President Barack Obama makes a speech at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece
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President Barack Obama walks from the Propylaia with Eleni Banou, Ministry of Culture director of Ephorate of Antiquities for Athens, during a tour of the Acropolis
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President Barack Obama tours the Acropolis Museum
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President Barack Obama arrives in Berlin, Germany
The Obama Diary 
So grateful that Barack Obama is the President of the United States.
Thanks so much for this wonderful post, NW! (Ha. Down, girl.)
Hmmmmmmm…….!!!!
NW, you are always coming through for us!
thanks a lot for all you do
Thank you!
I am hoping the fact that this occurred in MN and not that the officer was a POC is the reason he was actually charged with manslaughter.
I do, too. Sad that it’s the first thing that comes to mind.
Great photos and videos, NerdyW!
Endless thanks, very grateful.
Just a word of caution… when it comes to the DJT chaos known as transition, remember that his so-called-transition operation is pretty much of a Reality TV show with leaks spewing forth from all directions.
MSM will jump on every bit of speculation as if it’s fact.
But this apparently *is* true (reposting from previous thread):
I love seeing President Obama among all these antiquities. He just looks like he belongs there.
doesn’t he though!
I just had the same thought when I saw this … that he is quite at home.
Hahahaaaa! Yes, he is really very much at home in the seat of Democracy.
I was thinking the same thing. What a gift he is.
I thought how very lucky those tour guides were for guiding PBO through their museums. Bet this was considered by them to be their lucky day.
Thanks for the beautiful post, Nerdy, and congratulations to Grab a Mop Grace on first. Will be catching the BET broadcast of their event at the White House tonight. Last night was the pleasure of hearing and seeing Leslie Odom Jr. in concert with his jazz band. It was such a lift!
hello,
I was wondering if you can guide me about the way to connect to OFA of Columbus Ohio.
I tried to recently but it seems that the option available is through Facebook and I am not on Facebook.
I don’t see any recent activity from the publicly available information.
thanks a lot for your help
Trying one more time. My first response to you disappeared!
The OFA FB page is public. The about page lists their contact as the one for OFA national: Info at barack obama dot com
They also give the main website address for OFA: barack obama dot com
On the main OFA website there is a Get Involved link, or you can scroll down and click “contact us” where you are instructed to set up an account before someone contacts you. Maybe you have already tried that, but, if not, hope that was helpful!
thanks Madame…i want to do this as well
This is ABSOLUTELY wonderful. Her nickname was “Amazing Grace.” The Irish in me has to go now to the segment in my memories called “My connection to Grace Hopper”:
Back in the late ’80s, I was a civilian collateral-duty federal women’s program manager at our Navy command. Actually had arranged for retired Rear Adm. Hopper to come speak to our workforce during Women’s History Month. (The scientists and engineers at my command were in awe, since they held her in such high regard. I barely knew who she was at the time, truth be told. Ha.) Before the date, her staff called to say she unfortunately had broken her hip (I think it was), was in a wheelchair, and very regretfully had to decline. It was our loss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
on and on and on and on
Matt Yglesias is probably right, but DJT will say (and you know he’s got an excuse for everything, nothing is his fault), those leaders called ME, I didn’t place the call:
That doesn’t matter. The moment he is declared the next occupant of the WH, all of his communication tools should be secured. You’ve seen photos of PBO on vacation working from secure rooms. That’s why the idea of continuing to live in Trump Tower rather than the WH will require a lot of preparation.
Can we “lock him up?” I know we loathe that phrase, but when do we start fighting as if the playing field is even?
Thank you, ❤ NW ❤, for the sumptuous feast to close the day! (Note: there has been no inauguration yet. Keep You The Heart, TOD).
Nerdy, THANK YOU for the wonderful post! Soooo proud of our President, and it is always a joy to see him in these types of settings. He just sucks up knowledge and experiences.
President Barack Obama, is indeed “a man for all seasons” !
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ps,
cat-lovers, did you spot the cat hurrying away in the background in second (ABC) video?
So apparently GMA was just a little premature. Can’t imagine what our NATO partners are going to think of this.
I think this one has to be subjected to a Senate hearing for confirmation?
But the good news is that cabinet officials do need to be confirmed by the Senate.
Saw tweets in the past 24 hours that few “real” GOP want to be part of DJT’s ocean liner (#Titanic) government, so he has few options but to nominate the craziest loons — who may not receive Senate confirmation.
Though did see one that said Ted Cruz might be nominated for SCOTUS, which would be horrible for us all, but be good news for TX.
Well, luckily, SCOTUS nominations have to be confirmed by the Senate, and I’m pretty sure Cruz remains one of the most disliked by the other members. But, hey, it’s a whole different ballgame out there now. Anything could happen. It’s almost like every day there’s a “What could be worse? question asked and answered, isn’t it?
They’d vote to confirm him just to get him out of the Senate.
Yep. I wouldn’t put it past ’em.
Just googled it, and this does not need Senate confirmation.
remember how the gop scumbags smeared Dr. Susan Rice out of the Benghazi tragedy because they falsely anticipated that she would be SoS.
then PBO selected her as National Security Advisor.
that obstruction & smearing made me despise kelly ayote and I was really glad when NH gave her the boot a week ago
Oh, yes, thanks for reminding me of that great news – that we won’t have kelly ayote around in future. Another “say anything” RWNJ Stepford Wife. Ugh.
NATO partners will not share intelligence with this Russian agent.
that is what I thought
I saw this on-line and although it maddens me and makes me feel helpless, I’ve been tweeting it out everywhere: We must fight this somehow.
http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/uncategorised/donald-trump-was-right-the-election-was-rigged-in-his-favour/15/11/
This is worth word — By Toni Morrison
Making America White Again
“The comfort of being “naturally better than,” of not having to struggle or demand civil treatment, is hard to give up. The confidence that you will not be watched in a department store, that you are the preferred customer in high-end restaurants—these social inflections, belonging to whiteness, are greedily relished.”
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“William Faulkner understood this better than almost any other American writer. In “Absalom, Absalom,” incest is less of a taboo for an upper-class Southern family than acknowledging the one drop of black blood that would clearly soil the family line. Rather than lose its “whiteness” (once again), the family chooses murder. ”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/making-america-white-again?mbid=social_twitter
many folks do not see that racism or privilege exists..hard to bring about Truth and Reconciliation if white folks cannot accept that racism and privilege exists…
i remember a while back Bob..had mentioned …championed that it was on white folks to begin this transition….i am beginning to believe some of what he said was true…
how do you break thru the racial firewall…i suppose that only other white folks can do it…
In one very significant way, Hillary Clinton’s unwavering call for equal protection and racial justice was different than the historic candidacy of Barack Obama. Where Barack Obama had to struggle to rise above the perception of being “the black candidate” by groundbreaking speeches on race relations in America that put some in white America at a greater ease voting for a black man, Hillary Clinton’s fierce defense of people of color was seen by many of the same people in white America as offensive. Why? Because as someone once said in the comments here (I can’t find it for proper credit), Hillary Clinton challenged systemic racism and white privilege as a white person, and forced white people to confront their own sometimes deeply hidden stigma.
Please forgive, but expect me to be repeating this meme ever more aggressively ….
The fact that Trump is the gravest National Security threat America has ever faced, btw, becomes more obvious, hour by hour ….
What was unthinkable before 8 Nov 2016 is totally real and must be stopped before 20 Jan 2017.
Where were all these revelations BEFORE the election??
Slavery is another precedent….
FYI ….
WE Will NOT go quietly into the Night!
Good night TOD ….
Thank you, Bob! Beautiful.
We are headed for an incredible problem here. DT is busy undermining every credible news organization in the country while running propaganda on FB, Breibart, Fox et al. This is how you destroy a democracy. Given what his supporters listen to, they will never hear “facts” simply propaganda coming from nothing less than our government. I must admit I was stunned today to learn of the disinformation campaign run on FB the final couple of weeks before the election. I never use FB for “news” so pay no attention to it. But there were more false stories about Hillary on FB during the last couple of weeks of the campaign than “real” stories and apparently that is where quite a few Americans get their news. This is frightening.
Republicans should be so proud of themselves. This is what they won – utter collapse.
Goodnight, TODville, and all the ships at sea.
Thank you NW for these wonderful, photo-full posts! Love seeing PBO in action ❤
I woke to be terrorized. I really am scared. This is treason of the highest order…and his inner circle ALL must have known the plan and condoned the actions and behavior….We need a savior soon, or I fear things very sinister will happen…as Putin laughs.
think about the fact that these concerns were raised before the election by a few dedicated reporters but the majority ignored them as they focused on the trivial “scandals”, making money, and destroying a qualified lady they did not like;
I am afraid that even those who thought that they had done their part in the earlier struggles to save this nation, must now re-join the fight. we need all hands on deck
As Foxfire mentions above….the purging of honest news, for propaganda….omg….they all slept through history class!!
good morning everyone!
“Outsiders” is just means DOESN’T KNOW WTF THEY’RE DOING!
Just putting this here for you all to share with anyone that thought this POS would ever care about anyone but himself
Correct!
“I’m the only one who knows who the finalists are!” He thinks this is a fucking game show.
Morning Must Read (Reid) 🙂
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/president-elect-donald-trump-gets-to-work-betraying-his-backers.html
B/J is busy keeping track of the Congress critters and how they feel about Paul Ryan’s plan to get rid of Medicare. They will update the list as they get more info..and OF COURSE my idiot SUPPORTS Ryan!
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/11/17/calling-congress/
I know I sound like a broken record, but my bitterness in this election is not only directed at Birther. It is the press too, except for a few. I can’t help it.
http://www.abc15.com/news/national/so-called-ghost-guns-showing-up-in-united-states-including-arizona
THANKS,OBAMA!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/jobless-claims-in-u-s-decline-to-lowest-level-in-four-decades
The fewest Americans since 1973 filed for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the U.S. labor market is getting tighter.
Jobless claims dropped by 19,000 to 235,000 in the week ended Nov. 12, which included the Veterans Day holiday, a Labor Department report showed Thursday in Washington. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey called for 257,000. Continuing claims fell below 2 million to a 16-year low.
The biggest drop in initial claims since June suggests employers are loath to fire workers as the economy continues its modest expansion and the number of experienced applicants available for hiring remains limited. Filings for unemployment benefits have stayed below 300,000 for 89 straight weeks — the longest streak since 1970 and a level typical for a healthy labor market.
Estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 245,000 to 275,000. The prior week’s reading was unrevised at 254,000.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/humans-aren-t-just-changing-the-climate-we-re-changing-life-itself
The earth has warmed barely a single degree Celsius, and yet virtually no place on the planet is unaffected by climate change. That’s the conclusion of both a new study published in the journal Science and a popular-science book out this week, The Unnatural World, by David Biello, the science curator at TED and a Scientific American contributing editor.
“This new age is not just climate change,” Biello writes, “it is everything change: the sky, the sea, the land, the rocks, life itself.”
This new Democratic leadership in the Senate is made up of Dems that basically shot spitballs at President Obama for the last eight years. I do not hold out hope that the likes of Warren and Sanders and Machin will fight the good fight, oh they will talk a good talk but I do not see them fighting the good fight. Hell, before the last vote was counted you had Sanders and Warren going out of their way to say that they will work with Trump. How do you fix your mouth to say that you will work with a homophobe and racist?
THIS.
And just before the election you had Manchin leaking he might become a FREAKIN’ REPUBLICAN.
I am so disheartened, so fed up right now with the Democratic Party and their white leadership.
He’s a Republican already. Pretty much always has been IMO. No change
it is just a reset..post Obama…this is what they have always been….important to work on the local level….
White people,especially those with money and influence made the mess that we are in and it is up to other White people to correct it, especially the men. It is very clear for all to see that POC and White women have no real power or influence to wield. Like it was clear from the inception of the constitution to this last election, this country was never about us. Our purpose had always been to be used as powerful white males chose. At the first sign at the possibility of losing some of this privilege and power, they pulled out every weapon and used it to devastating effect. After all of the anguish everyone will call in line, the democrats will not have a plan and even more people will stay home from the mid- terms. We were thrown a few bones from the tables of the powerful and many thought that change was here. Now everyone is awake. Some are so upset because they did not look below the surface and thought that we were well on our way to “liberty and justice for all,” but some of us were woke enough to know that nothing had really changed. So now that we have a real and present danger that will affect almost everyone, what are the “good white people” prepared to do to deal with the mess that white people created? Black people fought in every war hoping that by risking our lives we would be granted equality; it did not happen. We fought to get the vote, showed up in larger percentages than any group and still no equality. Percentage wise the most educated group in this country are A- A women and still no equality. This country has been enriched and improved in so any ways by our talents and our work and still no justice and no equality. Malcolm X and Ali were right then and now. We are done being used; we see clearly now. This country is not and never has been for any POC.
I am not black, but I agree with every.word.you.said. I can never be black , but having a 6 year old black granddaughter has totally awakened me to everything you said. God help us all.
Friends, reading things on this thread — military purge, folks registering, Nikki Hayley SoS………..I get more terrified each minute. I have given up trying to inform my husband. He thinks I am just filled with drama and everything I am reading is bunk. His attitude adds to my fear because it’s a personal and perfect example of millions of our citizens. Head buried in sand and then it’s too late. 😰😰😰😰😰
Its not that Trump is putting the same old Washington hacks in his cabinet, its that these hacks don’t have any experience in running federal agencies. At lease Dr. Carson had the good sense to say that he doesn’t have any governmental experience, even though he was running to be President. Hell, even Bush knew to put people in his cabinet that had government experience. This is a shit-show like no other.
Thanks Trump, you racists bigot. You will make America white racists again. These bigots have come from under their racists rock.
So so so heartbreaking.
Scrolling through this Post I see that Trump has hijacked TOD. Thank goodness for NW posting PBO ❤️
Yes, he has.
It is so sad JER. We must not let Trump be the focus of our attention. There has got to be more interesting news and information out in the world – there has to be
why do you say that
every other comment – is about him. we must not let his negativity overtake TOD. don’t take my word for it, scroll and count how many entries there are related to something or some feeling about him – here on our TOD site.
i think the comments are about resistance to him..and what he represents…should we not talk about what could be catastophic times for America…and folks of color…should we not talk about the upcoming struggle
A friend just texted me and reminded me of the fact that DT wants clearance for his SIL and that could happen as long as he doesn’t take a salary…when (not IF) a situation arises where he sees that Trump Holdings can benefit …wife can not be made to testify against her husband….the tangled web they weave…and Putin laughs at the idiot puppets he masters….
GM DF.
I missed how DJT not taking a salary would allow him to get security clearances for family/extended family.
How does salary relate to security clearances (perhaps the way the law is worded)?
The founding fathers specifically rejected George Washington’s offer to not receive a salary…
The Democrats Are Screwing Up the Resistance to Donald Trump
How Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren misread the election.
By Jamelle Bouie
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FROM BJ:
Calling Congress
by Richard Mayhew
at7:07 am on November 17, 2016
A couple of updates.
Several readers sent me an excellent link to a Google Sheet containing contact information and suggested scripts for people to talk to their Congresscritters. This is very useful. I am not 100% thrilled with the script as it is more advocacy instead of information gathering but it is a good starting point
Good morning TOD ….
Suggest you each begin pondering all you can do to convince that relic of slavery, aka Electoral College, to abandon the 4th Reich and preserve the United States of America. Likely, the last chance to do so before …..
#FORWARD Together
I hate to be a downer, but one statement by Abraham Lincoln has been swimming in my head the last week: ” America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
I sent this quote to all three evening news anchors and asked them to be courageous and stand up to Trump. I pointed out that he is treating this entire election and transition as a reality show, and demeaning the office and the country. I don’t expect my email will even be read, or that if read it will change anything, but I have to speak up, and these three are arbiters of what happens. Perhaps in addition to contacting our congress people, we start contacting the press. An avalanche of similar messages will eventually have an effect.
Honestly, for eight years, my picture of President Obama has been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike holding back the flood….a wonderful interlude between hideous Republican administrations. Remember what Louis XV was supposed to have said: Apres moi, le deluge.
I a so glad we had that wonderful time in D.C. in June. At that time all good things were possible. I treasure that time.
Yes carolyn. All good time
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/11/17/early-bird-chat-896/
whether domestic or otherwise