I’m repeating my congratulations from the last thread. You have one amazing daughter. Can only image the sense of justified pride your family must feel. I hope you extend to your daughter good wishes and congratulations from all of us.
AWESomeeeeeeeeeeeeee newsssssss….send her our Congratsssss and Best Wishes….it always feels good when our children succeed……as PBO says…Progress is not guaranteed…it must be worked for….Congrats again to your daughter “unit”…smilin
meta…..i am doing my best to not be so into who the VP is….but after PBO…i do not want to go back to all white dudes….i want a Latino person on the ticket….i have settled on Perez….sigh….
well this won’t be kosher… but personally am hoping she doesn’t pick an old(ish) white guy. Her 2008 primaries remind me that the “white vote/blue collar” vote is important to her. I like Tom Perez. I’m a life long democrat and will vote democrat, period.. but I am sick of old white males – VP Biden is the exception.
yep, I’d like 200 years of Presidents / VPs that truly do represent the vast diverseness of our country. Not to mention Congress and the Supreme Court.
Haven’t commented here in a long time, lurking mostly.
The suspense is getting to me, needed ro get this off my chest…Lol
I like Warren … she can smack small hands around on twitter really well.
Also … congrats AMK on your daughter’s success 🙂
The good part is that all of the possible VP choices being bandied about for Hillary are nice, normal people, with brains. We may have favorites (Perez), but we won’t have to freakin’ PROSTITUTE OUR INTEGRITY to vote for any of them.
Literally the entire GOP in Congress is there to defend and represent White people — straight, Christian White people. But Duke is a perfect Republican candidate. No wonder he loves Trump so much.
Yo, Amk, be sure to pass along my(our) congratulations and best wishes going forward to Dr. DU (don’t be keeping them to yourself)! May she tread most successfully for decades in this noble professional path traveled by her grandmother, adding bountifully to its progress.
Thanks vc. I will. Her medical college has already offered her a senior residency post in nephrology, in which she so wants to specialize with another degree …. Against my wishes…. w/smh.
🙂 🙂 Am soooo encouraged that this young nephrologist is not unduly influenced by your wishes. It is my contention she will go far unencumbered by same!
Pursuing her dreams with hard work AND resolve – way to go, girl! So dad unit ought not to heighten the stress by sharing *his* wishes. Instead, your friend from the north suggests that dad makes himself available for drop off and pick up so the tired doctor has two less things to worry about. Hopefully, the shifts will be a bit more reasonable now that her status is higher.
As an aside, I never get why the medical profession which should know better give interns, etc such ‘unsafe’ shift hours!
I believe it’s the same world over. Overwork the interns. It’s nutz. As an MD, she at least had a hostel within the campus. Now, as a resident, it is a big ? I will talk to her dept head next week – hostel within the campus or no dice.
Thanks. I think they will fold. She got the residency offer literally minutes after the results were out today. They were just waiting for the results.
Pardon my bad Manners.
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TGIF.
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I just got a phone call from my granddaughter who is in NYC for a couple weeks then on to Munich to spend a month with her Aunt (my daughter) and her fiancé. My granddaughter called them to see if they were ok. I had been off Internet and tv so had not heard about it. I am going there in December for their wedding.
Good morning to my TOD family. We have a wonderful and intelligent president who is representing us again in this presser.
Amk, lots of hugs to your daughter on her accomplishments. HZ
Okay, while admitting I do not know enough about the contenders, here’s my reservation re the suggestion of Elizabeth. I am totally averse to HRC choosing Warren, despite Warren’s ‘progressive’ creds! Here’s why:- IMO,
> Warren is loud & too often abrasive
> remembering her media attacks on PBO, *I* really do not trust her approach when she disagrees with you.
> she seems to love attention just a little too much.
> she may do a good job calling out DT on twitter; but engaging him in such a way is ‘infra dig’ for a VP. [IMHO]
In a similar manner I would cringe if HRC chose Booker, because I hated the way he responded re Romney & Bane in PBO’s re-election. Given the fact that I know Pres O to be a good listener, there was no reason they could not have made their point to him in-house, so to speak, and preserve party unity. I think they spoke out for attention and that bugged me. Booker too used to be a spotlight seeker, though we haven’t heard as much of him once he became senator. I’m uncomfortable with spotlight seekers. Just saying.
Spot on, vcprezofan2, Warren sometimes looks for a fight. I’m not saying that there’s something wrong with fighting, but there’s a time and a place for it, every battle can’t turn into a war. I think Booker can be lead around by the nose, he likes to placate rather than question, Booker reminds me of Harold Ford. Both of them go along to get along.
‘every battle can’t [or shouldn’t] turn into a war’ – Exactly!
And IMO there’s a *way* to fight. PBO fights back all the time. LOUD confrontations are not usually my thing – n short, I do not like Warren’s way as displayed to date.
I hear you. I share your feelings, but like I stated previously or on a previous post, I will cheer, celebrate, honor whoever HRC chooses as her running mate, because it should matter to her first.
I remember how much we wanted to choose a running mate for PBO in 2008! Ultimately, he made his choice which proved to be a superb one.
We need a team that’s going to campaign to rally as many people as needed for a win in November, without stooping to the level of appealing to racists and bigots like the ex-KKK who admires Il Douche.
We need a ticket focused on addressing the needs of American people on security, job, forward progress and justice for all. We need a team who will address the for-profit prison disease that is killing us, the culture of violence heavily sustained by the easy availability of weapons of mass killing, lack of opportunities for inner city youth, and the inaccessibility of post HS education for many.
I will take whomever can work with our nominee to 1) win, and 2) make progress on the above fronts.
Yes, I know people here will support HRC’s choice, and that is as it should be. I agree with you that the choice is one HRC should be comfortable with. However, it is my hope that she also realizes that along with comfort, a partner who works WITH one, and not through the media, is ….a gift. Me, I put my reservations out into the universe at this point so they will evaporate *before* the actual choice is known.
Everybody has been telling us for the past week that it’s going to be Tim Kaine. If he really is the VP choice, then this would be the most incompetent roll-out of a VP ever. Why would Hillary allow everyone to announce her choice before she does? I’m still hoping for Perez or Castro.
I heard her say her #1 reason for a VP pick would be they would be ready on Day One to take over the Presidency. So I do not think she will choose Castro as his youth could raise questions in the ready category.
Tim Kaine is a good man. As I commented last night, he was the first sitting governor to endorse then Sen. Obama, in 2007. He speaks Spansih fluently. I think he would be an excellent VP choice. On top of that, Virginia has a Democratic Governor and if Hillary is elected, Sen. Kaine can be replaced by another Democrat. The same is not true with Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker. They both have Republican Governors.
I didn’t second guess the kenyan in 2008 and I am not about to start. Having fought grueling primaries, the candies deserve to pick their choice. .. At least in our side.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
1st!
Greetings! Are the others avoiding you, Don?
Well done, Don!
Congrats, Don, on an excellent performance.
Hillary is about to announce her VP choice. Who is it?
Beautiful sunrse – something over whch Trump has no control. Have a good day & weekend, folks!
One of Oregon’s beautiful places.
…which you regularly go out to enjoy?
🙂 Hi, Judith!
MEDIA IS ALREADY ANNOUNCING THE CAMPAIGN IS AFRAID BOOKER WILL OVERPOWER CLINTON…WITHOUT BOOKER CLINTON WILL NOT WIN…
GUARANTEED
Are you sure?
Why Booker?
HILLARY NEEDS THE YOUTH AND STRENGTH AND STABILITY HE CAN GIVE..PERIOD!
I prefer Perez or Castro. But of course I’m with her no matter who she selects as VP.
Bringing it over.
Daughter Unit topped her final year MD exams today. Both theory and practicals.
Fabulous news AMK! Congrats to you and your daughter:-) Be proud and enjoy seeing all those parenting years pay off.
Thank you, fftx. We are indeed, we are indeed.
Fabulous! Congrats to all, amk!
Thank you, madam.
Keep walking on air – it’s great news!!!
I’m repeating my congratulations from the last thread. You have one amazing daughter. Can only image the sense of justified pride your family must feel. I hope you extend to your daughter good wishes and congratulations from all of us.
🙂 Thanks again, jg.
Congrats to your daughter, amk, proud papa!! 🙂
🙂 Indeed. Thanks again.
Huge Congratulations amk, to you and to your brilliant daughter 🙂 Very happy for you !
Thank you, sheri.
🙂 you are so welcome, amk.
Congratulations amk to you, wife unit and your brilliant daughter, time for celebration!
Thanks jojo. What celebration? 🙂
You need to have a huge celebration for your daughter, invite the whole family 🙂
LOL. Yes, her cousin brothers are already demanding a treat in 5-star hotel for our entire joint family of dozen. Blighters.
WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU CALL PEOPLE UNITS..THEY ARE PEOPLE..NOT UNITS!
Sue amk playfully calls them daughter-unit, son-unit, wife-unit…..
Woooot! Congrats! 💃🏾
Thank you, MM.
Congratulations, AMK!!! Wishing her the very best in her future endeavors.
Thank you, Allison.
AWESomeeeeeeeeeeeeee newsssssss….send her our Congratsssss and Best Wishes….it always feels good when our children succeed……as PBO says…Progress is not guaranteed…it must be worked for….Congrats again to your daughter “unit”…smilin
🙂 Thank you, pf. damn that kenyan for being right.
Congratulations to your daughter!!!
Thank you, Betsy.
Sharing your pride and joy in your amazing daughter!
Thanks, JF. How is daughter’s charity doing?
It’s Quite an achievement.
Congrats to your Precious Daughter Unit.
Thank you for sharing this great news with Us.
She deserved it after working her heart out for last 3 years. I am happy for her that she got the icing on the cake.
Congrats to your daughter! Wishing you all the best!
Thanks you, pkayden.
So happy for you Amk! And your daughter and the whole family. It is a huuuuge accomplishment!
Thank you, mtm. It is since her classmates are all brilliant and hardworking.
Hmmmmm………
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….
Not sure how accurate this is. I think she’s scheduled to give a speech tomorrow, not sure if it’s validated that she’s there today.
meta…..i am doing my best to not be so into who the VP is….but after PBO…i do not want to go back to all white dudes….i want a Latino person on the ticket….i have settled on Perez….sigh….
Me too; I want Perez or Castro
As a Latina, I am solidly in your court! I think it would add even greater historic value and I DO BELIEVE IT’S TIME.
YESSSSSSSSS….it is Time
With you! I feel if we go back, we’ll never get kickstarted back toward diversity and progress again. Fingers crossed.
Me, too!
I think it will be tim kaine
Tim Kaine is doing a fund raiser in Boston today. Elizabeth Warren is slated to be in FL this weekend.. Hmmmmmm
IT CAN’T BBE WARREN..IT HAS TO BE BOOKER!
VOTERS WON’T ACCEPT 2 WOMEN!
Will not be Booker. We’d be stuck with Chris Christie’s replacement in the Senate for 1-2 yrs.
Manafort is an idiot so that’s not surprising.
well this won’t be kosher… but personally am hoping she doesn’t pick an old(ish) white guy. Her 2008 primaries remind me that the “white vote/blue collar” vote is important to her. I like Tom Perez. I’m a life long democrat and will vote democrat, period.. but I am sick of old white males – VP Biden is the exception.
With you, for all those reasons! Thanks for reminding me Joey is still VP – what a great man!
yes he is 🙂
My thoughts exactly. An old white guy would be a let-down.
yep, I’d like 200 years of Presidents / VPs that truly do represent the vast diverseness of our country. Not to mention Congress and the Supreme Court.
Haven’t commented here in a long time, lurking mostly.
The suspense is getting to me, needed ro get this off my chest…Lol
I like Warren … she can smack small hands around on twitter really well.
Also … congrats AMK on your daughter’s success 🙂
PRECIOUS!
what a contrast with that thugugly from the other side.
Uggggh. Don’t even bring up that Orange Talking Yam in comparison to our lovely President.
Wasn’t Hillary supposed to announce her veep pick only tomorrow?
Today… in Florida at a rally.
ok, thanks Bill. For some reason, I thought it was tomorrow.
SOON………………………………:(
The good part is that all of the possible VP choices being bandied about for Hillary are nice, normal people, with brains. We may have favorites (Perez), but we won’t have to freakin’ PROSTITUTE OUR INTEGRITY to vote for any of them.
yes true.
That is so true. This is a recurring theme. Consider Palin and Ryan.
talk about pasty white.
Ya think? Ugh.
I NEED SEVERAL AIRLINE BAGGIES TO EXPRESS MY SENTIMENTS REGARDING DAVID DUKE………………….
Literally the entire GOP in Congress is there to defend and represent White people — straight, Christian White people. But Duke is a perfect Republican candidate. No wonder he loves Trump so much.
BOOK IT WTH BOOKER! HE’LL MAKE MINCEMEAT OUT OF PENCE AND TRUMPET BLOWHARD!
LOVE BOOKER..CHRISTE IS WHERE HE IS TODAY BECAUSE OF THE WORK BOOKER HAS DONE..CHRISTIE AT THE DONUT SHOP..BOOKER WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE!
MY HEART IS HEAVY ANYMORE WHEN I LOOK AT PBO….IT IS HEARTWRENCHING FOR ME…………….
AND THIS ON MY FB…………….
Yo, Amk, be sure to pass along my(our) congratulations and best wishes going forward to Dr. DU (don’t be keeping them to yourself)! May she tread most successfully for decades in this noble professional path traveled by her grandmother, adding bountifully to its progress.
Have we met?
Thanks vc. I will. Her medical college has already offered her a senior residency post in nephrology, in which she so wants to specialize with another degree …. Against my wishes…. w/smh.
Not yet …….. (Thank the good Lord).
🙂 🙂 Am soooo encouraged that this young nephrologist is not unduly influenced by your wishes. It is my contention she will go far unencumbered by same!
It’s the hardest department and the last time when she did a rotation there as a MD, she was pulling straight 48 to 72 hour shifts.
Pursuing her dreams with hard work AND resolve – way to go, girl! So dad unit ought not to heighten the stress by sharing *his* wishes. Instead, your friend from the north suggests that dad makes himself available for drop off and pick up so the tired doctor has two less things to worry about. Hopefully, the shifts will be a bit more reasonable now that her status is higher.
As an aside, I never get why the medical profession which should know better give interns, etc such ‘unsafe’ shift hours!
I believe it’s the same world over. Overwork the interns. It’s nutz. As an MD, she at least had a hostel within the campus. Now, as a resident, it is a big ? I will talk to her dept head next week – hostel within the campus or no dice.
‘same the world over’ Yes, that’s been my impression too.
Good luck to both of you on her getting into the hostel or a place close to the hospital.
Thanks. I think they will fold. She got the residency offer literally minutes after the results were out today. They were just waiting for the results.
😎
Très très 😎
Pardon my bad Manners.
Hello TOD.
TGIF.
Thanks NW for keeping Us well informed. Obirgada.
Congrats to all the Gold ⭐ winners since Thursday, starting with this Fine post.
Well…….This is a roundtable. Not exactly the venue to introduce a VP……….JMO
On the other hand……..
Hillary’s schedule is as follows:
July 22, 2016 Orlando, Florida Rountable Discussion
July 22, 2016 Tampa, Florida Organizing Event
July 23, 2016 Miami, Florida Organizing Event
July 25-29, 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016 Democratic National Convention
July 29, 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rally
AHA!
Oh no! More senseless deaths from gun violence.
I just got a phone call from my granddaughter who is in NYC for a couple weeks then on to Munich to spend a month with her Aunt (my daughter) and her fiancé. My granddaughter called them to see if they were ok. I had been off Internet and tv so had not heard about it. I am going there in December for their wedding.
Oh, they were home and fine.
Good morning to my TOD family. We have a wonderful and intelligent president who is representing us again in this presser.
Amk, lots of hugs to your daughter on her accomplishments. HZ
Thank you, HZ. 🙂
Love to you HZ. Take care of yourself.
Have a lovely weekend with plenty of joys, HZ.
APPRECIATION shout-out!!
Thanks, Meta!
All Republicans have is fear mongering so they are ginning it up to the max, even if they have to rely on lies to fear monger.
Lady Greenspan said that her sources have told her that Hillary will announce her V.P. selection today and that it will be Tim Kaine.
When is Hillary supposed to make this announcement?
Later today.
Thanks
PBO AND MEXICO ON FB………………….SO IS DUKE SO RIGHT WNGERS CAN BASK IN THEIR OWN VOMIT!
Dratz, another shooting in Germany. Timing of this, just on the day of hillary’s announcment is suspect.
Good grief.
I NEED YOU TO CAMPAIGN FOR HRC AND BRING OVER YOUR YOUNG REVOLUTIONARIES.
This guy, he never disappoints.
Hmmmmmm…….
Its okay, its just the Russian mob.
This guy does everything on the dirty.
Yep, no moral compass or code.
jeez, bbc is reporting possible multiple deaths.
Sheesh that’s a creepy-looking bastard.
Okay, while admitting I do not know enough about the contenders, here’s my reservation re the suggestion of Elizabeth. I am totally averse to HRC choosing Warren, despite Warren’s ‘progressive’ creds! Here’s why:- IMO,
> Warren is loud & too often abrasive
> remembering her media attacks on PBO, *I* really do not trust her approach when she disagrees with you.
> she seems to love attention just a little too much.
> she may do a good job calling out DT on twitter; but engaging him in such a way is ‘infra dig’ for a VP. [IMHO]
In a similar manner I would cringe if HRC chose Booker, because I hated the way he responded re Romney & Bane in PBO’s re-election. Given the fact that I know Pres O to be a good listener, there was no reason they could not have made their point to him in-house, so to speak, and preserve party unity. I think they spoke out for attention and that bugged me. Booker too used to be a spotlight seeker, though we haven’t heard as much of him once he became senator. I’m uncomfortable with spotlight seekers. Just saying.
Spot on, vcprezofan2, Warren sometimes looks for a fight. I’m not saying that there’s something wrong with fighting, but there’s a time and a place for it, every battle can’t turn into a war. I think Booker can be lead around by the nose, he likes to placate rather than question, Booker reminds me of Harold Ford. Both of them go along to get along.
‘every battle can’t [or shouldn’t] turn into a war’ – Exactly!
And IMO there’s a *way* to fight. PBO fights back all the time. LOUD confrontations are not usually my thing – n short, I do not like Warren’s way as displayed to date.
(I remember and laughed then when Warren Buffet said that she was too angry all the time! LOL.)
I hear you. I share your feelings, but like I stated previously or on a previous post, I will cheer, celebrate, honor whoever HRC chooses as her running mate, because it should matter to her first.
I remember how much we wanted to choose a running mate for PBO in 2008! Ultimately, he made his choice which proved to be a superb one.
We need a team that’s going to campaign to rally as many people as needed for a win in November, without stooping to the level of appealing to racists and bigots like the ex-KKK who admires Il Douche.
We need a ticket focused on addressing the needs of American people on security, job, forward progress and justice for all. We need a team who will address the for-profit prison disease that is killing us, the culture of violence heavily sustained by the easy availability of weapons of mass killing, lack of opportunities for inner city youth, and the inaccessibility of post HS education for many.
I will take whomever can work with our nominee to 1) win, and 2) make progress on the above fronts.
“whomever HRC chooses”
Yes, and we must remember how people reacted, especially the emoprogs, to the choice of Biden. What a jewel he turned out to be.
Yes, I know people here will support HRC’s choice, and that is as it should be. I agree with you that the choice is one HRC should be comfortable with. However, it is my hope that she also realizes that along with comfort, a partner who works WITH one, and not through the media, is ….a gift. Me, I put my reservations out into the universe at this point so they will evaporate *before* the actual choice is known.
Well this is encouraging
Everybody has been telling us for the past week that it’s going to be Tim Kaine. If he really is the VP choice, then this would be the most incompetent roll-out of a VP ever. Why would Hillary allow everyone to announce her choice before she does? I’m still hoping for Perez or Castro.
I heard her say her #1 reason for a VP pick would be they would be ready on Day One to take over the Presidency. So I do not think she will choose Castro as his youth could raise questions in the ready category.
Very encouraging Dudette.
Kaine is a pro-choice Catholic like Biden, personally opposed to abortion but believes in individual conscience.
Tim Kaine is a good man. As I commented last night, he was the first sitting governor to endorse then Sen. Obama, in 2007. He speaks Spansih fluently. I think he would be an excellent VP choice. On top of that, Virginia has a Democratic Governor and if Hillary is elected, Sen. Kaine can be replaced by another Democrat. The same is not true with Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker. They both have Republican Governors.
Don’t fuck it up Podesta, you got one job.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/22/2016-summed-up-so-far/
Ummm…….okey dokey.
wow just what I said up-top.. of how she was in 2008.
Yeah, you called it, sherijr!
sorry too that it continues to be this way.
I didn’t second guess the kenyan in 2008 and I am not about to start. Having fought grueling primaries, the candies deserve to pick their choice. .. At least in our side.