112 Responses to “Meeting Senator Obama”


  1. August 23, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Plan to savor the tremendous success of the DNC convention, avoid the RNC, and write tons of postcards to voters this week. Who’s with me?

  2. 2 pkayden
    August 23, 2020 at 9:17 pm

  3. 3 tnmtngirl1
    August 23, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    I hope someone will post the ABC interview. I was on phone with a hood friend from OH. Only saw the last 15 minutes. Read tweets, but want to see entire interview. Thanks!

  4. August 23, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    We all need to set aside our morbid curiosity and love of the surreal and NOT WATCH ONE SECOND OF THE SHIT_SHOW next week. DO NOT ADD TO THE VIEWERSHIP RATINGS! The many absurd, sickening and vomitous low-lights will available later.

  5. 5 jer44
    August 23, 2020 at 9:50 pm

  6. August 23, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    • August 23, 2020 at 10:10 pm

      It is a hard decision to make..to actually follow thru with…to have to leave your job…that you expected to retire from…it is not a easy thing to do…but i am sure that the folks at the FDA were watching what happened at the CDC..knowing that their time was coming

  7. August 23, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will stop the bleeding…but it will be massive undertaking to fix the damage that has been done at all the Federal agencies…

  8. 11 marleysperson
    August 23, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    • 12 lmcae72
      August 24, 2020 at 10:00 am

      Acceptable loses to them because the majority are Black, brown and Native. All of the let’s rush to re-opening was all about the white view of “why should my life be put on hold because of these people?” Nothing happens in this country until large numbers of white people are affected by it, then it is considered an emergency. Black people always know that they are on their own.

  9. 13 marleysperson
    August 23, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    All week long! Sounds like a dandy idea:)

  10. 14 marleysperson
    August 23, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    Funny Kelly Clarkson:)

  11. 15 marleysperson
    August 23, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    They are all dirty traitors.

    • 16 todjey
      August 23, 2020 at 11:14 pm

      The entire GOP and Trump admin have to release their birth certificate … cuz at this rate, their loyalty is starting to be questionable.

  12. 17 todjey
    August 23, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Van Jones on Anderson Cooper today said that we should be watching the RNC convention so that we have an idea of what tactics the Repugs will be engaging in. Even if we have to fortify ourselves with pepto- bismal to get through the entire convention.

    I still say no thanks. Ack.

  13. 18 marleysperson
    August 23, 2020 at 11:36 pm

    Awful. Just awful.

  14. 19 whenpamelawandered
    August 23, 2020 at 11:51 pm

    Leaving this here for you to enjoy, big hugs all around!

  15. 21 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 9:30 am

  16. 22 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 9:40 am

  17. 25 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 9:45 am

  18. 31 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 9:49 am

  19. 33 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 9:50 am

  20. 35 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 9:59 am

  21. 36 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 10:17 am

    Morning everyone. Happy Shit Show Week. Not watching. Don’t give a shit what they do/say. Whatever it is, it will be dark, undemocratic, and evil. I want this sign.

  22. 37 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 10:17 am

    Morning everyone. Happy Shit Show Week. Not watching. Don’t give a shit what they do/say. Whatever it is, it will be dark, undemocratic, and evil. I want this sign.

  23. 39 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 10:39 am

  24. 40 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 10:39 am

    I learned something new today… and it’s only 7:39 am:)

  25. 41 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 10:46 am

  26. 42 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 10:52 am

    Good Morning, TODbots.

  27. August 24, 2020 at 11:11 am

    VP Joe Biden accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for President at the National Democratic Convention 2020.

  28. August 24, 2020 at 11:13 am

    VP Joe Biden:
    “The tragedy of where we are today is it didn’t have to be this bad. Just look around.
    It’s not this bad in Canada. Or Europe. Or Japan. Or almost anywhere else in the world.
    And the President keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting for a miracle. Well, I have news for him, no miracle is coming. We lead the world in confirmed cases. We lead the world in deaths.
    Our economy is in tatters, with Black, Latino, Asian American, Native American communities bearing the brunt of it. And after all this time, the president still does not have a plan. Well, I do.”

    • August 24, 2020 at 11:19 am

      Over 176,000 of our fellow Americans are dead, and over one thousand dying every day.
      Hayes described this incredibly compelling speech as an “unadorned”. We see vividly VP Biden’s competency and compassion and light. Meanwhile nada from the nation’s current ‘leaders’.

    • August 24, 2020 at 11:20 am

      VP Joe Biden:
      “I understand how hard it is to have any hope right now.
      On this summer night, let me take a moment to speak to those of you who have lost the most. I have some idea how it feels to lose someone you love…..I know how mean, and cruel, and unfair life can be sometimes. But I’ve learned two things. First, your loved one may have left this Earth but they’ll never leave your heart. They’ll always be with you. You’ll always hear them. And second, I found the best way through pain and loss and grief is to find purpose.”

    • August 24, 2020 at 11:21 am

      Hayes: “Joe Biden provided the country with a public national moment of mourning,
      directly addressing the many Americans who have lost loved ones in this pandemic, sharing his own loss and pain with them. Tonight, tonight we’re seeing the first visuals of a mass memorial, with 176,000 lives lost. Hundreds of people marching in the streets of cities like New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and San Diego on a day when more than a thousand Americans died from the Coronavirus again. This is the reality of the situation we are in and what we have lost. It does not have to be like this. We can still turn this thing around. And given where things are, that seems as compelling a message in the final stretch of this campaign as any.”

    • August 24, 2020 at 11:23 am

      Ron Klain, VP Biden’s former Chief of Staff:
      “I think people say that’s the best speech he’s ever given. I’ve heard him give speeches like that before.
      I think what it was, was an authentically Joe Biden speech on the largest stage he’s ever had. I think what made last night’s speech so different from other speeches was the moment, the crisis we’re in as a country. The multiple crises we’re in as a country. And the fact that the America was looking to see if Joe Biden is the man to lead us out of those crises. And I think at that moment, at this time, I think him being himself, so authentically who he is, talking about the loss we’ve suffered as a country, talking about his toughness and determination, talking about the side he will choose to go forward with, the side of the light, and then talking about what we would do about these things. I think these were very authentically Joe Biden ways of talking about things. And I think it’s what the country is looking for now.”

    • August 24, 2020 at 11:25 am

      Ronald Klain, former Biden Chief of Staff: DNC speech was “authentically Joe Biden”.
      “I’ve known him for 30 years. I’ve seen Joe Biden do that time and time again when no one is watching,” says Ron Klain of Biden helping the young man with his stutter. “What I’ve loved about this week is that we’ve been able to tell those stories to the country at large, so they can see why so many of us who know him well love him so much.”
      (https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-biden-chief-of-staff-dnc-speech-was-authentically-joe-biden-90453573667)

  29. 50 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 11:29 am

    If any video of this becomes available, please share

  30. August 24, 2020 at 11:48 am

    Senator Maggie Hassan:
    “The Trump administration is planning to end the #2020Census count early.
    Make sure you’re counted by taking just a few minutes to fill it out today.”

  31. 52 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    Stark

  32. August 24, 2020 at 12:07 pm

  33. August 24, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Senator Maggie Hassan on Hayes:
    Her takeaway from the DeJoy hearing on Friday:
    “We have a Postmaster General who either doesn’t understand the impact of these operational changes he started about a month ago, or doesn’t care about the impact on real people in my state and all across the country. Who as you point out, depend on the Postal Service from everything from getting their medications to getting business supplies, or their Social Security checks. And as troubling, is that when we presented him with this information, he refused to actually reverse course at all.”

    • August 24, 2020 at 12:15 pm

      Senator Hassan:
      “In my state of New Hampshire that is particularly concerning.
      They’ve removed one of two sorting machines from our biggest distribution facility.
      Leaving us with just one.
      It broke this week.
      And that delays everything.
      And so he is refusing to reverse course even when we tell him how it’s impacting people.
      The other big take away was he said that they would prioritize election mail as we’re heading towards an election where record numbers of Americans would vote by mail, but he had no specifics about how he was going to accomplish this. So it was a concerning hearing to be sure, and we just have to keep after him.”

    • August 24, 2020 at 12:17 pm

      Refuse to remove machines and post boxes.
      Reinstall machines that DeJoy has removed.
      STOP DeJoy-Trump!!

  34. 58 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    Stark. Crickets from the other one

  35. August 24, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    dear Dudette is all well? Have been wanting to ask how your Mom is doing.
    A friend keeps re-experiencing fallout from our brush with COVID. It’s very disorienting, exhausting, and scary at times. Hoping you don’t have anything like that. In any case pls take care,
    love.

  36. 60 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 12:33 pm

    Exactly

  37. 62 Nerdy Wonka
    August 24, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    • August 24, 2020 at 1:03 pm

      PLEASE make this front and center news across our world.
      Do these police officers have any children? Let’s have a look at what their families look like.
      Our police system is total crap. We need a do-over. But first sling these people in uniforms into jail.
      The murderous white police state has had a nice run and got away with it for this long.
      Protest, protest, protest all the way for police reform and gun reform.
      We are so done with U.S. police domination.

      • 64 whenpamelawandered
        August 24, 2020 at 2:05 pm

        Who pays the hospital bills for the victims of police brutality? Who pays for their ongoing recovery, for the trauma, the disability, for the PTSD those children will have to deal with, the entire family? When police reform FINALLY becomes a serious concern, this is a factor to be considered, and ought to be high on the docket of accountability. This goes for any and all victims of gunshot tragedies. I have a candle going as well, it seems a small gesture, but it comes from the heart.

    • 65 todjey
      August 24, 2020 at 1:23 pm

      I am neither Christian nor overly religious. Though i do go to a church once in a blue moon to light a candle.

      All I can say is, Jesus please help this man. (I don’t know what his condition is – read somewhere he is in stable condition).
      I don’t have any comment apart from that. Just can’t.

      Police officers rewarded with time off I see.

  38. 66 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 12:48 pm

  39. 67 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 1:36 pm

    NOW: Unveiling of Aretha Franklin Memorial Highway sign in Detroit – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-09

  40. 68 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 1:43 pm

  41. 69 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 2:00 pm

    These are NOT HIS MACHINES TO TAKE OUT and /or trash!! They belong to the taxpayers! He should be made to return them the way they were!! Why are we having a damn discussion about this!??

  42. 70 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 2:06 pm

  43. August 24, 2020 at 2:08 pm

  44. 72 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 2:40 pm

    Like metastatic cancer.

  45. 73 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    Bring out the cheesy things!!

  46. August 24, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Add to the can’t do list:

    Door to door salesman while Black…

  47. August 24, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

  48. August 24, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    Am going to hit all those PBO playlists for next 4 days!

    Hello, our fab Dudette, if you have a playlist, please post it! Asking for our sanity this week! 😘

  49. 77 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 3:49 pm

  50. 80 No Child Left Behind
    August 24, 2020 at 3:50 pm

    JUST IN: Republican congresswoman from Puerto Rico has tested positive for COVID19 — ‘after attending multiple political activities with masses of people’

  51. 81 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 3:58 pm

  52. 82 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 4:00 pm

  53. 83 pkayden
    August 24, 2020 at 4:23 pm

  54. 85 Nerdy Wonka
    August 24, 2020 at 4:45 pm

  55. 86 Nerdy Wonka
    August 24, 2020 at 4:51 pm

  56. 87 No Child Left Behind
    August 24, 2020 at 4:52 pm

    Dangerous times we live in!

    BP Biden and Senator Harris to be tested regularly for COVID19, campaign says. Staff interacting with them will be tested regularly and the campaign vows it “will make public if either the Vice President or Senator Harris ever has a confirmed, positive case of COVID-19.”

    • 88 No Child Left Behind
      August 24, 2020 at 4:55 pm

      Meanwhile…. Coronavirus cases in multiple states have been linked back to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, which saw hundreds of thousands convene over 10 days.

  57. 89 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 4:53 pm

  58. 90 No Child Left Behind
    August 24, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    It’s official: BREAKING: Jerry Falwell Jr. has resigned from Liberty University. Another strong Trump supporter for the Nobel Prize, in scandals that is.

  59. 95 No Child Left Behind
    August 24, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    Melania Trump’s former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is publishing a new tell-all book about her time in and around the White House. Reporter Yashar Ali says that according to his sources, Wolkoff’s book quotes Melania making disparaging remarks about Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and other of Donald’s children. With Wolkoff’s book about to ship, it’s not clear if these audio recordings are going to be released in that same timeframe.

  60. 97 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 5:14 pm

  61. August 24, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    So, what’s the plan after 2023???

  62. 100 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    Holy Molly.

  63. 102 pkayden
    August 24, 2020 at 6:13 pm

  64. 103 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 6:19 pm

  65. 104 jer44
    August 24, 2020 at 6:33 pm

  66. 105 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 7:09 pm

  67. 106 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 7:11 pm

  68. 107 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    • August 24, 2020 at 9:22 pm

      Exactly. Trump and the Trump Organization are in the business of conning people and the base are the conned. Mere marks to be conned. And they have fallen for it, think they nailed it…sick.

  69. 109 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 7:45 pm

  70. 110 nena20409
    August 24, 2020 at 7:47 pm

  71. 111 marleysperson
    August 24, 2020 at 8:34 pm


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