On This Day: President Barack Obama plays with Leo Chaudhary, son of White House Videographer Arun Chaudhary, right, and Chaudhary’s wife, Laura Moser, prior to a Seder with friends and staff in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 18, 2011 (Photo by Pete Souza)
Congrats on 1st MP & COS. Is everyone having a good day? I think I am. Just trying to catch up on my reading. Chips I love the pictures of the POTUS with little ones. I kind of miss not having a small child around (kinda) LOL.
Congrats to Cos and MP for getting here first. Maybe I missed it before on TOD, but OFA just announced that Director Sara El-Amine is leaving to take the helm at Change.org’s new Global Foundation and will be replaced by Obama veteran, Katie Hogan. Change must be embraced, and new blood is a good thing. Eager to hear more about this.
The groundbreaking hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” telling the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton, is the hottest ticket on Broadway. Since previews began in July, the show has sold more than $61 million in tickets. Now, fans can get a backstage look at the musical in a new book, “Hamilton: The Revolution.” Show creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and cultural critic Jeremy McCarter, who co-wrote the book, join “CBS This Morning” to discuss the process of creating the musical.
That photo of POTUS & Leo, above, is extra specially sweet, I think, as that is the little guy who kissed POTUS outside that one day… I don’t recall the day or circumstances… but he gave President Obama such a loving kiss. Anyway, hello TOD 🙂 So glad that your mom is recuperating, Chips- Hugs from me 🙂 to you both. My company will be gone in a few days… and I will glad to have my space back 😉
a Times investigation has found that a majority of its members have registered with the party in error. Nearly three in four people did not realize they had joined the party, a survey of registered AIP voters conducted for The Times found.
That mistake could prevent people from casting votes in the June 7 presidential primary, California’s most competitive in decades.
Voters from all walks of life were confused by the use of the word “independent” in the party’s name, according to The Times analysis.
While California’s top-two primary system allows people to vote for any candidate, regardless of party, presidential primaries have different rules.
Republicans have a closed primary this year. Democrats will allow voters registered as having “no party preference” — the state’s formal term for an unaffiliated, independent voter — to cast a ballot. But a voter registered with the American Independent Party will only be allowed to vote for presidential candidates on the AIP ballot.
yanno…Jackie…i am so fed up….Ari Berman is saying that it is voter disenfranchisement to have close primaries….i think that he of all folks should know the difference….
I believe that only party members should be able to vote in a party primary…
@AriBerman..if they want 2 vote n a party primary..be a member of the party..Only Dems should be able 2 vote in DEM Primary #NoOPENPrimaries
Love how everybody is also trying to push for rewriting the “rules” mid-election cycle. How about fixing the REAL voter suppression issues around the country, not just getting all worked up because people don’t want to get dirt on their “independent” hands by being associated with a particular party (expletives deleted – Ha!).
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We only have 50 something days to go and I don’t want anyone at the docks when we’re getting on planes and trains:-)
That led me to more research. I concluded that the fact that Sanders only got three bills through Congress (two of which were for naming post offices) wasn’t the only meaningful measure, so I looked at the legislation he introduced during his senate career. It turns out that, every year, year after year, he introduced the same legislation to make a point, and no one else ever seems to have signed on to it. To me, this looked like showmanship rather than governance — an exercise designed to highlight his own support for a very progressive agenda. The hard work is to draft a bill that your co-legislators can get behind, in the political climate that exists and in the place where you work. I concluded that Sanders was less interested in actually accomplishing anything than he was in staging protests where he could claim some kind of moral high ground, not interested in getting in the weeds and doing anything to actually achieve his goals within the Congress he worked in. This research put Sanders’ supposedly pristine progressive agenda in perspective: it is very easy to maintain that agenda if you never make the hard choices necessary to get things done. Classic protester — yet handily collecting his $200,000 pay check and his lifetime of benefits while doing little to enact actual progressive policies to improve people’s lives.
Alperstein’s piece is long but worth your time. I share her reasons for being a Hillary voter with the additional impetus of being disgusted with Bernie and surrogates for dissing President Obama and OFA whenever they can. They are deluding a whole bunch of naive voters with magical thinking and ginning up hate for Hillary who has taken on the mantle of carrying forth President Obama’s legacy into the next 4 years.
Thanks, Ladyhawke for sharing this must read piece! It needs to be shared widely! I am hoping that NY, PA, CT and MD would go a long way in saving the Democratic Party from the Bernie Sanders’ nightmare! I’ve said this before, but I will say it again: it seems to me that Bernie Sanders and his rabid supporters, like Susan Serandon, are intent on destroying the Democratic Party.
Very sad story. When I read it awhile ago, I was devastated. My prayers for the little boy’s family, for the driver, and for Ambassador Power and her entourage.
By the way, I still haven’t figured out how to “like” a comment. Thanks for all your “likes”.
Hi NCLB! As far as I know, you can only Like a comment from the downloaded WordPress app. I use when I’m on my phone. The website doesn’t have the Like feature.
You have to refresh to see newer comments. The only way I’ve seen how to refresh is come out of the Comments page and go back to the blog Home page. From there, take your thumb or finger and drag/swipe it vertically from top to bottom of the page. You’ll see a little spinning gadget at the top of the page during refresh. When it’s done, you’ll see the comment count below the latest post has increased. That’s how you know newer comments have been to your view in the reader. Then go back into the post and read comments as usual.
Someone else might know a better way, but that’s how it seems to work on my iPhone.
When I refresh, I see the newer comments, but typically lose/cannot recall the older comments. That’s the problem I have. It wasn’t always that way. It started after one of the WP “upgrades”. [sigh]
A donor can also give up to $33,400 a year to the DNC and $10,000 a year to each of the state parties for use in getting its candidates elected to federal office. If you do the math, with 32 state parties included in the Victory Fund, that’s $356,100.
The method of allocation is explained at the bottom of the Hillary Victory Fund Web page on the Clinton website. The first $2,700 goes to Clinton, the next $33,400 goes to the DNC and the rest goes to state parties.
I’ve noticed of late that Bernie’s campaign seems to be more about complaining about the rules/process and personal attacks on HRC, and less about the issues and realistic resolutions…I’m not the only one
Think Sanders camp making a mistake putting entire focus of campaign on process grievances. Not the inspiring msg that got you here.
I am so happy that New York is a closed primary. This prevents those with ulterior motives from interfering with the outcome. This happened in Michigan and Wisconsin.
“JSU officials are planning for a crowd of 55,000”
That is a crowd! I remember my parents complaining that all grad ceremonies are boring – so after my first I didn’t go to any more. Now – if FLOTUS had been the speaker things would have been different 🙂
Sun enters Taurus tomorrow, 19 April 2016: 11:30a EDT, 8:30a PDT. Full Moon Thursday/Friday 21/22 April 2016: 2 Scorpio 31. 10:24p PDT (Thurs) 1:24a EDT (Fri)
Also, Her Majesty Queen Eliizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday on Thursday 21 April 2016! Best wishes to HRH!
I don’t know the outcome of the Pearl Harbor investigation (I’m assuming it related to “how did we let this happen”) but most of the others ended up with nothing being done – except for Watergate.
Does the US have the equivalent of our “Royal Commissions” where (in most cases) non political investigations of certain events are funded by the administration/government.
The Obama Diary 
Hey Chips. Hope your mom is feeling better today.
🌠
❤
Congrats on 1st MP & COS. Is everyone having a good day? I think I am. Just trying to catch up on my reading. Chips I love the pictures of the POTUS with little ones. I kind of miss not having a small child around (kinda) LOL.
Congrats to Cos and MP for getting here first. Maybe I missed it before on TOD, but OFA just announced that Director Sara El-Amine is leaving to take the helm at Change.org’s new Global Foundation and will be replaced by Obama veteran, Katie Hogan. Change must be embraced, and new blood is a good thing. Eager to hear more about this.
I can’t wait for those Democratic primaries to be over! I can’t feel The-Bern but am very much annoyed by it.
Chipsticks,
To your Mother,
I prefer actual votes vs. polls. I hope lazy NY Democrats will show up and vote tomorrow.
The closed primary makes polls more predictable, but this is a weird year. I won’t relax until I see the votes.
Preach, please, preach.
OF COURSE!
Published on Apr 12, 2016
The groundbreaking hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” telling the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton, is the hottest ticket on Broadway. Since previews began in July, the show has sold more than $61 million in tickets. Now, fans can get a backstage look at the musical in a new book, “Hamilton: The Revolution.” Show creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and cultural critic Jeremy McCarter, who co-wrote the book, join “CBS This Morning” to discuss the process of creating the musical.
Now that is on my bucket list (the only thing on it right now). I would so love to see Hamilton, omgoodness.
Me too!
Great news!!! TY LH!!!
back to work …
He totally deserves it.
That photo of POTUS & Leo, above, is extra specially sweet, I think, as that is the little guy who kissed POTUS outside that one day… I don’t recall the day or circumstances… but he gave President Obama such a loving kiss. Anyway, hello TOD 🙂 So glad that your mom is recuperating, Chips- Hugs from me 🙂 to you both. My company will be gone in a few days… and I will glad to have my space back 😉
a Times investigation has found that a majority of its members have registered with the party in error. Nearly three in four people did not realize they had joined the party, a survey of registered AIP voters conducted for The Times found.
That mistake could prevent people from casting votes in the June 7 presidential primary, California’s most competitive in decades.
Voters from all walks of life were confused by the use of the word “independent” in the party’s name, according to The Times analysis.
While California’s top-two primary system allows people to vote for any candidate, regardless of party, presidential primaries have different rules.
Republicans have a closed primary this year. Democrats will allow voters registered as having “no party preference” — the state’s formal term for an unaffiliated, independent voter — to cast a ballot. But a voter registered with the American Independent Party will only be allowed to vote for presidential candidates on the AIP ballot.
DOPES….smh
My first thought – Ha! No pity outta me.
yanno…Jackie…i am so fed up….Ari Berman is saying that it is voter disenfranchisement to have close primaries….i think that he of all folks should know the difference….
I believe that only party members should be able to vote in a party primary…
Love how everybody is also trying to push for rewriting the “rules” mid-election cycle. How about fixing the REAL voter suppression issues around the country, not just getting all worked up because people don’t want to get dirt on their “independent” hands by being associated with a particular party (expletives deleted – Ha!).
Tell it, J’OB.
They act like the primary campaigns just started and somebody changed the registration deadlines last week.
Serves them right. If they can’t be bothered to check it out past the name, well that’s on them.
Oh and it is beautiful here today 🙂 🙂 Sunshine & heat, some of my favorite stuff!
Reposting…
This is a TOD Trip to DC public service announcement: Everyone who’s planning with us, be sure that you have the latest email that Alycee put together. Its subject is: “Please us this updated email list”. If you find that you don’t have it, please let us know so we can add you to this list so you can stay up-to-date.
We only have 50 something days to go and I don’t want anyone at the docks when we’re getting on planes and trains:-)
GG, may I have an e-mail for more info about this trip, that is if other TODVillageois are welcome.
Thanks.
ruley . veterans @ gmail . com
WP won’t let us post email addresses, so delete spaces in the line above…
Thanks much. I’ve sent you a note.
Yay! Hamilton won a Pulitzer!
😄😄😄
COS & MightyPamela Congrats on Your Twin Golden ⭐ ⭐
Thanks for the new post, NW.
Bernie should worry about his own 3 FEC violations..
MAGICAL THINKING AND IDEOLOGICAL PURITY OVER PRACTICALITY
That led me to more research. I concluded that the fact that Sanders only got three bills through Congress (two of which were for naming post offices) wasn’t the only meaningful measure, so I looked at the legislation he introduced during his senate career. It turns out that, every year, year after year, he introduced the same legislation to make a point, and no one else ever seems to have signed on to it. To me, this looked like showmanship rather than governance — an exercise designed to highlight his own support for a very progressive agenda. The hard work is to draft a bill that your co-legislators can get behind, in the political climate that exists and in the place where you work. I concluded that Sanders was less interested in actually accomplishing anything than he was in staging protests where he could claim some kind of moral high ground, not interested in getting in the weeds and doing anything to actually achieve his goals within the Congress he worked in. This research put Sanders’ supposedly pristine progressive agenda in perspective: it is very easy to maintain that agenda if you never make the hard choices necessary to get things done. Classic protester — yet handily collecting his $200,000 pay check and his lifetime of benefits while doing little to enact actual progressive policies to improve people’s lives.
Alperstein’s piece is long but worth your time. I share her reasons for being a Hillary voter with the additional impetus of being disgusted with Bernie and surrogates for dissing President Obama and OFA whenever they can. They are deluding a whole bunch of naive voters with magical thinking and ginning up hate for Hillary who has taken on the mantle of carrying forth President Obama’s legacy into the next 4 years.
This is a must-read. It’s long but worth it.
Thanks, Ladyhawke for sharing this must read piece! It needs to be shared widely! I am hoping that NY, PA, CT and MD would go a long way in saving the Democratic Party from the Bernie Sanders’ nightmare! I’ve said this before, but I will say it again: it seems to me that Bernie Sanders and his rabid supporters, like Susan Serandon, are intent on destroying the Democratic Party.
Wooot! #ThanksObama
Wow!
They can travel all they want to as long as they stay in Washington during our trip June 16-19!
Oh noooooo!
What a horrific tragedy for the boy and his family. Ambassador Powers must also be devastated by this. What a terrible thing to happened.
She has young children, herself, I believe. Horrible tragedy for all.
Oh no!
Here’s a little more on the story. Soooo sad! His family must be out of their minds sick with grief!
Hello Dudette,
Very sad story. When I read it awhile ago, I was devastated. My prayers for the little boy’s family, for the driver, and for Ambassador Power and her entourage.
By the way, I still haven’t figured out how to “like” a comment. Thanks for all your “likes”.
Hi NCLB! As far as I know, you can only Like a comment from the downloaded WordPress app. I use when I’m on my phone. The website doesn’t have the Like feature.
I can do likes from the reader…only problem is that as comments are added, I sometimes can’t get to an earlier comment.
You have to refresh to see newer comments. The only way I’ve seen how to refresh is come out of the Comments page and go back to the blog Home page. From there, take your thumb or finger and drag/swipe it vertically from top to bottom of the page. You’ll see a little spinning gadget at the top of the page during refresh. When it’s done, you’ll see the comment count below the latest post has increased. That’s how you know newer comments have been to your view in the reader. Then go back into the post and read comments as usual.
Someone else might know a better way, but that’s how it seems to work on my iPhone.
When I refresh, I see the newer comments, but typically lose/cannot recall the older comments. That’s the problem I have. It wasn’t always that way. It started after one of the WP “upgrades”. [sigh]
Sorry. Wish I could help. WP kinda sucks.
Yep, it’s pretty quirky. Thanks anyway. 🙂
Oh no, no. This is almost impossible to believe.
Excellent!
Idiotic RWNJ front runner news.
Damn! It’s not even hurricane season yet, is it?
3:10 PM – Sanders camp formally accuses Clinton of campaign fundraising violations.
3:36 PM – Sanders camp fundraises off said allegation.
I admire nothing about their freakshow of a sleazy campaign.
A donor can also give up to $33,400 a year to the DNC and $10,000 a year to each of the state parties for use in getting its candidates elected to federal office. If you do the math, with 32 state parties included in the Victory Fund, that’s $356,100.
The method of allocation is explained at the bottom of the Hillary Victory Fund Web page on the Clinton website. The first $2,700 goes to Clinton, the next $33,400 goes to the DNC and the rest goes to state parties.
#bernedout
No. I can’t join Chris Matthews tomorrow on the Bridge because if Bernie and his revolutionaries win, I may be tempted to jump off said bridge.
One reporter’s take (parts of it are humourous; although he could be lyin’):
Trust in media is a matter of ‘factpinion’
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-trust-news-media-huppke-20160418-story.html
Bwahahaha!
I’m one of them! Wooooot! 😄
GOTTA GO BEFORE MY CATS CHEW MY ARM OFF!..FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Exactly. And I live the twitter name – it means Democratic Whore in French.
I’ve noticed of late that Bernie’s campaign seems to be more about complaining about the rules/process and personal attacks on HRC, and less about the issues and realistic resolutions…I’m not the only one
This was the “democratic whore” guy. My Oh My!!
No tears for him whatsoever.
I guess he didn’t read the Courage campaign website
“Courage Campaign is not bound by election cycles or confined to issue areas. Courage Campaign does not endorse candidates. “
Something else for Sanders campaign to complain about? Those who tweet…if you want to help @stylistkavin reach goal…
Great tweet! I agree, 100%, with Daniel Aubry! Thanks Swbluega for sharing the tweet with us.
^5
I am so happy that New York is a closed primary. This prevents those with ulterior motives from interfering with the outcome. This happened in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Yep. I wish they ALL were closed!
They don’t know basic civics, but think they know more than than the President how to run the country.
Those flowers are beautiful.
The WH gardens are delightful bella. As the President says – it is a privilege and an honor to live there.
The GOP pretenders think it is their right to live there – just another thing they have topsy turvey.
Gorgeous!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The special will be taped on Friday April 29th, but aired on Saturday 30th. Seems like it leads right into the WHCD at 9PM, no?
This is the sexiest First couple evar. i love love this pic.
SOON: Bernie Sanders Holds Campaign Rally in Long Island City, NY – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=1
LIVE NOW: Hill and Bill Attend Irish Americans for Hillary Event – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=2
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2016/04/18/hundreds-line-up-jsu-michelle-obama-tickets/83205624/
Love our FLOTUS, looking forward to her speech at JSU Saturday.
“JSU officials are planning for a crowd of 55,000”
That is a crowd! I remember my parents complaining that all grad ceremonies are boring – so after my first I didn’t go to any more. Now – if FLOTUS had been the speaker things would have been different 🙂
You see how POTUS and FLOTUS are both speaking at a black college, I am glad to see that. POTUS will be speaking at Howard U.
PMSing today and meant to simply lurk, but that’s just too funny Dudette! Laughed so hard you gave me an ab workout with that tweet!
Hope you feel better soon, MS! 😀
Here is how I see you, Dudette, in that last tweet:
The Sho Nuff Truth!
🙂
Sun enters Taurus tomorrow, 19 April 2016: 11:30a EDT, 8:30a PDT. Full Moon Thursday/Friday 21/22 April 2016: 2 Scorpio 31. 10:24p PDT (Thurs) 1:24a EDT (Fri)
Also, Her Majesty Queen Eliizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday on Thursday 21 April 2016! Best wishes to HRH!
I don’t know the outcome of the Pearl Harbor investigation (I’m assuming it related to “how did we let this happen”) but most of the others ended up with nothing being done – except for Watergate.
Does the US have the equivalent of our “Royal Commissions” where (in most cases) non political investigations of certain events are funded by the administration/government.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/04/18/we-carry-on-we-finish-the-race/