President Barack Obama tours the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) visitor center in Vientiane, Laos
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President Barack Obama arriving in Luang Prabang
President Barack Obama holds a YSEALI town hall at Souphanouvong University Auditorium in Luang Prabang
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President Barack Obama greets monks as he tours the Wat Xieng Thong Buddhist Temple in Luang Prabang
President Barack Obama shops for gifts in Luang Prabang
President Barack Obama chats with people along the Mekong River
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President Barack Obama chats with the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah at the gala dinner during the second day of the ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos
The Obama Diary 
1st!
Congratssssssssssssssssss!!
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Thursday morning. Congrats Don, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope that all your gifts, ingenuity, and talents are on full display today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Lovely pictorial! Thanks Nerdy! Congrats Don
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G’morning Nerdy & TOD!! 🙂 Lovely pics – thanks Nerdy for posting. Congrats Sir Don on #1!
Thanks, HF.
He looks amazing in that beautiful blue silk shirt. Helps that there’s no flag pin.
OH MY……
i would love to have this pic without all the lettering on it…i wonder if it is available
I would like one too. If you find it. Be sure to post. I’ll look too. I know just the spot I would hang it.
most definitely
The guy is so cool & comfortable meeting people of all hues and culture.
yes he is…simply amazing…simply amazing…
Congrats, Don.
So this idiot STILL thinks that Candy Crowley (CNN) was wrong to set Romney straight on his false statement about PBO during the 2012 presidential debate. See how these media fools serve to protect GOP lies?
GM HF2.
Didn’t watch the “forum,” but became exhausted by Twitter feed last night w/ tweet deluge.
Got a response that Chris Matthews might have been sarcastic…
If Matthews were being sarcastic, not sure why Wil Wheaton would have tweeted this:
Norm Ornstein RT’d this:
This is the most appalling election in my lifetime.
I was watching Serena’s tennis game last night during this shit show hosted by Matt Lauer, so I missed it. I’ll say #ThanksSerena for saving me from this crap! 🙂
I decided to break my rule and watch and OMG. What a horrendous mistake. Trump was completely idiotic and disgusting and Lauer was INFURIATING. I cannot stomach the so-called “press.” They are lazy, biased and manipulative. A real waste of time and energy for me. Never again.
AMEN!
Good Morning TOD
This evening I start my work to get HRC elected our 45th President to maintain PBO’s legacy. We had over 100 people show up to volunteer at the official opening last weekend of our local campaign office. We will be assisting to register voters and GOTV in November for Virginia, NC, PA and OH.
Nerdy thank you for the stunning pics of our President. They warm my heart and inspire me to work just as hard to get Hillary elected as I did to get PBO elected in 2008 and 2012.
The race is on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, that’s a great turnout! Because rents are so high here, I wasn’t expecting her to open an office. In fact, in ’12, we mostly met in coffee shops and restaurants. But she did open an office on one of the main streets here, so that makes a big difference. She also has one in Oakland. I do think at some point Californians will be asked to go to Nevada, just like in ’08 and ’12.
Morning meta,
She opened an office here in San Rafael, and we have lots of volunteers for phone banks, data collection and the like. We are starting this week with phone calls to Nevada. And a bunch of my friends will be spending a lot of October in Nevada canvassing, etc., on gal for the entire month, several others for 10-14 days, or every weekend. Enthusiasm to help GOTV is very high here.
Way to go donna, and thanks for sharing this update! 🙂 I know people are going to be fired up in the coming weeks.
Morning all have a wonderful day while we all wonder when the US media is going to hire real journalists like Joy Reid and a few others we can count on one hand
Read early this am that North Carolina has reduced early voting hours including in some instances Souls to the Polls, is there any effort to counteract this, are the churches substituting another appropriate day for the Sunday, can it be moved to another day, folks have to work but it should be for those who don’t have to like seniors etc, we cant afford to lose in November, all hands on deck
I am very glad she brought in the sexism angle. I said the same thing a few days back over at bj. Time to put the fucking media on the defensive.
They want her to express hurt feelings about the virulent sexism that she endures just as they wanted PBO to go off about the racism that he faced. The media is all about trying to find a weak spot to exploit (unless you are DT whose weaknesses are on full display and are ignored). They also want to hurt both of them because in they do not bow down and kiss their asses. Most of the media is all gotcha questions and trying to build their own careers and sense of self-importance. PBO, and now the battle-hardened and wiser Hillary, do not fall for their bull shit and they msm acts like a spurned lover.
Amazing round-up, Nerdy. Thank you so much for highlighting another substantive and historic breakthrough from our President. He is truly a grand healer and a force for goodness and greatness in our world.
Thank you, Meta.
Give me a break.
I listened to the Keepin’ It 1600 podcast last week. Jon Favreau and Dan Pfieffer were talking about the DJT junket to Mexico and the very low bar that the media was setting for him. Jon said it reminded him that David Axelrod used to call this ‘the dancing bear’ syndrome. Basically, you don’t give the dancing bear any grief for dancing badly, you give the bear credit for dancing at all.
THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL AFTER PBO IS GONE!
Yeah, I thought that was a pretty good analogy, too. Can’t wait to listen to their podcast today!
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
A Ukrainian journalist by the name of Maxim Eristavi just Tweeted this:
When you work w/ places where good journalism can costs you life, then turn around & see Matt Lauer’s intw w/ Trump
Matt Lauer is not a journalists. Lauer is a two bit talk show host. Anp probably a Trump supporter.
I watch Hillary press conference and she did a good job.
Keith Boykin @keithboykin
Politifact on CNN: 71% of Donald Trump’s statements were false while 72% of Hillary Clinton’s statements were true.
5:30 PM – 8 Sep 2016
BOOM.
GM amk and LH.
Chris Cuomo did this morning (not every elected Republican, but hopefully he started a precedent).
See downthread.
GM TODville.
Mentioned upthread to HF2 that I was literally exhausted last night after tweet deluge during/after the Matt Lauer/NBC #fail.
Now I’m throwing my hands up. Naturalized citizens know more than some candidates for President who appear on our Nov ballots (and in the case of DJT will appear twice on California ballots) and (!) the so-called “paper of record” NYT.
Background:
NYT:
And libertarian #WhitePrivilege:
I’m not really surprised that Gary Johnson didn’t know who Harriet Tubman was. I remember watching an episode of “Jeopardy” years ago and one of the subjects was African American History. All three contestants had problems answering the most rudimentary questions about African American history, and these were the same folks that could tell you how many times Louis VII’s brother’s daughter’s best friend got gangbanged.
Dems have pulled the plug on Strickland. He’s lagging way behind (about an average of 8 points) and 4 unions have endorsed Portman, which I really don’t understand. So that’s that.
Some of his events look like this. Not really properly staged with crowds or any semblance of groundswell support.
and the unions whine why the dems aren’t jumping through the hoops for them.
it is a pity…he should have gotten help….who does this fall on …the candidate or the DNC
Of course they voted Portman, and as a unionist from time to time we also vote against our own best interest the same way some folks at the bottom of the socio-economic food chain vote Republican.
#ALL50
#GOP == #GrandOldPutin Party ….
Hope you are all having a fine day!
#VOTE
#ALL50
#YesWeMUST
Good framing there, Bob!
ALL PHOTOS ARE PRICELESS AND I PLACED ESSENCE ON MY FB…CAN’T WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE OUT OF THE SEWER PLANT!
Looking at the pictures of President Obama above at the ASEAN conference I have two thoughts. President Obama is THE towering figure today in the world. The world desperately needs him. Second thought is this: Gawd, he is a handsome, smart looking man in that silk shirt!
and that’s how, ladies and punks, a shiv is sticked.
That was a thing of beauty.
While our president is continuing to heal the world, the circus here goes on. Matt Lauer was dragged for his piss-poor performance last night. He and his incompetence became the story for his mishandling of the whatever that was supposed to be last night. He should stick to cooking demonstrations and interviewing empty-headed entertainers. I hope, but have little faith really, that the debate moderators will learn from this debacle and grow a pair to deal with DT.
“He should stick to cooking demonstrations and interviewing empty-headed entertainers.”
Ha!
Maybe we here at TOD got it all wrong, maybe we’re supposed to be a third world country governed by a strong man with a compliant press in tow because that shit I say last night was both scary and sickening. You had MSNBC applauding Trump for not chewing his food with his mouth open. You had an audience full of supposedly undecided voters suspiciously asking Hillary Clinton gotcha questions. And you had a moderator/morning tv show host swallowing whole every answer Trump conjured up without the tiniest bit of pushback. I’m starting to feel like Donald Sutherland in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” fuck it, just go to sleep and it will be over soon.
A very apt description of exactly what happened last night. It was breathtaking in its complete idiocy. It is my fervent hope that we decimate the GOP in November. They deserve a public shaming, through and through.
Following up on state of MSM today, with tweets from former O-team members.
Here’s the video of Chris Matthews re: not Lauer’s job to follow up on DJT lies:
@jonfavs:
If MSM does their job:
more…
Silver lining, per David Axelrod:
And a reminder for Dem bed-wetters like @jonathanchait (who freaked out last night), when HRC is on stage at the Presidential Debates, she won’t allow DJT to #JustMakeStuffUp, regardless of what the moderators do:
G’DAY MATES…YOUR’S TRULY IS IN ONE DREADFUL SNIT OVER LAST NITE’S EXCREMENT SHOW!
GM and ahoy Y756.
Absolutely. Was physically exhausted from Twitter last night.
Hope it’s a beautiful September day in your neighborhood.
Aye a415. It’s muggy here with rain off and on…it fits my mood.
It was deplorable and gut-wrenching. But I hope your day goes better! I’ll soon be going for a walk downtown to clear the odor of MSM!
Good luck with the stench removal. It’ll take a strong wind I’m sure.
NerdyWonka, I send you love gratitude and blessings every single day as I depend on your work to keep me informed, inspired, sustained, entertained, moved, and more. I seldom say so, but I pray that you feel the love, gratitude, respect, and admiration I send into the universe while too lazy to type it out here very often. Thank you thank you thank you. It’s all wonderful; but I have a special love for Southeast Asia, and being able to have all PBO’s speeches and daily moments gathered here so we can enjoy them and share them easily is a priceless gift.
Thank you so very much, Nancie.
It truly means a lot.
Thank you for your kind and heartfelt words.
Co-signing on Nancie’s comment, NW. My nerves would be in bad shape if you had not stepped in and continued the blog while our dear Chips is away dealing with her loss. Being informed is what keeps me calm during this ridiculous election cycle and you have made it so easy for us to know what is really going on. I am a bit spoiled by this, but I pass your work forward to the friends and family that I have had to talk off the ledge.
Can I jump in and say thank you too. I am glad I have this forum to come to, if not I don’t know what I’d do. Thanks for the tweets. Thanks to meta too and zizi and all the others that I re-tweet.
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Thank you so much, CEB.
Good afternoon, one and all…
Nancie, you so beautifully articulated what so many of us feel; hopping on the co-sign train!
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@Becauseofhem #Becauseofthemwecan
So many thanks to her and her parents. They changed many hearts, minds, and lives to edge this country a little more forward on the path to true equality in these too-often non-United States of America.
A-hem. Alright then. Yes. He does.
❤️🌎⭐️🌍🌟🌏⭐️❤️
Hello TOD Community.
Thank you, NW. This is a Great Post.
Congrats, Don on your Furst Au ⭐
{{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}}
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Good morning/afternoon/evening TOD!
Thank you so much, Nerdy, for this fantastic post on the President’s 2 day in Laos.
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More of this please …..
SOON: Hillary Clinton in Charlotte, NC – http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml AND http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=1
September 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton News Conference
Hillary Clinton held a news conference to take questions from the press. It’s the first one in more than 250 days. It follows NBC’s forum with both presidential candidates. Before taking questions, Clinton reiterated her committment to fighting ISIS and addressing other national security concerns. The news conference happened at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York just before she headed off to her next campaign stop.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414976-1/hillary-clinton-holds-news-conference
that plane is so cute…i love your graphics…smilin
Finally, he’s on his way freakin’ home? Yeehaw!!!!
Happy Thursday TODers.
Thank you so much, Nerdy.
(((((((((((((((((Chips))))))))))))))))
Love this 16 minute press conference. Talk about looking and sounding Presidential. HRC rocked it. Her answers were very on point, and there was even some humor and repartee in the mix.
Look at Andrea Mitchell walking in front of the camera trying to get a question in.
Hills is the true Iron Lady; I like how she rolls.
As usual, it’s the women to the rescue of dumbassfucks called men.
Trump loves Putin because Putin said Trump was brilliant. If Putin had said Trump was stupid he would be hating on Putin. Once again it’s all about Trump. I have a feeling Putin doesn’t think very highly of Trump.
Unless Trump really does have financial ties in his business involving loans the compliments seem to make all the difference with Trump. It shows he can really be influenced easily which is not a character trait needed in a President.
I love that hashtag! Another know-nothing, arrogant, self-important jack ass has shown the world what he is. As hard as it is the go through what we have been through the past 8 years, the GOP and their media enablers are being brought down b their own devices. Like PBO, I believe that most people have a sense of fairness and enough intelligence (no need to be a genius) to see what is going on and they will show their displeasure at the polls. We have seen the gold standard (PBO) and we know dross when we see it.
SUPERB hash tag!!
To that orange Trump glow.
Meanwhile, VP Joey & his Cancer Moonshot continues .. 🙂 Here’s the Moonshot Cancer Initiative Blue Ribbon Panel Report:
http://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative/blue-ribbon-panel
Remember in 2008 when $carah Palin had the debate with Joe Biden how he had to be gentle with her so “women” wouldn’t think she was being abused and picked on by the big-bad-man but she was just as qualified to be VP? My how things have changed! I hope these men who treat HRC will make GOP educated women vote for her even if it’s because they don’t like the way she was treated. How they harp on every little thing she does, cut her off, etc., but let DT lie and not call him out on it, let him filibuster and never answer the question like $P thought she could get away with…..which she did.
September 8, 2016
DEMOCRATIC NEWS CONFERENCE ON LEGISLATIVE ACTION
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414954-1/vice-president-biden-congressional-democrats-call-legislative-action
I watched this press conference with VP Biden, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats from the House/Senate and the anger I felt was overwhelming. I know it wont happen, but every American needs to see this press conference. After a 7 week recess, the Democrats are asking Republicans in congress to do their jobs. They are asking for the bare minimum. Sadly, that is falling on deaf ears.
#DoYourJob #MediaFail
September 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton Campaign Rally in Charlotte, North Carolina
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414955-1/hillary-clinton-campaigns-charlotte-north-carolina
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/09/08/chat-away-862/