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President Barack Obama golfing at St Andrews Golf Club, near Dundee in Scotland
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Dan Roberts: Barack Obama Tees Off Scotland Visit With Round Of Golf
Barack Obama arrived in Scotland for his first ever visit and a round of golf at St Andrews before a charity dinner in Edinburgh that could hardly strike a more contrasting note with his successor. Obama was warmly received by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, during an earlier visit to Berlin on Thursday and then landed in Scotlandon Friday amid the sort of excitement normally reserved for current world leaders. Nonetheless, many camera phones were present to witness the famously golf-obsessed president complete his homage to St Andrews and tee off to a round of applause. After the third hole, Obama wandered over to the crowd who had been following him round the course. He shook hands with people and spoke with them before heading back to resume play.
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The Obama Diary 
I LOVE this! Thanks, Nerdy:)
Congrats DF. And yes, thank you Nerdy. Seeing our forever President lifts my spirits.
Me too!
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope that your determination to be the best at what you’re doing at the very moment you’re doing it, is such that you are willing to walk across the desert sands, swim the most expansive ocean, and climb to the top of the highest mountain today. ❤ ❤ ❤
I am thankful to God that I lived to witness one of the greatest President of The United States of America in President Barack Hussein Obama ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Greetings from the nort’lands’!
👏🏼🙌🏼🖖🏼
VC! Wanted to let you know my little great grandson Hayden is visiting! Today his Mom and two other of my grandkids and The Big H came over to do some outdoor work for me (I make up summer “jobs” for them, and pay them big wages, so the younger ones know how “big wages” feel – Ha! – while telling them I only pay people who would do it for free). Hayden was very dedicatedly digging for weeds with his trowel, while entertaining me asking if I knew that if he “dug deep,” REAL deep, he’d “hit gold” …
I kept saying “Dig deeper, young man, dig deeper.” ❤
🙂 🙂 Is Hayden my little pistol from Florida? So great to have him back ‘in town’ digging for gold. (If he hits gold please don’t forget your friend in Toronto.
So, how did his year go – I suppose you went down for his kindergarten graduation? 😀 😀
Yes, the same Florida boy! No, we didn’t go for his K graduation, but we celebrated it the second he got here (which was the day after his last day of school – we couldn’t wait much longer!). Today I spoke on the phone with him and he said he had to run to fix his bike (while his Poppy was working on his truck), so he’s already made himself at home! ❤
‘so he’s already made himself at home’
🙂 🙂 Exactly the way it should be!
I guess with him being more active now (and more of a ‘big boy’), you’ve definitely *lost* your napping partner! 😀
Yes. I’ve had to “move on.” But one smile from that cute face with the dimple in his cheek, and I’m back! ❤
{{{JO’B}}} ❤
Please, Director Comey,
Bust. His. Ass.
Thank you.
Hope Comey doesn’t hold back and tells it like it is. Can you imagine that all this is happening and Trump hasn’t even been in office for half a year? What a mess!
That’s why I cringe every time someone mentions 2020, as if he will complete a full term. Given the damage he’s done in a little over 4 months, it scares me to think of him possibly being in office for 4 years.
The buffoon so-called president decides to withdraw from Paris accord.
Makes sense, lies are all he knows.
Trump is the Liar-in-Chief so no surprises that he acts based on lies. That’s all he knows.
It’s Spelling Bee time!!! 🐝
😄
Wow!
Some spelling bee official deserves a good smack for torturing this child and trying to start shit. [Yeh, we see you]
The end is too funny though. 😏
Sorry for the duplicate
He is going to kill us all. Get him out of there!
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/335777-epa-halts-obama-era-methane-regulation
He’s reversing all of President Obama’s measures to keep us safe. The Liar-in-Chief doesn’t care if repealing Obama’s regulations harm Americans as long as it pleases his 1% buddies.
I don’t even think it’s about pleasing any of his buddies. If Obama did it, he wants to UNDO it.
That’s what I’ve been thinking all along. Hopefully the jealousy and bitterness and racism he feels for President Obama will eat trump alive one day soon!
Thank you, Nerdy, for this wonderful post highlighting President Obama golfing at St. Andrews.
And this..(which I always thought was the REAL issue to begin with)
But the Kremlin’s motive for interfering in our election was simple. They were presented with two candidates: One, Hillary Clinton, was a nemesis of Putin who sought to keep sanctions against Russia and honor U.S. commitments to international bodies like NATO. The other, Donald Trump, was a malleable egomaniac who had been trying to work with Russia for 30 years. Trump was also an inherently chaotic candidate whose rise could weaken already struggling U.S. institutions. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has been tanking economically and losing political influence—weakening the U.S. is a great way for the Kremlin to get back on top.
Just getting greater by the minute….
No surprises there. TrumpCare is a disaster and will leave millions without access to healthcare. Hope it never sees the light of day.
To those poll results, I’ll respond: No Shit, Sherlock!
FORWARD
What an honor!
Hoping this may save public teevee funding. Praying this so-called ‘administration’ fails: utterly, quickly, completely.
Golly gee, ‘someone’ may have forgotten to include the link! 🙃☺️ Way too much going on ….
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=808866382612677&id=569800796519238
gethefuckouttahere
Of course he does. Of course they do. Uh huh.
Idiot. There is no such word in the English language. Why can’t Spicer just admit that Trump mistyped “coverage” and stop lying?
Liar
GA df.
Here’s the audio…
Audio only because:
WTH?
Too bad, so sad. HE works for US. Answer questions or be removed
Hello TODbots.
Congrats, DF on your solid Au ⭐
Excellent Pictorial Post, Lady NW. Thank you.
A very Pleasant Gorgeous Wednesday Afternoon in My Neck of The Woods 🙂
{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ Danny ❤ }}} Miss you guys.
My Noon time dessert. YUM 😊
Thanks NW ✌🏾
The NBA Finals starts Tomorrow.
Racists & Fanatics are at High Gear, unfortunately. Golden States Warriors (GS) until weeks ago……that I learned that their Home State is CA. For some idiotic reason, I have always associated GS as an Arizona Team.
Amen. In many ways being famous and rich makes it harder. You give the lie to the racists with your success and then they do everything to destroy you, to bring you down to your knees for daring in their words, to be “uppity.” They know that they are mediocre and that being white does not make you smarter, more skilled, gifted. Whiteness gives privilege and opportunity, not excellence.
Putting together a FORCE for justice.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!
chicago.suntimes.com/politics/obama-buys-d-c-home-keeping-house-in-chicago/
I didn’t do that right, sorry. 😦
Wow. They really have his number.
Loved this; I hope it is shared widely.
A LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR ME…INTO THE SIMPLER LIFE HERE…
I DON’T LIKE BIG HOUSES
IF I SPENT THAT MUCH ON ANYTHING..IT WOULD BE ON THE POOR!
UGH, enough already…….
She is full of hot steaming pile of dunk. Didn’t she and someone else just do a glowing story about Ivanka? These people can’t help themselves. She blocked me, so not able to tell her a thing or two, but Lord help us.
Keeping the house will be convenient for when the next Dem President appoints Michelle Obama to the cabinet or SCOTUS. 😜
HAW!!
What’s wrong with people? The Obamas bought that home, if their family like it good for them. Jodi Kantor have nothing to do with it.
There are lobbyist all over DC. This kind of unnecessary criticism makes me sick.
Uh huh
My understanding is that they are renting. So what if they are buying? Why does everyone begrudge the Obamas having a nice lifestyle?
I love the idea of them buying the property because it will become a historic landmark given it belonged to the first AA President and First Lady.
NOONE SHOULD BEGRUDGE THE OBAMAS FOR A NICE LIFESTYLE IF THAT’S WHAT THEY LIKE..THEY EARNED IT HAVING TO PUT UP WITH THE IGNORANT REPUGNANTS IN THIS COUNTRY..I’M HOPING TO MOVE IN WITH MY BROTHER IN PHOENIX..WILDERNESS LIFE..A LITTLE POSSUM FOR SUPPER!
This is a smart move by the Obamas, why rent if you have the money to buy, paying someone else’s mortgage? When you can buy the property as an investment and judging by the location, they will be able to sell it easily or rent it easily when and if they decide to leave D.C. Also they can do whatever they want with the property, without a need to get approval from the landlord. I say it is really a smart move.
folks are giving it good to Kantor for her comments…..
None of Kantor’s muck-spreading lying arse business.
Wow, that was a Obama type response. 🙂
Very high compliment! 🙂
MY DEAR…WE ARE ALREADY CONDEMNED…GOD DOESN’T LIKE THE SELFISHNESS AND GREED IN AMERICA…
WE ARE GOING TO GET WHAT WE DESERVE.
THERE ARE HITLERS AND NAZIS EVERYWHERE..AND EDDIE MUNSTER LOVES THEM ALL.
SICKENING
This literally made me shutter.
They are so challenged by what the Museum represents…that WE, Blk Folks have the nerve to still stand tall despite what we have gone thru…what we continue to go thru…..And we continue to Stand Tall….We stand with courage and perseverance in our hearts…moving ever Foward>>>>>>>letting NOTHING deter us….letting Nothing deter us
Her tears are delicious.
THIS!!!!!!!!!!
She was unanimously flamed and deleted her whiny, white-privileged tweet. As one responder said, she should have kept that thought in her head.
GEEZE, I truly hope the hearing don’t devolve into this kind of crap.
Agreed.
Boom.
We are being fleeced and conned while we spend so much time talking about scandals and typos. Sam Stein’s article at Huff puff “While you Obsessed over Trump’s Scandals He’s Fundamentally changed the Country” spells out all of the things that don’t get the headlines that will affect us for yearn no matter who is in the White House. Worker’s rights, everything from retirement to safety, net neutrality, and many other things. The Heritage Foundation is getting everything it wants. Take a look (I still do not know how to l ink articles).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-scandals-policy_us_592f1effe4b0540ffc841a46
The president’s retrenchment will have immense, generations-long geopolitical ripple effects. Yet on Wednesday morning, it competed for media attention alongside the fallout from Trump’s bizarre Twitter typo the night before and the backlash against comedian Kathy Griffin’s vulgar depiction of a severed Trump head.
On regulatory policy, Trump’s impact has far outpaced the coverage it’s often received. He’s made it harder for workers to set up retirement accounts and has delayed the implementation of workplace safety rules. He repealed a regulation protecting workers from wage theft and allowed employers with spotty labor records to get government contracts. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has hit the brakes on a rule that would require firms to report worker injury data online. Trump has given coal companies permission to dump debris into local streams and canceled requirements for reporting methane emissions. Both the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines have been allowed to proceed, and coal companies have been allowed to again lease on public lands.
Elsewhere, Trump has made moves that will fundamentally alter the way our economy operates and individuals live their lives. His appointment of Ajit Pai to head the Federal Communications Commission is one of them. Pai is poised to dismantle net neutrality rules, moving away from treating online content as a public utility and toward a system that allows cable and telecom industry interests to control content and traffic. “That appointment,” Norquist said, “is [determining] 16 percent of the economy.”
Thanks, DF.
Also goes to what you said:
WOW
Yup & Yup
The hurt is com(ey)ing ….
Love This…
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https://www.ourstates.org/
Kushner built luxury condos using estate grants meant for poor people:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/jared-kushner-built-luxury-condos-using-real-estate-grants-meant-for-poor-communities-report/
“The EB-5 program allows “wealthy foreigners” to get “a fast-track residence visa by investing at least $500,000 in a projectin a ‘targeted employment area’”. Wealthy people buy properties sight unseen, then knock down neighborhoods to put up their properties.
Important to get Heritage protection laws on these issues quickly.. Even better – end this program.
WHAT??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/05/31/flourish-potus-and-flotus-flourish/