President Barack Obama comments to Pope Francis as they watch from onstage as the “Old Guard” fife and drum corps marches past during an official welcome ceremony on the South Lawn at the White House
Pope Francis listens as President Barack Obama welcomes him during a state arrival ceremony
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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Pope Francis wave to the 11,000 people on South Lawn of the White House
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President Barack Obama and Pope Francis, accompanied by Msgr. Mark Miles, the English translator for the Pontiff, walk down the Colonnade
The Obama Diary 
Love!
Congratulations on first df. I feel the same way. Have a great day!
Love!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Congrats df on furst! Betsy & Tnmtngirl! See you on Saturday Betsy!
Yippee! Can’t wait 😀
Can’t wait either!!! 🙂
love, Love, LOVE!!!
Good morning TOD, Your Holiness, PBO and all those thousands at the WH and along the parade route.. What a great day for witnessing this remarkable event. {{everyone}}
You’re so right, cd4b! It’s just incredible! I dunno how I’m supposed to get anything done with all this cool history happening right before my eyes. 😀
Dudette, I know how you feel. I’m sneaking a peek now 😀
LOL! 🙂
Stunning collection, NW!! Thank you so much for collecting these. They’re a beautiful window into the relationship of this two astonishing men.
You’re welcome, Meta. Thanks so much. 🙂
You, My Dear, are a Goddess! Thank YOU so much! This is simply wonderful! 🙂
Awww…thanks, Dudette. 🙂
These two men are certainly what this tired world needed at this time in history! So thankful for both of them.
So very true carolyn.
NW, thank you for this post of goodies – I can play visual catch up 🙂
LOL.
Clever 🙂
I knew it.
amk – you found some great ones!
That’s where Speaker John Boehner cries everyday at 2PM.
good one.
Thanks.
NW – you have some funny captions here 😀 😀 😀
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Great photos of a great event!
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and I am outta here.
Nite amk. Please break the glass and PDQ!
Oh NW, those pictures are stunning. So glad I was able to watch it all live. Tomorrow I will be working so we will see what I can hear of the speech to Congress. I can’t wait to hear what the Pope has to say. Thank you all for the glorious day!
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Such wonderful pictures and FLOTUS looks lovely as always.
So proud of the First Family yesterday.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Legend!!!!!!!
It was my pleasure, Chiparoo. 🙂
More fallout from the AH Pharma Bro…
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/09/23/3704603/shkreli-punk/
Let this sink for awhile.
This is low though…this is an older photo of Christie, I think…he’s still overweight, but not this overweight….
Yeh, not cool. He’s a jerk, a crook and a horrible governor. That’s more than enough to focus on.
I have no problem with this.
Here’s the story.
Governor Chris Christie has told the leader of New Jersey’s National Guard to slim down.
The order comes after the Pentagon reprimanded Air Force Brig. Gen. Michael Cunniff for his weight, and dodging fitness tests, CBS2’s Christine Sloan reported Tuesday.
Christie and Cunniff have been seen together in the past reviewing troops, but now New Jersey’s National Guard leader is scrutiny himself for not being in shape and flunking, and then skipping, physical fitness tests.
Christie, who appointed Cunniff and is his boss as the state’s commander in chief, didn’t want to talk about the situation on Tuesday.
But in statement, the governor, who has struggled with his own weight for years, including undergoing Lap-Band stomach surgery, said Cunniff didn’t tell him he was reprimanded.
Now, Christie is giving Cunniff 90 days to trim down.
“Every individual in the military has to be combat ready … and he has to meet the physical standards, just like any other member of the U.S. Military,” said retired U.S. Navy Lt. Steven Rogers.
Cunniff admitted in a statement he didn’t meet military fitness requirements, saying, “I have struggled with weight control my entire adult life. However, I do recognize that military members and leaders, like myself, are held to a higher standard.”
He said he’s now training and getting help from a nutritionist.
Rogers said Cunniff should have been a role model.
“Look, you’re a leader, you’re a general, you have a responsibility to your troops to make sure that you’re physically fit,” he said.
One college student, training to be in the Air Force, told Sloan he was disappointed in Cunniff.
“One of our Air Force core values is integrity, so he’s kind of lying. That breaks his core values,” NJIT student Michael La said.
It’s unclear how much weight Cunniff needs to lose, but his waist size was reportedly four-and-half inches over what it should be, according to his last fitness test three years ago, Sloan reported.
In this, and apparently only this, at least he’s walking the walk (no pun intended)
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-much-does-gov-chris-christie-weigh-did-he-lose-weight-run-president-2016-1989201
Yogi Bera passed away yesterday. He was 90.
Mission accomplished.
We knew it !
She is so predictable. SMDH
if she can make Obamacare better…good….even the President says he is open to making the ACA better …but he will not abide dismantling of the law….
Get Big Pharma to lower prices without causing premiums to go up. That’s the fix.
thumbs up
She can fix it all she wants but I’ll never call it Hillarycare.
This!
hahahaha…i do not see it as a fix…more like an improvement…fix is the GOP double speak….and i am with you..it will always be Obamacare…smilin
😀 ❤ ❤ ❤ 😀
ohhhhhhhhhhh myyyy Dudette…..see i told you that you are special….smilin
Aw, thanks pf! But it’s really these two amazing artists who are the special ones. I just appreciate them and their work. 🙂
And they appreciate you appreciating them – which defines them as the wonderful folks that they are.
Fascinating – I thought of Pope Francis as a native speaker of Spanish, but his *English* sounds like that of an Italian …
Might be that he learned English from native-Italian speakers.
Believe his Dad was born in Italy, and his Mom’s family also had Italian roots.
Pope Francis’ Family migrated from Italy to Argentina. He is also fluent in Italian and of Course, Latin. So it is No Wonder that his English is heavily tilted with Italian intonation.
Ah! There ya go!
I WOULD DITCH CONGRESS TOO…THE HOMELESS ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT!
Good Afternoon TOD
I was in my car this afternoon driving to an appointment and I came across Joy Ann Reid on the radio. Now I was on a station that I don’t normally frequent and I don’t know if she was filling in for someone but her topic was quite interesting. She had on an AA spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders. This woman went on to explain what a Democratic Socialist is and how Bernie is wonderful and blah, blah, blah.
Once she was gone Joy had two other AA panelist on and the question she asked them was if Bernie’s campaign was viable and they each gave plausible answers for and against but then Joy went on to explain to them what she sees on twitter. She explained that she often witnesses “dustups” with Black Twitter, BLM, Obama supporters vs. the Feel the Bern crowd. Joy said that from what she sees these people are not feeling the bern. She asked her guest what she felt Bernie needed to do to get AA support since he is polling so poorly with this group. The female guest said there are two things. She said he had to engage them directly and in a better way and then she had the money quote. She said he needs to stop bashing and criticizing the President whether directly or indirectly. She gave the example of Bernie speaking ill of the Presidents signature legislation (ObamaCare) with all this talk about Single Payer and how this will not win him any votes in the AA community. She reminded the listeners that the President has been sued numerous times over ACA and twice the Supreme Court has had to rule that it is the law of the land. She said if this system which is not perfect by any means is being fought still to this day then how on earth is Bernie Sanders going to be able to do even more? She said the whole premise of his campaign is essentially a joke considering the makeup of Congress. I was hollering Hallelujah because somebody is finally speaking the reality of the Sanders campaign.
Joy is so on point! Love her!
She’s filling in this week on SiriusXM Insight Hour -12Noon-1PM Eastern. I’ve been listening to that show online this week because of her. Missed her today though.
Oh okay it was really good today. I think radio is her forum IMO. She talks fast which is great for radio and as you said she is so on point.
Amen!
And Latinos will go for Marco, because????
Marco Rubio Rules Out Path to Citizenship During His Presidency
The Florida senator takes a position that could cost him Hispanic voters in a general election.
Sahil Kapur Sahil Kapur
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has effectively ruled out granting lawful permanent residency to undocumented immigrants if he makes it to the White House, even for a second term.
Pressed by conservative host Sean Hannity during a Monday night interview on Fox News, the Florida senator said he’s open to a path to citizenship for people in the U.S. illegally, but only a decade or more after passage of bills to secure the border and modernize the legal immigration system.
“I don’t think it’s a decision you have to make on the front end. The first two things you have to do is stop illegal immigration, then second you have to modernize our legal immigration system, and then third you can have a debate about how to even legalize people to begin with,” Rubio said. “And then ultimately in 10 or 12 years you could have a broader debate about how has this worked out and should we allow some of them to apply for green cards and eventually citizenship
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-22/marco-rubio-rules-out-path-to-citizenship-during-his-presidency
Rikyrah, the illusion that Hispanics will vote for Rubio (should he ever make the general) is based on the rock hard belief among the GOP that Hispanics are stupid and can’t tell the difference between a phony and the genuine article. They had a similar idea about Palin and now Fiorino–just put up a female or a Latino and you’ll scoop up all the votes. Rubio is an empty suit whose personal life is a financial mess and who gives the impression of standing for nothing but his own self aggrandizement. Most Hispanics are smart enough not to fall for his act.
Sigh!
Did anyone see this? This year, President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will not attend Clinton Global Initiative event in New York. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/obama-skips-clinton-global-initiative-new-york-213944#ixzz3magSb1S5
Hmmmm. 🙂
I’m reading late Dudette – (you’ve noticed 🙂 ) Report said PBO etc couldn’t fit the Clinton event into the schedule – but one thinks it is a smart move to stay away from the media making remarks about PBO preferences during the campaign.
The little girl that was allowed to approach the Pope during the parade:
Ahh this so touches me so. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” She exhibits this with an open, innocent heart.
It’s just so beautiful, pure and honest.
Is this the little girl that ran out in the street and the Pope called her over? That was so wonderful.
Awww! That is so SWEET! Darn, now Here come the waterworks!
GA TOD.
Wow! Wow! Wow!
As a Roman Catholic, I am extremely grateful for all the Coverage by TODable TOD Community. Thank you, Chips and your able wonderful bts and contributors for all you do. 🍸 ❤ 😎 ^5 ^5
Gold ⭐ winners since last night to this current post, I salute you all. Congratulations!
I’ll drink to that! 🍸 ❤ 😎 ^5 ^5
^^^ THIS ! Thank you.
Chris Cuomo is so excited he was just yelling ” Papa Francisco ” ” Papa Francisco “……as Pope Francis passed the media area
Media professional
Nice!
In tears again, the photos, the Light all around them, PBO and MO, and the Pope. I think the timing of this trip could be more awesome. ❤
This is my first Instagram :shy:
Meta, posted this in one of the earlier threads. The anticipation is building 🙂
Woooot! Go Donna!!! Enjoy!
Woooooooot, look at you, Queen of Instagram!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow, Donna.
I swear I kept thinking he looked like some celebrity; just couldn’t name him. Welp, mystery solved!
Too funny. Well they say we all have a twin somewhere.
Pardon me…..The POTUS & The Pope, I had meant to post.
9-23-15
WH Presser by Josh “The Voice” Earnest.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?328176-2/white-house-briefing&live
For those who may prefer the Tweet format.
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND JOYFUL DAY TODAY…I WISH IT WAS LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME!
May I just say: My President is looking MIGHTY phoine!
Very observant, Markie!
Looked it up and “SCV-1” stands for “Status Civitatis Vaticanae,” Latin for “state of the Vatican City.”
For The Trekkies and the Science Nerd Geeks at TOD 😉
Sounds like Brian Williams is giving coverage of the Canonization Mass by the Pope, along with Maria Shriver and others, on MSNBC.
Yes he is Jacqueline. He is back.
OK…BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Tommy is on a roll today! LOL! 😀
BBL…THE CONSERVATIVE REACTION TO THE POPE IS MAKING ME NAUSEOUS…THEN AGAIN WHAT’S NEW????
Wow! Cruz is more of a scuzzball than I thought.
Dr. Rachel Maddow reported on this nearly 3-4 weeks ago……Okay…..before the Fox GOPer Debate.
I guest there is a good reason why this man remains at Fox. ???
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/23/17-6m-people-have-peace-of-mind-thanks-obamacare/
Happy Birthday to The Man, Bruce Springsteen……..The BOSS!
Good day for musician babies! It’s also Coltrane and Ray Charles’ birthday! 😀
Thanks for the reminder!