Today
10:15: The President departs White House
12:25: Arrives Jacksonville, Florida
1:30: Tours Saft America Advanced Batteries Plant
1:55: Delivers remarks on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
4:05: Departs Jacksonville
6:0: Arrives White House
The Obama Diary 
Thanks a trazillion gazillion to Nerdy and LP for yesterday’s posts, so so so so so so so grateful! Have to run, back in a bit.
POTUS and FLOTUS have not only inspired young people to pursue the arts and sciences through talk, but they have opened the White House, sponsoring programs and fairs that allowed young people to demonstrate their talents …putting their talk into action and doing much to encourage and motivate. In so many ways they have made the WH the People’s House. They will soooooooo be missed.
NO OTHER FIRST COUPLE EVER BOTHERED WITH THIS………………………SELFLESS LOVE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN!
Guess what, Donald Trump? Your bigotry has inspired Muslim American voters like no presidential candidate has done before.
All Dulles Area Muslim Society, better known as ADAMS…organizing phone banks. We are getting people registered to vote. We’re telling them how important their voices are…
“Abstaining from voting is also a vote,” read one of the talking points in their action plan.”
““If Muslims do not vote, openly Islamophobic leaders do not pay a price,” said another one.”
Islamophobia has been fueled by Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric calling for a “total” ban on Muslims entering the United States — hate speech that has helped make him the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. But it has also been bolstered by leaders who have remained silent.
The Muslim population is relatively small in the United States — about 3.3 million…But U.S. Muslims have the potential to be a powerful influence at the ballot box because one of their major population centers happens to be in a battleground state — Virginia.
SW, I know the same can be said of the Latino community. Many Latinos can’t wait to line up to vote AGAINST Trump. He drives up Democratic registration whenever he opens his mouth.
Don’t underestimate the fact that a prominent Muslim political activist is making sure that Muslims register in drovesas REPUBLICANs because, she said, the GOP offers values closer to their practice. Go figure!
But *if* Trump ends up being the Republican nominee, who will they vote for (assuming no appealing Independent alternative)?
I believe they all will. Their hatred for Liberals, the Left and the Democrats is greater.
Wow. That’s really hard for me to grasp…to vote for someone who *openly* and *unapologetically* spews hatred towards me (the demographic to which I belong).
Good Friday Morning TOD family, Chipsticks, Happy-once-again Dannystixs, TB’s, lurkers, and friends.
I hope the Muslim Republicans parading on teevee drop the GOP. Il Douche won’t meet with them yet they plan to vote for him.
Oftentimes when folks think of Muslims they think of Muslims of ME descent…but there is a sizable amount of African American Muslims…My daughter often says that she wonders which part of her America hates the most…her faith…her gender…her blackness….
Pi
I think about a time when companies, when trying to meet minority quotas, would hire a black female, thus allowing them to check off two boxes. Religion was not a topic that could be touched.
Now, the hatred, the bigotry, the discrimination is more blatant; people are an open book; the people who are being elected to office encourage it whether by active behavior/rhetoric or by passive behavior – do nothing/say nothing.
“Univision fought with Donald Trump and now it wants to register 3 million new Latino voters”
Last summer, Univision went to war with Donald Trump after he called Mexicans drug dealers and rapists –Now Univision is launching a major voter registration and engagement campaign aimed at turning out 3 million new Latino voters ahead of this year’s presidential election.
The network published an online voter guide Tuesday and is partnering with several organizations to register eligible Latinos — a population that has grown 40% in the past eight years alone. Univision will broadcast public service announcements across its 126 local television and radio stations about the importance of voting…
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Donald Trump’s attacks are resulting in minority voter registration/GOTV drives.
So, in the end, Donald Trump, the tv entertainer who thrives on bigotry, will end up waking up Americans to do the one thing that will save our democracy–VOTE!!!.
I guess if there is one positive about him running, this is it. I hope other minority groups have been/are being motivated by his racist rhetoric.
So now Romney thinks candidate tax returns should be made public…utter hypocrisy!!!
Morning people:) Happy Friday. Liars lie. Rain is wet.
Df, surely everyone knows that only Democrats have to release their tax records. Only Democrats are held up to scrutiny for every word they utter. Only Democrats are consistently and viciously called out for “lies” even when the accusations turn out to be true. Trump will never be called to account for anything because his supporters don’t care and his critics “can’t make him”–the big macho bully– do anything he doesn’t want to do.
Good morning Chips & TOD!!!
#FORWARD Together
Bob, it’s good news that any kind of sustenance is delivered to people who are starving, but how long can people survive on just flour and water? There are small children in these villages who will become severely malnourished with this meager fare.
It’s all horrible JackieG – the price the many pay as a result of the greed of the few. Its the trait that will ensure the extinction of our species if we don’t rectify it, soon.
Agreed.
Wow.
http://www.progressmichigan.org/2016/02/progress-michigan-calls-for-snyder-resignation-in-light-of-new-emails/
“There’s no reasonable person who can believe at this point that every top advisor to Rick Snyder knew that there was an issue, but Snyder knew nothing. At worst he’s been lying all along and at best he’s the worst manager on the planet. Under either scenario he’s clearly unfit to lead our state and he should resign immediately,” said Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan. “As if it isn’t bad enough that the Governor’s administration knew about the Flint water issues and did nothing, we also find out that Snyder’s deputy legal counsel was purposely writing separate emails to avoid the state’s Freedom of Information Act. All of this behavior is unacceptable and Governor Snyder must be held accountable for the egregious failures that have occurred on his watch.”
Thanks, Df. Rick Snyder’s lies kill people. Christie’s lies disrupt and bankrupt the population. Neither one faces consequences. The only governor who has seen the inside of a jail cell is former DEMOCRATIC governor, Blogojevich of Illinois, who hurt no one but himself. What are the odds that Snyder would be under indictment if he were a Democrat?
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Friday morning. TGIF>> Congrats Chips, on being first to open up TOD’ville this morning.
To all, I hope that you have a cheery, delightful, and gleeful day today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
disgusting but true.
Morning, AMK. You’re right about ‘disgusting.’ Spewing vomit is about all Trump is good for. Wish he’d give a double portion of it to Cruz.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Don’t have food in your mouth:) Coffee out the nose is not pleasant, either:)
Coffee out the nose must be painful as hell seeing as coffee is hot. Now when I was in elementary school kids that could make milk come out of there nose were thought of as rock stars.
Soda out the nose. Tickles.
“leightweight chocker”?!?!?!?
Is this tweet targeting the “poorly educated” he loves so much?
Damn it, Obama! Not AGAIN!
ON MY FB…SO THE RIGHTIES CAN TAKE A PEEK AT THEIR RELATIVES!
The economy is booming, unemployment is under five percent, gas prices are low, college loans are more affordable, health care is available for everyone–but we need a Republican macho man to save us. It is literally upside down world in America.
They built this….Bourbon might be necessary!
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/here-are-7-jaw-dropping-confessions-from-conservatives-about-the-dismal-state-of-the-gop/
HE’S A GREAT DOCTOR UNABLE TO MENTALLY TRAVERSE OUT OF THAT LANE…WHEN HE ATTEMPTS TO PASS…HE’S FRUIT SALAD!
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Rubio, Cruz throw kitchen sink at Trump, but he’s still standing
02/26/16 08:00 AM—UPDATED 02/26/16 08:25 AM
By Steve Benen
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Last night was, however, a very different kind of event. With the window of opportunity closing for candidates like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, the first-term senators not only launched tag-team attacks on Trump, they appeared eager to throw every possible criticism they could think of at the candidate standing atop the polls.
After months of restraint, Rubio and Cruz apparently decided it was time for a kitchen-sink gambit, which included, but was not limited to, attacks on Trump’s inheritance, his “university,” his tax returns, the vagueness of his health care plan, his record on immigration, his general-election polls, and his support for official U.S. neutrality towards Israelis and Palestinians.
It led MSNBC’s Benjy Sarlin to raise an important point.
By dropping so many attacks at once, Rubio and Cruz also make it difficult to focus on any one issue in four days, giving Trump an opportunity to regain control of the conversation. We’ll never know what might have happened if they had doled out bits of opposition research over months and months instead and litigated each topic one at a time.
There’s a scene in “Apocalypse Now” in which Captain Willard walks into a fire fight and he comes upon a soldier launching grenades. The soldier looks high as a kite; Captain Willard asks the soldier “who’s in charge here?” The solider turns around and looks at Captain Willard and says “I thought you were in charge.” And that is the GOP today, nobody is in charge, they have no structure nor do they have a unifying voice. Their leader is a former talk show host that may or may not be a millionaire depending on the results of an audit that may or may not be taking place.
[Per The National Review’s staff writer Charles C.W. Cooke, The Federalist, Bill James, and the right-wing Washington Post editorial board]
1. All bark, no bite and no fight – GOP doesn’t know how to fight anymore, whether shutting down the federal government for longer or taking on Trump…
2. The others are losers and wimps – the rest of the 2016 GOP field has been, well, pathetic….
3. Trump is a white trash billionaire – Rubio and Cruz need to say so…Trump is an entitled mess whose business record is so questionable that he managed to bankrupt a casino…
4. Go birther on the birther – the Donald must die to save the GOP, and those attacks can start with one of his ploys—saying he isn’t eligible to be president…
5. Get through to the “morons.” – The Federalist, Bill James, cites all the rational reasons why Trump is unqualified to be president, but then notes his party’s base is filled with “morons” supporting him…
6. Arm the loosest of loose cannons? – the Republican National Committee are failing “to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard-bearer.”…
7. Call on principled leaders to end mob rule? – “If Mr. Trump is to be stopped, now is the time for leaders of conscience to say they will not and cannot support him and to do what they can to stop him…
I will say this about Donald Trump, he like President Obama is immune from any attacks that the Republicans launch. Make of that what you will.
Good Morning TODVille!
Good Morning, NCLB. Excellent advice.
Have a marvelous weekend! 😀
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has dropped his objection to the Senate moving forward on aid for the Flint, Mich., water crisis.
But by Thursday evening, Cruz, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, had determined that there was no reason to object, his spokesman said.
But Cruz dropping his opposition does not necessarily mean smooth sailing for the Flint and energy bills. Senators said earlier Thursday that other members had put holds on the bills, which may still be in place by next week when the Senate returns to business.
ON MY FB…………………..SHINING A LIGHT ON THOSE WHO HIDE BEHIND THE CROSS!
I don’t know where to start about last night.
It was a feast to watch grown men attempting to man up to the biggest bully, chauvinistic, egomaniac, demagogue in American politics. A right-wing tsunami with all the brutal force, irrationality, incoherence, and vanity the GOP and the Conservatives created via the channels of the likes of Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, supported by front-line mouth-piece punchers like Boss Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Sean Hannity. Oh, yes! They built that!!!
And “that” is something the Party of Obstructions, the Party of No, the Establishment gurus like Koch Brothers and Alderson, cannot stop. Gravity is calling Il Douche to snap the nomination by all accounts. Unless superior brakes are applied fast, nobody can’t stop this Clown on his rapid descent in the next primaries to re-emerge victorious as the Republican nominee.
Besides, Il Douche has a class of followers thirsty for a fight with the so-called Establishment, and there is nothing Priebus nor his masters can do. The Trump followers cannot be reasoned with for they lost their sanity the moment they casted their votes for that Joker.
At this point, only a good exorcism might remove this tumor from the country, but at what cost?
Ha! I love it!
(Thanks, Don.)
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OMG. What a horror show.
If that was Walter Cronkite sitting their he would not put up with that behavior. Wolf and CNN loves it because it is all about ratings to them. It does not bother CNN that those GOP candidates standing up there acting like that, trying to become the President of the United States is an embarrassment to this country.
Here is the situation the Republicans see themselves in and they have no one to blame but their own racists self. Lindsey Graham said that if someone murder Ted Cruz on the Senate floor their would be not one person would care, and he said if Trump is the nominee he will support him because it’s like buying a ticket on the sinking titanic. He said something about Hillary being a liar, but she will be President.
Oh now Seth Meyers said that Bernie Sanders was more popular among young people then President Obama.
If I was a Republican, I would feel so ashame. That this is the best we can do, Trump, Cruz, Rubio. What happen to the party of Reagen, Lincoln, Eisenhower?
My president is coming to my city today and he will be in a part of town (but not near my neighborhood) where I live. The local broadcast media will be following him from the moment he leaves the White House through his visit to his return home. There has been coverage on the visit on all tech formats from the earliest news casts and it is continuing throughout the day. Several of the newscasters have been to D.C. to interview PBO when the White House invited local media outlets to do so. All of them were respectful and unbiased in their later presentations. Our local newspaper has been a bastion of republican bull shit all of my life, so I expect them to do their usual when it comes to PBO. I mentioned a few days ago that our repub. mayor, Lenny Curry (Alvin Brown, the A-A democratic mayor had only one term) came out in support of Rubio. I do not expect Curry to act like a mofo toward PBO, but we will see.
The lithium battery production company, which came as a result of the Recovery Act, employs 300 people, many of them veterans.
Unbelievable but true.
SMH
In response to this:
Anyone dying for a good laugh, please read the responses to Priebus’s tweets. That man should be fired on the basis of that tweet alone.
PRAYERS UP FOR SAFE TRAVELS FOR THE ENERGIZER…YOU ARE LOVED MR. PRESIDENT…THE REAL,AUTHENTIC AND MATURE ONE IN THE WH!
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
this was so powerful
This is just so stunning, how our hearts leap when the clip of PBO and FLOTUS comes on the screen.
Powerful episode.
This guy suckled on the teat of free-ism, not unlike a big-mouth bass. If it was free his mouth was wide open, he couldn’t help himself. Sad that a Justice of the Supreme Court would draw his last breath inside of a comped-room at some dude ranch in Texas.
meta, Donald J. Trump is W-H-I-T-E..!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They would trust Charles Manson more then this black President.
Of course, that is the 800 pound elephant in the room. Just like you have some Dems believe that they can do it better than President Obama. “Oh if the black guy can do it, I can do it.” Good luck with that.
If you trace back to the cause of the demise of the Republican Party, it leads to President Obama. It all started with someone asking to see his birth certificate.
But I also think of Nixon, Reagan, W. Lots of really horrible stuff going on with each of them that contributed to what the GOP is today. But yes, Republicans have completely lost their minds over PBO.
But the difference with both Nixon and Reagan, and to a lesser extant W, is that they kept their crazies on a short leash.
Yes. What we’ve witnessed over the last 8 – 9 years is that they’ve come completely unhinged.
Perfectly stated, “unhinged.”
And their insanity over PBO is not only about that he’s Black. He’s Black and he’s phenomenally successful WITH a beautiful, smart, engaged wife and two respectful intelligent children whom he loves dearly. He is a healthy, physically fit man who has a healthy ego and is emotional balanced with a brilliant mind and active curiosity and a tremendous sense of humor. He has style and he has wit. He broke their mold.
My president is almost here!!
You know that your fan girling over PBO is out of hand when your 86 year old mother calls you to make sure you know that he is on his way to your town.
Allllllright now!!!
Good Morning Everybody.
Reminder!
Hugs all around!!
So sweet. I didn’t know chickens could be that affectionate.
Yeah, completely weird.
LOLz!!!!
LIVE on Periscope: Awaiting the arrival of POTUS at Cecil Airport – https://www.periscope.tv/w/1yNxayWjmlExj
Really, Marco, misspelled tweets, the fucking fate of our country is at stake after November and your best thinking led you to talk about some misspelled tweets? I’m going to lay down in the middle of my office and take a goddamn nap, somebody wake me up when all this is over.
“…. maybe make sure his pants weren’t wet ….” 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
A school yard full of lame little boy bullies …..
Awaiting The President’s Arrival Jacksonville, Florida. Click here ► ► http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/top-stories/watch-live-president-obama-in-jacksonville/117009160
Should’ve already happened!!!
This is the progressive Savior. This is getting scary, guys:
LIVE NOW: Bernie Sanders holds campaign rally in Minnesota – http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/live-sanders-holds-minnesota-campaign-rally-631922243658
LIVE NOW: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Holds Press Conference on Water Crisis in Flint, MI – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=1
Seriously …
Have a super Friday everyone ….
Oh, boy! What could it be? We had endorsements from Palin, KKK, Bundy militia, and plenty of low-information voters who want to propel this clown to the WH. What will it be? Maybe the Devil himself is making an apparition.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/26/on-the-way-to-jacksonville/