".@BarackObama was a tremendous president whose list of accomplishments is long & distinguished" @JBKSchlossberg… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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GM and thanks NW.
Good afternoon Nerdy & TOD!! Happy Sunday, everyone. Congrats COS, and thanks Nerdy for posting 🙂
1st!
Caroline and John Kennedy are such lovely smart people. I hope we see more of both of them.
The ONLY President, really. Some were there for all the wrong, or questionable reasons. PBO was there with clear vision and purpose. ❤️
It is always encouraging to me to see young people who speak with intelligence, restraint, and insight. Gives me reassurance for my ‘old age’.
Afternoon/Morning, everybody…
& thank you Ms NerdyW for your continued efforts for this village.
Look at this, VC, my comment posted twice! So, it must be true, and verified! 😂🌏
No greater proof is needed. 😀 😀
LOL
Good afternoon vc. We’re here celebrating Tally’s birthday and everyone says hello to you and everyone at TOD.
Picture to follow…later. We’re opening champagne now 🥂
Yay France!!
Many Happy Returns of the day to Tally!
Hey Mary! Tally’s actual birthday is the 17th, but, this was the only day that we could all get together. And we had a wonderful time – as usual. I hope one of them will post the picture today 😀
Hey Mary! Tally’s actual birthday is the 17th, but, this was the only day that we could all get together. And we had a wonderful time – as usual. I hope the picture shows here
Hi Gail, purple shoes and Tally. Who else is with you?
Hi Jackie, that’s jojothecat and Betsy
Good to see you all. Have fun!
Thanks Jackie! It’s good to see you too lately ❤
We always have a grand time when we get together.
Great picture, Gail!
Thanks Maryl1!
Don’t tell me another year has gone by! Or are you ladies just looking for a reason to celebrate?
Good evening, Ms GxG. 🙂
Happy Birthday, Tally-o.
Greetings to all who are present for the celebration. You can all have another drink on me (since I’m so far away). 😀
Thanks VC!!
The ONLY President, really. Some were there for all the wrong, or questionable reasons. PBO was there with clear vision and purpose. ❤️
Congratulations, COS and DON!! Cannot wait to listen to this ceremony honoring President Obama for his profile in courage.
It’s still very early, but this looks promising.
Holding my breath … but hopeful, hopefruit!
please France, help yourselves and by so doing, help the world;
decent people need this affirmation of democracy, common good and against hate and bigotry
The beginning of what I’m sure will be many well deserved commendations and accolades for the PBO’s achievements as POTUS and CIC, and tributes to him as a man of integrity, intelligence, courage, dignity, compassion, and grace.
He has extraordinary sanity and wisdom as well. He will help usher in a new world and the JFK award is just a reminder of the fact. I love President Obama for who he is and what he’s done and as a fellow who values cooperating for the common good.
Watch the video. Share the video
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/07/trumpcare-not-sane.html
French results live feed in English (you have to sit through a French ad first):
http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed
HOPE!!!!
Macron wins with over 65% of the vote!!
I’m a few minutes behind you, in hearing the good news, but yes – Vive la France!!!
Congrats to France for making the right decision.
According to CNN, Macron won!
Thank god that there is at least SOME sanity in the world. Congratulations, France! Congratulations, President Elect Macron!
President Macron!!! Thank you France
France show they had some sense, what in the hell happen to America?
Let’s hope this trend continues into the future and we will also recapture our country one day soon.
I had to rub this in, putin you loose;
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Hello Gorgeous TODbots.
#ThanksObama!
Vive la France!
Congrats COS & Don for your Twin Entrance FIRST Au ⭐ ⭐ 🙂
Awesome posts, NW This post & last. Thank You, Lady.
France has more educated people than in UK & USA……Fact.
They learned from our mess, thank God. I hope that we can join them sooner rather than later in soundly rejecting and defeating our greedy, ignorant, and racist current GOP government, white house, representatives and senators.
If we did not have the electoral college…Hillary would have won….funny how no one is talking about getting rid of the electoral college
Pay attention world
But also…the French media and voters were not driven by senseless bigotry and white supremacy, and therefore were not as easily manipulated by the fool’s gold that Le Pen was selling.
Exactly. Their media ignored wikileaks, Macron’s campaign had an effect counter-wikileaks strategy and their conservatives immediately endorsed her chosing country over party. Also they have direct suffrage with a mandatory majority. I remember when my daughter went to France for a year, I read a book about the cultural differences between the U.S.and France. One of the things it said was U.S. parents raise their children to be individuals; French parents raise their children to be good French citizens. Individuality is good, but I think we go too light on the responsibilities of citizenship. Oh and people were reporting the lowest turnout in years – at 75%!
Vive Le France! So glad that so far three EU countries have refused to let the haters take over their countries. This shitty mess in the US frightened people and made them stand up and vote in large numbers so that their countries would not become the disaster that this one has become. Other countries will be able to join together to rein in some of the Trump/GOP dangerous stupidity. The US had from WWII to 2016 to show the rest of the world that we had grown up and that the moniker “leader of the free world” would become a reality in spirit and practice. We failed. We are still dealing with the effects of our original sins of genocide, slavery, classism, (we were never a classless society) and uncontrolled greed and will not be a truly great nation worthy enough to lead the world until we confront what we really are and work to change. Under the current regime, we are rapidly become a rogue nation and other countries have the right and the responsibility to put us in check.
Soooo good to see the TRUMP HATE has been quarantined and not allowed to infect places beyond our shores.
The USA will however continue to work on a cure to rid us of our current Trump- induced malady.
#keepHopeAlive #EnMarche
As always, party before country. Maybe enough people saw that happen to make sure it won’t happen again…time will tell. My hope is that the majority of the bad apples will be in prison soon…there ARE no more responsible Republicans left IMO
hoping to call this tweet on Nov/6/2018 =>
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only 2%??? We have to educate more people then
So happy for them.
BBL
This is what happens when a group, a party, the voters, a candidate listens to Barack H. Obama. Listen up DEMS, Dem voters, Independent voters! When Democrats ran away from PBO THEY LOST!
And I am alright with this; both countries f**ked up and starting dragging others down with them. Thank God, that Austria, Holland, and France resisted.
Interesting that all three countries were occupied by Nazi Germany during WW2. They really do know what the resistance was all about and don’t want to have that experience repeated. Way to go France!!
I just watched the Macron speech on Italian television. It was inspirational, unifying, and filled with praise for human rights. It is notable that the theme of Macron’s campaign was “Fraternite'” . Heaven knows the world needs, especially the U.S. the healing balm of brotherhood/sisterhood.
GA Bill R.
From @sarahkendzior’s Twitter timeline:
Just got home and read the news of Macron’s overwhelming win….I am actually crying. Such a relief and such a victory. Vive la France indeed!
Now we have Trudeau and Macron…..anything similar here? The Enlightenment started in France, and we have tried to douse it. Hopefully these two countries will lead the way and give us hope for our way out of it.
What a concept for democracy! Every single vote is counted and counts equally! No horrible electoral college…..We must follow suit. I am so proud of my French heritage today.
Vive le France! I watched the Macron speech, unifying and inspirational. Macron will be a true global leader for democracy and human rights, sorely needed when we languish in the darkness of Trump.
I cried to Carolyn 🙂
“too”
Is the medal ceremony being live streamed?
Event Livestream: Begins at 8:30PM ET at http://www.jfklibrary.org and http://www.facebook.com/JFKLibrary.
The event is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. with a performance by James Taylor.
Thank you, JER.
https://profileincourageaward.org/live/
I received an email from the foundation ❤️👊🏼🖖🏼🙌🏼😂
THIS IS SO EXCITING…OH HAPPY DAY!
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Celebrating our very own Tally’s birthday with our TOD SoCal family, Purpleshoes, GGail, Betsey and photographer JoJothecat!
https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18301888_427272454319201_7710058760553453958_n.jpg?oh=b5cf467d0a453d8198a9c536afb47a11&oe=597EB505
Adorable birthday girl – and partiers! Glad you got together again.
Our TOD SoCal family got together to celebrate our lovely Tally’s birthday. Purpleshoes, GGail, Betsy, and Jojothecat met at Tally’s favorite place to have brunch. We all had mimosas, terrific food, talked politics, got loud, toasted Frances victory against fascist hate. When you listen to PBO you can’t go wrong! We all promised to meet up and visit the Obama Foundation when it open probably in 4yrs just in time to elect our next DEM President, God willing.
Thank you to TOD SoCal for helping each other stay sane, supporting each other, and continuing the fight, the resistance, for hope, peace, and make our planet a better place. Thank you Nerdy Wonka for keeping TOD going and a safe place for us to come each day. We miss U Chipsticks hope you are doing well. Special love and shout out to HZ, Dudette, VC, AMK, Desertflower, Yardarm and all my TOD peeps who keep this place going each and everyday.
Thanks for the pictures, Jojo – you are having so much fun today with the birthday girl! Hugs!
Hugs to you jojo. I managed to post a twitter pic of us – scroll up thread.
{{{jojo}}} It’s a family thing:) Love my TOD family. Always. Happy Birthday, Tally! Many, many more.
Wonderful! Thanks, JER!
Thanks, JER.
Robert Kraft can go kick rocks.
How dare he talk about Hope when he supports such hate.
Good Afternoon TODVille.
No better place to congratulate France for doing what Americans fell to do 6 months ago, sent a crazy candidate to the asylum.
The way this crowd sounds is me today!
I had no idea how worried I was about the French Election. When my a.m. client told me Macron had one decisively, I spontaneously hugged her!
France defeating Putin and Barack Obama speaking at JFK Library – I am having a wonderful day today!
“won” decisively 😉
don’t worry, I right away knew what you meant …. I always blame auto-check
it has indeed been a great day !!
Having a very lazy day … just want to curl up and see President and Mrs. Obama with the Kennedy clan. Good times.
Will Michelle Obama be at the award ceremony tonight?
Yes, I believe she will!
This is who these Dastard GOP are.
Is there a live stream of the Kennedy event available?
Thanks.
Oops! I’ve found many up this thread. Grateful to those who posted them.
NCLB, I think this might work
https://profileincourageaward.org/live/
Wonderful, GGail. I love this site. Thank you much.
❤
We need to share the goodness in the world:
Watching President Macron at the Louvre, I thought what a quintessentially French landmark…..and then thought to President Obama’s acceptance speech in Grant Park, a quintessentially American location in the middle of the country. How I wish we could still have President Obama, then President Obama, and P. M. Trudeau and Chancellor Merkel at the same time! The Brits are like us…..wallowing in the lowest common denominator.
Love the tweet of the baby named for Justin Trudeau. There is goodness in the world. And gratitude.
Heads up California TODers – this message is from WiW (Linda)’s OFA Sonoma Team. Join them if you can – or make a call.
Congressman Issa voted for a healthcare bill that unacceptable and puts lives in danger. CNN will be covering a protest at his Vista office this Tues. May 9th at 10AM. Please join us at 1800 Thibodo Road, #310 Vista CA. If you can’t make it – Please call his office at (760) 599-5000 and tell him why this bill harms your family.
Thanks GGail, I just emailed my cousin in San Diego. She’s been to every protest so far and has signs already made!
There once was a loser named Le Pen
Who thought she’d pull a Trump and then
The French upped their game
So they wouldn’t feel our pain
And the hater lost the election. Amen.
👊🏼😂
I hope that we are getting our harsh-tag ready to document President Obama’s honor tonight;
I am thinking of : #ObamaJFKProfilesInCourage;
Could I please know what other harsh-tags people are planning to use?
thanks a lot
This just cracked me up. He is trying so hard to use the little black girl as a photo op and she just wasn’t having it!
🙂
https://profileincourageaward.org/live/
Found it! Also will be live streamed on FB.
This site has a link to send a notebook to PBO, which of course I did! ❤️
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/05/07/profile-in-courage-president-barack-obama/