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President Barack Obama is presented with a tribal hat, blanket, and bestowed upon the Crow name of Black Eagle
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All Times Eastern
10AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
12:40PM: Press Secretary Josh Earnest holds the White House Briefing
4:50PM: President Obama participates in a DNC fundraiser at a private residence in Washington, DC
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The Obama Diary 
Awesome ‘toon, AMK! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!
Awesome, Nerdy! Thank you! Yes, indeedy…he sure did
Trump is unapologetic about everything…every slight, every unethical behavior. What’s scary is that he lives inside his head and often *seems* to forget some of the things he does or says. Some of the “forgetting” is deliberate (selective memory), but sometimes I wonder if some of it is real. If his memory is *that* fragile, it’s another reason why he does not need to be in the White House.
It might be thought of as the position of a militant sovereign citizen.
Huge thank you to those who had the intestinal fortitude to watch the debate last night and provide quick and often hilarious feedback. Between TOD and TPV, I got all the vicarious pleasure of a Hillary win without having to see the Orange One.
I was a bit late (why don’t the murkans think of my beauty sleep) but glad I caught. In a word, presidential.
I guess the IRS will keep his taxes a little longer now….
Yes you did. But only in Trump’s alternate reality world.
Prerequisite. You have to be a serial liar to work with DT
They live in their own reality bubble where videos exist of Muslims cheering on rooftops in New Jersey on 9/11 and FLOTUS denigrating Whitey. Scary, delusional people.
…not to mention all the replays.
It’s hard to keep up with all of your lies when you’re a lying liar.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats amk, on being FURST 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 you are filled with gladness, laughter, and rejoicing today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Well, she has done her part, even meeting the stupidly insane ‘expectations’ of the whiny left. Now is the time to man up, dems.
Yes, I agree Amk.
she has been a pain in his fugly butt, while the male ‘journos’ were kissing it.
He just said twice that he doesn’t pay income tax during the debate so that’s a settled issue.
Every time I hear Katy Tur nail him, I think about her story that she was posted in the UK (and had a French boyfriend), and then was assigned this “task” to follow Trump for more than year. And she says she lost the French boyfriend. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, Donald! Something you can’t buy off, when they have a national platform at a “news” organization.
Of course, she’s probably just a hard-hitting journalist (almost unrecognizable these days), but this is the story I tell myself. And I laugh.
NOPE ….
Ever notice how he barely understands the true meaning of words (in addition to lying to himself). He’ll say things like “I have a winning temperament … [and then gives an example >>] I’ve built millions of buildings.”
He must sleep with his eyes open, because the stuff rattling around in his empty head has gotta keep a person awake.
Ha ha.
Alternate reality alert.
A President for ALL the people 🙂
Good Morning, Everyone:)
The REAL GOP Crime Bosses know the score….and, that’s why their checkbooks are CLOSED.
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Quick Takes: Trump Gets Zero Support From Fortune 100 CEO’s
by Nancy LeTourneau
September 26, 2016 4:59 PM
* I doubt if it matters much to his supporters, but this is exactly the kind of thing that could get under Donald Trump’s thin skin.
No chief executive at the nation’s 100 largest companies had donated to Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through August, a sharp reversal from 2012, when nearly a third of the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies supported GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
Yup. He’s still a misogynist.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/09/27/trump-hits-back-at-latina-miss-universe.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
Donald Trump brought up former Miss Universe Alicia Machado during an appearance on Fox & Friends early Tuesday morning, doubling down on his previous insults about her weight. The former winner of Trump’s beauty pageant had come up during Monday evening’s presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton mentioned Machado’s past disagreements with the real-estate mogul. Trump had in the past reportedly called her “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy” after she gained weight. On Tuesday, Trump defended those actions, saying, “She gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem.”
Don’t ask… just click it 🙂 🙂 🙂
http://25logicalreasonstovotefordonaldtrump.com/
Off to work…
Good West Coast morning TOD family. I’m so glad I watched the debate last night. No amount of reading other people’s comments could replace watching Hillary in real time. It was a thing of beauty!
Seeing her and hearing her – spoke volumes
Yes, Trump lost the debate. But more important, HRC WON. She earned it, worked for it, understood the consequences, operated on many different tracks. She looked strong but not cold. My (sane) Republican friend in the office said she looked like she was putting up with a petulant four year old. She conveyed how to react to Trump’s ridiculous display. She did it throughout the debate. That’s subtle but effective leadership. HRC was fabulous.
Comfort level: I remember in 2008 after some debate with McCain, PBO won over people who weren’t “comfortable” with him. And he never looked back. No, she didn’t convince the Red Meat Brigade, but my friend in the office who doesn’t like HRC but was going to vote for her anyway, says she’s “comfortable” even “happy” with her vote.
Okay, I’ve been subtly coaching her all year on why HRC is a fine choice for POTUS. But Hillary won her enthusiastic support last night. Methinks she represents a lot of people out there.
I was remembering after the 1st debate in 2012 – there was doom and gloom everywhere & Ms Chips gave everyone a pep talk & said “He’s got this” – so I am most pleased to say “she’s got this” – would love if Chips could drop by & confirm 🙂
With Trump denying what 100 million (or more) heard him say, being very hard for the media to keep up their support (although the usual suspects are trying – very trying.)
The “she’s got this” switch was turned on last night like never before. Absolutely.
Excellent point. Winning over the persuadable.
There aren’t many. The vast majority of the electorate is baked in. The return of GOP to the GOP candidate was to be expected, even if its beyond odious that American Republicans prefer an incoherent, incompetent Mussolini wannabe in order to remain GOP. But there are some who are persuadable, and she spoke to them brilliantly last night. She managed the night, she managed Trump. She is immensely qualified to be POTUS.
I did have a migraine at the end though.
From trump. . .
I LOVE THESE PHOTOS OF THE ENERGIZER WITH MY BELOVED NATIVE AMERCANS…………………………….HILLARY PERFORMED SO WELL LAST NIGHT BUT NOONE WILL REPLACE PBO FOR ME…EVA’!!!
He even lies about his sniffles… WTH.
I really love Mark Cuban:)
Good Morning, TOD and a special “hello” and thank you to NW.
Stayed away from all media until this morning to get a recap of the debate on-line. I see Hillary was a Boss and a great strategist. Anyone who was wavering because of all of the lies that have been told about her over the years, should no longer be undecided or unsure or reluctant about voting for her. So much of politics and the way that it is covered is Middle School all over again. The male media people who complained that was “too prepared” sound just like the boys who never do their homework and try to make it a cool thing when the girls who always do theirs show them up. No one talks about whether a man smiles or not, but there are always comments about her laugh, her smile, how/why she does them. Little boys always say something about the way a girl looks when they realize that they cannot keep up intellectually. Then when nothing else works, the name calling, lying, tricks, and physical abuse come next. Boys learn this early and too many of them carry it on into adult life. I told people long ago that if they wanted to call me a bitch it was fine because it stands for a : Babe In Total Control of Herself. Hillary showed to the doubters that she is this kind of bitch and they kind that is ready to be president.
Thanks to everyone who had stronger stomachs than I who watched, tweeted and commented; NW you are a treasure; so happy that you share your master skills with us.
Good Tuesday, Nerdy…TOD Family.
What’s the likelihood that your main computer and your backup computer crashes at the same time?!?!?!?. It took a few days to get back on line with at least one of them…dealing with Windows 10 is more than a notion. [sigh].
Fortunately, I was back on line in time to watch the debate while getting the TOD commentary. Thanks Nerdy for the summary and keeping things going so that we can survive this unusual campaign season.
Everyone, enjoy your day.
I feel your pain. I had to go to my old standby laptop when the new one, purchased this year crashed.
You know, it might not be a bad idea for me to get a ‘standby laptop’. Mine decided to do over 4 hours of updating right before POTUS was about to speak at the opening of the NMAAHC – lord was I ever furious! I would’ve kicked it if I hadn’t needed it to catch up later. 😀
Good sunny morning from the north! Hope each of you will have a good Tuesday.
Congrats, HRC!
Way to go, showing DT who’s in control this election!
gm TOD – thank you NW for those wonderful pictures – making me somewhat weepy to see all these “last time” events.
G’morning Nerdy & TOD!! What gorgeous pics – thanks Nerdy for posting. 🙂 Happy Tuesday everyone, and congrats Mister. amk on #1! I’m still on a high from last night’s debate. Couldn’t have asked for a better performance from HRC. Now the media is in re-write mode…trying desperately to find a positive angle to spin for their boy Trump…who, without them, would not even have been on this stage last night.
I look forward to the VP debate next Tuesday.
As I was watching the debate last night is occurred to me that whomever Hillary had to debate she would have mopped the floor with him. She was very impressive and had great command of the issues, Trump on the other hand is a one trick pony, that trick being he’s going to make America great again which means absolutely nothing.
wimpy bbc fp has stuck with ‘clinton and trump clash in first duel’ even after 10 hours it has happened and she cleaned his clock.
I hope it’s a Box Office hit.
What a complete nut. Shows how cancerous the real gop establishment was to be taken over so easily by this mad fucker.
Yes, both the gop establishment and his nutjob supporters and everybody else who will vote for him because they don’t like “the Clintons.”
This is so true. How ironic that they were the authors of their own destruction; Karma.
cudda, shudda, wudda.
all weasel words.
And then Romney would have made history by being the first Presidential Candidate to lose to a Black man and then a woman.
zing.
Exactly. If Kasich couldn’t beat Trump – what makes them think Romney would? LOL….
Trump wants to label Hillary Clinton as the status quo while he represents change.
First of all, IMO having a female President would be a lonnnnnnng way from status quo.
Secondly, to effectively and successfully bring about change, you have to first know and understand what it is you’re talking about changing.
friggin’ canoooks always fact checkin’.
Sigh, we simplycannot please *you*.
😀 😀 😀
you peeps get away with it since yer too nice.
I know, eh? 😉
Blessed are the nice ones, for they shall escape (almost) Amk’s notice. 😀 😀
The later is all M’s care about and most of them are not quite sure about what the future will bring them at this stage of their lives, late 20’s to mid 30’s. They could care less about the “situation room”. Like most people they only care when a real situation arises and hope that whomever is making the decision doesn’t affect them personally.
Honestly, someone in his/her late 20’s or early 30’s is TOO OLD to be taking an election like this lightly. I don’t cut these so-called “millennials” any slack. They are not kids…they are adults – many of them long out of college with marriages and young kids of their own. They have no business traipsing around looking for the so-called Utopian perfect politician that doesn’t exist. They need to grow the hell up and perform their civic duty as citizens of this country.
I agee. I registered to vote at 18yrs old and voted ever since. I never participated like I have with electing PBO but will from now on. I know that every election is important even non-presidential. People who only vote for presidents is missing the mark. Who has control of the House and Senate are key to who survives and who suffers. I am too old to suffer due to lazy M’s who has to be in love with a candidate.
She totally fingered him on his tax returns. That’s when he totally lost it.
Bingo.
Yes, my ears perked up when he said this. Poor aggrieved rich white guy. “The blacks” and those “immigrants” shouldn’t have anything, so I can have more….
Last night, Hillary Clinton, the daughter of a drape maker, revealed the man behind the curtain. Combining the personal with the political, she hit Trump where it hurt – his brand, revealed to be as bankrupt as the businesses he bottomed out.
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But it was the decimation of the Trump brand that seemed to bother him most. Trump complained at the end of the debate that Clinton had run “very mean” ads about him – neglecting to mention that these ads consist largely of Trump’s own words. Clinton responded with yet another personal tale of a woman Trump had insulted and degraded. She forced him to see himself as many others see him: as an abuser, a liar, and a failure.
Love it how the clinton camp baited him again so much so the first thing in the morning after debate was the punk going on pox news to double down on his fat comment.
*Last night, Hillary Clinton, the daughter of a drape maker, revealed the man behind the curtain*
^^^ Perfection.
Yup. Nice turn of phrase.
Nicely done. This is master class trolling.
The Globe and Mail is a very rightwing Canadian newspaper so it’s interesting that they’ve taken that perspective on the debate.
Oh Nerdy, what a wonderful way to wake up this morning. Those photos are beautiful. I watched the whole “Asked and Answered” yesterday. Was so impressed with all that was talked about. Especially the young people. And I loved all the native outfits. So proud and beautiful.
I still have no desire to watch the debate. But following everyone’s followup help me catch up. Thank you to all who watched and kept us informed.
Yes, voters (as in RWNJs) wouldn’t want an actual intellectual in the job.
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
LOL. All that msm padding and still got crushed.
Hello TOD.
Wow! TOD had a #DebateNight Party. Great job, NW.
Congrats, to all the Gold ⭐ winners since last Evening, starting with this Fantastic Post.
{{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}}
Thanks, President Obama!
@HillaryClinton busted a Debate Move!
Democrats – read and understand what this sentence says…
Facebook reminder gets 30,000 Hoosiers registered to vote
This is the state of Indiana
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/facebook-reminder-gets-hoosiers-registered-to-vote/article_6ea6ec87-5c42-53c6-962c-686cea5c8990.html
Thanks again, President Obama. You took over the country when the economy was tanking and now the economy is soaring. Great job!
This is what presidential looks like.
GM TODville.
Switching from the #2016election to stuff that’s happening this week, all in the hands of our incompetent and despicable Congress.
Government funding ends with the fiscal year, this Friday — complete chaos on how to prevent government shutdown on Saturday…
Congress has until tomorrow to attempt to override President Obama’s veto of #JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act) aka “9/11 bill” per MSM.
My response…
I can’t even remember whether or not Congress voted on ZIKA funding. Sigh.
GOP will fold. Not because of concern for the government. But because a powerful law firm in D.C., once upon a time, a Democratic firm, but now crawling with Republicans, is lobbying, for Saudia Arabia. Watch it.
The GOP lead congress is broken beyond repair. After almost two month recess, we are confronted with the potential of yet another government shutdown threat in just three day. Josh Earnest made some good points yesterday.
Q And similarly, with the CR, do you — what is the status of that, as you perceive it, in terms of timing? And we know there’s a deadline, but —
MR. EARNEST: We do know there’s a deadline.
Q — do you see this coming together? Do you see huge obstacles? How engaged is the White House in the —
MR. EARNEST: I’m quite reluctant to predict congressional outcomes these days. There is a deadline looming before Congress, September 30th. That’s the end of the fiscal year. And it seems like at least every year of the Obama presidency, we’ve spent some portion of the last week in September worrying whether or not Congress was going to do its job and get its act together and ensure that the government would be funded and not shut down.
Unfortunately, Republicans who promised to get Congress moving again if they were handed the reins of the Congress have broken that promise and they have failed. And we, once again, here are four days before the deadline, and we’re publicly wondering if Congress is going to fulfill their most basic responsibility, and that is are they going to succeed in passing a budget to keep the government open.
And what we have seen time and time again is a reliance on the part of Republicans to try to do things on party-line votes. And that just doesn’t work. And I think it accounts for so many of their failures over the course of the last several years. They’re going to have to work with Democrats in both the House and the Senate, it appears, to pass this budget. So they better get to work.
GM/GA LH (IIRC you’re in central time zone?).
Haven’t read this article (hesitate to click on WaPo, LATimes, NYTimes links because of their paywall — figure I might want to use my “free” articles on an upcoming article), but the tweet says it all — rare for MSM not to accuse/blame PBO for anything under the sun:
Hope there’s more attention on how incumbents in Congress really need to be replaced before Nov 8.
Happy Tuesday TODers.
Nerdy, mega, endless thanks for your boundless magnificence.
(((((((((((((Chips)))))))))))). Missing you a bunch. Take good care of yourself — mind, body and soul.
Good Morning Everybody.
SEE IT: Young girl gives powerful speech to Charlotte city council about Keith Lamont Scott shooting: ‘We are black people and we shouldn’t feel like this’ – http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/girl-powerful-speech-charlotte-city-council-article-1.2808304?utm_content=buffer7c877&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
Too sad for me to watch. This really has to stop.
Trump and his folks are no comparison in any way, shape or form.
Ten bucks says Hillary Clinton won that by a country mile. In fact, $23-trillion, or whatever the United States’ national debt is, says Clinton won that debate by a mile.
And, can we do that every week, please? Clear the network schedules. Never mind your old procedurals and comedies. That, people, was true TV drama. It was dramatic, surreal, funny at times and it came with a new, sizzling kind of vibe – the one where the woman, 68 years old, has the wit and stamina to defeat any man.
The essence of drama is conflict and there was conflict galore. Built up as the Super Bowl of political debates, possibly reaching as many as 100 million Americans, the first presidential debate was not the gladiatorial conflict that was promised. For more than a year Donald Trump has been the triumphant gladiator on TV. Abrupt and abrasive, cocky and caustic, he destroyed a lot of male competitors in the Republican presidential primaries. Facing a woman, in what was also billed as “Mr. Unqualified vs. Ms. Dishonest,” but wasn’t, he simply defeated himself.
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On Monday night’s debate, for all his male toughness and cocky confidence, Trump never appeared fully at ease in his own skin. He smirked and interrupted but gave the impression of being utterly humourless and thoughtless – and his regularly flashing a smirk had to make viewers wonder what the heck he was smirking about. The suggestion of innate smugness, a trait that is simply off-putting on TV, worked in the Republican debates, with their chaotic tenor and tone because Trump was the one who seemed most confident about himself.
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It was devastating to watch, a conquering act of coolness on a medium that gives victory to the cool. Ten bucks, or $23-trillion, says she has the stamina to do it over and over.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/trump-defeated-by-the-most-basic-rules-of-television/article32070843
The online polls are b.s., but we were excellent at freeping them for PBO. (They now call it smurfing). Here’s an easy link to some major ones. Dems need to be better at this, like we were for PBO. It helps the perception.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/26/1574765/-Polls-polls-polls-Start-smurfing-these-on-line-polls?utm_content=buffer4bfa2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Coming up: Bill Clinton Campaigns for Hillary in Toledo, Ohio – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=2
So much love for Joe.
Definitely. Trump is sleazy as hell.
She deserves it. Looking forward to her victory lap on November 8th.
Wow.
We know what’s coming next ……
New polling points to clear debate win for Clinton
09/27/16 08:45 AM—UPDATED 09/27/16 10:15 AM
By Steve Benen
It didn’t take long a for a consensus to emerge: among pundits, partisans, and prominent political observers, there’s no real doubt that Hillary Clinton won last night’s debate. Democrats, who were rattled by recent polling, are suddenly walking with a spring in their step. Republicans, who were feeling increasingly optimistic about the presidential race, are choosing to focus on the fact that there are still more debates coming up, where Donald Trump will try to recover.
And though it’ll be a while until we have polling data that shows what effect, if any, last night had on the overall race, overnight surveys suggest the public and the pundits are on the same page about the first Clinton/Trump showdown.
Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night’s debate by 62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate. […]
Voters who watched said Clinton expressed her views more clearly than Trump and had a better understanding of the issues by a margin of more than 2-to-1. Clinton also was seen as having done a better job addressing concerns voters might have about her potential presidency by a 57% to 35% margin, and as the stronger leader by a 56% to 39% margin.
Also overnight, Public Policy Polling released the results of its own post-debate survey, sponsored by VoteVets Action Fund, which found less lopsided results, but which nevertheless pointed to a Clinton victory, 51% to 40%.
The same poll found most respondents believe Clinton has the temperament to be president and is prepared for the job. A majority said the opposite about Trump.
she didn’t effing slam him. what’s with all the violent imagery?
bbc screaming fp headline now – trump lambasts US debate moderator holt.
congrats bbc on your bw media promotion.
pathetic.
how stupid is his base is really?
LOL.
President Obama greets audience members during the 2016 White House Tribal Nations Conference. Pete Souza
what an aweeeeeeeeeeeeesome Photo
Miss seeing him on MSNBC so much!
Hope all of you are having the time of your life watching a truly marvelous human being – Hillary Clinton – decimate an embarrassment not just to humanity, but to every form of life on the planet …
#ALL50
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/09/27/dont-waste-your-power/