Better but still on his way, thanks so much. After the last procedure, he still felt an air leak in his chest. Surgeon is doing an innovative procedure Aug. 9, so perhaps now would be a great time to ask for more TOD thoughts and prayers! Been doing that for more than a year, and TODville delivers, so thanks again. ❤
This is such a heartbreaking story. Imagine how much pain it would take for a 14-year old girl to choose death and how much emotional agony her mother is going through.
Trump will start going after Bloomberg immediately, before or after his speech, thus wasting more time on his own run. I’m good. Thanks, former Mayor Bloomberg!
This is great news. Thanks, NCLB. I hope those moderate Republicans who still exist realize that NOT voting for Trump is not only an acceptable thing to do, but a moral imperative.
oh hey VC! Sorry I went out to garden. I’ve been busy working and then gardening (or trying to – ha!). It is hotter than blue blazes here in Minnesota! How’s out by you?
Good morning! I just want to share this wonderful video of Sen. Tim Kane returning home to cheering neighbors from the FL rally yesterday. He gives an impromptu speech on the roll of VA in US history that’s the bomb. Stay cool everyone!
Love the Kaines. Beautiful couple and beautiful neighbors. I think Hillary and her team made a great choice. Now let us make it happen in Nov. ((((((((My TOD))))))))) family. HZ
You can’t fake this kind of reception from your neighbors–the people who know you best. Kaine is obviously loved and admired by those closest to him and that tells you a lot about him.
Anna Luc, thank you for posting this video of the Kaine’s coming home. It was awesome to see their neighbors waiting for them. I do believe that we have a great combo for the Dem ticket. Tim knows the history of America very well and seems to be able to speak easily without notes (reminds me of PBO) and he’s not afraid to talk about the wrongs and how he wants to be a part of making America better for the future.
Senator Tim Kaine During Filibuster: We Have To Stop Being Bystanders To The Carnage Of Gun Violence
During a more than fifteen-hour filibuster on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine added his voice to the renewed push for legislative action to combat gun violence. Kaine reflected on how Virginia has been affected by gun violence…
I can tell you right now that is ONE SPEECH I will not watch. Nor that I watched any of the rallies of the Senator from Vermont with his legions of young revolutionaries.
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It just occurred to me that more political / executive repubs have left their what was clearly becoming a racist batshit crazy party have joined/sided with dems since 2008 (thanks, mcangry) than the other way around. Starting with colin powell, his assistant whasshisname, charlie crist, arlen spectre to bloomberg and others I forget. Pretty damning evidence.
Loved PBO’s interview on Face the Nation! Dickerson gave him plenty of time to speak without interruption.
Just went back to Michelle’s Car Kareoke video. It now has more than 28 MILLION views! No wonder the Rs hate this family so much. They are one of the most popular First Families in history, even near the end of their time in the WH and after 8 years of unrelenting hate directed at them.
Hope everyone’s staying cool under the lower 48’s #HeatDome.
Just listened to a press conference update of #SandFire in LA county’s Santa Clarita area (18 structures burned, 1 death — reporter asked one of the officials [and their were 7 local and federal agencies represented at press conf] why the death was considered related to the fire and the official responded that the body was found adjacent to a vehicle which had sustained significant fire damage — very scary stuff).
I think every single official mentioned that they’ve never seen a fire explode like this one — due to the ongoing 5 year drought 😦 .
Most surprising to me is that the wind is blowing from the south and southwest — which, before #ClimateChange meant cool breezes from the ocean. In my 40+ years living in the LA area, devastating fires have been fueled by Santa Ana winds which blow from the desert (from the north and northeast, NEVER from breezes from completely opposite directions).
And it’s only July — before #ClimateChange, our fire seasons were in September and October.
re: tweet posted upthread by Meta re: John Allen speaking at DNC. Every tweet I’ve seen is that this is a BFD, but I have no idea why. Can anyone here help me out?
Huh: Retired general John Allen, who led Obama's anti-ISIS coalition and then resigned, will speak at the DNC before Hillary Clinton.
Yeh I wondered where military voice would fit in to bolster her Command-In-Chief cred. Enduring memory for me from 2008 was all those retired military folks lining up on stage to support then-Senator Barack Obama. My family that whole night of his acceptance were just tickled as we watched all the checkboxes being checked on by one. It was glorious!
4 star general who led in Afghanistan, was deputy commander of CENTCOM, Allen will likely speak to the qualifications necessary to be a CIC at a time of state and non-state global conflict. He also probably knows HRC well and can testify to her temperament and judgement. We’ll see!
Yeah, the tweeter made it sound like he resigned in objection to something or other when he in fact just moved on. PBO asked him to be his global ISIS emissary and he did that next.
MSM have such personally held agendas that it’s hard to tell if whether or not they’re being snarky.
Pisses me off that they have such a low opinion of PBO that they cling to the belief that military all love GOP — military brass like the GOP because they get more toys to play with and don’t have to face the realities of the 21st century.
Good for General Allen, and am looking forward more to his speech than from billionaire blowhard Bloomberg.
wow well that’s that. there’s some posts upthread from arapahoe re: General John Allen speaking and it being a big deal. Does him speaking and it being a big deal have something to do with DWS tending her resignation? (Like it’s a big deal because she would normally get that speaking slot) IDK do you Meta?
I think it’s being touted as a big deal because he’ll likely speak to the importance of the judgement and temperament of a president in a time of global unrest. He will probably paint a contest between the President he served and Hillary and the ugly orange Cheeto.
I know who I have to work to defeat on Nov/8th 2016 … and it is NOT DWS or the DNC;
wasting precious energy and creating unnecessary headlines when there is so much at stake;
DWS was going to end her term when HRC took over; so why waste time and energy on this when we are just over 100 to the election?
she may not have done the job as good as we wanted her to but I suspect that she thought she was doing her best.
I don’t know how I personally could have handled the venom directed at her from the illusion-filled BS revolutionaries.
I am just grateful to her that as a cancer-survivor, she chose to serve when PBO asked her.
having to deal with medical challenges, I am aware that it is a struggle just to get up everyday, put your fears of mortality and its implications behind, and try to keep up let alone lead in this rat-race that is surviving and thriving in the US.
It is easy to complain when you are not leading a diverse and high-stakes organization;
I thank DWS for serving and wish her well in whatever the future has for her.
DWS is going to fall on her sword for the good of the country. That’s what patriotism is. Keeping our eye on the goal of defeating the evil dictator wannabe. This will help with the anti-Trump unity.
Picking Kaine is Taking the Pot Off Boil
by BooMan
Sat Jul 23rd, 2016 at 12:40:22 AM EST
Here is what I said about Tim Kaine when he was just one of several names being floated as a running mate for Hillary Clinton. Here is what I said about Virginia being a very important state for blocking Trump’s stated Electoral College strategy.
My immediate take is that Clinton just took the heat of this election down a notch. She didn’t look to polarize it further by picking a liberal firebrand or try to win some demographic arms war by responding to Trump’s anti-Latino legions with a Latino running mate. She didn’t pick someone who can throw bombs with Trump, like Al Franken.
She went with steady, likable, qualified, compatible, and uncontroversial. Kaine can tick off a lot of boxes, too. He has the unusual ability to disarm detractors with his faith. His religiosity invites people in without putting them off. He’s bilingual and fluent in Spanish, and he has experience living in Honduras as a missionary. He’s well-liked by both labor unions and business interests, making it just a little easier for Clinton to capture the monied interests from Donald Trump at minimal cost with her base or as the cost of winning their support. He has more executive experience (as a mayor, lieutenant governor, governor, and head of the DNC) than any of the names that made it onto Clinton’s short list. He’s extremely well-liked and respected by his Republican colleagues in the Senate.
He’s popular in his home state, too. He has never lost an election.
Naturally, people will nitpick him. He isn’t from the left fringe of the party, and he’s probably temperamentally moderate by nature. He didn’t win all those elections in Republican-leaning Virginia by letting his liberal freak flag fly. He represents an extremely pro-business, pro-military state that until five minutes ago was culturally conservative to the core
DWS was not high on my list, but making her the fall guy for this to appease the BernieBros pisses me off. If Bernie thinks he wins himself any further support for this little stunt he is a fool. I hope he is happy he did the Trump camp and Putin’s bidding.
All that said, it had to be done. But giving in to these people irritates me to no end. I will be happy when I never have to hear from this people again.
She should have been gone in 2014. It was clear from the start she favored HRC, which honestly, who wouldn’t expect that. But with the stupidity demonstrated over the course of this primary, I’m fine with her going now. Rip off the bandaid quickly. Then move forward.
So the Berniebots get some satisfaction out of it. Whatever. Hillary’s the nominee. We got people to register, voters, to educate and organize, and some
votin’ to do.
Bernie either fulfills his pledge to do all he can to help Hillary win or he’s toast in the Senate.
I’ve been deeply unhappy with DWS for years; but it irks me to no end to see BS get her head. He used and abused the party, stole data, sued, insulted the party at every turn. Then, in INTERNAL emails, she had the temerity to be annoyed with him, while being gracious and letting him get away with his disrespectful shit. I sure as hell hope they made damned sure that he doesn’t pull any tricks tomorrow night.
Eight years ago, Donald Trump lead the birther movement against then-President-elect Obama. Now, Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president.
In a taped interview with CBS’s John Dickerson that aired Sunday on “Face the Nation,” Obama said that fact “says something about what’s happened to the Republican Party over the course of the last eight, 10, 15 years.”
He went on to say that past Republican leaders such as Bob Dole, Jim Baker, Howard Baker, Dick Lugar and Colin Powell were conservatives who “also understood that our system of government requires compromise, that Democrats weren’t the enemy, that the way our government works requires us to listen to each other.
“And that’s not the kind of politics that we’ve seen practiced,” Obama said.
In addition to wasting time on this DNC stuff, these people are incredibly short sighted. Assuming Clinton/Kaine are elected, and we retake the Senate, do they think that any Democrat is going to feel favorably toward Bernie in terms of committee assignments, etc? Cut of your nose to spite your face, as my mom would have said.
In addition…how is this any different than..Netanyahu sticking his hand in the last presidential election….or meddling in our Foreign Policy….aka…the Iran Nuclear Deal
It’s so much worse, because Trump is beholden to Putin — he can’t get loans from US banks, so Putin and Russian oligarchs launder crime money through Trump Inc.
It's not just a bromace, Trumps financial empire is strapped for cash & most of the new investment comes from Russia https://t.co/hh3PaCcG7s
tweeted that tweet to Capehart who announced his guest shot on MSNBC…i suppose the blk foks don’t want to rock the boat…they do not want the fate of Melissa Harris Perry…..
it is rather disgusting tweet…that lays bare the white privilege and racism that is the media…
interesting No Chris Hayes and No Lawrence O’Donnell in that pic…
I am sorry but my I am not letting Bernie, Russia, Asange, and WikiLeaks determine my political focus => Eye on the Prize (Nov 8th);
one thing I know about extremists: you yield and give them one thing, then they blindly move on and demand another, all without skipping a beat and with one constant => venom and rabid accusations to those who they think have slighted them.
True. Especially since the average Dem. knows little or nothing about most of this. They are working, caring for their families and wishing that the nightmare that we call the 2016 election will soon be over. PBO told us to keep our heads down and to work until the goal is reached. Everyone should know by now not to get played by the opposition.
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I am not a fan of DW-S but the Sanders Team have been gunning for her. They finally have their DW-S' "Head" on a Platter, I guess. What such little minded losers! It's always about them, never about The Dem Party. Shameful. Bernie was on at least 3 Sunday shows today. Seriously? Just Pathetic.
Then there’s Donald Trump with Ivanka. Poised and polished and smiling, she’s the lovely daughter whose good manners have been lauded ever since she appeared in the 2003 Jamie Johnson documentary “Born Rich.” In a truly addled form of grading on a curve, when it comes to kids from Ivanka’s background, simply being polite, graduating from your father’s alma mater, and then going to work for him are all perceived as remarkable achievements. Marketing her low-end designer clothes on Twitter, Ivanka is a sub-brand of her father, a walking aspirational life style: the Lean-In Working Mom. She is also pretty clearly not a Republican. She should be likable, a role model. In fact, if Trump weren’t her dad, it’s easy to imagine her #WithHer, working alongside her former friend Chelsea.
Instead, Ivanka’s made the choice to use her gifts to prop up her father’s ugly and xenophobic campaign, employing her charm as a kind of weaponized graciousness. She’s his consort, because Melania can’t be. And could Donald be bad, if Ivanka is good? Where Donald is rude, Ivanka is polite. Where Donald makes piggish insults, Ivanka shrugs: “Oh, Dad!” In last night’s seductive speech, with her corporate-P.R.-wiz delivery, she offered the same anodyne generalizations that her siblings and stepmother made in their speeches. Her dad inspired them; he taught good values; he can be trusted. It was like a Mad Libs compiled from Successories motivational posters, very different from the rambling but endearingly specific stories delivered by one of her father’s old business cronies, just before she took the stage, the one who described himself as “an anchovy on an Ivanka Caesar salad.”
……………………….
Before Ivanka’s performance, her brother, Donald, Jr., predicted that his sister would succeed, because she “does the princess thing very well.” Her royalty is what makes her father’s royalty feel real. You’re not supposed to criticize someone’s daughter—and, if the press does, Trump will surely be able to score points by defending her. But this is the ugly truth: Ivanka has made a conscious choice to deodorize the stink of her father’s misogyny, to suggest that because he loves her that means he loves women—to erase the actual policies he supports. She could have stood by his side and smiled in mere family solidarity. She could have used her newborn or her work as an excuse to stay away from active campaigning. Instead, she’s stepped forward to blind female voters to who her father is and what he stands for.
So glad the BS crew did not get their way with trying to get Hillary to pick Nina Turner for VP. Heard her say something today about the DNC trying to blame Russia and that she wants Hillary to apologize for the DNC emails and promise under her Presidency nothing like that will happen again. Her demands are insane and nothing is ever enough. She would be a big pain in the butt if she were VP.
GAH, like pulling teeth……You’d think anyone with half a brain could figure out the landscape here. The choice is CLEAR. But you know they just have to have their 15 minutes. AND guarantee their footing as HRC complainers when she wins. Same with Nina Turner, Corny West, etc, etc.
hard to swallow all those nasty words that were said about Hillary and endorse her…look at Sanders …he endorsed her in name only…he has not stopped his attacks against her…or the DEMS
there are days when I get very angry at a group of self-important and delusional dominating the airways and trying to push the nation’s agenda in a short-sighted direction.
I predicted earlier (before DWS’ resignation announcement) that giving in to these BS revolutionaries on one thing will just serve as a signal to them that they are 100% and that they will quickly move on and demand more concessions;
I see now that BS surrogates Nina Turner and Shaun King are quickly doing that => demanding more;
this will just give the news media more ammunition to ignore the DNC convention message and try and maximize the perceived Dem division propagated by a few loud mouths ;
the DNC convention is the one time that the networks would have been forced to give time for the Dem message to be heard outside us political junkies before they go back to their regular Cheetos 24/7 programming;
this drama should not have been allowed to happen NOW; especially when we know the motives of WikiLeaks.
I am disgusted by playing into the hands of these manipulators!
Iowa defensive lineman Faith Ekakitie wrote that he “feared for my life” when stopped by police in a park Wednesday while playing the popular mobile game “Pokemon Go” in a case of mistaken identity.
Ekakitie wrote in a Facebook post that approximately five Iowa City police officers stopped him and four guns were pointed at him as police searched for a suspect who had robbed a nearby bank 10 minutes earlier.
“My pockets were checked, my backpack was opened up and searched carefully, and I was asked to lift up my shirt while they searched my waistband,” Ekakitie wrote. “Not once did they identify themselves to me as Iowa City Police officers, but with four gun barrels staring me in the face, I wouldn’t dare question the authority of the men and woman in front of me. This is what happened from my point of view.”
Ekakitie said he did not initially respond to police orders to stop because he was approached from behind and was wearing headphones.
The Obama Diary 
What a sweet girl. Praying for her. (Also just thanked my lucky stars again for having healthy grandkids and great grandkids.)
Speaking of great healthy kids, how is your son, Booms?
Better but still on his way, thanks so much. After the last procedure, he still felt an air leak in his chest. Surgeon is doing an innovative procedure Aug. 9, so perhaps now would be a great time to ask for more TOD thoughts and prayers! Been doing that for more than a year, and TODville delivers, so thanks again. ❤
Absolutely, you got it. He will be so much better soon. XOXO
Thanks again!
You only have to ask J’OB, prayers going up for blessings to fall on you & your son 😘
Sis, you, Steve, and family were never struck from my prayer list; however, happy to throw in some extra special prayers! 🙂
❤
Well-being and peace.
Pulling for him! Sending hugs your way.
sending one up right now for you and your family 🙂
Totally!
Love all you guys! ❤
This is such a heartbreaking story. Imagine how much pain it would take for a 14-year old girl to choose death and how much emotional agony her mother is going through.
Wow!
Trump will start going after Bloomberg immediately, before or after his speech, thus wasting more time on his own run. I’m good. Thanks, former Mayor Bloomberg!
Yep. Donnie’s ego will not allow him to brush it off. He’ll be waging war with Bloomberg right quick. Ha! Love it!
BOOM! BOOM!
What!!!!?
This is yuuuug!
This is great news. Thanks, NCLB. I hope those moderate Republicans who still exist realize that NOT voting for Trump is not only an acceptable thing to do, but a moral imperative.
The way Pokeman Go is ruining the world 😀 😀 😀 😀
Hello, folks. May your Sunday be a peaceful one, filled with the things and people who bring joy to your heart.
This past week @Interior included a reference to TPP.
Peace, love & happiness to you too vc 😘
🙂 TY.
You back from church already?
Running out the door now 😊
Careful in those heels! 😀 😀
Be blessed!
w00t! VC! 🙂
Hi stranger A, what have you been dong with yourself?
oh hey VC! Sorry I went out to garden. I’ve been busy working and then gardening (or trying to – ha!). It is hotter than blue blazes here in Minnesota! How’s out by you?
Hot enough that I sit quietly most of the time; none of that gardening stuff in this heat. 😉
bo & sunny !!!
20 is really not that far off from 30, oh, 30k, my bad.
but, walking the walk is soooo hard.
LOL.
To be fair, it’s really hot outside. 😀
withering heights?
Tee-hee!
Haha!
Good morning! I just want to share this wonderful video of Sen. Tim Kane returning home to cheering neighbors from the FL rally yesterday. He gives an impromptu speech on the roll of VA in US history that’s the bomb. Stay cool everyone!
http://wtvr.com/2016/07/24/tim-kaines-neighbors-cheer-vp-candidate-home-in-richmond/
Love the Kaines. Beautiful couple and beautiful neighbors. I think Hillary and her team made a great choice. Now let us make it happen in Nov. ((((((((My TOD))))))))) family. HZ
thank you very much for sharing this video. I loved it
You can’t fake this kind of reception from your neighbors–the people who know you best. Kaine is obviously loved and admired by those closest to him and that tells you a lot about him.
Anna Luc, thank you for posting this video of the Kaine’s coming home. It was awesome to see their neighbors waiting for them. I do believe that we have a great combo for the Dem ticket. Tim knows the history of America very well and seems to be able to speak easily without notes (reminds me of PBO) and he’s not afraid to talk about the wrongs and how he wants to be a part of making America better for the future.
I’m truly encouraged
wikileaks – dratz, some one leaked our secrets.
Wikileaks now belongs entirely to Putin.
… the same way they are now with e-mail leaks and e-mail server.
Senator Tim Kaine During Filibuster: We Have To Stop Being Bystanders To The Carnage Of Gun Violence
During a more than fifteen-hour filibuster on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine added his voice to the renewed push for legislative action to combat gun violence. Kaine reflected on how Virginia has been affected by gun violence…
I can tell you right now that is ONE SPEECH I will not watch. Nor that I watched any of the rallies of the Senator from Vermont with his legions of young revolutionaries.
I’m feeling the same – He talks about progressive as it PBO didn’t exist
Sorry, but anyone who RT’s Wikileaks stuff into my TL is getting unfollowed and/or blocked.
It just occurred to me that more political / executive repubs have left their what was clearly becoming a racist batshit crazy party have joined/sided with dems since 2008 (thanks, mcangry) than the other way around. Starting with colin powell, his assistant whasshisname, charlie crist, arlen spectre to bloomberg and others I forget. Pretty damning evidence.
deadbeat donnie spouting foreign words like analysis is hilarious.
As Jeb Bush said Donald Trump need help.
Loved PBO’s interview on Face the Nation! Dickerson gave him plenty of time to speak without interruption.
Just went back to Michelle’s Car Kareoke video. It now has more than 28 MILLION views! No wonder the Rs hate this family so much. They are one of the most popular First Families in history, even near the end of their time in the WH and after 8 years of unrelenting hate directed at them.
GM/GA TODville.
Hope everyone’s staying cool under the lower 48’s #HeatDome.
Just listened to a press conference update of #SandFire in LA county’s Santa Clarita area (18 structures burned, 1 death — reporter asked one of the officials [and their were 7 local and federal agencies represented at press conf] why the death was considered related to the fire and the official responded that the body was found adjacent to a vehicle which had sustained significant fire damage — very scary stuff).
I think every single official mentioned that they’ve never seen a fire explode like this one — due to the ongoing 5 year drought 😦 .
Most surprising to me is that the wind is blowing from the south and southwest — which, before #ClimateChange meant cool breezes from the ocean. In my 40+ years living in the LA area, devastating fires have been fueled by Santa Ana winds which blow from the desert (from the north and northeast, NEVER from breezes from completely opposite directions).
And it’s only July — before #ClimateChange, our fire seasons were in September and October.
re: tweet posted upthread by Meta re: John Allen speaking at DNC. Every tweet I’ve seen is that this is a BFD, but I have no idea why. Can anyone here help me out?
In response to:
more…
NYT reporter in response to @ddale’s tweet above:
Another from WaPo reporter…
Yeh I wondered where military voice would fit in to bolster her Command-In-Chief cred. Enduring memory for me from 2008 was all those retired military folks lining up on stage to support then-Senator Barack Obama. My family that whole night of his acceptance were just tickled as we watched all the checkboxes being checked on by one. It was glorious!
Sorry, do people know why he resigned, and why this is a big deal. I don’t know anything about Allen 😦
4 star general who led in Afghanistan, was deputy commander of CENTCOM, Allen will likely speak to the qualifications necessary to be a CIC at a time of state and non-state global conflict. He also probably knows HRC well and can testify to her temperament and judgement. We’ll see!
Don’t think he resigned. Believe he is retired. Would need to fact check though.
Yeah, the tweeter made it sound like he resigned in objection to something or other when he in fact just moved on. PBO asked him to be his global ISIS emissary and he did that next.
Thx Meta! 🙂
Great, thanks for the info, Meta!
MSM have such personally held agendas that it’s hard to tell if whether or not they’re being snarky.
Pisses me off that they have such a low opinion of PBO that they cling to the belief that military all love GOP — military brass like the GOP because they get more toys to play with and don’t have to face the realities of the 21st century.
Good for General Allen, and am looking forward more to his speech than from billionaire blowhard Bloomberg.
wow well that’s that. there’s some posts upthread from arapahoe re: General John Allen speaking and it being a big deal. Does him speaking and it being a big deal have something to do with DWS tending her resignation? (Like it’s a big deal because she would normally get that speaking slot) IDK do you Meta?
I think it’s being touted as a big deal because he’ll likely speak to the importance of the judgement and temperament of a president in a time of global unrest. He will probably paint a contest between the President he served and Hillary and the ugly orange Cheeto.
“orange cheeto” bahahahahahaha 😀
Now a4alice, you know I’m right. LOLz
poor Cheetos. They’re one of my favorite snacks. But Meta, when you’re right, you’re right! 😉
You and Chipsticks, I swear!!
meant to say, “contrast”…….
poor widdle tulsi tripped herself up running away from PBO
I know who I have to work to defeat on Nov/8th 2016 … and it is NOT DWS or the DNC;
wasting precious energy and creating unnecessary headlines when there is so much at stake;
DWS was going to end her term when HRC took over; so why waste time and energy on this when we are just over 100 to the election?
she may not have done the job as good as we wanted her to but I suspect that she thought she was doing her best.
I don’t know how I personally could have handled the venom directed at her from the illusion-filled BS revolutionaries.
I am just grateful to her that as a cancer-survivor, she chose to serve when PBO asked her.
having to deal with medical challenges, I am aware that it is a struggle just to get up everyday, put your fears of mortality and its implications behind, and try to keep up let alone lead in this rat-race that is surviving and thriving in the US.
It is easy to complain when you are not leading a diverse and high-stakes organization;
I thank DWS for serving and wish her well in whatever the future has for her.
This is the news that will make Nina Turner and her Great Supreme Leader Bernie Sanders happy. I can’t wait for November.
DWS is going to fall on her sword for the good of the country. That’s what patriotism is. Keeping our eye on the goal of defeating the evil dictator wannabe. This will help with the anti-Trump unity.
Fine. Let ’em be happy. Hillary is our nominee and Tim Kaine is her running mate. Support them or get the fuck outta the way.
You tell ’em Dudette!!
5 *s Dudette
From BooMan:
Picking Kaine is Taking the Pot Off Boil
by BooMan
Sat Jul 23rd, 2016 at 12:40:22 AM EST
Here is what I said about Tim Kaine when he was just one of several names being floated as a running mate for Hillary Clinton. Here is what I said about Virginia being a very important state for blocking Trump’s stated Electoral College strategy.
My immediate take is that Clinton just took the heat of this election down a notch. She didn’t look to polarize it further by picking a liberal firebrand or try to win some demographic arms war by responding to Trump’s anti-Latino legions with a Latino running mate. She didn’t pick someone who can throw bombs with Trump, like Al Franken.
She went with steady, likable, qualified, compatible, and uncontroversial. Kaine can tick off a lot of boxes, too. He has the unusual ability to disarm detractors with his faith. His religiosity invites people in without putting them off. He’s bilingual and fluent in Spanish, and he has experience living in Honduras as a missionary. He’s well-liked by both labor unions and business interests, making it just a little easier for Clinton to capture the monied interests from Donald Trump at minimal cost with her base or as the cost of winning their support. He has more executive experience (as a mayor, lieutenant governor, governor, and head of the DNC) than any of the names that made it onto Clinton’s short list. He’s extremely well-liked and respected by his Republican colleagues in the Senate.
He’s popular in his home state, too. He has never lost an election.
Naturally, people will nitpick him. He isn’t from the left fringe of the party, and he’s probably temperamentally moderate by nature. He didn’t win all those elections in Republican-leaning Virginia by letting his liberal freak flag fly. He represents an extremely pro-business, pro-military state that until five minutes ago was culturally conservative to the core
DWS was not high on my list, but making her the fall guy for this to appease the BernieBros pisses me off. If Bernie thinks he wins himself any further support for this little stunt he is a fool. I hope he is happy he did the Trump camp and Putin’s bidding.
All that said, it had to be done. But giving in to these people irritates me to no end. I will be happy when I never have to hear from this people again.
She should have been gone in 2014. It was clear from the start she favored HRC, which honestly, who wouldn’t expect that. But with the stupidity demonstrated over the course of this primary, I’m fine with her going now. Rip off the bandaid quickly. Then move forward.
So the Berniebots get some satisfaction out of it. Whatever. Hillary’s the nominee. We got people to register, voters, to educate and organize, and some
votin’ to do.
Bernie either fulfills his pledge to do all he can to help Hillary win or he’s toast in the Senate.
I’ve been deeply unhappy with DWS for years; but it irks me to no end to see BS get her head. He used and abused the party, stole data, sued, insulted the party at every turn. Then, in INTERNAL emails, she had the temerity to be annoyed with him, while being gracious and letting him get away with his disrespectful shit. I sure as hell hope they made damned sure that he doesn’t pull any tricks tomorrow night.
as the child of an english teacher, it pains me to see the dept of education using the word “ain’t” in a tweet.
It’s a quaint part of the vernacular now. Language evolves. It’s okay. 🙂
ICYMI:
Good one.
Nixon may have been a crook, but, unlike Trump, Nixon, in terms of knowledge and political experience, was very well qualified to be President.
@originalgriz
White privilege: it’s nearly August, Donald Trump could be President, and you’re in the street for Bernie.
For real
Great tweet! Thank you sharing it with us.
Obama: Donald Trump’s nomination ‘says something’ about the Republican Party
July 24 at 11:57 AM
Eight years ago, Donald Trump lead the birther movement against then-President-elect Obama. Now, Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president.
In a taped interview with CBS’s John Dickerson that aired Sunday on “Face the Nation,” Obama said that fact “says something about what’s happened to the Republican Party over the course of the last eight, 10, 15 years.”
He went on to say that past Republican leaders such as Bob Dole, Jim Baker, Howard Baker, Dick Lugar and Colin Powell were conservatives who “also understood that our system of government requires compromise, that Democrats weren’t the enemy, that the way our government works requires us to listen to each other.
“And that’s not the kind of politics that we’ve seen practiced,” Obama said.
I love this president so much.
I second you, Susanne. HZ
I second your second, HZ! 🙂
Very gracious of our President. As always.
In addition to wasting time on this DNC stuff, these people are incredibly short sighted. Assuming Clinton/Kaine are elected, and we retake the Senate, do they think that any Democrat is going to feel favorably toward Bernie in terms of committee assignments, etc? Cut of your nose to spite your face, as my mom would have said.
Winning! 😀
This!
ohhh myyy…..worried about this….
In addition…how is this any different than..Netanyahu sticking his hand in the last presidential election….or meddling in our Foreign Policy….aka…the Iran Nuclear Deal
GA PF58.
It’s so much worse, because Trump is beholden to Putin — he can’t get loans from US banks, so Putin and Russian oligarchs launder crime money through Trump Inc.
more…
Here’s a Trump tweet from 2013:
Here’s the tweet thread on Russian coding:
thank you so much for this….
I have another name for them, but have decided not to sully this place with foul language (at least for today).
tweeted that tweet to Capehart who announced his guest shot on MSNBC…i suppose the blk foks don’t want to rock the boat…they do not want the fate of Melissa Harris Perry…..
it is rather disgusting tweet…that lays bare the white privilege and racism that is the media…
interesting No Chris Hayes and No Lawrence O’Donnell in that pic…
They are the 5 who ran the coverage of the RNC. Chris & Lawrence got their regular shows when timing permitted.
yes i know…but to not include them…i found that fascinating
Lawrence has been very anti Trump – good enough reason to ignore him. Rachel is not who she was – the cost of keeping your job.
smilin….
Where’s Lawrence O’Donnell in the MSNBC photo. I always considered him as one of the important team members.
I am sorry but my I am not letting Bernie, Russia, Asange, and WikiLeaks determine my political focus => Eye on the Prize (Nov 8th);
one thing I know about extremists: you yield and give them one thing, then they blindly move on and demand another, all without skipping a beat and with one constant => venom and rabid accusations to those who they think have slighted them.
forward;
True. Especially since the average Dem. knows little or nothing about most of this. They are working, caring for their families and wishing that the nightmare that we call the 2016 election will soon be over. PBO told us to keep our heads down and to work until the goal is reached. Everyone should know by now not to get played by the opposition.
Oh, how I love the wisdom of TOD. I keep coming back here to remember. To remember heads down, focus on the goal, and don’t get played. Thank you CEB
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I am not a fan of DW-S but the Sanders Team have been gunning for her. They finally have their DW-S' "Head" on a Platter, I guess. What such little minded losers! It's always about them, never about The Dem Party. Shameful. Bernie was on at least 3 Sunday shows today. Seriously? Just Pathetic.
I think we’ll see more of this at the end of the convention…….
Never liked her but glad she’s with us this time.
Yeah, same here but I hope she’s providing cover for others………..
THE R.N.C. ON TV: IVANKA’S WEAPONIZED GRACIOUSNESS
By Emily Nussbaum
JULY 22, 2016
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Then there’s Donald Trump with Ivanka. Poised and polished and smiling, she’s the lovely daughter whose good manners have been lauded ever since she appeared in the 2003 Jamie Johnson documentary “Born Rich.” In a truly addled form of grading on a curve, when it comes to kids from Ivanka’s background, simply being polite, graduating from your father’s alma mater, and then going to work for him are all perceived as remarkable achievements. Marketing her low-end designer clothes on Twitter, Ivanka is a sub-brand of her father, a walking aspirational life style: the Lean-In Working Mom. She is also pretty clearly not a Republican. She should be likable, a role model. In fact, if Trump weren’t her dad, it’s easy to imagine her #WithHer, working alongside her former friend Chelsea.
Instead, Ivanka’s made the choice to use her gifts to prop up her father’s ugly and xenophobic campaign, employing her charm as a kind of weaponized graciousness. She’s his consort, because Melania can’t be. And could Donald be bad, if Ivanka is good? Where Donald is rude, Ivanka is polite. Where Donald makes piggish insults, Ivanka shrugs: “Oh, Dad!” In last night’s seductive speech, with her corporate-P.R.-wiz delivery, she offered the same anodyne generalizations that her siblings and stepmother made in their speeches. Her dad inspired them; he taught good values; he can be trusted. It was like a Mad Libs compiled from Successories motivational posters, very different from the rambling but endearingly specific stories delivered by one of her father’s old business cronies, just before she took the stage, the one who described himself as “an anchovy on an Ivanka Caesar salad.”
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Before Ivanka’s performance, her brother, Donald, Jr., predicted that his sister would succeed, because she “does the princess thing very well.” Her royalty is what makes her father’s royalty feel real. You’re not supposed to criticize someone’s daughter—and, if the press does, Trump will surely be able to score points by defending her. But this is the ugly truth: Ivanka has made a conscious choice to deodorize the stink of her father’s misogyny, to suggest that because he loves her that means he loves women—to erase the actual policies he supports. She could have stood by his side and smiled in mere family solidarity. She could have used her newborn or her work as an excuse to stay away from active campaigning. Instead, she’s stepped forward to blind female voters to who her father is and what he stands for.
Not impress by Ivanka.
I wish I could make you go away, you and your supporter Nina Turner.
Only God knows what Sanders will say at the Convention.
Get out the crying towels……..WAAAAHHHHHH………
Really, how long does it take to let go? The race has been done for months.
So glad the BS crew did not get their way with trying to get Hillary to pick Nina Turner for VP. Heard her say something today about the DNC trying to blame Russia and that she wants Hillary to apologize for the DNC emails and promise under her Presidency nothing like that will happen again. Her demands are insane and nothing is ever enough. She would be a big pain in the butt if she were VP.
Indeed!…
GAH, like pulling teeth……You’d think anyone with half a brain could figure out the landscape here. The choice is CLEAR. But you know they just have to have their 15 minutes. AND guarantee their footing as HRC complainers when she wins. Same with Nina Turner, Corny West, etc, etc.
hard to swallow all those nasty words that were said about Hillary and endorse her…look at Sanders …he endorsed her in name only…he has not stopped his attacks against her…or the DEMS
By the way, has he actually suspended his campaign?
Really? He was squirmy over the Tim Kaine pick yesterday. Did just having DWS resign do the trick?
Tired of these people
there are days when I get very angry at a group of self-important and delusional dominating the airways and trying to push the nation’s agenda in a short-sighted direction.
time for me to chill; this too shall pass
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/24/president-obama-on-face-the-nation/
Elsewhere in the world …
I predicted earlier (before DWS’ resignation announcement) that giving in to these BS revolutionaries on one thing will just serve as a signal to them that they are 100% and that they will quickly move on and demand more concessions;
I see now that BS surrogates Nina Turner and Shaun King are quickly doing that => demanding more;
this will just give the news media more ammunition to ignore the DNC convention message and try and maximize the perceived Dem division propagated by a few loud mouths ;
the DNC convention is the one time that the networks would have been forced to give time for the Dem message to be heard outside us political junkies before they go back to their regular Cheetos 24/7 programming;
this drama should not have been allowed to happen NOW; especially when we know the motives of WikiLeaks.
I am disgusted by playing into the hands of these manipulators!
Iowa DE Faith Ekakitie stopped by police at gunpoint over mistaken identity
10:19 AM ET ESPN.com news services
Iowa defensive lineman Faith Ekakitie wrote that he “feared for my life” when stopped by police in a park Wednesday while playing the popular mobile game “Pokemon Go” in a case of mistaken identity.
Ekakitie wrote in a Facebook post that approximately five Iowa City police officers stopped him and four guns were pointed at him as police searched for a suspect who had robbed a nearby bank 10 minutes earlier.
“My pockets were checked, my backpack was opened up and searched carefully, and I was asked to lift up my shirt while they searched my waistband,” Ekakitie wrote. “Not once did they identify themselves to me as Iowa City Police officers, but with four gun barrels staring me in the face, I wouldn’t dare question the authority of the men and woman in front of me. This is what happened from my point of view.”
Ekakitie said he did not initially respond to police orders to stop because he was approached from behind and was wearing headphones.