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All Times Eastern
10:30AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
12PM: Press Secretary Josh Earnest holds the White House Briefing
2:55PM: President Obama participates n a town hall conversation hosted by ABC
8PM: The town hall airs on ABC and ABC affiliated channels like FreeForm, ESPN. It will also stream online at Watch ESPN, Watch ABC, ABC News Digital, Yahoo, ABC News’ Facebook page, YouTube channel, and ABC Radio
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The Obama Diary 
Morning. Nerdy, I’ve been blown away by the power and intensity of your posts. Sometimes what’s happening around us and in our lives is too much to take and we have to retreat to a quiet corner to process it all.
Morning, Jackie! Congratulations!
Morning, jackieG! Morning NW and TODville – have a fine Obama day!
Thank you, Jackie.
Thanks, Nerdy! I should not be up yet. Got awakened by a nightmare. I am so lucky. It was just in my head. Too many families cannot wake up from their ongoing nightmares. Racism in this country is a 24/7 nightmare for too many of my fellow Americans. Bless you for shining a bright light in the darkness.
Hugs to you, Judith! We all need hugs getting through this – on all the various levels of our experiences – but we will get through this.
Morning, TOD family. How is Chips/Danny & family doing?
Bringing over:)
the tim scott who was pissed off that he wasn’t getting the respect as a senator because he is black?
look at the mirror, man.
^5
Its just mind boggling.
Ah huh…
Pretty damn perfect.
Powerful. Great ad.
that was brilliant. good job.
THIS
❤
When we understand and appreciate fully in our hearts that PBO can’t run again and it’s unfair to even wish it for him, then we have to embrace the candidacy of Hillary Clinton with all of our hearts. No, she’s not President Obama and no, she may never rise to his heights of rhetoric and awesomeness, but right now she’s standing between us and the utter darkness and horror of a Trump presidency. The combined forces of reactionary right wing politics and the US media are working against her, not to mention a massive level of ignorance and bigotry among American voters. She has only us to spread the world–not just for her, but for ourselves and our children. President Obama–ever the gentleman and man of compassion–talked about “teeing great things up” for the next President and he did not mean Donald Trump who will come in with a baseball bat and shatter everything in sight, including our democracy. It isn’t enough to just vote for her, we have to work for like our lives depended on it.
YOUR LIFE MY FRIEND..DEPENDS ON GOD..NO HUMAN CAN DO IT FOR US……………………
gm Jackie – you have said this perfectly – the world is depending on people like yourself to keep Donald Trump well away from any political power. If you remove the GOP/media harassment of Hillary Clinton & the non-stop talk of Benghazi and emails, there is nothing negative there, she is an extremely good candidate with the knowledge and experience to be a good President.
I don’t think I’ll see anyone approaching President Obama in my lifetime, but sadly accept he cannot be there forever – I do sometimes wish you had a parliamentary democracy – when he could run for as long as he wanted.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
What Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinking?! Here’s What.
Her criticism of Trump was unwise, but it didn’t set a dangerous precedent.
BY BRIAN BEUTLER
July 13, 2016
What is Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinking?!
…………………………………
I see a woman who endured incredible sexism well into her professional career, warning the public about a politician whose sexism would make Don Draper uncomfortable, and who promises to restore a more patriarchal order. I see a Jewish woman with living memory of the Holocaust who is more likely reacting to the normalization of neo-Nazi propaganda than pandering to Notorious RBG readers.
Why aren’t the dems slapping the msm around for their pearl clutching over ruth ginsberg?
Hell be an ice field before the democrats call out the US media.
They’re trying. They aren’t getting media coverage. It’s really scary here.
One advantage we have here is that media is not monopolized by any one. There are umpteen ‘news’ channels and any pol can get invited into one of them and they will gladly help him/her take down their competitor channel who refused access. fucking murdock tried to enter here a few years ago but the govt told him to go fuck a rat.
No democracy can flourish without a truly free press. America’s for-profit news industry is outrageous.
Wow, that is an amazingly effective opinion sincerely expressed.
I agree!
FABULOUS!!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/13/jennifer-lopez-and-lin-manuel-miranda-sing-for-orlando-on-jimmy-fallon.html
THERE IS A HATEFUL SEGMENNT OF SOCIETY THAT STANDS BY TO VOTE FR DONALD TRUMP AND WE AL KNOW THIS…CONSIDERING THE CONDITION OF THIS COUNTRY TODAY WHICH IS UNGODLY..HIS CHANCES ARE GOOD. I WOULDN’T TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED! PBO IS THE LAST OF THE ‘HUMAN’ AND COMPASSIONATE PRESIDENTS.
Self deception. Morning Must Read.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/07/14/the-challenge-of-admitting-what-we-dont-know/
I READ THIS..EXCELLENT…………………AN OPEN HEART IS GOD’S HEART…WE MUST BRING FAITH INTO THE CONVERSATION AND PUT GOD ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN WHERE HE BELONGS. HE HAS BEEN TOSSED OUT IN THIS COUNTRY AND HE HAS LIFTED HIS HEDGE OF PROTECTION FROM AMERICA..EVERYONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THIS…………………………THIS IS WHY WE HAVE BLOOD IN OUR STREETS AND STREETS AROUND THE WORLD!
I thought it was a good read, too…But I must’ve missed this part…
G’morning Nerdy & TOD! Congrats Jackie on #1. Thanks Nerdy for the powerful post to start a great day. I look forward to our President’s townhall later this evening! 🙂
Damn, RBG apologized for her remarks. Damn.
I think she just wanted the shut up the media.
Yes, I agree but it still riles me that it’s always the good people who apologize, never the GOP thugs.
What I decided to keep in my own mind was that she never said she didn’t mean it.
Seriously! I actually got out of the market yesterday. I tripled my money thanks to President Obama and don’t feel like I want to risk any future volatility due to this election. Almost panicked in 2009 but my brother talked me off the ledge. So glad I stayed in and sold high.
single malt for everyone? except vc, of course.
On its ways.
but not for vc though, right?
Right! More for you.
egg.sack.lee.
This is a really great ad. She’s had a string of them in the last couple of months. You can almost demarcate when her new team kicked in since her launch video.
***** That’s a 5-star ad for sure. Wow.
Yes it is, JO’B. As grandmothers, you and I know how true this is. Trump is spewing poison with every word he speaks and we have to stop this from infecting our little ones.
I’m with ya one thousand percent!
I have had to turn over something outside of my control. I am semi estranged (working on detachment with love all the while) from my daughter in law because I dared to bring up Ferguson when it first started. They live outside St. Louis. She decided, I think, that I was unacceptable since then. Now I have my first grandchild and she’s the mom. I brought my children up with tools to talk about equality and they have never shown signs of forgetting that training. Their friends are diverse and close. Now I have to contemplate what will happen with my little grandson. I hope my son is the one to stand for justice and peace, respect, empower, include. This ad made me think of that little guy and what I would love to say to his mom but know would fall on deaf ears.
Sorry for the dupe!
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Hey, I consider duplicates are there for those who scroll up! 🙂
My thinking, exactly. Heh.
this add is soo good, please keep posting in duplicate or triplicate! Hillary really seems to hit her stride in taking Trump to the woodshed lately.
Why are we not surprised?
In rap sheets on the three top possible Trumphead picks for VP, MSNBC lists under Newt’s: “Big Fan of Zoos”
Is any of this real? Or are we all just having a collective nightmare that has way too many RWNJs in it?
He’s going to leak his choice tonight. It’s not going to make any difference because he’s still the head of the ticket. His convention sounds like a real complete mess, reflecting the idiot he truly is.
It’s all awful. All of it.
This.
Good Morning Everybody.
^^^ That’s the America we seek.
WOW.
Good morning, JER, and thank you.
That is a “we’re in this together” handshake – even if we couldn’t see their faces. Pete is wonderful.
PBO was community organizing the hell out of that meeting; from the seating arrangements “organized diversity”, to creating an atmosphere of informality and trust (all voices heard and respected), to directing the conversation, to sitting for long periods just listening, to giving them their marching orders (5 very distinct goals). It is on occasions like these that I laugh with my more than usual scorn at those who used a derisive tone when referring to PBO as a community organizer as if that role disqualified him to be President and CIC. This ability and experience is one of the main reasons that he has been so successful on the international stage and here at home.
PS The info. on the meeting came from an article from the Washington Post.
That hug between the BLM activist and the police commander in the background of the photo is everything. “We can do it if we try.”
CEB…thank you so much for the background…i have been paying attention but family issues are all around me these past few weeks….
if you have a link to that..article…could you post it or the name of the article…thank you.
I also read it was one of the longest meetings the President has ever had like this. Four and a half hours or something, Bless our beautiful President and everyone that works with him. Bless our community here and everyone that manages it and contributes to it and visits it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHzzDsFA09e/
Found this one over at LGF – funny how the political pundits don’t seem to pick it up
This will come in handy if Trump chooses Christie.
If anyone in the media talks about it – found this one from the same source. Hillary has to fight not only Trump but also the media which gives him 24X7 coverage while all Hillary gets is Benghazi, emails and Bill’s adventures. Does the media really want Trump to win – they think this will be good for the US?
The media in America is a cynical propaganda machine whose only motive is money. They are owned by RWNJs and are obviously pulling for Trump ratings bonanza for the foreseeable future.
Maybe they thought they saw Trump ads due to the free press interviews, phone calls in, and broadcasting of complete Trump rallies etc. While yes Hillary had to spend money and run ads for anyone to even see anything other than negative Trump accusations about her. So now the media is pushing that Donald spent no money and Hillary spent lots on media ads. How despicable!
Only up side is that Sec. Clinton’s message is well thought out and professionally prepared. Trump assumes all he has to do is phone it in. He is such a narcissist and so cheap that he thinks he’ll wing this. We’ll see what kind of character and approach will prevail. I think I already know because I’ve seen the President operate for these past seven years.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/07/14/3798068/hold-up-wait-a-minute-trump/
WOW, amazing. I hope they stay safe.
Me too! Proud of them
The circus in Cleveland …
Mrs. Obama isn’t trying to encourage kids to eat healthy foods again, is she? RWNJ heads will explode.
On a side note: Can we just imagine how much fun these young chefs are going to have today! THAT’s what I’m gonna concentrate on from this point … ❤
LIVE NOW: Hillary Clinton speaks at LULAC convention – http://www.msnbc.com/live-online/watch/live-clinton-speaks-at-lulac-convention-724997699767
In so many words, the Trump convention is aimed not at building a broader coalition but on a relentless hammering of the things that get the base of the Republican party – roughly 20% of the electorate most fired up. Just as Trump’s campaign has been a paean to White Christian America and rumblings for revenge at its passing, the 2016 GOP convention seems set to cast its eye backwards, a bridge to the 19th century.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/14/children-in-search-of-refuge/
Trump has denigrated every ethnic group. In the real world without polls, I do not believe that HRC and Trump are tied.
LIVE now: