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Former First Lady Michelle Obama became teary as she accepted the Tom Hanks Caregiver Champion award for service to military caregivers on Thursday night at the Elizabeth Dole Foundation’s Hidden Heroes gala.
Opening up during a speech at the Washington, D.C. event, the former first lady said she first became aware of the difficulties for spouses, parents, and children of wounded and ill vets while on the campaign trail when her husband was first running for president.
“You all changed me forever,” she said. “You have changed the way I see service, you’ve changed the way I see war, you’ve changed the way I see this entire country. Whether we simply talk about the values we like to pride ourselves on, values like duty and honor and patriotism, or if we actually live them out.”
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The Obama Diary 
Hello, everybody; hope you are all having (or have had) a blessed Sunday.
Hiya VC! Good to see you, Dear! Hope all is well!
{{{D-ette}}} Yes, all is well here.
❤️ good afternoon, vc!
^5 Df! ❤
This story of the couple is so wonderful. And so are all those involve in helping families, including our forever First Lady and the Doles..
Hi International sis
I’ll sent you a text
oppps! *send*
Hi, VC!
Oh my goodness. Sad to hear this news.
😔
Sorry to hear about Rep. Conyers.
🙏🏾
WOW
It is shameful that he would lie about something as important as this mission. It is good that this man was captured but we can’t take our eyes off impeachment and all of his other abuses and criminal behavior.
Indeed
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I heard it was the Kurds who came up with the information about ISIS leader location, if true and Trump pays them back by stabbing them in the back. And Trump did not refuse to tell the Democrats about the raid because he was afraid the info might be leak. He did so because he was mad at them for the Impeachment Inquiry. Did President Obama inform the Democrats and Republicans leaders eight?
🙏🏾
Comrade Tang is Fake AF
Look carefully at their eyes. They are all looking serious, but in different directions. Compare that with the Pete Souza photo with all eyes going to the same focal point. Trump needed a situation room photo too so staged it.
That was projection about Pelosi. It was really HIM that was going to leak
That’s my girl!
Good answer!
It really is
Please be safe California!
God bless those poor people – and the firefighters!
Hi Dudette! I finally got up the courage to log back on! Yes, she is my girl too from the beginning! She can stand up to anything Trump and the Republicans can throw at her.
Happy Diwali, spread the light!
🎼One Nation Under A Groove! 🎵🎶
🏳️🌈🇹🇼
Science!
JH gettin’ all romantic! 😃
😂😂😂😂 He DOES have great taste in music!
I just want to say thank you to everyone that posts the most diverse and interesting bits of info here… some makes me smile, cry, heartbroken and uplifted… but it’s all important and meaningful. Thank you, family. It warms my heart . Special thanks to our Nerdy…. would not happen without you and we are all grateful.
I agree with all you say DF, but I also want to thank you for bringing all you bring here. You really have good sources! Hope school is going good.
🙏 Just peruse and bring the things over that I think would be interesting/ informative:)
Please add my name to “Special thanks to our Nerdy” – and everybody else here – and thank you, DF, for all the great, great posts you share!
Just let him talk. He shits up everything.
Trump lies so much that no one believes anything he says. This military operation is not his doing and he’s not going to get any accolades for it.
Well deserved!
I thought Joe and Jill did just fine. Enjoyed it.
Norah was being Norah, but not as bad as I’ve seen her.
This is sad and unfortunate
Congresswoman Katie Hill announced she’s stepping down. 🙁
FFS . Norah O’Donnell drives me up a fucking wall
Me, too.
Busy week
Wow they really were booing? Not unless that’s the way the MAGA crowd show their love for him. Ha! Ha! Ha!.
It’s D.C. They were booing.
Hello, TODville Community.
🙌😍🤗
Tiger Keeps making History.
My last Tiger Post for Today!
🙌😍🤗
Smiling in my bed!
😆
First Lady Michelle Obama…gave an extraordinary heartfelt speech…it brought tears to my eyes…i so miss her humanity in the white house
Good night for a game.
Karma! From people wearing red too. Maybe the color red has not been ruined for all time like I previously thought.
Yes! Let’s all blow some kisses to Ms. Karma before we sleep tonight!
What this rag did to Katie Hill is interjecting a foreign entity into our business, or political process. Not acceptable
What this rag did to Katie Hill is interjecting a foreign entity into our business, or political process. Not acceptable
No.
Sad to hear this today. To confirm my memory, I went to his wiki page and found one of my favorite facts about his inside team:
“Rosa Parks, known for her prominent role in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, moved to Detroit and served on Conyers’ staff between 1965 and 1988.”
Let’s
Making us weaker and less trusted all over the world. Russia’s plan is working
Ha!
Go Roger! 🎾
Lewis Hamilton! 🏎
😍🤓
Love!
brilliant! love to them both.
This is the best!
For all who criticized Nancy Smash from their lofty perches, I’m noticing so very many of them are now giving her the congrats she deserves for playing chess while so many were playing checkers … and that makes my little heart happy.
Not to rub it in. And goodnight, TODville! Tomorrow is another day!
P.S. My sister sent me a message that she just spotted this comment – loved it so much I had to share!
” … and it was on this glorious day that I fell in love with baseball”
No.
In fact the Bin Laden raid was the day AFTER the WH Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
Not a joking matter.
Good Morning! Here’s Chef Andres being his awesome self! ❤️
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wow gorgeous colorful veggies! Chef José Andrés is an Wonder.
Love his comments about being an immigrant and baseball being “a game full of immigrants”.
-love.
Cali evacuations…
Dear God! 😱
Aw sweet!
Fred is the best!
Thriller!
Spare us all! 🙄
imo it was an important moment of shared truth — a celebration of getting free of the lies.
I am usually 100% for respectful behavior. But in this instance with Trump being as rude, crude and immoral in his speech and behavior he deserves to be treated the same way he treats others. Why? Because he and the World would assume we like and appreciate him as our leader if we treated him politely. There is little we can do, but to accept it politely is not something I want to do.
Per Vote Vets: “Kurds announce they have been helping provide intel that ultimately found Baghdadi for five months. That means as they were helping us find Baghdadi, Donald Trump greenlit the Turkish operation to slaughter them.” Our military, special forces, military and the Kurds were the heroes.
-Trump was reportedly kept in the dark
-Kurdish forces kept the secret while being killed and forced out of their homes.
-How do we make this up to them?
Indeed, how on this green earth do #WeThePeople can ever pay back the debts we owe to the Kurds?
Good Morning, TODbots.
😁🐔
This is genius level advertising, Popeyes’ put out a great product and build up the demand to a fever pitch then all of a sudden they take it away. They then let the public stew, and then they bring it back.
I haven’t even tried the chicken sandwich yet.
Yep. I sure want one. Never got to try it because they were always out when I went this summer. Drive thru lines were ridiculous!
SoCal neighbors. Please help spread the word.
This was a Joint Operation with the Kurdish SDF.
Trump routine: Somebody else does the work, he doesn’t pay for it, then he takes the credit.
Gross betrayal by Trump served the Kurdish people on a platter to Erdogan so he could “cleanse” them from where they’ve lived for centuries, been denied sovereignty, and forced to use violence to defend it. And for the hat trick, Trump handed the Middle East to Putin.
Kristof (NYT) to Tur:
“Look, this was imperfect, but they (the Kurds) genuinely tried to create an entity that was democratic,
that protected minority rights like those of the Yazidi, like those of the minority Christian community that empowered women. And they trusted and they saved American lives when they worked with us. They trusted us. We told them that they could take out their defenses to the North because we had their backs, and then we walked out and left them to be attacked.”
Kristof: “So, often in foreign policy there`s a tension between our values and our interests. In this case, not only have we betrayed our values, but we`ve damaged our own interests. The beneficiaries here are – well the Syrian government, Iran, Russia. With Trump, so many roads lead to Russia, of course.”
“So he (Trump) did not make Kurds part of this deal. Kurds were not part of this negotiation. He decided to negotiate with Turks. And now he`s claiming that there`s victory. If there`s any victory, the victory is that of the Turks and the Turkish government who has done what it has planned to do.”
SOON: Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks at J Street Conference in Washington –
https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-7
Happy National First Responders Day!
Morning everyone. Stay safe, SoCal friends. It’s crazy dangerous!
Crooked Barr:
“By threatening criminal prosecution of the career law enforcement and intelligence professionals
who alerted the world to Russia’s subversion of the 2016 election, Trump’s civil service consigliere (BARR)
hopes to give the President what he’s lacked from day one: legitimacy.”
His boss:
“Decades later, 20 years into a new century we find ourselves caught in a real world “Get Smart” scenario
where CONTROL, protectors of the post-World War II liberal democratic world order, are in an existential,
winner-take-all battle against the TrumPutin forces of KAOS ruled by a cult of bully personalities. For Trump, chaos always been a management style used to blow up the rules and create the vacuum he needs to impose his will as the new illiberal order.”
(imo must-read: https://www.salon.com/2019/10/27/trumps-chaos-targets-the-rule-of-law-as-he-dismantles-our-government-from-within/)
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/progress-keeps-marching-forward/