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The Obama Diary 
Buon Giorno, Amici!
Good morning, Bill. Congrats!
Nice to see you in first place, Bill!
well, it’s nate. so salt and all that.
gm TOD – love those pics of PBO – always the smiles – ty Nerdy
Team U.S.A women go for gold at 3 P.M.
Be sure to check out the USA Mens Rugby sevens that start pool play ~noon EST
After the semis Lilly King had something to say about the 2-time Russian doper favored to win and was only cleared to swim Saturday:
“Before the women’s 100-meter breaststroke final began on Monday night, the two top medal contenders, American Lilly King and Russian Yulia Efimova, waited together in the ready room. Efimova sat in a chair, while King paced back and forth. Neither woman acknowledged the other. Neither said a word. Shortly thereafter, with her gold medal secured and a new Olympic record in hand, the outspoken King had lots to say about doping and swimming and the importance of competing clean. She made no direct mention of her Russian rival. She didn’t need to….
…The rivalry between King and Efimova has been one of the biggest storylines of these young Olympics. It started on Sunday night, when Efimova, who had initially been banned from these Olympics for doping before winning a last-minute reprieve, won her heat in the breaststroke and celebrated by wagging her finger in a victorious manner. King, who was waiting to swim in the next heat, wagged her own finger back at the television on which she was watching Efimova’s celebration. The Russian, you see, has twice tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Speaking to Michele Tafoya after her own heat concluded, King justified her response: “You’re shaking your finger No. 1, and you’ve been caught for drug cheating—I’m just not a fan….continued”
Good for her! Call the dopers out, make them uncomfortable.
In her post swim press conference, she even called out U.S.A’s 100M champ, World #2 & Usain Bolt’s nemesis Justin Gatlin too!!!
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats Bill, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD”ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you act with eagerness, passion, and zeal in all that you do today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Who are these people, they run in the same circles.
Devastating
They seem to have a Putin and or Russia fetish.
Manchurian candidates….
Olympic Golf preview started this morning BTW: It is airing on Golf Channel and http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/golf
…another option:
Good Tuesday morning, NW and TODville.
This is a great piece about all the progress PBO and his great team have made to modernize government systems and bring us into 21st C tech.
GM, Meta! ….add these to the list (hopefully not double posted) 😎
before I dip out…..thanks a billion for doing yeoman’s work holding down the fort, NW 🙂
Morning, LP!! Thanks for highlighting these historic moves despite worst Congress ever.
Before President Obama, that anniversary would have been celebrated last century as Roman Numeral II. He has done so much to push us kicking and screaming into the 21st!
GM TOD’ers. Congrats on 1st Bill R. It’s been a little crazy here so just trying to catch up. BBL.
national polls irrelevant. we need state polls, especially the swing states ones.
She’s doing great in those, too: way up in PA, VA is a lock. Good in OH but it’s close (but the polling isn’t recent). Pulling ahead in NV. I think she’s ahead in FL, but she’ll win FL. And she’s opening up other possibilities (but I don’t have my hope up): GA, AZ. She’s actually spending money in those states and funding more organizers. That being said, Dems are great for saying the race is over. This race is FAR from over. Polls will tighten which will spell DOOM! for HRC. Just listen to the idiotic talking heads.
With margins like these, it could very well mean the House flipping to democrats. However, two and a half months is an eternity in a presidential campaign. People like Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer believe it will tighten a bit, and end with a margin of no more than 5, 6 %. I prefer not to get my hopes up, and be pleasantly surprised…
We’ll see !!!…
WELP!!!!
Hey meta, does the Guardian have a copy of Clinton’s speech already? I am waiting to hear her response to Trump’s fake speech.
This is a really beautiful message. Please RT!!
She won her heat yesterday but failed to make the semis
Some other “only at the Olympics” heartwarming & inspirational stories:
Wow, thanks for the round-up. Truly what the games should be all about.
Which is why it’s worth pointing out that right now, something has mattered. If the election were held today, according to FiveThirtyEight’s analysis of the public polls, Hillary Clinton would win in an electoral landslide, potentially carrying states such as Arizona and Georgia — places no Democratic presidential candidate has won in decades. Again, the final tally could be much closer, but we should remember that Trump’s current predicament is not the result of any one gaffe or misstep or string of bad luck — it’s the result of an actual campaign that Hillary’s running very well and Trump is running very poorly. I’m convinced that if Donald Trump and his entire staff were replaced tomorrow with a drunken Fox News viewer chosen at random, that person would probably run a better campaign. It’s a level of ineptitude that relieves me as a citizen, but offends me as a political professional.
Excellent article by Jon Faveau. Thanks, Pf.
thumbs up…
Can’t wait to have a few unnamed MSM people visit this beautiful museum and comment on how nice the housing was for slaves back in the day. In my dreams!
And for some in Appalachia and other areas of our country, their housing isn’t actually much better today, when you think about it.
THAT’S RIGHT..MANY HOMES IN THE SOUTH ARE SHACKS..SYMBOLIC OF MAN UNKIND’S DISRESPECT FOR HUMANITY!
Good Morning TODVille.
I don’t think it’s fair that Nerdy would plaster POTUS pictures like this so early in the day as to affect a poor woman’s ability to work… all day long!
If you’ve ever traveled to Big Sur, you know it’s one of the most stunning natural landscapes in the world. This is truly heartbreaking.
One of my closest friends has a brother who works on a ranch in that area. He’s just on the edge of the fire area and all the local ranchers have brought their horses to him for safekeeping. The air is hard to breathe but they refuse to leave with so many animals in danger.
Didn’t realize the jpeg would be Yuuug.
The Pilot fire that is raging in San Bernardino is causing our air quality to diminish quickly here in the San Gabriel Valley.
And, Smokey the Bear turns 72 today 🙂
Smokey the Bear is too old for this crap. He believes in climate change and wants the GOP Congress to get on board!
🙂
… and/or those same Republicans aren’t running this year.
rethugs imploding. pox news imploding. loving it.
CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST.
Break out the egg nog!
LOLz!!!!
I won’t be reading any of those Fox stories, but I’ll bet somebody a bag of popcorn that Bill O’Reilly is a big part of the sexual harassment and/or sex discrimination stuff at Fox. Ugh.
Yep yep yep yep,
Now I can go to bed ‘appy, ‘appy.
As VP would say, this is a bunch of MALARKEY!!!
Bull Sh!t…………….nothing but right wing racists B.S.
https://articles.philly.com/2016-07-27/news/74713186_1_lady-michelle-obama-first-lady-flotus
Thank you, Jesus!!!!!!! All riiiiiigggggghhhhhhttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i really loved this…
The dates and venues selected by the commission’s nonpartisan board were announced last September, and the format of each 90-minute debate has already been set. But the Republican nominee noted that he had haggled with television networks over the terms of debates held during the GOP primary and might do so again.
Trump said he reserved the right to object to the commission’s choice of moderators, which have not yet been announced.
Bet he wants to phone it in
Still won’t help him. He thinks he’ll have the same leverage that he had during the Republican primaries. If/when he doesn’t get his way and pouts and says he’s not going to play, unlike the concessions in the primary, he’ll just look like the child he is.
The entertainment phase is over. People want to see a serious candidate.
TALLAHASSEE — In his fight against the Zika virus, Gov. Rick Scott’s strongest allies are county mosquito control boards, the “boots on the ground” stretching from Key West to Pasco County to Panama City.
But Scott once targeted them for possible extinction, calling the local mosquito fighters a major “tax burden” of dubious benefit to taxpayers.
The shift in philosophy shows the evolution of a leader who rode to power on a wave of tea party revulsion of government and then learned the details of governing on the fly.
Hmmm.
Missouri Presidential Election 2008 PBO lost by 3903 votes – 11 electoral votes
1,445,814 1,441,911
Percentage 49.36% 49.23%
Uh huh
Uh huh
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Trump Agrees To Three Debates—But He Wants To See The Conditions First
By ESME CRIBB
Published AUGUST 9, 2016, 2:01 PM EDT
Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will “absolutely” commit to three presidential debates with Hillary Clinton, but he suggested that he’d try to renegotiate the terms first.
“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump said in a phone interview with Time. “I want to debate very badly. But I have to see the conditions.”
He went on to imply that he may try to change the terms of the debates.
“I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember? They were making a fortune on them and they had us in for three and a half hours and I said that’s ridiculous,” Trump said.
During the Republican primaries, Trump planned to skip two debates, although the second debate he planned to skip was ultimately canceled.
Trump said he also reserved the right to object to the Commission on Presidential Debates’ choice of moderators, telling Time that “certain moderators would be unacceptable, absolutely.”
Of course he would object to any moderator that he deems “liberal” although all of them will likely go after Hillary and be soft on Trump. We know this and I imagine she does too.
The only “terms” Donald Trump should be given at the debates are to answer the hard questions for the voting public, without notes, on the spot. He doesn’t get to set the rules – other than how air conditioned the room must be, and what brand of cold water should be in his glass.
“I want to debate very badly”
IF he debates – He will debate VERY BADLY
The President and the First Lady are spending the day at the beach with family and friends.
LIVE NOW: Hillary Clinton Tours Borinquen Health Care Center in Miami, FL – http://abcnews.go.com/Live
“joking” 😯 Sigh!!!
Trump is not suitable to be President for a multitude of reasons the latest being not knowing the difference between a joke and inciting others to violence.
He should lose his Secret Service detail…….
Chuck Todd asked Susan Collins if she that Trump was inciting violence with that statement. She said no. She thought he meant that 2nd Amendment persons could come together in some way to sway the Senate to their way of thinking.
Really!?!?!? *That’s* what she thinks!?!?!?! Give me a break!
That was the campaign reply so they quickly got their talking points out. Obvious they do not all think the same thing.
Yes, apparently that was the rapid response from the campaign. Unfortunately, it doesn’t address what Trump said…he was not talking about what they could do to keep her from being elected — and it definitely wasn’t something as tame as organizing; he was talking about AFTER she is elected.
Right! I saw that too. Of course the press accepts the campaign rhetoric.
Former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden says if anyone else had made a similar comment that Donald Trump did about the “Second Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton, they would be questioned by the Secret Service.
FRANKLY..I AM TIRED OF THIS STUFF..IT’S A SET-UP FOR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AND ANYONE WITH ANY BRAINS ALREADY KNOWS THE SCENARIO..HOWEVER..THE FOOLS WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD’S JUSTICE ARE IN FOR MORE THAN A BAD DAY!
Wonder is the Secret Service are having words with him – given there were many around to hear what he said.
Hello TOD on a Tuesday Hot, Humid & Sunny Afternoon.
Thank you, NW.
Thinking of you, {{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}}
Congrats, Bill R. for your solid Gold ⭐
Karma!
This made me laugh.
Perhaps, the Dolphin didn’t want to be Photographed, on son chatting Social Media format, 🙂
😳 on some 😉
COMING UP: Tim Kaine Speech in Austin, Texas Volunteer Appreciation Event – August 9, 2016 – 5:00 PM
He needs to lose his SS detail…..see what’s it like to be a target of crazies.
Well I’m no advocate of violence but he wouldn’t last a day without them so I guess my tax dollars will need to continue to watch his back. 😦
Open mouth – enter foot – whoever says trump can be redeemed (Halperin – hahahaha) was proven wrong with this latest display of abusive rhetoric – the day after the “healing speech”.
Anyone with any dam sense knows you have to be careful about the things you say. Like the former NSA Director said, if it was one of us we would be in the back of a police wagon. But Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell is a disgrace, how can you back someone like Trump?
Remember Trump celebrates not being politically correct. Not qualified to be President as he has no common sense. He thinks he is too important to have to follow any rules. He fits being a dictator in a third world country better than being our president.
Congrats Team USA for winning the women’s gymnastics team gold in Rio.
Yes! Go, Team USA!
Crap! I have been watching the Olympics pretty much nonstop. Went for my dental appointment. Came home. Missed it! My favorite part of Summer Olympics.
How can HRC be up only by 1pt in Florida???
Quinnipiac polls are not very reliable. They weight their sampling heavily toward whites and uneducated. IOW, Trump’s base.
Her numbers probably look a LOT better than this.
I hope so. Thanks for talking me down Meta!
Hahahaha, I understand!
GA Betsy.
As always, behind here at TOD — will repost on the next thread (which our Super-BT, NerdyW, has gallantly opened for TODville).
What MSM “horserace” analysis don’t want their audience to know:
Thanks so much arapaho415.
Seriously, folks …..
WAY PAST TIME ….
WAY PAST TIME …..
And, Secretary Clinton is in an ideal position to educate ALL Americans precisely why Madison HAD TO WRITE the 2nd Amendment!!!!
With all these crazy ass people out there with guns, no one should be joking about violence.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/08/09/olympic-memories/
Elizabeth gives him way too much credit in this tweet. 2 bit dictator is way over his head.