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Ghazala Khan: Trump Criticized My Silence. He Knows Nothing About True Sacrifice
Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart. Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq. He loved America, where we moved when he was 2 years old. He had volunteered to help his country, signing up for the ROTC at the University of Virginia. This was before the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. He didn’t have to do this, but he wanted to.
The last time I spoke to my son was on Mother’s Day 2004. We had asked him to call us collect whenever he could. I begged him to be safe. I asked him to stay back, and not to go running around trying to become a hero, because I knew he would do something like that. He said, “Mom, these are my soldiers, these are my people. I have to take care of them.” He was killed by a car bomber outside the gates of his base. He died trying to save his soldiers and innocent civilians. Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means.
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The Obama Diary 
Thank you for all the wonderful posts, Nerdy. All at TOD are so grateful ❤
Thank you, Susanne.
Yes, thank you Nerdy for all your hard work. Have you heard at all from Chips? Do let her know we miss her.
gm from my world. Congrats on 1st susanne. Wow I just wandered along the last thread – lots of negatives on Trump and positives on Hillary. Couldn’t help adding a few remarks along the way
thanks 99! congrats on second! 🙂 and in the spirit of TOD, I hearby award us with this:
🙂 Wonder if PBO thinks about driving again with joy or misgivings?
PBO will never drive again in public spaces because his Secret Service detail will be with him forever.
Glad of that
Well done Susanne and 99 🙂
Thank you so much, NW, for featuring Ms Khan’s poignant retort to the evil creature that Trump is.
Please excuse, everyone, but I’m going to be rather insistent on the reality of how evil Trump is and how important it is that everyone, absolutely everyone focus on #ItsTheTortureStupid!
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/759868481303113728
back to work …
#FORWARD Together
Donald,
Besides breaking an International agreement and being against the law if we are equal in torture methods as the “savages” you speak of that makes us no better than them.
Just read this all to the a broad overview of the “Weasel-headed Fucknugget” or, if you prefer, ” the Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon ”
Either way…people of every political stripe better Wake and Stay Woke!
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/07/31/thrice-before-cock-crow/
His lies and language are worse than Palin’s. Wonder if the media will ever face this truth.
Df, there are millions of people so blinded by hatred and fear that nothing is going to wake them. Trump is their daddy who’s going to make things better and punish those who have upset the natural order of things. There is no negative, no level of outrageous behavior that is going to turn them against their savior. I just hope to God that there are more of us than there are of them and we all come out to vote.
“I just hope to God that there are more of us than there are of them and we all come out to vote.” Oh, I thank you jackieG for that last sentence. I pray to God for this myself. HZ
After Khan speech, pocket Constitution becomes best-seller
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/khan-speech-pocket-constitution-becomes-amazon-best-seller/
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine
OMG.
It chills me to the bone, JO’B. Trump has become the number one danger to American democracy and sanity right now. My heart truly goes out to Hillary Clinton for the weight she’s carrying on her shoulders.
It’s so dangerous for our country – and the world.
https://twitter.com/sparksjls/status/759825438973755393
DONE…READ TO ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! I REGISTERED AT THE BMV……………
WAKE UP, people.
Is this the same man? What happened to his face?
Was this that neurotoxin or some similar thing? I seem to remember this…vaguely. Manafort knew about this and blessed it?
he was poisoned.
I do seem to remember this…thanks, rikyrah. Again, Manafort knew and gave a nod of agreement?
Manafort was working for the opposition. Although we don’t know the details, the implication is that he works for scoundrels.
⭐️{{{{{ ❤️ VC ❤️ }}}}} ⭐️
FITTING…FOR A GUY WHO BELONGS IN A CAGE..WE NEED TO GIVE HIM THE SHAFT!..HE’S HEADED DOWN ANYWAY!
Good ones, Sue! And so very true.
I WOULD LOVE TO FACE A DAY WTHOUT LOOKING AT THE ORANGE BLEMISH ON HUMANITY!..DUCT TAPE IT!
a serious message about the choices was made with humor throughout the commercial;
also noted by me:
– President HRC would be sleeping in an attire, ready to go (including pearls);
– that “bird thingie” or “rodent thingie” that DT calls hair;
– comment by the voice of how all these serious decisions are being made while people are beginning to miss PBO already
heard it on local Vancouver radio station; afterwards, I thought: hope this plays non stop in USA!!!!
https://twitter.com/DaRiverZkind/status/759898488872198145
I was stunned to find myself crying when Leah brought us to the Oval Office and said, “Here we are at the Oval Office, the distinguished office of the President. With the President working here each day I’m sure you can imagine what goes on inside.” All I could think of is all the wonderful things our dear POTUS has accomplished and handled in that space. All the people he has met with, the problems solved. I know Hillary will make a great President, but it will not be the same as our having Barack Obama occupying that space. How I will is him and his family.
RE:CARTOON….THE DOG IS TOO GOOD FOR HIM!
https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/759573678480887808
Thank you for these tweets, LP. And speaking of Trump, what total IDIOT would not know that certain venues have capacity limits and a responsible fire marshal would be required to adhere to those, for the SAFETY of Trump’s bottom-feeder attendees.
Why on earth is this happening? The people of Flint pay for trash pickup with their taxes.
Contract with vendor expired. Mayor wanted to replace them with his hand-picked company. City council wanted info on new company before agreeing. Mayor refused. So no trash pickup until deadlock over vendor is resolved. They’re saying it should be resolved by Tuesday.
Call the state dept of health. I had a similar thing many years ago with a nasty landlord of an apt building I lived in. The tenant on the bottom floor moved out. Come to find out he got discounted rent for opening the basement door each week for garbage pickup. With him gone there was no pickup. I called the landlord several times and he said I’d have to live with it. So I called the Health Dept and told them I was in a neighboring building that looked out onto the backyard of my apt complex. I said I could see a huge pile of garbage and rats running around. Funny how 2 days later the garbage was gone. Now it may not happen as quickly these days, but it is worth a try.
https://twitter.com/BenariLee/status/759809889581412352
meta, I remember that. Maybe we should remind the media.
Scottie Nell Hughes said Donald Trump “sacrificed” his 2 marriages to make America better
Published on Jul 31, 2016
rikyrah, you have got to be kidding. Can that women be that dam stupid? OMG!!!!!!!!!!!. These Trump supporters, if that woman said that in front of me I would have stop the interview and ask her is she out of her freaking mind?
Bwahahaha!
MH: Last time we spoke, you told me about some really frustrating experiences you had on the road that you felt were definitely related to being a woman of color. Do you want to talk a little bit about those?
SS: There were multiple instances. There were places where I literally I couldn’t get in. I would go to the door, the staff entrance, and people would say, “This is staff only.” I’d have to explain to them that I was staff, and they would question me. I would have to say, “I’m the national press secretary. Did you watch me on the news the other day?” It was consistently happening. There was one week where it happened the entire week. My breaking point was a time when I had let the event staff know I was having trouble getting in places and asked them if they could just really make an extra effort for this particular day, because it had been a long week. Like, “Could you please just let folks know that I’m coming and that I’m black?” You don’t think you’d have to say those things, but I said, “Let them know there’s going to be a black girl that’s going to come to the front and please let her in.” So I got past the first few checkpoints, but then I pulled into a parking spot and a gentleman came running up to my car, banging on my window, yelling all kinds of profanity and expletives, telling me to get the F out of here, this is for staff, and that I didn’t belong back here. I broke down in the car. I cracked my window down and I said, “I’m the national press secretary!” I was just crying. Eventually someone came down and let me in.
https://twitter.com/erinruberry/status/759364592518692864
Just dust in my eyes….
Just dust…
https://twitter.com/chrisalexander_/status/759860009467600896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
OMG! I’ve seen too much today….
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/759533425120440320
Awesome!
Oh yeh! Boom!
https://twitter.com/iiBreakNecks/status/759517850591633408
tears! That’s very very very sweet. It makes me miss my mom….
Awww! So sweet!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/michelle-obama-now-heres-a-first-lady-everyone-would-vote-for/
https://twitter.com/stylistkavin/status/759895838021722112
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/759599458703253504
Jill Stein, down 3pts to a dead silverback gorilla….
Don’t know if anybody posted this….but I leave you with this gem:
https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/759097584531243008
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
LOL! 😆
GE TODville.
Good to see posts here about Trump’s “national chairman of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump” Paul Manafort.
Drives me nuts that MSM will use a bullhorn to “report” whatever’s on Drudge today or Benghazi! HRC emails!, yet fail to adequately inform their audience of Trump and Manafort’s ties to Putin, which is a far more serious concern when casting a ballot for President of the United States.
Another Iraq WMD fairy tale in the making.
Posted this on the previous thread, but take a moment to read through the text attached to @KevinMaddenDC’s tweet — Trump literally says “I wasn’t involved with” softening the RNC platform on Ukraine — the same excuse he used for the RNC itself — he “wasn’t involved.”
We simply can’t elect another GWB who delegates governing this country to someone else (in Trump’s case, to Manafort or whoever Putin chooses).
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/759913474830893057
My new hobby: starting rumors.
He just wants out Jacqueline – his minders know what a disaster he will be – also Pence – these debates will be 4-0 with or without the GOPers taking part. I quite enjoy the idea of Hillary answering questions while Trump tweets his crazy in response.
LOL. You are right. They should give The Donald a huuuuuuuge cell phone for him to tweets his 140 replies to all questions that HRC will answer in great details. Mad.
Hillary will have all the time to precisely, logically and truthfully answer the debate questions
Gurl, you are sooo bad. 😄
Thank you. Ha! (And you didn’t even add “for an almost-70-year-old great grandmother!) 🙂
Hey, I just turned 69!
Baby! 🙂
Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist,,writes It Will Be A Sad Day When First Lady Michelle Obama leaves the White House. I agree 100% Jenice.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you jazziz2, I always make some mistake some how, but I won’t give up.
You’re very welcome. This is from my hometown newspaper and I missed it; thanks for bringing this to our attention!
Yeh Baby!
Is it possible, between the Russia issues and Trump’s attacks on the Khan family, that he finally has gone too far? I don’t know how long this story will stay in the news cycle, but I am pretty stunned at the vehemence of the reaction. Here’s hoping he has been been revealed for who he is.
I don’t think there is a ‘too far’ for Trump and his supporters and the media bows to their corporate owners who are longing to get richer with Trump’s proposed tax cuts. What happens to the rest of us or to the country itself is irrelevant to them.
I agree jg.
Not sure on this one Jackie. From what I’ve seen he may have lost a fair number of vets over this.
What’s a few vets to him. He probably gained a few more plain ole’ white guys. This is how bullies are. They just keep doing what they are doing as long as people are too afraid to confront him, and as long as there are a few people who stand beside him.
Exactly Alycee – after telling reporters to “ask the Trump campaign”. First time a VP nominee has to speak against the Presidential nominee – weird times.
https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/759835351888396289
Sorry Mike Pence, you can’t un-ring the bell. This is beyond disgusting. I have a strong urge to take a shower.
He should have apologized and left it at that. Instead he has to blame PBO and HRC for ISIS and the unrest in the ME.
Because he’s a junkyard dog.
I also wish Trump’s financial and business holding ties with Russia and the potential for severe conflict of interest would be investigated and reported more thoroughly.
She has lost more marbles than I originally estimated. Weird.
Reminders of Palin – trying to extend that 5 minutes
She is intent on destroying her political career and credibility.
Just how low can this sore loser go. Totally agree Bill R. Turner’s credibility and career are already shot.
Truth be told, I almost see it as some type of emotional turning point for her. She started her career on an upbeat note, gained national recognition, lost her personal election, got totally hoodwinked by Bernie, then he lost … I hope she finds her way, soon. No matter how off track she’s appearing, I do have compassion for her because I think it’s just some type of emotional insecurity or immaturity. When all of us get off track a bit in our own lives, its not national news, but she can’t escape looking and acting lost in front of everyone who is paying attention.
Not that I know her or know any of this for sure, but I’ve been trying to figure her out – since it’s all so disappointing.
Jacqueline, I hope she can get back on the right track. Just think, she was once a state senator.
Hope somebody close to her sits her down and has a heart to heart!
I hope she does not agree to running in that position. It may pull votes away from Hillary by giving those disappointed Berniebots someone else to vote for.
True – forgot about that part. That’s all we need!
90% of Bernie supporters have shifted to Hillary. She’ll get more between now and Nov. The rest weren’t gonna vote for her anyway. We get out the vote like we should, we won’t need them.
I’m in!
Whatever her state, she can’t possibly believe she’s ready to be Vice President of the United States. So unless her strongest and unrelenting desire is to spite HRC like Stein, she can’t possibly say yes. Don’t know how they’d both pass the sanity test.
So true.
And I keep coming back to one thing. I had a lot of friends who wanted Elizabeth Warren to be VP. I told them it is going to be hard enough, with some people, to vote for one woman on the ticket, but 2 women would be a death wish. An awful lot of men would not, could not vote for that. Same goes for Stein and Turner.
Hmmmmm, interesting point……….
I told people that too! Great minds think alike! Hee hee.
Anybody remember Georgia’s Cynthia McKinney? Nope, didn’t think so. Nina Turner is this decades version. Sigh! 🙄
Ms. Turner has really lost her mind…what a sore loser…she should have run for congress and got in the ARENA…help make change happen, instead of teaming up with a losing ticket(Stein)…and doing what Nader did in 2000…she is a HOT MESS now!!!!
So disapointing she has become!!!!
Why isn’t Nina Turner out there fighting to get Hillary elected so some things can get done that would make a difference in people’s lives. Running for VP with Jill Stein is just a waste of time.
Talked to my daughter who is living and working in Germany this morning. I asked her about one of the scholarship programs she was chosen for her senior year in high school. It was called something like Young Scholars program held in the Springtime prior to graduations that sponsored a two week trip for two chosen scholars from each state in WA DC. It was highly competitive. I remembered she listened to speeches by the SCOTUS, ambassadors, Senate and House members and even the First Lady, then Hillary Clinton. Cara said HRC even talked to her individually. Her speech emphasized looking for opportunities and being open to them. Cara interned for then AK Murkowsky, the father of Lisa the summer after she graduated. There were no Democratic Senators from AK at that time. After college and law school she went to work at an International Law firm in DC. Today she told me that Mr. Khan worked at her law firm in the library maybe as an intern when in law school as that part was not clear while she worked there too. Interesting ties I was not aware of fully until my phone call today.
Small world:)
Will POTUS and FLOTUS be having a State’s Dinner Tuesday?
Yep. Singapore is coming.
GE annieb.
Yes, Singapore State Dinner is Tuesday.
Tell ’em gurl!
https://twitter.com/noorindc/status/759531057859395584
Check out this thread. Great strategy tips which I hope Clinton campaign adopts.
Yes it does!
There’s more in her thread.
https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/759898827763572736
https://twitter.com/johnfpfaff/status/759185998681104384
https://twitter.com/johnfpfaff/status/759186153597722627
https://twitter.com/johnfpfaff/status/759186367540846592
OMG.
https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/759901782629814272
Never saw anything like it. It’s hard to get lots of Americans “on the same boat” about much But Trump’s giving us all the same nightmares. Well, at least people with brains and souls.
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/759837558012383234
Too tired to read this tonight, but looks very interesting. Sweet dreams, TODville – as long as we don’t think about Trump!
And here we go with the Trump playbook. Remember when he asserted that Judge Curiel belonged to some questionable organization and how that worked out for him?
This is the tweet Axe is referring to:
Actually I remember this!
Bush Fails Quiz on Foreign Affairs
By Glen Johnson
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, Nov. 4, 1999; 6:10 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON –– Texas Gov. George W. Bush was hit with a surprise quiz on foreign affairs and scored only 25 percent.
The Republican presidential front-runner sat down Wednesday with WHDH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Boston, and was asked to name the leaders of four current world hot spots: Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan.
He was able to give a partial response to just one: Taiwan.
That drew immediate criticism from the camp of Democrat Al Gore, which said the vice president could have answered all four correctly.
“I guess we know that ‘C’ at Yale was a gentleman’s ‘C,'” said Gore spokesman Chris Lehane, referring to the way Bush has described his academic record.
The Bush campaign brushed off the incident.
“The person who is running for president is seeking to be the leader of the free world, not a Jeopardy contestant,” said Karen Hughes, Bush communications director.
“I would venture to guess that 99.9 percent of most Americans and probably most candidates could not answer who is the president of Chechnya,” Hughes added.
The questions were put to Bush by political reporter Andy Hiller during a break in Bush’s campaigning in New Hampshire. Hiller is known locally for asking sassy questions of political leaders.
Hiller asked: “Can you name the president of Chechnya?”
“No, can you?” Bush replied.
“Can you name the president of Taiwan?” Hiller asked.
“Yeah, Lee,'” responded Bush, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.
“Can you name the general who is in charge of Pakistan?” asked Hiller, inquiring about Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, who took over last month in a military coup.
“Wait, wait, is this 50 questions?” replied Bush.
Hiller replied: “No, it’s four questions of four leaders in four hot spots.”
Bush said: “The new Pakistani general, he’s just been elected – not elected, this guy took over office. It appears this guy is going to bring stability to the country and I think that’s good news for the subcontinent.”
Hiller persisted, saying “Can you name him?”
Bush said: “General. I can name the general. General.”
“And the prime minister of India?” asked Hiller, inquiring about a man who was recently re-elected and who last year tested a nuclear bomb.
Bush said: “The new prime minister of India is – no.”
At that point, Bush responded in kind to Hiller.
“Can you name the foreign minister of Mexico?” asked the governor, whose home state borders the Central American nation.
The reporter replied, “No sir, but I would say to that, I’m not running for president.”
Bush said: “What I’m suggesting to you is, if you can’t name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you’re not capable about what you do. But the truth of the matter is you are, whether you can or not.”… (more in the article)
Flip It Blue!
Yay!!!
Yes Indeed 😦
https://twitter.com/KanyesAlterEgo/status/759872425014222848
Seven (no make that Eight) Years of Good Luck from this amazing President and First Lady
Love it!!! I love piano. Great way to start the morning!
😄
I’m done… I’m DED!
LOLOLOLOLOL! 😂😂😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/iibreaknecks/status/709837323999924224
Goodnight & Good Morning Dear Ones!
People keep saying they’re afraid for Donald Trump to get intelligence.
1. My understanding is that the President decides how much information will be shared.
2. Briefings are a tradition, not a legal requirement.
If I am wrong, please let me know.
While it’s true that the President has the ultimate decision to determine the information in the briefings, Josh Earnest has said PBO will defer to DNI Clapper. (My guess is that he doesn’t want to get in the middle of any questions or controversyTrump may try to whip up about bias. Just my opinion.)
Briefings are a tradition and not a requirement but when asked, Josh said that PBO’s greatest priority is the smooth transition of power so there will be briefings for both candidates.
The Donald and Putin. Sad.
Folks on CBS Morning show are saying the “accumulation” of things Trump has said ‘may’ be catching up with him and ‘may’ be a bridge too far. Sure, right? I say that there’s nothing he can say or do that will be a bridge too far.
Good morning TOD!
https://twitter.com/AVAETC/status/759958002707206144
https://twitter.com/MrEverettDyson/status/759426661507031048
Decided to start the day with a little beauty and leave it at that for now …. take care everyone … {{{{{Chips}}}}} ….
Gorgeous! Thanks Bob!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/08/01/early-bird-chat-809/