An Introduction For The Ages

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Heads Up: President Obama in Columbus

President Obama delivers remarks at Nationwide Arena, Columbus – according to the official schedule, he will speak at 4:10 ET

Livestream * C-Span * CBS * CNN

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Greatest intro EVER:

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3:15 ET Michelle Obama speaking in Charlotte (now!)

WCNC

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Later (all times ET):

6:10: Michelle Obama in Orlando (Links?)

7:0: VP Biden and Jill Biden deliver remarks at the American Civil War Center in Richmond, Va. (with John Mellencamp) CNN

10:50: President Obama and Michelle Obama deliver remarks in Des Moines

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‘What We’re Fighting For’

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What a welcome….

You can see the speech at C-Span

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4:40 ET Bill Clinton in NC – CNN

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Coming up:

7:55 ET: President Obama delivers remarks at 5th/3rd Arena, Cincinnati

10:25 MDT: Delivers remarks at Community College of Aurora at Lowry

Barack & Bill

Also at C-Span

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Sunday:

EDT

8:0: President Obama departs the White House

9:30: Arrives Concord, New Hampshire

*** 10:25: Delivers remarks at Capitol Square, Concord ***

11:50: Departs Manchester, New Hampshire

2:50: Arrives Hollywood, Florida

*** 3:40: Delivers remarks at McArthur High School, Hollywood ***

5:0: Departs Hollywood

7:10: Arrives Cincinnati, Ohio

*** 7:55: Delivers remarks at 5th/3rd Arena, Cincinnati ***

9:10: Departs Cincinnati

MDT

9:50: Arrives Aurora, Colorado

*** 10:25: Delivers remarks at Community College of Aurora at Lowry ***

11:30: Departs Aurora

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Bob has just reminded me of the clock-changey thing …. will need to double-check these times tomorrow  😕

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Monday: The President will travel to Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio for campaign events. In the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will travel to Des Moines, Iowa for a campaign event. In the evening, they will travel to Chicago where they will remain overnight.

Tuesday: The First Family will spend Election day in Chicago.

Wednesday: The First Family will return to Washington, DC.

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Virginia Beach

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Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired up!!

See the speech at C-Span

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… with Air Force Col. Michael A. Minihan

Andrews, Sept 27

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…. with Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) at Naval Air Station Oceania, Sept 27

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Meanwhile …..

Springfield, Virginia, Sept 27

Just sayin’.

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Heads Up: President Obama at Bowling Green State University

1:05 (approx): President Obama delivers remarks at Bowling Green State University, Ohio

C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2

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Enthusiasm gap? 😆

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Later:

5:30: President Obama delivers remarks at Kent State University, Ohio

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Email from Jeremy Bird, National Field Director, Obama for America:

If you think your $5 isn’t enough to make a difference in this campaign, take a minute to read the letter below – it’s officially gone viral among campaign staff (with the sender’s permission).

The most powerful thing about making a donation is that you’re joining more than 3 million other Americans who believe ordinary people should decide this election.

It adds up. And it depends on each of us doing our part:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Sandy

Thanks, Jeremy

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Dear President Obama,

I’m writing to tell you about the $15 my family just donated to your 2012 campaign.

It was $15. That’s really all we could give.

My husband Steve is currently a student at Temple University. Since starting his degree, three years ago, we’ve been living considerably below the poverty level (I keep forgetting which percent … does it matter?). But we aren’t complaining. Two healthy daughters; dusty, well-travelled backpacks in the basement; a house full of memories — a future full of hope. We’re the lucky ones.

So — we’re currently “poor on money — rich in life” (as we like to say). It hasn’t always been like this. My husband spent most of his life doing what he loved — playing or coaching basketball. Born in SE Iowa, he was an Academic All-American and once-upon-two-good-knees-ago, the “local town hero” of his small town — after bringing home the State Championship during high school, followed by NJCAA National Championship years later as a coach. He’s a big a fan of yours by the way … as a player, father and president … not necessarily in that order.

But this really wasn’t supposed to be a letter about him.

It’s about this year’s campaign. It’s about wanting to say that $15 means something these days and deserves a moment of pause (and some words on paper) for this girl and her family of Obama fans.

— $15 is a special pizza dinner at our local pizza stop (Poppi’s in Wynnewood).
— It’s 1 1/2 tickets to see the newest film at the old-school cinema we walk our daughters to.
— It’s getting fresh fruit, instead of frozen; fresh veg, instead of canned.
— It’s tickets to the Franklin Institute in the heart of Philly. (We’ve never been.)

It’s all these things to a family like ours.

I’ve listened with curiosity, mostly frustration, as the nation debates Citizens’ United and the string of new laws that now allow the bellowing voices of private interest to drown out the sounds of tiny voices (like ours/mine). Our pebble-in-the-ocean support feels almost pointless. “Leave the campaigns to the rich,” I think to myself, “Get your daughters a pizza instead.”

But I refuse to allow new laws to stop us/me from being A PART of this campaign. After all, I will never be a “player” (in the political sense), but I still want to believe I can play a part.

Then, out of the blue, there you are — shooting a jumpshot on my (Facebook) wall — and asking for “players” to join you on your home court. I had to smile, and then I couldn’t resist. And so, I have relinquished those $15.

Please know that they count. To us. Please stay in Washington. Do, in this second term, what you were not assisted/supported to do during your first term. Get this country moving/working/hoping again.

Please continue being a champion for the middle class — I’m hoping the next pizza will be on you.

Wishes to your brave wife and beautiful daughters from another brave wife with two beautiful daughters.

All good things,

Sandy & Family, PA

(Thank you BWD)

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While you’re waiting….

Thanks Bob!

This and That – And More On The Enthusiasm Gap

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Michael Cohen (The Guardian): Two conventions, two Americas. Seldom has the divide been greater – Witnessing both conferences is to see anger from the Republicans and abiding hope from the Democrats

…. the philosophical and tonal divide between them has never felt broader. Quite simply, Democrats and Republicans operate in two completely distinct realms, one that is defined by an attachment to reality and one that is increasingly detached from it.

…. Republicans reside in a fantasy world where government plays no role but that of malevolence, where the free market is the salvation to all that ails this nation and where the country is locked in a Manichaean struggle between the forces of freedom and a failed, socialist interloper named Barack Obama.

…. For four decades, Republicans have relied on an undercurrent of white resentment toward social and economic change to maintain their pre-eminence in national politics. But with an African-American president and the country moving closer to “minority-majority” status, that dominance is slipping away and it feeds the sense of anger and desperation they tried to keep hidden in Tampa, but that all too often crept to the surface….

…. the contrast between the hues in Charlotte and Tampa was remarkable. The Democratic party is a party that looks like the palette of the American experience, not just in skin colour, but in class level. The Republican party (the one in the Tampa convention hall) is one that looks like Sunday brunch at a country club.

Full article here

Thanks Ladyhawke and amk

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President Obama’s introduction at The Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, Sept 9

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Genius:

‏@RafalcaRomney

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AP: Ford is adding 1,200 workers to a suburban Detroit factory to build the Fusion, a sign of confidence that the revamped sedan will be a big seller.

Ford Americas President Mark Fields told workers at the Flat Rock plant Monday that the Fusion’s market segment is growing two times faster than the rest of the U.S. auto industry. The new Fusion goes on sale this fall.

…. Ford will hire the 1,200 new workers starting next spring. It will also invest $555 million in new equipment at the plant.

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NYT

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President Obama demonstrates size of bounce received by Romney after Republican convention:

Florida, Sept. 9

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R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion” was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night. R.E.M. today, through its music publisher, Warner-Tamerlane Music, demanded that Fox News cease and desist from continuing its unlicensed and unauthorized use of the song. Michael Stipe said, “We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage. Our music does not belong there.”

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McClatchy

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Steve Kornacki (Salon): Barack Obama is winning …and he has been pretty much all year

The final evidence isn’t in yet, but there are strong indicators that Barack Obama received a real boost from the Democratic convention – bigger than the paltry bump Mitt Romney got out of his party’s gathering and potentially big enough to push Obama’s national lead to heights not seen since Romney emerged from the GOP primaries back in the spring.

Gallup’s daily trendline, which remained flat during and immediately after the Republican convention, has spiked in Obama’s favor over the last few days; as of Sunday afternoon, his lead was five points. He’s also pulled a few points ahead in Rasmussen’s daily poll, which has tended to be more Romney-friendly than other surveys, grabbed a four-point lead in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, and seen his job approval rating crack the 50 percent mark. A PPP poll released Sunday night also showed Obama hitting 50 percent in Ohio…..

The movement in Obama’s direction reinforces a point that many neutral campaign observers have been reluctant to make for months now: The presidential race is not, and has not been, a virtual tie – Obama is, and has been, winning.

More here

Thanks BWD

Kissimmee: Fired Up!

Back in a while 😉

More Bits ‘n Pieces

President Obama speaking at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies gala dinner …. oh, that laugh.

Full video asap

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Read Liberal Librarian’s latest post at The People’s View (‘The GOP is doomed… maybe’)

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President Obama with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during a tour of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s Albany NanoTech Complex

President Obama with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during a tour of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s Albany NanoTech Complex

… speaking at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany

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heads up: president obama at the university of iowa (2:20 et)

Yet more evidence he’s lost the youth. Oh well.

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White House live

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President Obama leaves Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado for Iowa

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