The President’s Day

A Warm Tennessee Welcome: Supporters wait for President’s arrival today along Hardin Valley

‘Yellow Dog Democrat… Who Loves Obama Biden …. Thank You For Your Service To The USA! Love You!’

Enthusiasm Gap: The Line outside Knoxville auditorium this morning where the President was due to speak

(all by Knoxvillephoto)

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Spring in Step: Leaving the White House this morning

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Leaving Andrews

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Clinton is ready for the president! @wbir #10PresPics #ObamaInTN pic.twitter.com/deGFjavruh

— Heidi Wigdahl (@HeidiWigdahl) January 9, 2015

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@nedrapickler: Nice hometown welcome for Obama in Clinton, TN. Miles of folks lining the motorcade route waving hands & flags

Knoxvillephoto

https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/553632882644631552

@JacobWBIR: People waiting near the air base excited for POTUS to pass by

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The Adult In The Room

President Barack Obama signs H.R. 3210, Pay Our Military Act, which provides continuing appropriations for pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces during any period for which interim or full-year appropriations for FY 2014 are not in effect, in the Oval Office, Monday night, Sept. 30, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Night Owls: A Few Truths

A powerful image from the Trayvon Martin rally in Atlanta today – ThinkProgress

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@NYCJim

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Justice For Trayvon

Trayvon Martin’s father Tracy Martin at the Miami Justice For Trayvon rally – Reuters.

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Beyonce and Jay Z with Sybrina Fulton & me at the #100CityTrayvon vigil – Rev. Al Sharpton

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‘I Am Not A Suspect’ – Terrell Gordon Jr, 6, holds his sign during a Justice for Trayvon rally in Miami

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New Orleans

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New Orleans today, Sharon Jasper with her grandson Tommie Butler, 6

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‘A woman holds a candle during a vigil for Trayvon Martin at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, Calif.’ – AP

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South Carolina State House – ThinkProgress

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Chicago – @ForUs50

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‘Don’t Shoot, I’m Just Young, Black and Walking’ (NY today) – @DCFashionista1

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Atlanta – @Alan4Florida

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Brooklyn – @MariyaNYC

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Washington, D.C. – @NoShock

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Chicago – @ForUs50

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At the Justice for Trayvon rally in Miami, July 20

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More moving pictures here

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Signs of the Times?

My rusty old brain is 98.27% sure I posted these pics before…. did I? 😕

I took them when I arrived for the We Are One concert in DC, two days before President Obama’s 2009 inauguration (Pete Souza need have no fears, his job is safe) – I’m sure lots of you saw the same, or similar, when you went to election rallies.

The funniest thing was the reaction of the crowd to the nutters, who were charmingly abusive, not least that of my sports nut pal who was especially upset by ‘sports nuts’ featuring on the banner between ‘porno freaks’ and ‘drunks’.

Was she as offended by, say, the ‘baby killing women’ and ‘Homos’ references? “‘Yeah! Of course! But WTF?! Sports nuts?!” (As a sports nut, I felt her pain).

Any way, it kinda struck me today, especially after seeing the photo in the post below, that back in January 2009 we could dismiss these people as freaks …. now, you know, it’s beginning to feel like this level of insanity and hate is the ‘conservative’ mainstream.

All that was missing from the banners was a racist slur or two, and a call for the Voting Rights Act to be shredded.

But, yep, ‘mainstream’ insanity and hate, 2013 style.

The Time Is Now

President Barack Obama signs letters from children backstage after signing executive orders and unveiling new gun control proposals as part of the Administration’s response to the Newtown, Conn., shootings, and other tragedies, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building South Court Auditorium, Jan. 16, 2013. The children wrote the President letters in the wake of the Newtown tragedy expressing their concerns about gun violence and school safety (Photo by Pete Souza)

Lots more new White House photos here

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Heads up:

10:45 President Obama will call on Congress to avert the automatic spending cuts coming next week

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This and That

President Obama signs the Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 in the Oval Office at the White House

L to R: Co-Director of film “Semper Fi: Always Faithful” Rachel Libert, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fl) and former U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger

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Next:

6:55: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at the Stamford Marriott Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut

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Nick Anderson

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Chat away 😉

Heads Up: President Obama Signs HR 4348

Fired up!

President Barack Obama’s supporters cheer near a house where he is holding a campaign event in Los Angeles, June 7

Rise and Shine

OFA

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10:20 AM: PBO departs the W.H.

11:45 AM: Arrives in Albany, New York.

12:10 PM: Tours the SUNY Albany Nano-Tech Complex.

1:25 PM: Delivers remarks on the economy.

2:15 PM: Departs Albany.

3:40 PM: Arrives at the W.H.

5:55 PM: Speaks at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies gala dinner.

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OFA

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Morning everyone 😉