The 33-year-old actor with a striking resemblance to the president talks about growing up Republican and channeling a young Obama in Southside With You.
And you’ll never guess who inspired him to change his political stripes……
Are the Republicans who are declaring that theyâre âwith herâ quietly admitting an inconvenient truth about the man who was declared victorious over Al Gore sixteen years ago?
Notice the common thread that runs through the words of pro-Clinton Republicans: theyâve declared that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is âcompletely unqualifiedâ for the White House, and has âundermined the character of the nation.â Could it be that on a very subtle psychological level, these Republicans are acknowledging that the last member of their party to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was indeed an epic screw-up, and that the bigoted billionaire would equal, if not surpass, Dubya in his dimwittedness?
For weeks, Donald Trump has watched his poll standing in battleground states plummet, from Pennsylvania, where his strength among Rust Belt families was supposed to turn a blue state competitive, to North Carolina, where Democrats had been making inroads in recent elections, to the ultimate battleground of them all: Florida.
Trumpâs poll numbers remain dire, but he can point to at least one ray of hope for a turnaround: Republicans have continued gaining ground in recent months in voter registration in Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Iowa, while the late surge in Democratic registrations relative to Republican registrations that occurred in battleground states the final months of the 2012 election had not materialized in numbers released in early August.
âThe atmospherics of voter registration trends in those states do not point to a strong Democratic year, so thatâs one negative the Trump campaign does not have to deal with at this point,â said Louisiana pollster John Couvillon, who added that spikes in registration can add a point or two to a candidateâs vote share in a close race. âThe voter registration data Iâm seeing does not support the idea of a surge in Democratic voter enthusiasm.â
Clinton remains comfortably ahead by an average of six points in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, and encouraging registration trends alone will be insufficient to carry Trump in must-win states like Pennsylvania, where he trails by an average of nine points in recent polls. Meanwhile, Republicans have been losing ground in Hispanic-heavy Western battlegrounds of Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada, where Democrats have boosted their voter registration standing in recent months.
What is the time period that the article refers to? For instance in my county, from Feb 1st to mid-May we had 8,000 new voter registrations, and 10,000 + re-registrations in a county with a population of 260,000. This was huge for our registrar. If this article is counting from June 1st (our primary was June 7th), and if this type of primary registration was occuring across the country, then there may not be a big spike since so many people registered for the primary.
Now I’m not saying we can totally disregard this article and sit on our laurels. I’m just saying, don’t panic when you read something like this, and be sure to still keep doing the footwork of registering people, telling them to check their registration, their mailing address, etc.
Remember the MSM, including the Internet, needs to have stories to keep us interested in them, so they have a tendency to blow every little thing out of proportion.
Thank you NW for the most positive of tweets. So nice to see amid the dark negatives of some other folks. We all have learned (and will continue to learn) so much from the Obama Family. Role models extraordinaire.
Yet this morning Joe Scarface was beating up on Eugene Robinson to tell him what does AA’s have to do to vote for “Trump”. JS talked over ER when he was ticking off all the offensive things DT said about AA’s and other minorities. I think JS is afraid of DT and will bring up some unpleasant things that could hurt him financially.
A very Presidential issue the media is discussing today. What I do find amazing is the religious side of the GOP accepting that for a GOPer
multi marriages are good
adultery is good
disappearing from your job to chase a woman is good
But Hillary standing by her man – very very bad.
They are 2 faced bigots in so many ways. I would care less about any of these issues, but these folks about face to suit. What on earth is Mike Pence doing being mixed up with this lot.
Mike Pence is just as guilty as they are – I try not to think about any of them, but I think I recall Pence hates gays. And, yes, Trump actually fits right in with the other GOP (of which he is not a member, unless it benefits his self-aggrandizement du jour). Newt and so many others went after Bill Clinton, until their own skeletons came out of their Haloweenish-closets. And we recall hearing about all the RWNJs, anti-gay, who are later brought up on charges of going after under-age boys and the like. I’m with you on not caring about how any of them live their lives (other than the crime stuff), but for the hypocrisy in the GOP that you highlighted. Ugh. Creepiest people I’ve ever seen in my life. Glad I don’t know any of them personally, aren’t you?
They are repulsive jacqueline. When Mark Sanford was elected to congress after leaving his wife and 4 boys to chase his exotic lady friend – the GOP lost all sense of value and values. Could not live with oneself after voting for such people.
OMG, 99. That right there speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of the RW. I have said since all that broke that if everything about the story were exactly the same except a D after the name, he wouldn’t even have survived serving his term as governor and then definitely wouldn’t have been elected to Congress! All of the media would have “beat” the story to death and I bet within 2-3 weeks, he would have had to resign. Yet another perfect example of IOKIYAR!!!!đ±đ±đ±
That was rather amazing – those who published the pictures were to blame for everything. Noting that Melania hasn’t been seen since the convention, whether be her choice or the husband’s??
They all forget what they did & the media allows them to do this. Supporting PBO didn’t wipe out the lies he told to the UN. Along with Bush and Blair Powell started the never ending wars in the ME
Here is one of those ways you can do it. Host a debate viewing party at your home. Invite the neighbors, friends and anyone who may be undecided about Hillary.
Have a few voter registration forms handy (they are availale at most libraries and POs). And if you have internet access you can ask everyone to verify their voter registration and mailing address by going to http://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote. They can even register online at that site if they wish, or if you run out of forms.
Also go to voteriders.org/voter-id-info-cards and print out the pocket card for your state. It will list the documents each voter must bring to the polls on election day so they can vote. Have several on hand so people can take one home with them.
That very “in your face” ghastly df. The fool scowls all the time because he looks so ghastly with a smile. This depicts it almost perfectly. Nightmare coming up!
Very much so. Whatever we think of him, many like and respect him. AND it apparently is true that the memo referred to was written at a time when she had been using the private server for more than a year. What I have never understood about her inability to handle this is why she chose Powell and Rice rather than the Bush/Cheney WH that kept their emails on the RNC server and deleted something like 5 million. So going to miss PBO and his no drama administration.
Yep, some might say why go after the only black guy in the Bush Administration. Me personally, I’d go after everyone that used private email to conduct government business. I don’t think that Powell was the only one, as a matter of fact I think I read somewhere that both Dems and Repubs used private email to conduct government business. Now don’t get me wrong I think Hillary will make a good President, but something is always going on with the Clintons. Trouble seems to always find the Clintons, maybe I’m wrong and my perception of things is off.
I am a diehard Obama supporter but I am looking forward to Hillary Clinton as president. So many things that have been advanced will keep going forward and for that I am very grateful. She could have distanced herself from the President as so many have but she didn’t. We need to have her back just as we have the President’s, in my opinion, because it will help us all in the end.
Whatever the circumstances, Powell wasn’t going to go along and get boxed in on this so HRC just caused another needless headline and threw a bone to the RWNJs. Unforced error. They do have a way of confounding the drama at times. They’ve gotten better but they need to sharpen even more. I miss PBO already. He and his team are a real tight machine. Pure achievement. No drama.
The GOP are all a bunch of crooks and you’re absolutely right about W and Rove being the best example of destroying emails. But that’s not how the press rolls.
I think it was brilliant because it has enabled many to re-focus on Colin Powell’s absolutely central role in enabling GWB and Cheney to launch their criminal war on Iraq and effective occupation of the ME.
That Sec Powell endorsed PBO was nice but it never distracted me from the fact that should America ever find the moral backbone to launch a Tribunal on the Iraq War, Sec Powell would be imprisoned, at best, for whatever remains of his sorry ass life.
Millions upon Millions of innocent people have suffered and continue to suffer because of the War he enabled.
The guy is still a Republican. How can anyone with any semblance of a brain, heart or soul and a FREAK like Trump leading their party continue to be a Republican? It’s ludicrous.
I thought that way back when Dems were courting Olympia Snowe. You disassociate yourself from a party that has no values, uses traitorous obstruction. Especially since these alleged moderate GOP did nothing to bring their party to their senses. They vote with them 95% of the time anyway.
She used one wrong phrase in saying she had discussed it with him (which is now proven to have happened). One small wrong choice of words and she’s vilified. GOP & Trump’s lies – no big deal. Sigh.
“advised” was a wrong word. But she gets zero slack on anything. Especially since I’m now hearing that the private server was already in use? Totally inexcusable error. Of course, the pattern at the time was a private email server: Powell, Rice.
Massive organization. As soon as I get my equilibrium back, I’m going to do something for the HRC campaign and Tammy Duckworth in IL. But not this week, I’m too heartbroken.
Only in America that a presidential candidate falling in the polls and the mainstream media is doing everything by keeping him relevant and serious candidate, yet he gets into tweeting wars with talk show pundits…..how the hell can anyone take this clown seriously except for the media propping him up every day.
Americans for Responsible Solutions, the anti-gun violence PAC founded by former congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, on Monday endorsed two Republican senators for their 2013 vote following the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
“In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Republican Sens. Pat Toomey and Mark Kirk broke from the gun lobby and supported a bill to help prevent felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining firearms at gun shows and online,” Giffords and Kelly wrote in a CNN op-ed. “This week, they are earning our organization’s endorsement.”
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The group is also endorsing Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who is running significantly ahead of Republican challenger Darryl Glenn in the polls, while acknowledging that their endorsement of the two Republican senators was not an easy decision to make.
“In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty is a passionate advocate for gun violence prevention and would be a consistent vote for life-saving gun safety laws in the Senate,” they wrote. “Likewise, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is not only a decorated veteran and an American hero, but has been a champion for commonsense gun laws in the House. We have no doubt she would continue to be a leader on gun safety in the Senate.”
Good grief, what are they doing??? NO CHANCE – ZERO – of gun sense reform with a GOP Senate. And they appear to also give props to Duckworth while endorsing Kirk? Or did they mean to say the House?
Absolutely. Kirk couldn’t give a damn about gun violence, just a way to look “moderate”. It’s his M.O. to be a first-class McConnell ass-kissing jerk 95% of the time, and fool Illinois voters. There is absolutely NO reason for Giffords’ group to endorse ANY GOP. I’m very upset about this. Especially with an excellent Dem like Tammy Duckworth.
I wrote an email to them on their site stating that I would not be giving the money I had intended to give them as I wasn’t sure if they were after success anymore knowing how obstructionist the GOP is. I also mentioned how important it was to have a Democratic Senate majority and what they were doing was undermining that.
I am furious and deeply disappointed in their decision. It’s another case of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. #NOTAGAIN
Alright then, Sun moving into Virgo in about 15 minutes: 12:39 pm ET. 9:39 am PT. Bobfr, am fascinated to learn you also lived in St Sauveur, PQ! Perhaps one day we shall meet, and share some wonderful laughter and deep thoughts! â€ïž to you and to Mrs Bobfr!
Okay, never mind MP, she is sometimes out there, still wandering, but has yet to be diagnosed for dementia issues, and still learning her way around the WP system, as in the replies from y’all who have commented to my comments – I’ll get it before too much longer. Bear with me?! đđđ»âșïžđđ»đœ
Well there are now 15,000 additional emails that the FBI recovered and the judge has ordered the State Department to turn over to Judicial Watch. This is going to go on until the election and I suspect afterwards. What I will never understand is why Hillary did not anticipate this would be a problem, and check with the appropriate personnel in the Obama administration before making this decision. Is this scrutiny unfair? Of course. But given the history with the Clintons you would think she would have been more scrupulous about following every rule rather than trying to get around them. PBO always understood he had to be virtually flawless. Hillary should have realized the same, and why she never gets this is beyond me. Although her errors are nothing compared to Trump’s shenanigans, it provides his campaign and the media with the fodder they need to attempt to make coverage more “balanced”. While I remain confident she will win this battle, I do not expect the blowout it might have been with a candidate less embroiled in various conflicts.
Hello TOD Community on A Glorious Manic Monday.
Thank you, NW for your TODable Service.
Congrats to all the Au :star:, Ag â & Bronze â TODable Olympians since Friday or better.
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WH Presser is almost at the very end. You may start anew by directing your cursor from the Beginning.
Josh “The Voice” Earnest is LIVE at the Podium.
The Obama Diary 
Gold!!!
Ha vc.
Um – that wasn’t you the President & the first lady were congratulating amk – but I see you enjoyed their tweets đ
Kudos, AMK!
Hillz was right. To tweet him is to goad him.
msm should go jump in the deepest ocean for inflicting this deranged on the rest of the world.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/southside-with-you-parker-sawyers-on-how-he-became-the-perfect-young-barack-obama.html
The 33-year-old actor with a striking resemblance to the president talks about growing up Republican and channeling a young Obama in Southside With You.
And you’ll never guess who inspired him to change his political stripes……
Good Morning, Everyone đ
Good Morning!
Break On Through (To the Other Side): Part II
by D.R. Tucker
August 21, 2016 3:30 PM
Are the Republicans who are declaring that theyâre âwith herâ quietly admitting an inconvenient truth about the man who was declared victorious over Al Gore sixteen years ago?
Notice the common thread that runs through the words of pro-Clinton Republicans: theyâve declared that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is âcompletely unqualifiedâ for the White House, and has âundermined the character of the nation.â Could it be that on a very subtle psychological level, these Republicans are acknowledging that the last member of their party to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was indeed an epic screw-up, and that the bigoted billionaire would equal, if not surpass, Dubya in his dimwittedness?
early warning system.
For weeks, Donald Trump has watched his poll standing in battleground states plummet, from Pennsylvania, where his strength among Rust Belt families was supposed to turn a blue state competitive, to North Carolina, where Democrats had been making inroads in recent elections, to the ultimate battleground of them all: Florida.
Trumpâs poll numbers remain dire, but he can point to at least one ray of hope for a turnaround: Republicans have continued gaining ground in recent months in voter registration in Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Iowa, while the late surge in Democratic registrations relative to Republican registrations that occurred in battleground states the final months of the 2012 election had not materialized in numbers released in early August.
âThe atmospherics of voter registration trends in those states do not point to a strong Democratic year, so thatâs one negative the Trump campaign does not have to deal with at this point,â said Louisiana pollster John Couvillon, who added that spikes in registration can add a point or two to a candidateâs vote share in a close race. âThe voter registration data Iâm seeing does not support the idea of a surge in Democratic voter enthusiasm.â
Clinton remains comfortably ahead by an average of six points in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, and encouraging registration trends alone will be insufficient to carry Trump in must-win states like Pennsylvania, where he trails by an average of nine points in recent polls. Meanwhile, Republicans have been losing ground in Hispanic-heavy Western battlegrounds of Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada, where Democrats have boosted their voter registration standing in recent months.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-voter-registration-republican-battleground-227216
The nutters are turning out in full force. The dems better turn out too.
What is the time period that the article refers to? For instance in my county, from Feb 1st to mid-May we had 8,000 new voter registrations, and 10,000 + re-registrations in a county with a population of 260,000. This was huge for our registrar. If this article is counting from June 1st (our primary was June 7th), and if this type of primary registration was occuring across the country, then there may not be a big spike since so many people registered for the primary.
Now I’m not saying we can totally disregard this article and sit on our laurels. I’m just saying, don’t panic when you read something like this, and be sure to still keep doing the footwork of registering people, telling them to check their registration, their mailing address, etc.
Remember the MSM, including the Internet, needs to have stories to keep us interested in them, so they have a tendency to blow every little thing out of proportion.
I agree. I think we need to watch out for the source, in this case Politico, which has been anti-Obama, anti-Democrat for a long time.
gm TOD Enjoy Monday
Thank you NW for the most positive of tweets. So nice to see amid the dark negatives of some other folks. We all have learned (and will continue to learn) so much from the Obama Family. Role models extraordinaire.
Good Morning Family! Have a beautiful day! đ
Good morning, Dudette! And what a beautiful performance!
Yup. From day one, Richard, from day one.
She’s already taking on the Trump follower dead-eyed look.
you finally did it, amk đ đ đ đ
Thank you NW!!!
Feels like the “Daisy” ad….
daisy ad in reverse.
Yet this morning Joe Scarface was beating up on Eugene Robinson to tell him what does AA’s have to do to vote for “Trump”. JS talked over ER when he was ticking off all the offensive things DT said about AA’s and other minorities. I think JS is afraid of DT and will bring up some unpleasant things that could hurt him financially.
Good, let them do each other in. I like waking up to repubs screwing one another over. Warms my heart.
I hope Trump does “out” Morning Joe. I’d like to see all of ’em go down.
A very Presidential issue the media is discussing today. What I do find amazing is the religious side of the GOP accepting that for a GOPer
multi marriages are good
adultery is good
disappearing from your job to chase a woman is good
But Hillary standing by her man – very very bad.
They are 2 faced bigots in so many ways. I would care less about any of these issues, but these folks about face to suit. What on earth is Mike Pence doing being mixed up with this lot.
Mike Pence is just as guilty as they are – I try not to think about any of them, but I think I recall Pence hates gays. And, yes, Trump actually fits right in with the other GOP (of which he is not a member, unless it benefits his self-aggrandizement du jour). Newt and so many others went after Bill Clinton, until their own skeletons came out of their Haloweenish-closets. And we recall hearing about all the RWNJs, anti-gay, who are later brought up on charges of going after under-age boys and the like. I’m with you on not caring about how any of them live their lives (other than the crime stuff), but for the hypocrisy in the GOP that you highlighted. Ugh. Creepiest people I’ve ever seen in my life. Glad I don’t know any of them personally, aren’t you?
They are repulsive jacqueline. When Mark Sanford was elected to congress after leaving his wife and 4 boys to chase his exotic lady friend – the GOP lost all sense of value and values. Could not live with oneself after voting for such people.
OMG, 99. That right there speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of the RW. I have said since all that broke that if everything about the story were exactly the same except a D after the name, he wouldn’t even have survived serving his term as governor and then definitely wouldn’t have been elected to Congress! All of the media would have “beat” the story to death and I bet within 2-3 weeks, he would have had to resign. Yet another perfect example of IOKIYAR!!!!đ±đ±đ±
All pretense that they are Christian in any meaningful way, has now been obliterated. It was always a cover for hate and bigotry.
FLOTUS’ sleeveless dress was a scandal, but nude photos of Trump’s anchor bride – no big deal. Hypocrisy is not a big enough word.
That was rather amazing – those who published the pictures were to blame for everything. Noting that Melania hasn’t been seen since the convention, whether be her choice or the husband’s??
LOL.
They all forget what they did & the media allows them to do this. Supporting PBO didn’t wipe out the lies he told to the UN. Along with Bush and Blair Powell started the never ending wars in the ME
Well Colin Powell did endorse President Obama twice, so there’s that.
so, what stopped him now? orangegutan is far, far, far worse than mcangry and mittbot.
Just for perspective…we would never have vote for Herman Caine or Carson….nope…nada…#WeSeeClearly
Remember that 20 seconds when DT didn’t hurl personal insults? Me either.
https://thinkprogress.org/hours-after-trump-campaign-says-he-doesnt-hurl-personal-insults-he-proves-them-wrong-6a987da53d5#.p41o93588
WANT TO HELP THE CLINTON/KAINE CAMPAIGN?
Here is one of those ways you can do it. Host a debate viewing party at your home. Invite the neighbors, friends and anyone who may be undecided about Hillary.
Have a few voter registration forms handy (they are availale at most libraries and POs). And if you have internet access you can ask everyone to verify their voter registration and mailing address by going to http://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote. They can even register online at that site if they wish, or if you run out of forms.
Also go to voteriders.org/voter-id-info-cards and print out the pocket card for your state. It will list the documents each voter must bring to the polls on election day so they can vote. Have several on hand so people can take one home with them.
That very “in your face” ghastly df. The fool scowls all the time because he looks so ghastly with a smile. This depicts it almost perfectly. Nightmare coming up!
Have a wonderful day everyone…
Colin Powell?
I guess he’s afraid the FBI and republicans would go after him?
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Tactical error on HRC’s part to try to include him in on this.
Yes.
Very much so. Whatever we think of him, many like and respect him. AND it apparently is true that the memo referred to was written at a time when she had been using the private server for more than a year. What I have never understood about her inability to handle this is why she chose Powell and Rice rather than the Bush/Cheney WH that kept their emails on the RNC server and deleted something like 5 million. So going to miss PBO and his no drama administration.
“So going to miss PBO and his no drama administration.”
Yep, that’s it right there, for whatever reason drama always seems to find the Clintons.
I didn’t know that about the timing of the email. Damn it.
Yep, some might say why go after the only black guy in the Bush Administration. Me personally, I’d go after everyone that used private email to conduct government business. I don’t think that Powell was the only one, as a matter of fact I think I read somewhere that both Dems and Repubs used private email to conduct government business. Now don’t get me wrong I think Hillary will make a good President, but something is always going on with the Clintons. Trouble seems to always find the Clintons, maybe I’m wrong and my perception of things is off.
No you’re right… Clinton is a lot better than trump…
But a huge downgrade from Obama>>>Clinton
I am a diehard Obama supporter but I am looking forward to Hillary Clinton as president. So many things that have been advanced will keep going forward and for that I am very grateful. She could have distanced herself from the President as so many have but she didn’t. We need to have her back just as we have the President’s, in my opinion, because it will help us all in the end.
Whatever the circumstances, Powell wasn’t going to go along and get boxed in on this so HRC just caused another needless headline and threw a bone to the RWNJs. Unforced error. They do have a way of confounding the drama at times. They’ve gotten better but they need to sharpen even more. I miss PBO already. He and his team are a real tight machine. Pure achievement. No drama.
The GOP are all a bunch of crooks and you’re absolutely right about W and Rove being the best example of destroying emails. But that’s not how the press rolls.
On this one meta, I have to disagree.
I think it was brilliant because it has enabled many to re-focus on Colin Powell’s absolutely central role in enabling GWB and Cheney to launch their criminal war on Iraq and effective occupation of the ME.
That Sec Powell endorsed PBO was nice but it never distracted me from the fact that should America ever find the moral backbone to launch a Tribunal on the Iraq War, Sec Powell would be imprisoned, at best, for whatever remains of his sorry ass life.
Millions upon Millions of innocent people have suffered and continue to suffer because of the War he enabled.
#ALL50
#YESWEMUST
Well, that’s called “changing the subject.” LOLz. Not sure that’s going to work when they’re still trying to nail her on the emails.
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So I can put you down as being against Powell, Bobfr?
Yah yah, I think so!
The guy is still a Republican. How can anyone with any semblance of a brain, heart or soul and a FREAK like Trump leading their party continue to be a Republican? It’s ludicrous.
THIS! Anyone who continues to identify as a Republican cannot be respected.
Sub-human in my book. Seriously.
I thought that way back when Dems were courting Olympia Snowe. You disassociate yourself from a party that has no values, uses traitorous obstruction. Especially since these alleged moderate GOP did nothing to bring their party to their senses. They vote with them 95% of the time anyway.
That’s a Roger ….
She used one wrong phrase in saying she had discussed it with him (which is now proven to have happened). One small wrong choice of words and she’s vilified. GOP & Trump’s lies – no big deal. Sigh.
I think the issue is that it was more than a discussion. She’s reportedly said he advised her to do so. That’s why I think it’s a mistake.
“advised” was a wrong word. But she gets zero slack on anything. Especially since I’m now hearing that the private server was already in use? Totally inexcusable error. Of course, the pattern at the time was a private email server: Powell, Rice.
It wasn’t HRC’s fault. This information was leaked, probably republicans, from when Congress asked the FBI for Hillary’s testimony to them.
Basically, all these tweets are meaningless.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/767689173016903680
80 million? That’s a huge buy… Damn!
Hope she is doing spending equal, if not more, on ground games, which was really matters.
Yup from what I gather she is… My sister went to an office opening in Clearwater Florida last week for Hillary. đ
Massive organization. As soon as I get my equilibrium back, I’m going to do something for the HRC campaign and Tammy Duckworth in IL. But not this week, I’m too heartbroken.
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Good question …
Bc Bob she heard 12 trillion in tax cuts and her husband has a stake in that policy… So to speak…
So she’s on board. đđđ
I didn’t know that Joe was knocking off Mika, many people have said so.
bbl ….
Only in America that a presidential candidate falling in the polls and the mainstream media is doing everything by keeping him relevant and serious candidate, yet he gets into tweeting wars with talk show pundits…..how the hell can anyone take this clown seriously except for the media propping him up every day.
what the frack???
Americans for Responsible Solutions, the anti-gun violence PAC founded by former congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, on Monday endorsed two Republican senators for their 2013 vote following the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
“In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Republican Sens. Pat Toomey and Mark Kirk broke from the gun lobby and supported a bill to help prevent felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining firearms at gun shows and online,” Giffords and Kelly wrote in a CNN op-ed. “This week, they are earning our organization’s endorsement.”
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The group is also endorsing Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who is running significantly ahead of Republican challenger Darryl Glenn in the polls, while acknowledging that their endorsement of the two Republican senators was not an easy decision to make.
“In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty is a passionate advocate for gun violence prevention and would be a consistent vote for life-saving gun safety laws in the Senate,” they wrote. “Likewise, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is not only a decorated veteran and an American hero, but has been a champion for commonsense gun laws in the House. We have no doubt she would continue to be a leader on gun safety in the Senate.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/gabby-giffords-pac-endorses-pat-toomey-mark-kirk-227268
Good grief, what are they doing??? NO CHANCE – ZERO – of gun sense reform with a GOP Senate. And they appear to also give props to Duckworth while endorsing Kirk? Or did they mean to say the House?
I am sup[er upset about this! Huge tactical error! Have donated in the past but not now.
i think you should contact them….i did tweet…but i think we need to contact the group…
Absolutely. Kirk couldn’t give a damn about gun violence, just a way to look “moderate”. It’s his M.O. to be a first-class McConnell ass-kissing jerk 95% of the time, and fool Illinois voters. There is absolutely NO reason for Giffords’ group to endorse ANY GOP. I’m very upset about this. Especially with an excellent Dem like Tammy Duckworth.
We must let them know this
I wrote an email to them on their site stating that I would not be giving the money I had intended to give them as I wasn’t sure if they were after success anymore knowing how obstructionist the GOP is. I also mentioned how important it was to have a Democratic Senate majority and what they were doing was undermining that.
I am furious and deeply disappointed in their decision. It’s another case of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. #NOTAGAIN
That’s just weird! So what if they voted that way Once.. the Dems would be a thousand times better Senators.
What the hell?????????
Shame on them…. Kirk just called PBO a ” drug dealer ” for giving Iran their own money back.
Excellent tweetstrom on the reality of climate change in the West.
Alright then, Sun moving into Virgo in about 15 minutes: 12:39 pm ET. 9:39 am PT. Bobfr, am fascinated to learn you also lived in St Sauveur, PQ! Perhaps one day we shall meet, and share some wonderful laughter and deep thoughts! â€ïž to you and to Mrs Bobfr!
Okay, never mind MP, she is sometimes out there, still wandering, but has yet to be diagnosed for dementia issues, and still learning her way around the WP system, as in the replies from y’all who have commented to my comments – I’ll get it before too much longer. Bear with me?! đđđ»âșïžđđ»đœ
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This is a Tremendous undertaking….#YesWeCan #StrongerToether
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Those Trump folk don’t even try to hide their incitement of violence ….
SOON: Senator Tim Kaine Holds Campaign Rally in Las Vegas, Nev. – http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=2
For your Monday afternoon.
This is hilarious!!
My, my, my! Dayum!
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Referencing the upstream post on voter registration.
Well there are now 15,000 additional emails that the FBI recovered and the judge has ordered the State Department to turn over to Judicial Watch. This is going to go on until the election and I suspect afterwards. What I will never understand is why Hillary did not anticipate this would be a problem, and check with the appropriate personnel in the Obama administration before making this decision. Is this scrutiny unfair? Of course. But given the history with the Clintons you would think she would have been more scrupulous about following every rule rather than trying to get around them. PBO always understood he had to be virtually flawless. Hillary should have realized the same, and why she never gets this is beyond me. Although her errors are nothing compared to Trump’s shenanigans, it provides his campaign and the media with the fodder they need to attempt to make coverage more “balanced”. While I remain confident she will win this battle, I do not expect the blowout it might have been with a candidate less embroiled in various conflicts.
Yesterday
A breath of fresh air!
Hello TOD Community on A Glorious Manic Monday.
Thank you, NW for your TODable Service.
Congrats to all the Au :star:, Ag â & Bronze â TODable Olympians since Friday or better.
22Aug16
WH Presser is almost at the very end. You may start anew by directing your cursor from the Beginning.
Josh “The Voice” Earnest is LIVE at the Podium.
Now, back to catching up from last Night’s post.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/08/22/chat-away-857/