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Good morning TODVille.
What a great speech!
I watched it 5 times already.
Congratulations, No Child. We are so lucky to have TOD brought to us multiple times a day by Chips and Nerdy and others. We have been able to really know and savor the extraordinary power and charm of the Obamas since the very start of this historic Presidency.
Good morning TOD!
Thank you NW 🙂
#FORWARD Together
bbl …. {{{{{{Chips}}}}}} …..
Ha! I agree, Nerdy, just finished watching her again. Definitely the way to start each new day~
Democrats are the Party which reflects real America — diverse in every way. Go Hillary!
FLOTUS WAS HER AMAZING SELF LAST NIGHT AND CORY BOOKER WAS…………..I AM SPEECHLESS….HE WOULD HAVE BEEN AMAZING IN THE WHITEHOUSE..HE IS OBAMA #2!
No-one – but no-one is President Obama #2
THAT IS WHO HE REMINDS ME OF….BOOKER IS A BLESSING AND HE CERTAINLY WAS LAST NIGHT!
President Booker
No he is not
❤💞❤
Hoot – Claire McCaskill just did a great job for Hillary on MJ – also spoke well about the Berniebros
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Our FLOTUS is so wonderful 🙂
Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson
I’m saying this as a partisan who takes the other side seriously; this speech is a grand slam for Dems. Over the back wall, ball in orbit.
Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson
It’s not targeted at you, Trumpkins. It’s targeted at millions of suburban women indys and soft Rs…people you despise.
Good Morning TOD
As I predicted last week and that CNN poll that came out yesterday will be the outlier.
Unless they were polling his Nazi group, because that thing was nothing but a hot mess.
I’LL BE GLAD WHEN THEY MOVE TO THEIR NEW HOME AND OUT OF THE WH CLUSTERMUCK..THEIR NEW HOME IS GORGEOUS AND INDEED A FORTRESS AGAINST THE TRASH OUTSIDE!
Good morning after that exciting night! FLOTUS was even more amazing than she usually is……Wow! Love her so much. I also watched Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren. Had never seen or heard Booker before, and was impressed. Glad to see up and coming Democrats. Was underwhelmed by Warren….okay, but not overwhelming. However, after that messy beginning, they brought it to a magnificent evening. I predict good things for Rep. Joe Kennedy……the other speakers were positive, and showed heart and soul. So proud.
Did not watch Bernie.
We had a terrific rain and thunderstorm last night. Today will be cooler. Hope the rest of you get some heat relief.
AMEN TO THAT..THESE TRUTHS NEED TO BECOME A PART OF HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM INSTEAD OF BEING HIDDEN BY WHITES WHO THINK THEY ARE SUPERIOR..THE SAME GOES FOR THE BIBLE AND THE AFRICAN’S PORTRAYAL IN ITS HISTORY. WE HAVE SINNED HORRIBLY AGAINST ALL PEOPLE OF COLOR..PERIOD!
THIS^^^
HOPEFULLY THE BERNIE SCREAMING AND SIGNAGE IS OVER..WE DON’T NEED ANYMORE OF THAT. WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO VOTING FOR PRESIDENT..PEOPLE NEED TO GROW UP AND THINK ABOUT WHO WOULD BE THE BEST FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY..THAT SAID…HAVE A BLESSED DAY EVERYONE!
Hmmm hmmm hmmm
And isn’t this the supreme irony, meta? This idiot has worked up his ‘devotees’ for over a year with tales of cheating on the part of Hillary and the DNC , fed the beast of rage and resentment, spun wild tales about his chances to win the presidency and now when the chickens come home to roost in his backyard, he turns tail and runs. Tells you all you need to know about the bs from BS.
And when does he loose his SS protection – today?
SS was pulled within hours of his conceding. Think they gave him a ride home from the rally and that was it…
That says it all about how delusional and out of control Bernie Bros have become.
Good Lord, dodging his supporters!!! LOL
I remember during the 2008 convention there was a video introducing Michelle that featured a co-worker who said, “I can’t wait until the rest of the world understands and appreciates the Michelle Obama I know”. Well, now the whole world knows and we are blown away by this amazing, brilliant, charismatic woman who is tough, resilient, caring and absolutely beautiful. She can make you smile and cry and think and respond deeply to her just by standing there, but when she speaks, we are hers. That two such magnificent souls as Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson found each other is one of the history’s great moments of serendipity. She may physically leave the White House on January 20, but the her presence and influence will be permanently imprinted on that institution and in our hearts.
Well-said Jackie. FLOTUS is an American icon and hero, a national treasure. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to remove the ugly impurities from their soul.
Truth! Love this, jackieg….could not agree more. She is an amazing woman. I adore her…in my heart forever. Morning everyone….pleasure to watch an uplifting and positive convention last night….wondering what tonight will bring:)
wow Jackie, your comment made me very teary.. couldn’t agree more with you. 🙂
Jackie – thanks for your poetic words about our beautiful First Lady Michelle. President Obama should come to the podium at the DNC, smile his megawatt smile and say, “What Michelle said”…wait a few beats and then say what he needs to say.
Her influence on the children of this country will be remembered for a long, long time.
Good West Coast morning TOD family. NW, I will listen to FLOTUS amazing speech again when I get to work. Thanks for posting it.
Damn, that was one hellacious speech!
Happy Tuesday TODers, and what a day after FLOTUS brilliant speech!
Thanks, Nerdy.
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Good Gawd…….
Couldn’t last more than 30 seconds on msnbc……some dip shit named Stephanie Rule wonders why Michelle Obama was so strong for Hillary due to the fact that this Stephanie person ” has never even seen a picture of the two of them together. ”
She obviously has lived in a cave for many years and never ever heard of Google Images.
Pete Souza could educate this knucklehead, but I’m sure he wouldn’t waste his time on her. Like many in the media, she was lusting for signs of a feud between Michelle and Hillary with angry heads screaming at each other like those gossip tabloids covers. She grossly underestimates the intelligence of our FLOTUS and our presidential nominee.
That must be a Fox meme right now cuz my GOP walking partner told me this morning she thought Michelle and Hillary couldn’t stand each other. I had honestly never heard that from anyone ever before. These divisive cretins just can’t help themselves. They don’t have a moral compass, they have no good ideas except how to pit people against one another. That’s all they’ve got. I loved Michelle’s reminder and what her husband says every damn time something bad happens, in a crisis we don’t turn on each other. We listen to each other, we help one another. Also I loved when she mentioned that in Dallas both the police and the protesters were desperately trying to keep our kids safe. I love this woman.
I would love to know at what moment the last diehard Bbot shuts up and concedes that Bernie will not be president. I would like to know the moment when I do not have to read or hear his name again and when he flat out disappears from the public scene. That day, that hour is very important to me because I am going to celebrate it and mark it on my calendar as a joyous occasion.
Oh they will never concede. The big push now is their DemExit. They are all frantically changing their voter registration and leaving the Dem Party cause that will fix us for having the temerity to elect the corporate you know what to be our candidate!
They probably sat on their fannies in the between year elections so that’s how we got here with the Tea Party, etc. Maybe some decent people will find a home in the Democratic party. I did in 2008. I fancied myself an independent until I heard President Obama speak. Love at first sight. I didn’t even pay attention before that. Now almost eight years later with years of working as a volunteer under my belt I know it can change you. Being introduced to someone that amazing, that truthful, that generous of spirit. It can utterly change you for the better and it doesn’t ever go back the way it was. You are convinced and committed for life.
I will never ever understand Bernie Sanders’ rise to power. No record of achievement, no history of working with anyone effectively, no outcomes, no concrete lasting legislation. He comes from a small white state. He is perpetually angry, hostile and scolding. He snubs Blacks, Latinos and takes on the filthiest of surrogates. He denigrates the Democratic Party every chance he gets and has never truly and sincerely respected PBO. He gets up in front of the DNC and undermines TPP. He shouts his speeches and wags his finger. He’s rude and obnoxious. Not a gracious bone in his body, he cannot accept defeat.
I DO NOT GET IT.
It’s that “little phenomenon” called white male privilege,where mediocrity is championed and failing upward is the reward for said mediocrity.
Meta, you just said all I have been feeling! I don’t understand it. What has he done. I use to listen to Thom Hartmenn and here Bernie. I had to quit when they would go after PBO. I know the people of Vermont thought he did for them, but never for poc or outside his state. He has a temper and doesn’t work well with others. To me it’s more of a cult than anything else. I am just thankful he gave a full throated support of Hillary last night.
me either meta. I will never ever understand and I’ve tried, I cannot get it.
Totally agree with you meta. It’s like those cults that make people drink poison together for what they think will be a better life somewhere else! Total mind control.
Ok, ok, I will make a compromise
1. Flotus redux and tridux today and tomorrow. (kenyan? yes, what about him?)
2. 3rd term
See how easypeasy it all really is?
Now, get to it.
What a selfish compromise!
….BUT… I LOVE IT… 🙂 🙂
What selfish? I am being completely, entirely, fully, totally being reasonable here.
Seeing that live was better than the replay 🙂
LOL
I’m sure as hell not Bill; I’m Barack!
love this one
Seriously.
JG, thank you for the reminder of the introduction video of FLOTUS back in 2008
It’s at the top of my favorite list
Mine, too, Donna–what I could see of it that night through my tears.
Thank you Donna for adding this today. After last night it brings a fresh round of tears. We have been so blessed to have them in our lives these last 8 years.
Love it!
THIS IS HEART WRENCHING..I WISH THEY WOULD STAY BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING DAYS WILL BE SO UGLY!
Good Morning TOD! Good Morning Nerdy!
Today I am in a fantastic mood!
I feel like yesterday was a turning point because of two events:
Sarah Silverman calling out the Bernie or Busters with “You’re being ridiculous” was like the “At long last, have you no sense of decency, Sir?” moment of the Bernie Bros season (I’m not old enough to remember the McCarthy hearings, but I know my history 🙂 ) Those little wanna be emperors are looking mighty naked now.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech. After she spoke I felt like this about all of the bullshit from both the DTers and the BorBers:
Good morning to the TOD community. What a life-changing speech for mankind FLOTUS delivered last evening! She schooled me on so many issues, including attitude and perseverance; so many moral nuggets. She was amazing, in a class by herself.
Thanks America, for releasing Obama greatness into the universe. It is inspiring people everywhere.
Thanks also to Chips (may she continue to be strengthened daily) NW and the TOD family for this vital medium to enjoy the Obamas. Have a blessed day everyone!🌻
Linda, let’s help Stephanie Ruhle out:
In the age of “teh Google”, are these pinheads so desperate for attention on social media that they feel compelled to throw up these sloppy easily disprovable talking points?
And she’s a so-called journalist 😯
Yes, INDEED!
For those of you who have access to CSPAN – but haven’t yet made the switch, please do. It will save you a lot of unnecessary misery, keep you blood pressure down, but most importantly, show the full convention from a completely objective standpoint without the agenda-driven punditry of the cable networks like CNN or MSNBC.
I watched on the dems feed on youtube – it was excellent.
I did the same 99ts! I have YouTube on my TV too, so that’s how I watched the entire convention and it was gloriously pundit-free! I had set my DVR to record the PBS coverage but ended up just deleting it. From now on, it’s the Dem YouTube feed for me!
I have it on my TV too MadameSoph – what a techo world we live in 🙂
I usually watch on the computer cause then I can easily swap screens and read TOD.
🙂
Me too. It was so good to just sit and watch especially the First Lady’s speech.
Yes, I also watched the dems feed on youtube. But I have to admit I then watched speeches by C Booker onwards on CNN just to catch the discomfort of anti-dem reporters/commentators struggle to knock the excellent speeches, even the one by BS. LOL. Loved Plouffe’s comments.
I watched all day on the YouTube channel. Coverage was great. Didn’t have to listen to any pundits. Was wonderful. I highly recommend it. Turn off all those pundits. They only want to create tension .
C-SPAN saves a lot of headaches!
I watched it all on CSPAN too.
bbc has ‘evolved’ into 24×7 fear msm fp mongering. I need to cut them loose.
Make it so. The sooner the better. I had this conversation this past weekend while I was in CA visiting my friend….she has that idiot box turned to SOME news station 18 hours a day// I told her to turn that mess off and get a life. Told her that she sounds like she suffers from a kind of PTSD. I’m not making light of that, at all. She is SO stressed and on 100 all the time. Seriously. Fucking breathe!
Good Morning NW and TOD.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/democratic-national-convention.html?_r=0
It’s Hillary Clinton’s convention, and it was Mr. Sanders’s big night. But the unquestioned star of the program on Monday was Mrs. Obama, who used her prime-time speech to describe an optimistic, confident view of American social progress, and to embrace Mrs. Clinton as the natural heir to the Obama presidency.
She praised Mrs. Clinton as a big-hearted public servant and as a political survivor, and rebuked Donald J. Trump as a bully without mentioning his name. Most important, Mrs. Obama wrapped her speech in a sunny narrative about what the country has accomplished during her husband’s presidency, celebrating the image of a black family in the White House and casting Mrs. Clinton’s election as a similar milestone.
“Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great,” Mrs. Obama said. “This, right now, is the greatest country on earth.”
It was a strikingly positive speech in a bitter election season, and a vivid rendition of the political worldview that lifted the Obamas to the top of the party in the first place. The powerful response Mrs. Obama drew from the crowd showed just how formidable she is likely to be on the campaign trail.
I had to double check to see if this was a parody account. It actually is CBS News posting this today. 😯
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/michelle-obama-fashion/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=26944670
Oh, I LOVED that dress! She wears it well:)
Woo! Now that’s a blast from the past! Good times then! 😀
One of my favorite dresses. Loved the one she wore last night too.
WOW…Ha! They know FLOTUS will get them clicks/views no matter what. But they’re correct–sometimes we DO need FLOTUS fashion (or anything FLOTUS-related) just to get us through the day. 🙂
Yep, I did the same thing! Had me chuckling! 🙂
https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/technology/techhire
On March 10, 2015, President Obama announced his TechHire initiative, a new campaign to expand local tech sectors by building tech talent pipelines in communities across the country. That announcement included three main components: (1) More than 20 communities with over 300 employer partners signed on to pilot accelerated training strategies; (2) large private-sector companies and national organizations committed to providing tools to support these TechHire communities; and (3) the President pledged $100 million in federal grant funding.
Today, the number of TechHire communities has more than doubled, to 50. If your community is interested to join the TechHire movement, please scroll down for more information on the TechHire initiative and how to get involved.
I just had to post this one! ROTFL 🙂
Q – will melania will ever be allowed to speak in public again?
A – no.
I’m not there – very hard for me to turn the other cheek – but this is how Cory Booker handles Trump:
Code for FRAUD:) I think Cory’s way of thinking about this may be on point. That said, I’ll NEVER be there. I just want him the hell gone.
yeah, nope. I’ll never get there. Nice people (as he says of Trump’s kids) aren’t bigots. They may have the capability to be nice- to like minded folks, family, buds.. but nice/ good people are not bigots. I don’t love them. I wouldn’t harm them and if I was in a position to save their life or help them I would naturally do that for them or any human or animal. Good on Cory for being able to say this.
Cory was following what Michelle said last night: “When they go low, we go high.” I’m with you. I couldn’t say that about Trump, but I feel a strong church training in what he said. At the end of our pastor’s benediction every Sunday he closes with……”And love one another, EVERY SINGLE OTHER.” And we the congregation join him on every single other. This is preached to us every Sunday, and it is hard, but necessary to be reminded. I cannot include Trump in my every single other…..but good for Cory.
But, notice the other part: “I will speak the truth about him.” People think that by “loving” you have to say only nice things, but love speaks in truth, and that’s what Cory was saying. People tend not to hear that part.
yep, you are correct, Carolyn.
I agree Carolyn. I was quite impressed with his speech last night and now with this answer. He seems to have finally found his stride. Maybe he did a lot of listening when he first got to the Senate. I wasn’t so sure about him based on some stuff I read here about him, but I am willing to be wrong. He did well yesterday.
wow, I love the racist thug? really?
Thank you, POTUS
Kind of uncanny how most of this clip from the movie the American President mirrors what’s going on right now. Just substitute Donald Trump’s name for “Senator Bob Rumson” ‘s name all throughout this clip. “We’ve Got Serious Problems and we Need Serious People to Solve them” Truer word were never spoken!
I love this movie:) You’re absolutely correct!:)
He loves the trappings of office – just not the work involved – he has too many Trump traits for me to be on board with him
The campaign plane is old news……Robbie Moot debunked that….why is Susan Page still talking about it ?
you got deployed by a war criminal. and yet you go to work for this punk?
#clueless
I heard up the thread that THE SUPREME LEADER had canceled appearances with his supporters this morning for fear of more raucous behavior, or maybe for his life as a sell-out to HRC. Oh, oh! The chickens are coming home to roost!
What was BS thinking when he kept on talking about a “revolution” against the “establishment”? Who is the establishment, anyway? A word made dirty by a man who has aged in the Senate?
What was he hoping for when he galvanized this know-nothing about political process, let alone the democratic nomination process, and told them that ALL SYSTEMS were rigged?
What did he want from those so-called independents who never paid a dime of attention to PBO’s causes and platform by telling them that HE (alone) COULD DEMAND RESULTS FROM CONGRESS?
After months and months of feeding exaggerated promises, easily-perfect days ahead, and magical reforms on the sound of his stump speech or voice to these young (mostly) white suburbanites (who were born with a remote control in one hand and an iPhone in the other), it is understandable that the Berniebros are furious at HRC, at the DNC, and at every Democrat that does not share their passion for exaggerated promises.
Truer words were never spoken. I also think these people, who deserve at least a part of their own wake up call for being entitled, were fed a bill of goods. Bernie has taken up residence in the establishment again as he always has. Sounds like Weaver is running for his next gig and its not the revolution. They stretched this out way too long. Told their supporters to take it to the floor of the convention. Then they dutifully spent their money to support him and to come as delegates and he had already abandoned the cause which was to pull a nomination out for himself and his followers. They were unfortunately trusting someone they should not have trusted and rejected the person they should find trustworthy. Happens all the time as we Obama supporters know all too well. Obama was ignored by these folks, or criticized and now they have all but missed this great time in our history and this extraordinary president.
So epitomizes EVERYTHING
INDEED!
Always!
So this is their biggest complaint? Too stupid for words.
Meta, you nailed it!
I couldn’t help myself!
It was a relief not to hear ISIS or radical Islam……they are not our biggest problem right now…..that’s all they think they have.
OFFS, that’s all they got. As Elizabeth Warren would say – WEAK.
they didn’t have ’nuff amurkan flags. didn’t say isis.
the punks got nothing.
Did you see all those flags at the RNC? Like wallpaper. And I just saw how HUGE the Trump sign was along with the big screen of his face plastered behind him. Sums it all up, doesn’t it?
rethug politics and voters = bumper stickers
Spot on, Meta.
The truth-o-meter says the GOP is correct that the Dems did not use the word ISIS last night. Probably the only time they got a truth score on something not important.
This Right Here! ❤ ❤ ❤
Lying POS. Followers ARE stupid enough to believe this, though
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-democrats-established-isis
I can’t wait for the debates, actually. Wonder if he’ll back out ….that would speak louder than words. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
let’s recap last night
sarah silverman. elizabeth warren. one michelle obama. the ones who saved the clueless establishment’s ass?
w/smh
Oh you mean The Wimmin? 😀
Pretty much:)
Any questions?
Well! I had NO IDEA that was going to post that way:) Sorry!!
I will send it to some people who need to be saved. Thank you.
Quite the little sourced motherload of info! Glad you needed this. No Child….should be sent to EVERYONE!
This is music to my ears. Worth reading.
ahem, stuart, the righteous. didn’t you and your boss go to this same racist punk with hat in hand in 2012 to beg for his ‘endorsement’? you built this, you pos.
Oh, yes! Give it to him.
Hay Donald J. Trump she bombed like your wife bombed. But Pocahontas didn’t steal the First Lady’s speech, did she?
For all the Bernie-or-bust bros.
more evidence the bernt-outs are not truly liberals
This morning, The GREAT SUPREME LEADER was booed by his cult members.
What did he think would happen ? He’s learning a harsh lesson and I hope he gains more respect for Barack Obama after this. If the main emotion you feed your supporters is anger, if you use the language of “revolution” to people who are not very familiar with the political process, it’s pretty difficult to take them back to earth.
Granted, those who are at the Convention are among his most passionate supporters.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/26/chat-away-846/