President Barack Obama returns to the White House after visiting the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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GM Nerdy.
Good Morning Roberta! Congratulations on first!
Good morning TOD, congratulations Roberta.
I am going to miss this POTUS. Mind went blank. Not a good morning yet.
All the best Roberta…We will miss him too….hang in there! {{{Roberta}}}
ALERT!!! Any Chicago people here want to do a meet-up in Chi town, I would be very interested. I am going to train in on Dec. 21 to Dec 27th. My nephew invited me for the holiday. It will be the first time in 16 years I have seen my Brother and his family. Should be fun. But I am sure I can get away for a noonish lunch or just coffee. let me know. You can get my email from Nerdy. Hoping to get together with some of you. (((hugs))) Roberta
Lord, look at our President. Great images to wake up to! Thank you NW!
I wonder if the guy with the briefcase walking behind President Obama has the nuclear codes. This guy is carrying the codes and I’m stuck walking with a grocery list that my wife gave me, somewhere somehow my life got off-track.
well, you can forget that list and remember hunger.
Hahaha ROFL. Don, that’s hilarious. 😂😂😂
the guy with the nuclear codes is probably the one in military uniform -the one with a beret with some prominent insignia;
but any how, you at least can lay claim to having someone to create the grocery list – others are not that lucky
🙂 🙂 You never fail to give me a chuckle. Not once. Morning, Don. Morning, TOD:)
LOLzzzzz!!
Thanks for the morning laugh Don! Good day to you and everyone at TOD.
*le sigh*
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Saturday morning. Congrats Roberta, 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 have an exceptionally beautiful, extraordinarily fine, and exquisitely pleasing day today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Looking at some of those comments…
Whenever RWers blame the Democrats for blocking funding, Dems need to push back HARD to expose the GOP’s dirty tactic of putting poison pills in bills to keep them from getting a straight up-or-down vote. The media will never call the GOP out. The Press Secretary or VP should do it and continue to push on it.
why isn’t the army guy not wearing shades? fire him.
he seems to be making up for it by his expression of seriousness – that should count for something
Good morning, TOD! Awaiting SJTerri’s arrival, then we hit the road for JackieG’s Latina Fiesta! I’m so excited!!! Will read you later!
ON MY FB…I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS ONE DAY!
Good Morning Everybody.
He is our “Encourager-in-Chief.”
great West Wing Week clips
Good morning JER & thanks!
ON MY FB..THEY BROKE THE MOLD ON PBO……………..THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER!
Good morning TOD family! Do have a super Saturday!🌻
GM everyone. Congrats Roberta on first, and I hope you get to meet up with some of us in Chicago. Have a lovely time visiting with your family.
I was thinking, looking at the above pics, that it must be so hard for POTUS to make these visits to Walter Reed. To see young people injured, with lost limbs or eyes or whatever. To know how their lives will be changed forever because of their sacrifice for our country. it must affect him so deeply, and yet he keeps on keeping on with everything he has to bear as our leader. He has one of the biggest, most kind hearts I think I have ever seen in a person. We are truly blessed to have him as our president.
Totally agree. I respect him so much for making these visits throughout his presidency. Republicans only want the pageantry and the slogans as if the military is a monolith and not made up of fellow citizens who have hopes and dreams and loved ones as they do. They shield themselves from the true cost of war. Our PBO has never shied away from his full duty; doing everything that he can to prevent wars, to deploying troops smartly with an end goa,l and caring for them when they return. When he goes to bases overseas he visits the units whose duty it is to prepare the deceased troops to return them to their families, he receives them when they come home, and visits those who are wounded, and provides ladders to help them reintegrate into society. There are so many reasons to love and respect our president, but the way in which he handles his role as CIC is one of the major ones.
This was at least President Obama’s 26th visit to Walter Reed, more than any other POTUS. He surely knows the cost of war and makes it a priority to honor them and their families.
‘This was at least President Obama’s 26th visit to Walter Reed’
Put like this Meta, it suddenly occurred to me ‘How come Knoller doesn’t count and publish these actions of the president (not that PBO would want him to)? Hmmmmm.
Thank you all for the congrats. cd4biden, I hope to get together with some of you also. Just posted that for a heads up and will let everyone know when I have booked my train and when the activities will be at my Nephews. I haven’t been to Chicago since 1984. Long time. It should be interesting. I am sure I will need an escort. LOL.
Well, then, you should let POTUS know that, and maybe he will oblige you and escort you around Chicago. It is his home town, after all. 🙂
G’morning Nerdy & TOD!! 🙂 Happy Saturday everyone!
My thoughts are Trump knew it was customary to publish his tax returns for many years if you run for President. When he told one journalist it is none of your business he was out of line. If his tax returns show secrets he does not want to divulge he should have decided not to run for the office.
good morning everyone;
have a fantastic day and rest of the weekend!
time for me to complete stuff I have been avoiding;
because after labor day, every spare minute I and my friends/family have will be dedicated to 1 mission =>
=> ensuring the home-grown demagogue gives a YUGE concession speech with the global media documenting his great humiliation for all time
Good West Coast morning TOD family. Thanks NW for being here for us 😘
I just heard the Maine gov, LePaige say that drug dealers with names like DMoney come in with drugs and leave, but before they leave, they impregnate young white girls. WTF!
I was just reading examples of the toxic sludge that this guy says….Good god, Maine!! WTF were you THINKING when you elected this knuckle dragging mouth breather?? I’m certain that he’s be a shoe in for a DT administration.
Good morning DF. He said he was DT before DT. And sounded proud of it. I shake my head at how people can vote for someone like him to be in government. 😳
Makes you not want to ever visit Maine, even if a beautiful state, never would know who had a gun pointed at you. What if you wore the wrong color, clothes, skin, eye color……….
That’s like the plot of every movie I’ve seen growing up. Wayward young white girl from a very affluent family gets mixed up with a disillusioned hardened youth with a criminal past, they meet and the sparks fly.
Oh, Gail, don’t you know he is trying to give you a laugh on your first day of vacation?
What are you doing up so early? Can’t keep away from us, huh?
Cathleen, I woke up at my usual time and was unsuccessful in returning to sleep, so I gave up 😀
Yeah, I know the feeling. 🙂
Thanks, GCL, for this video. A taste of what US History classes will be like in the future, and we are living it now. 🙂
Good, the AP can make up shit as usual.
Good morning TOD 🙂
#Erdogan is as evil as they make’um ….
Thank you for this, as always:)
Happy to do it, df. Thank you!!!
I also thank you Bobfr for keeping us informed on what’s happening in different areas of the world.
You’re welcome, COS. Hope you are enjoying your Saturday 🙂
http://bluenationreview.com/in-the-name-of-decency-stop-tipping-the-scale-for-trump/
Several independent studies have confirmed what is intuitively obvious, and frankly, staggering: Donald Trump receives more favorable national media coverage than Hillary Clinton. Just ask Mark Halperin, the quintessential media insider, who recently conceded: “There’s a deep well of anti-Clinton sentiment in the press.” The national media are stumped by Trump, seeking false “balance” (and clicks) out of deference to his voters. Yet somehow, that deference is absent in Hillary’s case; she and her voters are maligned and marginalized at every turn. This open letter proposes a solution to the imbalanced coverage.
Just what did SOS Hillary Clinton do to the media? I am not stumped by Trump, as I wasn’t by Snowden. Trump is transparent, what I see is a whole lot of nothing but evil, self loving, without decency human.
JER, this is a great find. Thanks so very much for posting it!!!!
❤
{{{hugs}}} ❤
How awesome is this!!! It is my oldest daughter’s birthday today as well, and she is a brilliant engineer and a lover of math. Thanks JER for helping me give her such a great gift for her birthday.
Happy belated birthday to your daughter, cd4biden.
Thanks sjterrid. 🙂
And people in Hell want ice water
LOL!
Yes, Putin’s War on Ukraine continues ….
GM Bob, Putin just refuses to stop
Yup
Take care everyone … bbl …. {{{{{{Chips}}}}}} …..
#ALL50
#YESWEMUST
Thank you twitter warrior HF ❤
So, why not blame the NRA? This is just as gross as his tweet after the Orlando shootings.
Good weekend morning, NW and TODers.
MUCH LOVE to Chips and Danny. We miss you.
SO sweet, you’ll get a toothache:
This is an interesting article on Hillary’s leadership style developed during her time at Wellesley, with emphasis on her senior year when she was president of the student body. Her style there appears remarkably similar to what we see today.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-2016-wellesley-president-214188
Thanks for sharing, FfTX. Interesting to get an ‘inside’ look at HRC. Also interesting to discover she was also a ‘student’ of Alinsky. So now US will get the student who didn’t choose the ‘community organizer’ route but who also has more to offer than the GOP.
So Donald J. Trump you only started caring when you needed votes. You are 70 years old and have not given a dam about black lives till you decided to run for President of the United States. You are one of the riches man in the U.S. (according to you) and you haven’t done a dam thing for any black communities during those 70 years..
Social media fires back at Trump for tweet about Dwyane Wade’s cousin
August 27, 2016, 10:13 am
Donald Trump is facing heavy criticism on social media for his response to reports that NBA star Dwyane Wade’s cousin was fatally shot in Chicago on Friday.
“Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!,” he tweeted on Saturday morning.
The tweet is in line with Trump’s recent minority outreach attempts. He has specifically included rhetoric in his rally speeches that he hopes will appeal to black voters, including asking them “what do you have to lose” by voting for Trump.
“Look at how badly things are going under decades of Democratic leadership — look at the schools, look at the 58 percent of young African-Americans not working,” Trump said to black voters at a rally in North Carolina last week.
But many have pointed to Trump’s tweet as tone deaf and opportunistic in light of the tragic death, and criticized him for misspelling Dwyane Wade’s name in the tweet.
Good.
Starting from donnie dick to his ‘doctor’ to his ‘surrogates’ nj fucker, 9/11 rude rudy and that maine racist whasshisname and all the way down to his ‘base’ – They all look physically and mentally unfit.
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I had never heard of this brave, principled young man because I do not follow football, however after reading the linked article (thanks Bobfr) tears filled my eyes and I am so proud of him for sitting to stand up for so many whose voices are dismissed and silenced. He seems like a very thoughtful and caring person who is willing to sacrifice much to help others.
From half-ass grocery stores to redlining to failing schools and then you wonder why the AA community has to raise hell just to be heard. Shit like this just sticks with you, you do everything right and then some motherfucker wants to try and keep his fucking boot on your community’s neck.
Another very effective department in the Obama administration. The CFPB has been kicking ass on behalf of consumers from day one. This discrimination in how banks give loans has been known about for years; so glad that something is finally being done about it.
Pimping ain’t easy, concessions have to be made somewhere.
she is 84.
if, a policeman cannot disarm an 84 year old.
THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE THE JOB.
Watch: Did Okla. Police Go Too Far By Pepper Spraying an 84-Year Old Woman?
About 40 seconds elapsed before Muskogee, Okla., police pepper sprayed 84-year-old Geneva Smith.
BY: ANGELA BRONNER HELM
Posted: August 27, 2016
Muskogee, Okla. police are investigating a pepper-spray incident involving an 84-year-old woman in her home.
Fox 23 reports that officers were looking for Geneva Smith’s son last week when it occurred. He ran into his home where police used a Taser on him.
Smith then came out to see what was going on and one of about four to six officers asked her to turn around. The video shows that about 40 seconds elapsed before they sprayed Smith in the face after which she immediately went down.
NewsOn6 reports that family members said Smith had to go to the hospital. They’re demanding an apology from the police department.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/08/27/chat-away-859/