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All Times Eastern
10AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
11:05AM: President Obama departs the White House
1:05PM: President Obama arrives in Chicago
2:35PM: President Obama delivers remarks
2:35PM: President Obama delivers remarks at a fundraiser for House Democrats; private residence
5PM: President Obama delivers remarks at a fundraiser for DNC; private residence
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The Obama Diary 
GM!
Congratulations, Desertflower! Bittersweet video of the last harvest. Michelle is so totally in her element our there. POTUS , not so much, but he is game to put on some gloves and mingle.
LOL 🙂
Oh, Def, that whole site is both a laugh fest and a misogynist cesspool. I love the one about Trump not needing a ground game because he’ll win on heart. Reminds me of ‘Damn Yankees,’–“You Got to Have Heart..” All DT supporters have to do is link arms, sing this song and the election is won!
To which I say, “what heart?”
Why all the damn crazies don’t like FACTS
Stay In School!!
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/784380355402928130
GM Ladyhawke,
Hopefully John’s tweet will appear here:
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/784380355402928130
Hope whoever is tallying misleading/incorrect statements from VP deb includes this, when Pence compared apples to oranges. Kaine was VA Governor from 2006-2010, during GWB disaster/aftermath, Pence is now IN Governor during PBO recovery (2013-present):
#thanksobama
Good Morning TOD, and desertflower decaf isn’t a bad thing.
HA! I don’t need no stinkin’ decaf! 🙂 Morning, slow poke…
Reposting from previous thread (h/t Dudette)
So very true ….
Thank you, Bob. Sadly our media is not impressed by what women do, no matter how brilliant and astonishing the achievements. I hope there is a good history written about these brave women so that our daughters and granddaughters know what true courage is. The most glorious thing about them is that they refuse to be victims. The stand their ground and they fight, which is the same ‘warrior code’ that men have claimed for themselves for millennia.
Good West Coast morning TOD. Congrats DF on First, Second, Third!!! LOL 😂
Don, you funny 😃
He’s so funny:) Morning, GGAIL:)
Happy Friday, speedy 😘
Our next Secretary of State on the move ….
#ALL50
Bobf, don’t think for one moment that those clowns won’t say that this hurricane is an act of god or some other foolishness.
Bob, you’ve posted a lot of good news this morning, thanks & happy Friday to you 🎉🎉
British expats living in the EU are suing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker over his order to prevent informal Brexit discussions.
Mr Juncker insists there can be no negotiations until the UK triggers Article 50 – the withdrawal process.
The expat group wants immediate talks about the implications of Brexit for Britons living in other EU countries.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37586587
Talk about fucking limey entitlement.
A group of more than 75 evangelical leaders released a statement Thursday declaring that the evangelical movement that is so often portrayed as backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not represent them.
The statement, posted Thursday to Change.org, charges the media with representing evangelical Americans as white, conservative, older men. Such a portrayal fails to recognize the wide array of Americans who identify as evangelical Christians, the group said.
“We are not those evangelicals,” the statement reads. “The media’s narrow labels of our community perpetuate stereotypes, ignore our diversity, and fail to accurately represent views expressed by the full body of evangelical Christians.”
In its statement, the group identifies itself as multi-racial with black, white, Asian, Hispanic and Native American members. Its members, both young and old, “come from a wide range of denominations, churches, and political orientations.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-evangelicals-letter-condemning-bigotry-229271
CAn someone please bring over the Bad Lip Reading of the Presidential debate? It’s on Crooks/Liars, but I got lost in the abyss that is RESTRICTED YOU TUBE VIDEOS! OMG! I have adult children for crying out loud!! I need “permission” to watch a video???
GM DF.
Is this it?
Thanks! 🙂
omg that’s hysterical 😀 I forgot about the Bad Lip Reading guys.
For {{{{{{Chips}}}}}} ….
We love you, Chips!!!
They didn’t think this through…on so many levels…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-07/rude-awakening-in-the-u-k-over-brexit-costs-send-pound-tumbling
Wishing all of you a peaceful day ….
bbl ….
#ALL50
beautiful bob – hope you have a nice day as well. 🙂
GM Dr. Bob.
Stunningly gorgeous (and cold, too, I’ll bet).
Wonderful to you too!
Where is that? It’s gorgeous! The water looks like Canadian Rockies glacial green.
The storm so far in NE Fla. weather is like the Nor’easter that we have had for most of the week: infrequent wind gusts (most at 23 mph) and scattered rain from misty to a light downpour for various periods of time; at 9:30 overcast. Utilities are operational except in the barrier islands when officials cut off the water 8:pm last night. Only about half of the effected areas evacuated; all but one of the 6 shelters (local schools) were only half full as of last night. Most people are sheltering in place. I live far inland on the west side of the city around the 295 corridor where there is no danger of any kind of storm surge. My neighborhood is one whose power lines are all underground, however it is a tree-lined area and we expect uprooted trees and flying branches if things go as predicted late afternoon and early evening. The EOC, the insurance companies, and the electric company have been sending phone updates and the cell phones are lighting up with weather center alerts. You get exhausted and anxious if you keep watching the televised weather reports (so much of it is ridiculous and many of the weather people are almost getting a hard on in their excitement and desire to report on something really devastating. I turned it all of late afternoon yesterday and check on-line for updates.
Thanks, CEB! Stay safe.
Thank you for the update and stay safe.
Happy Friday TODers.
Thank you, Nerdy
(((((((((((((((((Chips))))))))))))))))
we can not give into the fear and hysteria…early vote to avoid the lines and give yourself time…this headline pumps up the fear
minorities are not intimidated with Trumps goons.
One more thing before getting back to work …..
#ALL50
Good morning, good people. Happy Friday and weekend.
Our Dr. Jill is in Cuba!
Should be: “half of the affected areas…”
So I looked through that post and found this gem. Remember when Sarah Silverman did the “schlep” campaign for PBO. Trying to get young jewish people to talk to their grandparents about why it was important to vote for President Obama?. So this is kind of the reverse in a funny way. Grandparents trying to get their grandchildren to vote because Trump is a fascist. In the “we’ve seen this before” catagory.
https://twitter.com/a4alice/status/784405059610087425.
Exactly.
hmm. looks like my tweet line copied the post but didn’t render the tweet. Trying again:
G’morning Nerdy & TOD! Happy Friday everyone 🙂
Good Morning Everybody.
Today on the trail:
Tim Kaine: NV – 1 event
Joe Biden: PA – 1 event
Bernie Sanders: ME, NH – 2 events
Elizabeth Warren: WI – 2 events
GM TODville.
MSM finally admitting what all of us who so wanted GWB to be sent packing in 2004 already knew — only took a dozen years and an unhinged, pathological, xenophobic, white nationalist for them to realize what they screwed up.
Here’s @poniewoziak comment:
It’s time we STOP this toxic game of struggling just to express the TRUTH.
The Donald thinks this is when he’ll deliver the knockout blow to Hillary. What could possibly go wrong?
The Closer with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Ha! excellent Jer. tweeted. 🙂
I love Keith.
All hail!
looks nice! I’m grabbing my flip flops and straw hat and heading for the beach! 🙂 Wait. There’s no ocean here #LANDLUBBER
WTF
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
sorry…
Remember this. Echoing Tim Kaine…”Why don’t you trust women to make their own healthcare decisions?”
Hope everyone acts responsibly (i.e., heed local and federal officials warnings and ignores Drudge ignorance — mankind long ago learned that #ItsNotNiceToFoolMotherNature) and all in Hurricane Matthew’s path stays safe.
But, silver lining???
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-rigged-election-republican-voter-fraud-hysteria
Donald Trump may be out of step with the Republican Party’s traditional stance on some issues, like support for international trade, but he’s right in line with Republican hysteria over voter fraud. Indeed, the threat of voter intimidation and violence that Trump is raising by his irresponsible talk of vote rigging and encouragement of his supporters to go to other polling places is only possible because of years of earlier irresponsible talk.
Let’s start with what Trump has said and why it is so irresponsible. As I’ve written, one of the things we take for granted is that, even in tumultuous times when elections are hard-fought, the losers concede the election and embrace the process, even if things did not go well. That’s what Al Gore did after the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore. He did not call for demonstrations in the streets, which could have been destabilizing. In 2008, after great controversy over the Bush years, Obama v. McCain was very hard-fought, but we were able to come together again as a country.
Donald Trump threatens this peace by raising the prospect not only of sending his supporters, unsupervised, into polling places (likely in minority neighborhoods). This can lead to voter intimidation on election day. He has also backed off his earlier, somewhat ambiguous statement that he would support Hillary Clinton if she won. Now, speaking to the New York Times, he backed off even his qualified pledge to support Clinton if he loses, saying: “We’re going to have to see. We’re going to see what happens. We’re going to have to see.”
Lying liars with an agenda
Seems like such a contrived conversation…. SHOCKED!
every.fucking.time.
Sad and true.
Steady downpour and gusting winds of tropical storm intensity. Some idiots just cannot stay home; watched several SUVs passing by
GM CEB, stay safe, dry and warm.
Interesting parallels between 1964 Dora and 2016 Matthew that you brought to our attention yesterday.
Clear, concise and riveting 1:30 minute simple explainer of the dangers of storm surge — don’t understand people who can’t comprehend the power of water.
Thanks. Some power outages are being reported, but so far so good where I am.
Take Care CEB. We used to live in Melbourne, 1996-2003, glad, frankly, to be missing this storm.
ok have the day off and a lot of chores. gotta fly. have a great day TOD. Thanks Nerdy for your continued work! 🙂
Thanks, JER.
Inspired this response from me (I should investigate how to post emojis on twitter):
SOON: VP Joe Biden Campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Bristol, Pa. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=5
Bristol, Pennsylvania! Joe would remember this one:
What a nice Photo….
i find myself getting emotional about the First Lady and the President….i will miss their presence so
There’s always that one person who is looking elsewhere 🙂
Always some unlucky person looking away……
Woke up at 2 a.m. to check on the Nobel Peace Prize winner and praying it would NOT be traitor Snowden. Really wanted Ernie Moniz & John Kerry along with their Iranian counterparts in the Iran Deal negotiation, but relieved the Columbian President was the recipient instead of someone unworthy.
Agree with you Judith.
If the Iran Deal continues to hold for another year, I think it highly likely that Sec Kerry & FM Zarif will receive the prize.
If they include a 3rd recipient, Sec Moniz would be a contender, for sure.
But, I think Lady Catherine Ashton would also be a strong contender. She contributed, over many years, an enormous amount of effort, in the face of withering ridicule, to achieve the deal.
#ALL50
Unfortunately, I misspelled Colombian in the middle of the night tweet. Not sure how to correct…
Whew. There ain’t nothin’ about him that doesn’t work. Eh?
But there’s always a new pony just around the corner for those disappointed Liberals. Just like those economically disadvantage Republicans that continue to vote Republican, they do so because they think a long lost uncle will appear and leave them a billion dollars that they don’t want to pay taxes on.
Was this posted? Cutest thing ehvah!
The President is such a gentleman, he doesn’t like to keep people (and Marine One) waiting! Like they wouldn’t wait for him!
You gotta love that man ❤
LIVE NOW: Sen. Tim Kaine Campaigns in Henderson, Nev. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=5
Well, well……..
Sounds good to me. (Plus, he can’t keep the cash if he spends it on ads.) (#LoserTrump)
It’s a wrap then!!
He better pay back those Russian mobsters he owes if he knows what’s good for him, I’ve seen episodes of Law & Order.
Trump jumped into the world of politics, which is more vicious that any other endeavor he’s tried.
TGIF.
Hello TOD.
Windy. Partly Cloudy. OK for 07Oct16 in MN.
Thanks to NW, TOD keeps it 100!
Congrats, DF for your Au ⭐
{{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}}
This cut in Ad buy is interesting. It means that he is either throwing in the towel or his campaign is broke. And he is mainly interested in cutting losses now. No more personal money in campaign, he’s taking campaign money to remimburse himself.
Bill, when you’re throwing in the towel in Florida and Ohio it doesn’t get any worst than that. Long term he’s going to need money to pay off any legal entanglements he’s in and that’s just for starters. He also owes money to banks in Russia and China.
He also has a huge loan from Deutsche Bank in Germany
I have watched this 10x now.
@POTUS is 1001% a Human Being. What a man.
this is the President in 1/2017…he runs back to the office because he forgot us…TOD
Love VP Joe
Phenomenal work being done in Ohio. I thought this state was lost but Hillary is pulling out all the stops to keep it in play…
GA Alycee.
@BruceBartlett gets it, but our deplorable MSM is blind to it, too stupid or muzzled to report on this important topic.
LIVE NOW: Bernie Sanders Campaigns for Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Keene, NH – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=2
The President is in our building!!
It’s on lockdown, so that he can vote 🙂
Whoa, too exciting, rikyrah.
Hope you catch a glimpse of PBO! 🙂
LOL! I love love love love love love love this comment so much. It’s the best comment of the day on TOD because think about it’s the only time you’re ever gonna see the phrase “lock down” used in a way that leaves you smiling for the rest of the day.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/10/07/chat-away-white-house-kitchen-garden-fall-harvest/