Rise and Shine

Photobucket – the photo of the debate! (Thank you Susan)

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EDT

9:25: The President departs the White House

CDT

10:50: Arrives Mt. Vernon, Iowa

11:45: Delivers remarks at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa

1:55: Departs Mt. Vernon

EDT

4:15: Arrives Athens, Ohio

6:0: Delivers remarks at Ohio University, Athens

7:35: Departs Athens

9:0: Arrives the White House

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Newseum

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Michael Tomasky: Well, Fox was calling it a draw, and its anchors started blaming Candy Crowley for how it all went down 32 seconds after it ended. Need to know anything else?

….. There were other moments. Obama won the immigration discussion. He won guns, to the extent anyone’s voting on that. He won taxes. Taxes — weird. I was shocked that Romney stood by his 20 percent and insisted that his math does add up.

…. and Romney not knowing that Obama called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” the day after? He just didn’t know….

And finally, the 47 percent moment. Why would Romney stick out his jaw like that? The last question. Romney going first. Knowing he’d have no chance to respond. Knowing also (as it had dawned on me about 15 minutes before) that Obama was about to go through two debates without mentioning the 47 percent. And Romney mentions that he cares about 100 percent. Here’s my jaw, Barack. Unreal.

More here

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(Pool/Getty Images)

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Rise and Shine

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Charles Pierce: ….. Willard Romney was out there somewhere and he was being utterly eviscerated by Floyd The Barber. And the only people who look more ridiculous than he does the morning after are all those media brainiacs who were saying how smart the Republicans were being in “driving a wedge” between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. There is a reason you should be careful what you wish for.

Quoth the man we can all agree upon:

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act. And Joe Biden did a great job with both. He appointed cabinet members who supported Hillary in the primaries. Heck, he even appointed Hillary.

….. then he pauses just long enough to let the zombie-eyed granny-starver have an elbow to take home with him to Janesville.

…… If Clinton had “undermined” Obama any more effectively, Obama might be emperor by now.

Full post here

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the reviews are in!

More on the book here

food for thought

In this 2001 “lost episode” of Check, Please!, then state senator Barack Obama reviewed Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.

(Another Donna link – thank you!)