. “Where he’s mistaken is, Prime Minister Netanyahu knows the America that elected Ronald Reagan president. He’s completely unfamiliar with the America that elected Barack Obama president. And they are in fact very different Americas.”
Don’t be coming to our House and trashing our beloved POTUS while he is overseas!
Meta, this was the one action that brought Bibi forcefully to my attention (as an entity), and you can have no idea how anger sprung full blown into my heart towards him. Bibi’s rudeness and effrontery with this action, and in Pres O’s own *House*, was an eye opener for me as to his arrogance and lack of class. That first action kicked of a certain hatred for him and nothing he has done since endeared me to him. I have found all of his interactions towards PBO offensive. I remember thinking at the time – I know I will but I cannot wait to have the last laugh where you are concerned!
His arrogance and lack of grace is so off the charts, it’s ridiculous. His appearance was an affront and he know, as did the GOPers who invited him and the Dems who courted him. I recall PBO’s visit to his country, where he was most gracious and expressive of his support for Israel. And this is how he’s met. In my eyes, Netanyahu is truly despicable.
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Alaska is part of the USA. Saying he is overseas sounds like out of the country. Alaskans deal with tourists asking what kind of money do we use here? What language do you speak? Do you live in an igloo. etc… Many maps in text books do not even include Alaska or make it appear the size of Hawaii. I know that firsthand having served on the Juneau District Social Studies Committee helping pick District textbooks. I lived there for ten glorious years and enjoyed the photo journal of PBO’s trip so much. Thanks for all your work on it.
Great statement by Bob Wexler, a staunch PBO supporter.
Bibi out of date, out of his mind, and I hope, soon out of office.
thumbs UP!
That’s right…when a foreign nation who begs for money then diss our president you burnt too many bridges.
Stream is working. They just announced the program will be beginning shortly! Didn’t have my eye on the screen, so I don’t know if the synagogue is doing audio only too or if they’ll actually stream video.
http://51dda3454e892.click2stream.com/
Thank you Dudette 🙂
Fox5 Atlanta News also has a stream up
This one has ACTUAL video! YAY! 😀
I have it up but no sound so far. Maybe when someone approaches the podium.
I guessing that’s the deal. I heard sound a few minutes ago.
Looks like 11Alive has got it too!
http://www.11alive.com/videos/news/2015/07/21/5867887/
One car for each family member?
Let the Congregation say AMENNNNNN!!
CBS46 New has it too! 🙂
http://www.cbs46.com/category/213030/breaking-news-live-stream
The balcony appears to be empty. If this is true it is not good news.
what is the regular attendance numbers?
life it a strange thing – uncertainty about some thing today may turn into conviction or outright opposition tommorow ;
sometimes, we have to be patient and give people time to come around to see what was right before their eyes
And… Channel 2 finally got it in gear
http://www.wsbtv.com/s/news/live/
I can hear chatter on this one. Nothing happening yet though.
Mmmmmmm
Oooo… I’d try that!
So this is saying Cory Booker is supporting the Iran Deal. Interesting. I still don’t like him.
While we wait…
ESPN put up a graphic with this quote to open a video segment they did on how Roger Federer is working on changing his game. It struck me how it fits the political climate in this country as well.
Quote is from former British PM Harold Wilson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson
VP is in the Heezy! 😀
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/03/a-tweet-or-two-311/
They just asked the audience to take their seats. “Our program will begin very shortly.”