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The Obama Diary 
Good Morning Everyone! What a night it has been!!
Morning all. A huge thank you to those who endured watching the Republican convention and delivered the best comments and tweets of all time!
GM all – how quickly the time has passed with PBO in the white house. Congrats on 1st Allison
TY 99ts!
Good Morning Nerdy, Ms. Chips and TOD
donna, I guess Melania feels, when you are going to steal, you steal from the BEST.
Good one, Donna!
MJ has shown this about 5 times so far this morning (night in my world). He is so upset for poor poor Melania. She worked so hard and overcame great odds to make this speech.
I don’t remember any of this outpouring of love when Michelle Obama spoke in 2008. In the modern era, the partner of a politician has to decide where he/she fits – and go with that role. If she didn’t want to speak she should have stayed silent. I have no sympathy especially as she said she wrote the speech. She either stole Michelle’s words or she lied about writing the speech. Either way, caught out.
I just woke up. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!!! Word. For. Word! I don’t know if I can handle days more of this crap. Really. Morning, Allison. Morning, TOD..
I couldn’t believe the excuses people were making, like “it’s not such a big deal”!!! When we educators work hard at teaching about plagiarism, and this happens???
I WATCHED AS MUCH OF THIS CONVENTION AS MY STOMACH COULD STAND..IT WAS IMMATURE AND IN SEVERAL WAYS…QUITE DUSGUSTING….IF OUR NATION DOES NOT RETURN TO GOD AND STOP THE VIOLENCE..THERE WILL BE NO NATION! THIS CONVENTON SHOULDN’T HAVE EVEN BEEN WATCHED BY CHILDREN….FRANKLY..THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE DISGUSTED WITH BOTH CANDIDATES…THIS IS A CLUSTERMUCK!
I heart you, Black Twitter. You don’t come for our own. The clapback comes with a quickness
😄😄😄😄😄
The tweets were coming fast and furious last night…all brought big 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
I WISH HER FACE WAS NOT IN THERE..THAT DISGUSTS ME…………….THIS COUNTRY IS IN A PATHETIC STATE…IT’S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE!..IT’S VERY SAD.
Gooooooooooo ON…With your BADDDDDD Self….Say it Loud…I’m Black and I’m Prouddd!!
G’morning Nerdy & TOD!! 🙂 This RNC convention is turning out to be far more entertaining than I ever imagined.
And when all else fails…play the “Obama plant” card. They said that Mitt Romney was an Obama plant too…
Right wing haters excuse for Melania staling FLOTUS speech, “It’s Obama’s Fault”.
‘stealing’
Of course, Donna. First rule of being a right wing Republican–never admit an error and always blame it on the other guy. We don’t dislike them because they’re Republicans, but because they’ve revealed the ‘content of their character’ and it’s ugly sight.
ODS is REAL, people. REAL.
❤️🌹🙏🏻🌹❤️
The second part of this tweet sums up the 400+ years of life here in the US.
Had they not cut away to that Matt Lauer interview from the plane MINUTES before Melania’s speech where she said she had written the speech herself with as little help as possible – MAYBE they could lie their way out of it…
The arrogance of thinking that the legions of FLOTUS fans wouldn’t know that she was being plagarized.
Uh huh.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Good West Coast morning TOD. That was one hell of a great steal. If you’re gonna steal, then go big and steal from the best!
I bet FLOTUS &POTUS are still laughing 😄😄
Good Morning! I’ll just sit this down here and be on my merry way.
Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!!! Priceless 😂
💪🏽
Can’t stop laughing!
🙂 🙂 🙂
what a mess of a joke running for the most powerful post in the world.
THIS WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY AND OBVOUSLY A GREAT PORTRAIT OF WHAT THIS JERK THINKS OF HIMSELF!
His campaign truly is all smoke and mirrors after all. At least the smoke part.
I loved it when the teleprompters rose up in glorious synchronization, lol. It was hilarious.
‘morning y’all. Dashing out the door to witch doctor; read you later…
Leave Melania alone you bunch of meanies! 😭
Simply ….
Take care everyone … {{{{{Chips}}}}} … bbl ….
Good Tuesday, Nerdy… TOD Family!
Continued thanks to you Nerdy, for keeping the village going. Warm thoughts go out to Chipsticks.
Everyone, enjoy your day.
Happy Tuesday TODers.
GM Nerdy.
(((((((((((Chips))))))))
Ooooh Melania
yup, the proposed replacement set is a pos. hope the murkans aren’t that stoopid.
LOL! LOL! LOL! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love these tweets everyone. Thanks so much for posting them.
… and this right here!
GM TODville.
Despicable publicity stunt by unscrupulous con-artists on display last night, feeding their fascist, racist bait while MSM ignores the galloping herd of elephants in the room.
Just saw this on @nycjim’s twitter timeline, from last night…
DF????
Unscrupulous Trump publicity stunt, more free publicity and more the inner-racist in susceptible/vulnerable white Americans is stirred up:
Holy Moly! I missed that at my house! Thank goodness:) Pretty impressive!!!!!! fyi…I know Bruce Haffner…kids used to go to my school:) Nice guy
Poor poor Melinda trump… She has it so bad. We are all supposed to feel bad for her?
Lol
The conservatives were not so forgiving when they skewered Michelle for taking out of context something she said about being proud to be an American.
They all went off on her…
But now we are all supposed to feel sorry for poor Melinda?
What comes around goes around …its called karma.
🤔👽👀
Is this shit forreals, are you shitting me, please tell me Lady Trump did plagiarize MO’s speech from 2008? I just woke up; what hell is going on up in Cleveland?
Dude, you have no idea. It’s unfreakinbelievable.
Because I luh ya, Imma drop some science on ya! 😹
Do police treat Black Lives Matter and ‘White Lives Matter’ differently?
…‘No confrontation’ with White Lives Matter
The night of Noble’s death, his friends gathered at the Chevron gas station where he was killed, and an impromptu vigil eventually morphed into a chaotic protest against police.
According to officers and protesters, some started setting off fireworks and doing “doughnuts” and “burnouts” with their cars – driving in circles and spinning their wheels. Some shouted “fuck the police” and eventually a crowd took over the road, standing with their arms in the air blocking traffic. One protester allegedly threw a glass object at police.
The event made national headlines after some protesters held up a Confederate flag and “White Lives Matter” sign – an appropriation of the Black Lives Matter movement that seeks to raise awareness about the high rates of police violence against African Americans.
Friends of Noble said the protests were misunderstood and that they were only trying to draw attention to the unjustifiable and horrific killing by police.
Police, meanwhile, were deliberately passive in their response to the protest.
“We do everything we can to deescalate the situation,” police chief Jerry Dyer told the Guardian days after the rally. “There was absolutely no confrontation.”
One officer even allowed a protester to use the police loudspeaker to address the crowd, which a local TV station caught on camera.
“Tempers were flaring on both sides,” recalled Bryce Lindlahr, the protester who used the police PA system to encourage the crowd to be peaceful and focus on mourning their friend.
There were no arrests or citations, according to police captain Andy Hall, and the gathering dissipated.
THIS
Good morning, NW and TODville. All I can say is OH. MY. GAWD.
Meta, the irony in it all is amazing. They rail against POTUS and FLOTUS morning, noon and night and then she’s allowed to use Mrs. Obama’s exact words in her moment in the spotlight. His campaign is the biggest farce of a sham ever made in politics. I have had Republican after Republican come in my office this morning here at work to tell me there is no way they will vote for this con artist.
that’s what I want to hear.
Republican after Republican come in my office this morning here at work to tell me there is no way they will vote for this con artist.
GOOD. Anybody in their right mind should really think about this cretin and his crime family. The evidence stacks up every single day. They are FREAKS. Lazy lying freaks.
There are so many layers to this outrage, it’s like peeling back an onion. The Trump crime family completely knicked her entire value system about integrity and hard work from Michelle Obama. I mean, REALLY?
I didn’t watch any of that crap convention but when I saw the dumpster fire on twitter, I turned on the late local news and they were playing the plagiarized parts of Melania’s speech first, then Michelle’s speech after that, phrase by phrase. OMG, I was so infuriated I could scream. It’s unconscionable because of all the reason you cite. And today, the complete idiots who are sweeping this under the rug deserve just as much condemnation. Disgusting morons!
Another excellent ad:)
Before the plagiarism bombshell last night – LOL!:
ah, the cilliza, the very epitome what’s wrong with msm.
Good Morning Everybody.
Perfection!
Now that I think about, they could have found any speech in the history of the world to plagiarize, but they consciously chose to plagiarize MO’s speech. Marinate on that.
This is gonna be MUST SEE TV:) Can’t wait!
wonder what other shitshow the wignutz will provide for us today?
I hope it stays at that level of stupid 35%.
Okay, get your popcorn and sit down…
Have you got it?
https://media.riffsy.com/images/17f1b6175532ecba27f3fcfe8fdb5bd8/raw
Today’s Moment in the Tawdry Trump Soap Opera
Go read this thread from Joy Ann Reid – ALL of it! Learn about Trump family drama over VP selection, why Melania was absent from VP announcement…
Oh and how some folks noticed in her speech last night she announced to the whole world that she was Trump’s mistress while he was still married to Marla Maples. (Cue Kelly Price singing “As We Lay”)
Duh! THIS thread 🙄
WHOA, such a tight knit family! LOLz. These people are ruthless. What’s funny is they’re aggrieved because they think big he-man Donald has been manipulated. Let the games begin!
El pen. @lori_pen
White privilege is when you steal a black woman’s speech, and just get a slap on the wrist for it. #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
LOL.
Oh my gawd!!! It never ends.
nah, it was a nicely done photoshopped trolling.
You’re right. At this point I’ve become completely gullible to Trump criminology.
parody killed itself 8 years back.
Breaking-
Leaked exerpts of Donald trump speech Thursday night…
I have a dream… That one day…
🤔
That sounds familiar🤔
digital hate. both the christofascists and islamofascists are just the sides of the same coin.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36824514
DT says he’s going to model his speech after Nixon’s 1968 speech. Check it now!
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25968
One of Wallace’s speeches wasn’t available?
erdogan now goes after teachers for the ‘coup’.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36838347
another insecure dictator in the making.
Must not be fully awake, because at first I thought this header said “Early Bird Chant.”
Okay, I’ll start one:
Obama! Obama! Obama! ❤
LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLL!!!!
Never change, Booms. Never change.
O-BA-MAAAAA
Well, that’s one of ya who never wants me to change! (Well, my grandkids – they’re still with me!) ❤ O-BA-MAAAAA
4 More Years
❤
Huh.
Jon, you’re a great guy, but shut the fuck up man.
He wants to insert himself into any story that says “speech” or implies how close he was to the President! (I might do the same!) Sometimes it works, and sometimes I’ve noticed it’s TMI and he should STFU.
These fucking guys, what the fuck does Hillary have to do with this. The natural reaction with these guys is always to somehow praise the Clintons. And then he wants to throw in at the end of course that Michelle writes a lot of her speech as an afterthought.
Raising a glass to the best FLOTUS ever! 🍷
Kickin’ it old school……
🙌🏾
Doing what a First Lady does
There’s this. Remember?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/19/melania-trump-plagiarized-michelle-obama-a-woman-republicans-said-hated-america.html
An entire section of Trump’s speech—focused on the values she and her husband share—appears to be lifted directly from Obama’s comments on the same subject eight years ago. Back then, Republicans claimed Michelle Obama wasn’t “proud” of her country; now Republicans defend her words when they’re coming out of Melania’s mouth.
This is the gentleman who flagged the plagiarism:
OMG! 😂
she sure didn’t but she sure mastered it so that you lazy assholes steal from her.
… except it wasn’t “quoting”
Let’s not just turn the tables this week, let’s up-end ’em! Yeehaw!
But THIS x1000000000000
egg.sack.lee. does sam, ‘the librul’ journo know how ridiculous and lame he sounds?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/19/carpool-karaoke-the-flotus-edition/
So. IOW. A well-known CON artist holds a CONvention to sell Americans some serious bullsh*it.
What about the Politico finding that Melania’s bio credited her with a college degree and she dropped out of college after one year? Maybe bringing that to the forefront would only bring Donald more supporters as many brag on their own stupidity.
GM…and then there’s Scott Biao…….POS!