Celebrating Dani

My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny. We will miss her dearly, but we’ll celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable life. pic.twitter.com/avDY4f1PVu

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 29, 2021

Just lost the most important person in my life – my gran, Mama Sarah. My heart is broken! But as I write, not able to stop the tears from pouring, I know I was blessed to have her for so long! My inspiration, my rock, my comfort zone, my safe space. Rest in peace Dani! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/GkkKrL4oYb

— Auma Obama (@AumaObama) March 29, 2021

Mama Sarah, as the step-grandmother of the former U.S. president was fondly called, promoted education for girls and orphans in her rural Kogelo village. https://t.co/d1kTc66mz8

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) March 29, 2021

1988 when Barack Obama visited his grandmother mama Sarah Obama. Rest In Power pic.twitter.com/uW6LECa8LC

— WaHeru 🇰🇪 ☥ (@AlphaMsanii) March 29, 2021

Message of Condolence by the Council of Governors on the passing of Mama Sarah Onyango Obama. May her soul rest in eternal peace pic.twitter.com/GWfhgCseqc

— Council of Governors (@KenyaGovernors) March 29, 2021

2017. Mama Sarah Obama Goodwill Ambassador in Tsetse fly eradication receiving Dr. Pamela Olet KENTTEC CEO in Alego Kogelo to sensitize community on need to embrace modern techniques in tsetse eradication.
May she rest in eternal peace. we have lost an Ambassador and commander pic.twitter.com/U0pVaXncwt

— Kenya Tsetse & Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council (@KenyaTsetse) March 29, 2021

In 2008 I photographed Mama Sarah Obama. I walked into her gate unannounced and she graciously accepted l photograph her as she worked in her compound. A month later, her grandson Barack Obama was elected as the 44th US President. May she rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/s4TJ5cWo1Z

— Boniface Mwangi (@bonifacemwangi) March 29, 2021

Sarah Onyango Obama, stepgrandmother of Barack Obama, died on Monday at a hospital in Kenya. She was 99.

Known widely among Kenyans as Mama Sarah, she was seen as the matriarch of the former president’s extended family in Africa.https://t.co/0J0qpPdnvk

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 29, 2021

My heartfelt condolences to the Family of Obama who has lost a mother, a grandma & a role model. Mama Sarah Obama, the Grandma to Former US President Barrack Obama dies at the age of 99 at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching & Referral Hospital. RIP MAMA SARAH pic.twitter.com/Gpsm3HIh2u

— CHERONO TOWETT LLB (@Mercy_Mutai9) March 29, 2021

President @BarackObama your grandmother's magnetic personality and ability to care deeply for others allowed her to cultivate many lasting relationships. She will always be remembered. May the soul of Mama Sarah Obama Rest in Peace. pic.twitter.com/fT8Wct3hbP

— James Orengo (@orengo_james) March 29, 2021

I had the privilege of meeting Mama Sarah twice (in 2015 & 2018); she was an AMAZING woman! Reminded me so much of my own grandmother - loved education yet didn’t get much of it!

We spoke for a while in 2015 & gave me advise that I carry with me to this day. May she rest well🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/nW5zEy56m1

— Timothy Otieno (@TimothyOtieno_) March 29, 2021

[VIDEO]: President Barack Obama dances with his grandmother Mama Sarah in Kogelo #RipSarahObama pic.twitter.com/Ggmi0wZdW1

— The African Voice (@teddyeugene) March 29, 2021

A Happy Mother’s Day!

From an early age, my mom saw that I had a flame inside me and she never tempered it. Mom, thank you for kindling that fire within me, and for your example as a mother and a grandmother to our girls. We would never be who we are today without you. #HappyMothersDay, Mom. Love you. pic.twitter.com/2LYOS7jzPD

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 12, 2019

Happy Mother's Day to the most caring, brilliant, funny, and grounded woman I know—a perfect role model not just for our daughters, but so many others. Love you, @MichelleObama. pic.twitter.com/liWmYaEPVk

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 12, 2019

First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates Moms

First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks during the annual Mother’s Day tea to honor military mothers at the White House. Part of the Joining Forces initiative, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden also helped military kids create Mother’s Day cards and homemade gifts, which the children presented to their mothers and grandmothers.

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ABC News: First Lady Praises Her Mom At Mother’s Day Event

Extending the Mother’s Day celebration by a day, Michelle Obama on Monday saluted military mothers for the sacrifices they make both for their families and their country, and she honored her own mother as the person who keeps her “standing up straight on my feet.” The first lady joked that her mother, Marian Robinson, “never comes to anything” at the White House, except this annual Mother’s Day tea for military moms. Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, co-host the event as part of Joining Forces, their nationwide initiative to encourage the public to support military families and veterans. Speaking of her mother, Mrs. Obama said the event “gives me an opportunity, once a year, to embarrass her by publicly stating how much my mom has meant to me.” Mrs. Robinson lives in the White House. She sat in the front row for the East Room event.

“There is no way I would be standing up straight on my feet if it weren’t for my mom, who is always there to look after our girls, to love them and to be mad at me when I’m disciplining them,” she told dozens of military mothers, grandmothers and children. Mrs. Obama said mother also has “been that shoulder for me to lean on.” “I can always go up to her room and cry, complain, argue and she just says, ‘Go on back down there,'” Mrs. Obama said. “So if my mom reflects the love and support the moms here have given to their families, then we’re in a good place here.” Near the end of the ceremony, a girl raised her hand and, in a tearful voice, told Mrs. Obama she didn’t get to do all the crafts with the first lady. Mrs. Obama linked the girl with an aide and promised that “you’re going to do every single craft that we have.”

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Singer-songwriter Norah Jones holds her new baby as the stands next to her mother Sue Jones after singing during the annual Mother’s Day tea to honor military mothers, hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden

First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden visit with children working on crafts as they host their annual Mother’s Day tea to honor military mothers

Early Bird Chat

Ladies and Gents…my very first grand babies and it’s twin girls!! pic.twitter.com/14Rlx5ezps

— Donna NoShock (@NoShock) December 19, 2013

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Donna, they are beeeeeeautiful!! Congratulations again.

MoooOOOooorning Early Birds, including Tamara and Samaya!

Chat Away

In case anyone missed the blissful news: Donna Dem is the proud new Grandma of twin girls, Tamara and Samaya.

Woooooot!

Congratulations Donna, love to you and your family from us all.

This and That

President Obama at the National Academy of Sciences, April 29

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Mary Foxx, grandmother of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, is seen seated in the East Room of the White House where President Barack Obama announced that he nominated her grandson as transportation secretary. Mary Foxx worked at the White House in the Truman Administration

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Will catch up with the news in the morning

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Wishing GoBrooklyn all the very best ahead of her operation tomorrow (Tuesday) – love from us all.

Heads up: President Obama at Norfolk State University

12:35: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at Norfolk State University

BarackObama.com * Wavy.com * C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2

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The Convention on YouTube:

I’ve added this live streaming video to the sidebar on the right (top), so whenever you want to see it, just click the video title (‘Dem Convention live’) and it will take you to YouTube. Isn’t technology a wonder? 😎

Schedule here

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A gazillion congratulations to Jackiegrumbacher on becoming a grandmother for the first time – the 6lb lloz girl was born this morning. That’s not her in the pic, by the way 😕

If you would like to donate $6 to one of the TOD fundraisers to celebrate the occasion, you would be more than welcome 😉 (Thank you Donna!)

a4alice * Alycee * BWD * CollegeKay * Cookemom * DonnaDem4Obama

Hgerhard * HZ * Judith Fardig * Mae Who Love Our CIC

Marlz * Meta * Pamela *prettyfoot58 * proudmemberofglobalzero * Rita * Theo67 * The Obama Diary

christmas lights

President Obama jokes with his daughter Sasha as they sing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

afternoon all

The Capital Area Foodbank, Washington DC, Nov 23

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A gazillion thanks to those of you who provide links to posts on other blogs, really appreciate it, it makes it so easy for all of us to keep up with what’s worth reading.

Just a very, very polite request: please only include a few short extracts from the posts and then provide the link to the full piece. eg If it’s, say, a piece by Steve Benen that runs to about 10 paragraphs, just include about 2 or 3 paragraphs, or parts of 3 or 4, and then the link.

If we post most or all of the piece here then there’ll be no need for us to visit the blog itself, which isn’t fair on the author of the post in question. Thanks everyone.

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Mediaite

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Jon Hopwood (Yahoo): …. Barack Obama visited New Hampshire two days after Mitt Romney …. the events illustrated a substantial difference in style between two politicians….

… Obama’s appearance, in which the President displayed a fire-in-the-belly that was perfect for prime time and showed him in full campaign mode, was in sharp contrast to the more subdued political pitch made by Romney in Nashua. While Obama is cool, he can turn up the heat. The laid-back Romney, in contrast, comes across as cold….

Obama roused an enthusiastic crowd with his rhetoric. He was back at being the master of the campaign trail. Romney, in contrast, was rather flat …. Romney’s appearance brought to mind Clint Eastwood’s recent remarks about him: That if a movie-maker was looking for an actor to play the President, central casting would send over Mitt. Just what he stood for, Clint said, is anybody’s guess.

…. Romney was paired with the tall and also good-looking Kelly Ayotte. But there was something uncanny about the pair, something not quite human. Rather than fashion models, they struck me as two mannequins that had miraculously come to life and had escaped from Macy’s. There was a plastic quality about both, and for a candidate for President of the United States going up against one of the great campaigners of modern times, Barack Obama, this could prove fatal.

Full article here

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Thanks amk 😉

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ThinkProgress: Romney in Des Moines, Iowa today said that he isn’t “trying to put money in people’s pockets. That’s the other party.”

Thanks desertflower

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is it a bird, is it a plane….

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and the first lady’s mother Marian Robinson, offer treats to trick-or-treaters to celebrate Halloween on the North Portico of the White House