Trying to make their base believe they weren’t defeated in a landslide, and trying to bluff the general population into fear so we will all pressure the Democrats to cave. They have learned all the wrong lessons from this election. And they really have few options at this point. None of the groups they offended will believe them if they turn on a dime and start supporting their issues, so if they piss off the tea party people they have no one.
Thank you very much, my dear SD. We are very fortunate here to move in the company of like-minded workers/warriors! I have yet to notice a similar tone anywhere else I’ve peeked recently.
Please excuse my posting this one additional time, but would really appreciate all of you encouraging the Obama Administration to realize the powerful opportunity all of #PBO’s Twitter followers could contribute to driving information, advocacy, and support for the President’s legislative, judicial and philosophical agenda during the next 4 years, 2 months Specifcally …
Urge the President to leverage his now > 23 Million Twitter followers … just imagine the ‘twitter bombs’ he could instigate, i.e., “call to action #s’ … unprecedented participatory democracy and a force no member of either the House or Senate has ever experienced. And, we have power lobbyists don’t because we’ve proven just how much $ we can drive into a campaign and how many folk we can mobilize to VOTE. Lobbyists may have $$ but each of them and those that pay their salaries still have ONLY ONE VOTE, each
Dear @davidaxelrod Just imagine the impact of #PBO tweeting to his 23M+ followers 'call to action #s' – rapid response, intense, focused!— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 09, 2012
Dear @stefcutter please focus on leveraging maximally #PBO's 23 Million Twitter followers. We are his FORCE for CHANGE. Let's Get It Done— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 09, 2012
And, by leveraging twitter he completely bypass the MSN, connects directly with 23+M supporters, and can have those supporters target not just Congress but the MSN itself – as we already do, but in a much more laser focused effort to expose their duplicity and incompetence.
Hey Bob, that is the most practical idea. I completely agree with you. Need to keep the ppl engaged. Regain Congress in 2014. I personally would love to see a red state in the mid-west turn blue … I agree when the good folks here call you the Twitter warrior, because, you are!
A little chuckle before the speech.
The Skill of a Linguist~~~
No dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference
between COMPLETE and FINISHED. However, in a recent linguistic
conference held in London, England, and attended by some of the best
linguists in the world: Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese, was the clear
winner.
His final challenge was this: Some say there is no difference between
COMPLETE and FINISHED. Please explain the difference between COMPLETE
and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand.
Here is his astute answer:
“When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. But, when you marry
the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you
with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!”
His answer was received with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes
and it entitled him to receive an invitation to dine with the Queen,
who invited him after the contest. He won a trip to travel
around the world in style and a case of 25 year old Eldorado rum for
his answer ~~~
Well, now I feel COMPLETE. Thank you for sharing, YA!
Oh, my, the President was his usual “every word you’re saying makes sense to me, Mr. President” remarkable leader. No sunshiny, pie-in-the-sky words from him. All business. The American public elected us for action not politics. Yes, sir, you know we did.
And then, for my dear visiting toddler’s sake since he blew the President a kiss and said “O-ba-ma” in his sweet voice, and FOR SOME FOLLOW-ON POLITICAL ANALYSIS, I turned to our never-ending supply of recorded episodes of Spongebob Squarepants. And now I’ll sit back and enjoy what ol’ Bob has to say about our American life, vice hearing Tweety or one of the cartoon figures on MSNBC.
WOW, I was out of my seat when PBO essentially said that we could take care of tax cuts for everyone under $250K right now if Speaker Boehner would take action in the House of Representatives.
Hopefully they will force the Orange Man to bring the jobs act up for a vote. Since POTUS made it clear that it already passed the Senate the whole thing is on Boehner. He deserves it!
Yep RT @TheFix: "On Tuesday night we found out that the majority of Americans agree with my approach." — Obama.— Cynthia Tucker (@ctuckerprof) November 09, 2012
PBO: Senate has passed middle class tax cuts, House needs to do it. I have the pen ready to sign it. Let's go.— Dog Lovers 4 Obama (@Donna_West) November 09, 2012
Letting y’all know I’ve already acted. I called my three reps this morning and did my line in the sand. I also told the aide that if I don’t see that my three TN reps are working WITH this administration, the office will be getting at least one call a week from me. When I called Corker’s office, I also added that the ONLY way I will ever have a sliver of respect for him is if he publically apologizes to the citizens of TN, as well as the rest of the country, about his part in the meeting of Jan. 20, 2009.
” I also added that the ONLY way I will ever have a sliver of respect for him is if he publically apologizes to the citizens of TN, as well as the rest of the country, about his part in the meeting of Jan. 20, 2009.”
Yes. Excellent. Letting them know, in no uncertain terms, we the people are fully aware of their plot against the President and the Nation.
that is a great idea…start now and put pressure on our elected officials…esp regarding the bill that the Senate passed regarding middle class tax cuts….
Now the butt hole on MSNBC are salivating over this Benghazi piece. To hell with the economy I guess. Let’s worry about the new cabinet members. sheesh!
Mitchell is so desperate to attack this President that she immediately pivoted to this Benghazi nonsense and had her panel of ignorant half-baked overpaid entitled morons like Matthews to go after the President.
It’s hard to make sense of what they’re really saying because they are mixing all kinds of issues, Obama’s relationship with Patreaus, whether or not he met with Patreaus yesterday or whether he will meet with him today, the CIA, Whether or not Susan Rice will stay on or will she be promoted to SOS.
Just a whole bunch of nonsense without saying anything informative or substantive. This media is 100% corrupt.
That is why I listen to the President on my computer, then I came to Obama Diary to read some comments. I refuse to listen to those jackasses on MSNBC, TeaNN, Fox , or any of those other cable pundits. So what is the Benghazi ? What is going on with that? Anything new.
I’ve been saying for years that Chris Matthews is crazy. There is something unbalanced about that man. Tomorrow he will be all in and singing the President’s praises. His moods swing with the wind. This is the same guy that I read said on tv the night of the election that he was glad Hurricane Sandy happened and then had to go on air the next day to apologize. He is nuts and needs to be called on his craziness at every turn.
Chris Matthews is back to his old bullshit about President Obama needing to become pals with the
Republicans. Does Chris not know that President Obama was reelected, I mean really? Lady Greenspan and the rest of these fuckers are so stupid and mean.
Why can’t these pols just do their freaking jobs. Why does President Obama have to play golf with them and schooze to get anything done. This is infuriating. Right now the Wall Street folks are upset because President Obama hurt their feelwings. Cry me a river already. PBO saved their arses and now they are making money hand over fist and they don’t like the words PBO used to describe their unethical behavior that resulted in the meltdown of 2008.
yanno…tweety is on this rant…about how the President is a family man but that he needs to smooooze more with the fellas….and not sure what he wants the President to do with the women…
He’s living in the 60′s, where the tradition of back slapping was the key to success for all politicians.
Matthews is probably my age (I’m 62). He has no right to demand that politics be the way he remembers it two generations ago any more than Republicans who try to take us back to the 1950′s.
He has become unwatchable. His political discourse is bi-polar and even if you agree with him half the time, he’s ceased being relevant because the mood swings are just too much to process.
I heard somewhere that life in DC has changed a lot over the years. Now when the work week is shorter most legislators go home right away instead of hanging around DC. They do not have the time they once had to play golf or hang out after working hours. The person talking about it said it really changed how things work in government. He also mentioned the lines drawn in states’ boundaries to elect representatives favoring the candidates of the party in charge at the time of the redrawn boundaries (after census).
The acrimony in DC is directly traced back to Newt Gingrich. It was him and him alone who decided that it should more resemble a war than governance. he set the tone, he set the rules. Interestingly, he was one of the last to ‘negotiate’ behind closed doors with the ‘enemy’: impeachment trial of Bill Clinton during the morning and ‘negotiating’ the destruction of our banking regulations in the afternoon.
How the heck are you going to come friends with someone who don’t want to be friends with you? To compromise it takes two. And you don’t have to be best buddies with someone to do the right thing.
The GOP plotted on Day One to overthrow President Obama’s administration for political purposes. They also mischaracterized the President’s agenda with lies and misled the American public – terrifying them. They’re lucky not to be indicted for treason. And after the crap they did these past four years during times of serious, global. depression-era crises, they should be grovelling at President Obama’s feet. And instead, they have come out of the gate talking about themselves being a “firewall” against President Obama’s agenda, which he has now earned the right – twice – to implement. Chris Matthews needs to… I can’t even find the right words.
Hire a psychopath – a delusional liar & bully, to do what @hardball_chris? It's long past time for #NEWSTAINERS to grok their irrelevance.— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 09, 2012
I know some people here like Chris Matthews, but let me tell you that his brand of racism is worse than that of the loony FOX NEWS cult. He had the audacity to say that Obama should have Romney as his Treasury secretary – in all seriousness…while attacking Obama’s administration as being the “weakest cabinet” He needs to know that his episodes of going after
Then he launched into some diatribe about Obama not bringing his party together, etc, rehashing the President’s Tuesday speech where he didn’t thank Clinton, etc.
I have long looked at MSNBC with a jaundiced eye, but today their nasty vitriolic disrespect towards our President was on FULL display. Not one criticism of John Boehner. Not one criticism of the lazy Republicans in the house & senate who take half the year off while obstructing the President’s policies. Why was Andrea Mitchell “bigging” up that loser Scott Brown – who got soundly defeated by Elizabeth Warren?
It is clear Chris Matthews has some mental issues, why would President Obama put a bold face flip flopping racists liar as his treasury secretary? No more Matthews for me for awhile.
The President coming out on the podium to a standing ovation, followed by a solid decisive statement about plans to reduce the deficit, freaked out these fools on MSNBC.
They are SCARED..hence their catty, rude reactions. Right now they see Obama as the enemy and are operating accordingly. Tweety would have loved a Romney Presidency (despite his pretenses otherwise), and he made that clear today.
After all the ending talks about Romney’s dishonesty he would think we need him to help? I don’t want Romney anywhere near anything having to do with running our country. The things that came out all added up to not being able to trust Romney.
Cant wait to hear the president speak. I feel good today and want to thank Chip for this wonderful place of support for our President. Amazing coverage leading into the final days of the campaign. I just kept your page up and refreshed often. Kept me on top of everything. Many thanks.
C-SPAN One will carry Jay Carney’s press briefing LIVE and online. Can’t wait to see him smile/smirk/ at the moronic “reporters” who called the election WRONG.
Children’s Television Workshop was the best job I ever had. Great mission and people who cared about educating all children. Sesame Street changed how we teach children.
WE CERTAINLY DO HAVE A BUNCH OF SICK FOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY…AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES PATRIOTS….AKA…CNN NEWS RIBBON…’OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION DRIVES GUN SALES.’…SICK PEOPLE INDEED…SHAME ON THEM!
PBO coming to NY Thurs. to support those of us affected by the Sandy and the N’oreaster. Will be great to have him here. His support will certainly add some cheer to what has been a hellish couple of weeks.
All things considered dudette, I’m okay. Lost power for a while during Sandy but it was restored. Lost power and heat during N’oreaster. Got power back now waiting for my boiler to be repaired. A whole lot of people have it way more worse than me. Thanks for asking.
Honestly, I don’t know how Jay puts up with the idiots who ask questions. I’d be so tempted to call them out for asking stupid questions, being ignorant, pandering within the Faux echo chamber and being unprofessional. He’s an absolute saint.
Yes, he was there on the campaign trail, but when there was campaign news, they had to have Jen Psaki give the news, to keep the Office of the Presidency and the Campaign separate. Jen did a great job!
Carney says POTUS will veto any bill that contains a tax cut for the wealthy and that Tim Geithner has agreed to stay on until Pres. Obama’s inauguration next year.
Billionaire #Romney stiffs staffers for hotel & cab fare when campaign killed credit cards on election night bit.ly/SIQ3RX— Dudette (@Dudette9t9) November 09, 2012
White house press corps is whining about Pres. Obama not giving a press conference sine June. Duh….he was running for reelection and gave multiple interviews to many of them sitting in that room and national TV stations.
Jake Tapper wants to know if Pres. Obama has disdain for the press corps. Short Answer: FUCK YEAH.
As a shift in focus, maybe we can answer Tapper and his ilk in press corps whenever they come up with their garbage – practical way for TOD media to remain engaged and give Carney some grass roots support for the next couple of weeks? Not that he doesn’t do quite well on his own, mind you, but sometimes we can express things in ways he can’t – and no Utal, maybe not in such colourful language.
.@jaketapper, while I can't speak for Pres O I do know I and others have tremendous disdain for a .@WHpresscorps that NEVER ENLIGHTENS!— Vick C. (@sonamie) November 09, 2012
ha! so true. I’m just so amused by how pissed he is. Of course PBO doesn’t like them. They are a bunch of idiots who carry GOP water. Why would he respect them? SMH!
I’m sure they would have been thrilled under a Romney admin – the guy who didn’t have a press conference for weeks while trying to become Leader of the Free World. The media leaves me ill.
[P.M. Carpenter is have a great afternoon re: pressers]:
President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to fiscal balance while splendidly applying some intense heat on the GOP House. He said he was open to “compromise” and “new ideas”–two concepts vigorously rejected by tiresome tea partiers–and he reiterated the electorate’s recent demand: “cooperation, consensus, and common sense.” You will note in this C triad the pregnant omission of John Boehner’s “common ground,” which has become famously synonymous with GOP entrenchment.
Perhaps the highlight of Obama’s news conference was his repetition of “I will not, will not” reduce the deficit the Republican way, and by that he meant, of course, piling more burdens on the backs of those least able to bear the load. Obama’s kicker, the highlight of the highlight: The electorate just ratified this choice. A delicious moment.
What’s more, Obama reminded that electorate that Damocles’ sword awaits us. Congress can do nothing, and watch everyone’s taxes go up, or it can follow the dictates of Election Day and simply reimpose Clinton’s rate on upper-income taxpayers. This, Obama more than merely implied, is the House GOP’s choice.
So do get back to us, won’t you, dear Republicans?
Speaker Boehner said the president must lead–meaning do things the Republican way–and that the GOP is perfectly willing to settle on “common ground,” as long as it doesn’t entail compromise.
Boehner, though, seemed unsteady. Perhaps that’s only wishful thinking on my part. But to me it sounded as though Boehner was merely throwing out a pro forma, initial bargaining chip, with a face value of approximately zero–and he knew it. President Obama cannot conceivably retreat from his pre-election position of an end to the upper-end Bush tax cuts, which, statutorily, is coming anyway.
True, most Republicans cannot retreat from their defense of them, but Boehner–and maybe a handful of partisan colleagues?–likely comprehend that they lost and Obama won the election.
WHPC ask all the same questions: why isn’t PBO out here answering our questions. Because, bitches! He’s got better things to do than entertaining you’re stupid butts.
Jake Tapper demands Carney release a tick tock of where Pres. Obama was during the Benghazi attacks. Carney pretty much told Tapper we’ve been transparent and released everything we know and we’ll comply with the investigation and Tapper kept nagging at him. Carney repeated what he said and then Tapper kept mumbling. Carney just ignored him and moved on. Shorter Carney: Who the f**k are you?
i love how PBO has checked the HOUSE….saying that the Senate has passed the Bill to prevent a tax increase for the Middle Class…that is now up to House….YOUR MOVE….
Ed Henry: how comes the campaign got to film PBO crying but WHPC didn’t get to do that?
Jay: well, he wasn’t talking about Benghazi or the fiscal cliff, this was about the kids he was thanking.
Now that we have all had a day or 2 to rest I am hoping I can encourage everyone here at the blog to to work as a team to support the President’s agenda for the next 4 years.
The operative word here is work, as in taking actions that make a difference.
He just gave a great speech.
We can either post lots of comments complaining about the Press Corp and speculating on how Boehner will react or….
We can call our congressional representative and tell them we agree with the President and want to see compromise and common sense. We want Congress to pass a tax cut for the 98%.
I have a web page with contact info for Congress, please keep me busy by posting updates and revisions here.
When we see a tweet that supports the President we can retweet it.
We can post our support on Facebook.
If a petition is started we sign it and pass it on to others.
Having spent the past month gearing up my OFA team to get out the vote, this seems like a relatively simple task to do the items listed above.
We did not win the election by complaining – we won it by taking action. Let’s keep that up and see where it takes us.
One final comment, I meant no offense to yardarm. I watched a small portion of the press conference and share your disgust. I just used your post to illustrate a point. My comment is based on the Presidents comment of dont BOO – VOTE
We get to decide how much time (and blog posts) we spend complaining and how much effort we put into taking actions that support the President.
As I hang up my “neighborhood team leader” name tag, I have to tell you. Doing something that makes a difference feels wonderful.
Thanks Linda. I agree. I commend you on your practical focus on action. Your site is fantastic. One approach could be to target individual Republicans that may break away from their lockstep voting and appeal to their common sense. Not sure how many you need for majority and also who could be swayed, perhaps Murkowski, McCain, Boehner…
Great point, Linda. We won’t have OFA to egg on us everyday, so we have to be our own self-motivators. That’s the beauty of this community. When one of us gets distracted, another can get us back on track. Thanks.
Thanks for the pep talk. When I said “I quit”, I meant those senseless pressers. I plan on spend a lot of phone time to let certain pols how I feel. Oh, make no mistake, I’m still in the fight!
Somebody just said that Patraeus resigned. Jay said that he’ll let Patraeus talk about that and that he’s sure PBO will have something to say about that later.
He had an extramarital affair. He’s resigning. The media is salivating for a “scandal” and are desperately trying to make this the scandal of the century. Many men in high office have affairs. Some of them resign. Others don’t. That is not a national emergency. And it certainly is no where near the astounding electoral defeat that Romney, Rove, Koch, Wall St, and the corporate media suffered earlier this week.
news flash! men and women have affairs, in high office, in lowly jobs, in the summer spring winter fall, indoors, outdoors etcetcetc. if patraeus is quitting his job over this, it is not about the affair.
noooo!!! not inserting any possibilites!! brain must stop these images!!! ann coulter! nooooo!!! karl rove!!! nooooo!!!!!!! rick santorum!!!!!! aiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Someone he met when he heard tapping coming from the next bathroom stall? I hope not. Please let it be one of the fair sex nd let her be his color…pretty pleae.
@maryjblige Warrior Princess for the PEOPLE! Thank you for your unwavering support of our awesome President .@BarackObama!— Dudette (@Dudette9t9) November 09, 2012
Congratulations Mr.President!!!! I was never worried and i never doubted you!!! God bless you!!! 4 more years!!!— Mary J. Blige (@maryjblige) November 07, 2012
Wow – CIA Director Petraeus resigns due to extra-marital affair. (Ya know, I’m so glad it wasn’t due to incompetence or a falling out of grace with the President. I know that’s self-serving relating to Democrats, but really it serves the President better that there be no administration-related problems, and we don’t get to hear negatives as PBO gets ready to take on his second term.)
The extramarital affair news was out since over a week ago. He resigned today which is why it’s being covered. Most Americans don’t even know who Patraeus is.
Dear @PressSec Please inform the WHPC that they are irrelevant. We are the media, now. They are #NEWSTAINERS. Congratulations on VICTORY2012— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 09, 2012
Melanie, this is not breaking news. I knew about this affair well before the election. Jay Carney knew about it as well. Patraeus simply officially resigned today – but that’s probably because the President asked him to.
The MSM is making this into a much bigger deal than it is. Don’t let yourself be manipulated by them in that way. Romney’s utter defeat earlier this week is of far bigger consequence than a powerful man having an extramarital affair. Ask Bill Clinton.
Hopefruit, this IS breaking news. Just because you knew it, doesn’t mean millions of others did. I know there was stuff floating around on the Drudge Report, etc. but there were no specifics. He is the head of the freaking CIA; it’s a big deal. Don’t worry about me being manipulated. My mind is not weak. Let’s not pretend this is not a story. Everything is not the media’s fault.
News of Patraeus’ extramarital affair was on Twitter – which is how I found out. I don’t have any private knowledge of what’s going on in PBO’s cabinet. People were not paying attention because they were distracted by the looming election. Furthermore, the MSM were not prepared to make a big deal of it because they were hoping that Romney would win anyway.
His resignation today is what is new – like I said, it’s NOT a big deal – ask Bill Clinton. 20 years from now we are not going to be talking about Patraeus’s extramarital affair anymore than we are dwelling on Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky in the ’90s.
It IS a big deal right now. Who in the heck is thinking about 20 years from now? Unless there’s more to come, it may not even be a big deal in couple of days. Right now it is a story and it is not inappropriate for the media to cover it.
By all accounts and from the same MSM, Patraeus was expected to resign from his CIA position at some point in the near future to possibly pursue a WH bid for 2016. President Obama, I’m sure had expectations that he would be dealing with a lot of new cabinet appointments at the beginning of his 2nd term, and prepared accordingly. Obama is rarely off-guard about things like that.
Yet you are feeding into the foolish MSM narrative by insinuating that “poor” Carney was caught completely unawares of this “breaking news.” and you’re doubling down on the nonsense after not just I, but Bobfr pushed back on this narrative.
The MSM is pushing a gossipy, snarky angle because they’re still hurting from the utter defeat on Tuesday, and need to “get back” at Obama in some way. That has been their usual approach with this President.
Yet you are feeding into the foolish MSM narrative by insinuating that “poor” Carney was caught completely unaware of this “breaking news”
Feeding into the mainstream narrative?? You are so far gone. There are 2 stories. One that he resigned and two from a sex scandal. Millions of Americans didn’t know. It’s a big story. Get over it and move on. Period.
Stop obsessing over the media. They are not going anywhere. If you don’t agree with them, ignore them. BTW Bob has just posted an update on this not so big story on the next thread:))
It’s not your place to tell me what I should and shouldn’t ignore. The media is the main platform by which information about current events gets disseminated, and they have an ethical, professional and moral obligation to report the facts, and not mislead the public for their personal agendas. They are not doing their jobs, and I will say it as long as I need to. The media as it is is a menace to society and a danger to democracy.
And your comment about “poor” Carney was not based on news about FBI issue – it was based on limited information about Patraeus’ resignation. Stop mixing issues.
President Obama just released a statement. He probably had this statement written up since last week (or the week before). However, he had an election to win – which he did. That’s the BIGGER DEAL here. Had Obama lost the election, Patraeus’ resignation would be a footnote in the back pages of the daily paper.
Patraeus had an affair. He has resigned. Yes he is the head of CIA. But what does his affair, other tantalizing gossip, have to do with President Obama? I am sorry I am with hopefruit2. This is a useless sensational story that has very little to do with government or governing. This is a private matter. Unless, of course, Patraeus had an affair with a woman, or man, who was connected with the terrorists who killed our ambassador in Libya.
David Petraeus offered his resignation to Pres. Obama yesterday afternoon because he had an extra-marital affair and has to work things out with his wife of over 30 years, Holly Petraeus. He said Pres. Obama accepted his resignation after he explained he needed to be let go for personal reasons.
UT, I think this should have been the end of story! I don’t know about any one else but I do not care to dwell on private personal issues. Men and women have been having affairs from time immemorial. Right now, Petraeus’ family needs space and privacy to solve their situation. What would have been a story is if the Gen. resigned over issues related to his official duties.
Well, I was stoked that they appeared to get the posting / refreshing thing solved but now this. That must be a monster of a fat client piece of software for their servers on their end.
The posting/refreshing thing is fixed for me only if I tweet a new comment not if I reply to someone else’s tweet. Now this. Sigh. They need to get better techies and fix this.
Now MSNBC’s narrative is that PBO’s cabinet is in turmoil because so many people are leaving. Trust the media to try to turn a positve for PBO into a negative.
ALL administrations undergo change after a significant election. That is par for the course. My advice to anyone here is to simply not allow the media to pull your strings with their bullshit. They are mighty pissed off that their golden boy LOST soundly, and their pre-cooked narratives associated with an Obama loss or narrow win have had to be scrapped. So now their latching on to this CIA/Benghazi issue is their desperation speaking.
The US media has lost the last shred of credibility after this election. While they laugh at FOX for the state of disarray – the rest of the media was quite happy to further the lies from FOX and engage in this horse race nonsense. They shouldn’t be laughing quite so loudly. They did a great disservice to the public, and have done so through out any Democratic president’s administration for the past several decades, as well as furthering the propaganda from the right that lied this country into debt and into war. I’m done with the media, apart from getting headlines that I can investigate. They are pathetic and useless.
They are trying to distract him from the Fiscal cliff negotiations, and trying to weaken Him.
Everything to republicans is tax cuts, that is all they care about, will use anything to get them, even this stuff about Petreas!
We need to launch a massive pushback against MSM! They know they failed to unseat the President, so, they are now launching a malicious campaign to undermine him before he has even been sworn in for a second term. These people are evil.
Academy award-winning actor Javier Bardem has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bardem, who plays villain Silva in the latest Bond movie Skyfall, was joined by his female co-stars Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe.
“It’s too soon for me,” he said, “But it’s a great honour to receive it.” Skyfall opens in US theatres on Friday, after becoming the highest-grossing 007 film in the UK to date, with box office takings of more than £57m in 12 days.
“I grew up in a family of filmmakers and actors dating back, back, back to the earliest days of Spanish cinema,” he said. “And I’ve been lucky enough to work as a professional actor for 25 years. I share this honour with all the amazing directors in Spain and out of Spain who took a chance on me.”
Bardem received a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men in 2008. He has also received two further nominations for best actor, in 2001 (for Before Night Falls) and 2011 (for Biutiful). [more in the article]
In addition, WH says Pres Obama will visit storm damaged areas in NY on Thursday. WIll meet with victims and first responders.— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 09, 2012
good. the more bush people we get out of government, the better. it’ll be interesting to see who president obama pushes for that job. by the way, have they reported if david patreaus’s affair was with a man or woman….just curious…
She’s really mad that PBO won re-election, and so she’s desperately trying to make every story seem graver than it is. Notice her constant reminders about the early relationship between PBO and Patraeus.
That little boy is so sweet, and he’s a real cutie pie, too. It’s amazing how many kids love our president. Kids know good people when they see/meet them. I hope he does get a chance to meet PBO sometime within the next four years.
Yes he has. And the mere fact that PBO selected him for an important position gives you a sense for what kind of person he is. PBO bases his selections on quality and character.
Allen “Wack Job” West needs to wake up and smell the Coffee! It’s so sad that this man is pissing on the graves of all the people who sacrificed so much to make it possible for him to vote and run for office.
allen west is a reminder that the rethugs lost their elections tuesday because their candidates were horrible AND because they have an evil campaign in charge of electing the fools. it was both. the silly argument over whose fault it was is just more rethug smokescreen: their whole operation is wrong for america, from the candidates, to the message, to the methods they employ, to their funding sources. all of it.
btw, prettyfoot, i read recently that the supreme’s will probably push a bunch of right wing agendas through before pbo gets a chance to appoint new justices and shift the balance back to moderation. this announcement about the voting rights act is a signal, i suspect, that they will indeed hit as hard as they can, while they can.
‘ The Obama administration aggressively used Section 5 during this year’s election season to challenge restrictions on voting passed by Republican-led legislatures. The states said the changes were meant to combat voter impersonation fraud or make Election Day easier on election officials.
Courts generally backed the administration. Federal judges blocked new voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas for the election and forced officials in Florida to ease planned restrictions on early voting, which has become an important tool for Democrats in increasing African American turnout. ‘
I loved Rachel Maddows segment where she pointed out that when republicans pick women candidates how they still vote for the democrat whose male. It seems like the republicans believe that if they just pick a minority or a woman that some how these groups will run to the their candidate. Maddow was spot on when it comes to this.
I was glad to see that Mia Love lost her campaign, Jeff, because, imo, even though she was a Black and is female, she would not have done a thing for women. She would have been another Marsha Blackburn/Michelle Bachmann.
Yes, I’ve read that he is more Blue Dog than true dem. My former dem rep here in Middle GA was the same way. After he voted against HCR, he lost his seat in 2010. I’m really hoping someone will step up to run against Austin Scott, the republican who replaced him. Personally, I just didn’t want to see the Utah seat occupied by a republican because, iirc, I’d read that he was the only dem member in Congress from Utah.
She is not just conservative but ultra-conservative on all issues——tea party supported. Likely too far out there even for Utah. I’m sure the Dem seemed more moderate in comparison. All need to be judged by the content of their character.
I’m not convinced that’s why she lost. Time will tell if this guy will be a good congressman or not. Remember at one time Utah did not accept blacks in their church.
Jim Matheson is already a US Representative for the 2nd district in Utah. He’s a Blue Dog which is to be expected since he is from Utah. He was re-districted to the 4th District where he beat out Mia Love (thank goodness).
IF THERE ARE PROBLEMS W/ INTELLIGENCE REPORTING…IT MEANS SOMEONE IS NOT WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE AND THERE ARE OTHER LOYALTIES…BUSH WAS A PUPPET…PBO IS NOT…ALL I CAN SAY FOR TODAY IS ‘GOOD RIDDENS!’ WORKING WITH INTEL IS LIKE FILTERING SNAKE OIL…THAT HAS TO BE KEPT IN MIND. GOOD PRESIDENTS FACE THIS PROBLEM.
BREAKING: Mary Bono Mack has just conceded in CA-36. Congratulations Raul Ruiz, California's newest Congressman. #TeaPartyIsOver— DCCC (@dccc) November 09, 2012
Thanks, Bobfr,
Another one bites the dust!!!! Dr. Ruiz will better serve the people in his district since he knows what it’s like to really have to pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps.
If anybody thought for a second that TeaNN would stop with the partisan bullshit coverage after the election, peep this headline:
“Obama calls on House to pass tax hikes for wealthy”
Funny, I thought the bill was to extend tax CUTS for the middle class, but the headline focus on shit that’s not actually IN the bill.
their agenda is so well documented, we aren’t surprised this is what they’re worried about. what is surprising is that they’re completely owning up to it: disaster! rich people are pissed !!
“…But Obama administration officials tell the Back Channel that there are several reasons Kerry may have to cool his heels a while–having nothing to do with Kerry not being held in high esteem by the White House. Among them:
1) Secretary Clinton, who met with Obama and Vice President Biden at the White House Friday, feels an obligation to see the Benghazi investigation through and not leave any taint from that investigation to be faced by her successor. This could have her staying on til February or March, one administration source, who requested anonymity, told Al-Monitor Friday.
2) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told the White House that he will be “furious” if he loses Kerry from the Senate, to leave the Massachusetts Democratic Senate seat facing Republican Scott Brown with millions of dollars in the bank left over from his unsuccessful Senate race against Democrat Elizabeth Warren. The White House may feel especially obliged to listen to Reid, because he is a key reason the Democrats held onto their Senate majority, and because “they have to keep Reid happy as a clam” on the fiscal cliff negotiations, the official said. (Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and his wife are due to have a ‘social’ dinner with President and Michelle Obama at the White House Friday night. But while some thought Patrick might be in position to run against Brown if a Kerry nomination leaves the Senate seat open, other sources say Patrick has his eye on the AG job.)
3) While there are important constituencies in and out of his administration pushing for Kerry, including reportedly Vice President Biden, Kerry’s predecessor as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations panel, “Obama loves” Susan Rice, his US Ambassador to the United Nations, the official noted. If Clinton stays on through the Benghazi investigation, that may blunt and defuse Congressional Republican wrath (and political opportunism) over the administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks that has heretofore targeted Rice, among others, and that has raised concerns about whether a Rice confirmation hearing would become a huge, ugly partisan food fight.
4) A Kerry departure from the Senate would leave New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez first in line to assume the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—and the White House has a lot of problems with Menendez on foreign policy issues, administration sources said. On Cuba, Iran sanctions (Menendez has sponsored hawkish Iran sanctions legislation that has limited the administration’s negotiating options), Turkey (Menendez has championed efforts for an Armenia genocide resolution, that has riled Turkey), Iraq, “Menendez doesn’t play ball and has been a huge thorn” in their side, the official said.
It shows how much they prefer to focus on nonsense, LLO. Everything boils down to a “blow” against the Obama Administration. If this were really the case, the Obama Administration would have failed a long time ago, especially if one thinks of how much republicans have held up PBO’s appointees across the board. What I have loved and admired about the president is his resourcefulness. Even though the republicans have been asses about his appointees, he uses the talent he has at these agencies and still makes them look bad.
love this part: ‘Leebens-Mack was joined in his advocacy of a Charles Darwin write-in by Atlanta syndicated radio host Neil Boortz, who said that Broun is bad for Republicans in general because he makes the Party “look like knee-dragging, still-tending, tobacco-spitting Neanderthals.” ‘
RT @SenGillibrand: I agree w/@SenatorReid, we must change the rules of the Senate & reform the filibuster to get Washington working …— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 09, 2012
OK, so Ashley Judd has not ruled out running against The Turtle. I believe she will. Her activism has kicked up and she is being talked about in these circles. The good news is that Mitch McConnell’s approval rating in Kentucky is hovering around 37/50. Ashley also completed an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2010. I hope she jumps in sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Just waiting for POTUS.
DITTO!!
Congratulations Sonjia!!!
just missed
I can’t believe my slow Mac put me first.
Apple Apple Apple
my mac is fast… 27 inch screen with a quadcore.
Looking forward to my President gettin’ his Second-Term Swag on today!
3rd!
What is we these ReThugs thinking that they are in a better negotiating position than President Obama.
Should say `What is with………`
Forget them, we are still here.
Trying to make their base believe they weren’t defeated in a landslide, and trying to bluff the general population into fear so we will all pressure the Democrats to cave. They have learned all the wrong lessons from this election. And they really have few options at this point. None of the groups they offended will believe them if they turn on a dime and start supporting their issues, so if they piss off the tea party people they have no one.
I went back to get the bloggers who were left behind.
Hey Sonja, did you save any space up there? I’m a wee bit off course as per usual, but I see I made it back in good time.
For you, this was actually a remarkably quick adjustment.
There is always space for a fellow warrior.
Thank you very much, my dear SD. We are very fortunate here to move in the company of like-minded workers/warriors! I have yet to notice a similar tone anywhere else I’ve peeked recently.
Good Morning from New Mexico! I’m feeling great today and looking forward to hearing our magnificient President speak!
aloha dakota!!
so glad to see you folks squashed heather wilson–this time for good, i’m sure!!
OMG Wilson lost???
Woohoooooooooo~!
yes, and resoundingly!! she can now officially retire from public service, thank you very much.
Aloha! Yes, we sent her packing and sent a strong message as well to the governor (ugh!), Suzana Martinez!
Please excuse my posting this one additional time, but would really appreciate all of you encouraging the Obama Administration to realize the powerful opportunity all of #PBO’s Twitter followers could contribute to driving information, advocacy, and support for the President’s legislative, judicial and philosophical agenda during the next 4 years, 2 months
Specifcally …
Urge the President to leverage his now > 23 Million Twitter followers … just imagine the ‘twitter bombs’ he could instigate, i.e., “call to action #s’ … unprecedented participatory democracy and a force no member of either the House or Senate has ever experienced. And, we have power lobbyists don’t because we’ve proven just how much $ we can drive into a campaign and how many folk we can mobilize to VOTE. Lobbyists may have $$ but each of them and those that pay their salaries still have ONLY ONE VOTE, each
And, by leveraging twitter he completely bypass the MSN, connects directly with 23+M supporters, and can have those supporters target not just Congress but the MSN itself – as we already do, but in a much more laser focused effort to expose their duplicity and incompetence.
#FORWARD
Hey Bob, that is the most practical idea. I completely agree with you. Need to keep the ppl engaged. Regain Congress in 2014. I personally would love to see a red state in the mid-west turn blue … I agree when the good folks here call you the Twitter warrior, because, you are!
A little chuckle before the speech.
The Skill of a Linguist~~~
No dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference
between COMPLETE and FINISHED. However, in a recent linguistic
conference held in London, England, and attended by some of the best
linguists in the world: Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese, was the clear
winner.
His final challenge was this: Some say there is no difference between
COMPLETE and FINISHED. Please explain the difference between COMPLETE
and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand.
Here is his astute answer:
“When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. But, when you marry
the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you
with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!”
His answer was received with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes
and it entitled him to receive an invitation to dine with the Queen,
who invited him after the contest. He won a trip to travel
around the world in style and a case of 25 year old Eldorado rum for
his answer ~~~
Well, now I feel COMPLETE. Thank you for sharing, YA!
Oh, my, the President was his usual “every word you’re saying makes sense to me, Mr. President” remarkable leader. No sunshiny, pie-in-the-sky words from him. All business. The American public elected us for action not politics. Yes, sir, you know we did.
And then, for my dear visiting toddler’s sake since he blew the President a kiss and said “O-ba-ma” in his sweet voice, and FOR SOME FOLLOW-ON POLITICAL ANALYSIS, I turned to our never-ending supply of recorded episodes of Spongebob Squarepants. And now I’ll sit back and enjoy what ol’ Bob has to say about our American life, vice hearing Tweety or one of the cartoon figures on MSNBC.
another example: the vote counting is complete, and robmey is finished!
Touche’.
Frivolous lawsuit if there ever was one. GOOD RIDDANCE.
I’ll finish that, if I may: GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH. Maybe he can get a show on FOX.
He can get in a corner with Herman Cain, Chris Christie and a coupla other clowns and they can compare wee-wees!
Oops. Yes.They.Can. Ha!
gotta find ‘em first
Good … uhm … point!
Fox is going to overflowing with hosts on weird shows. West, Akin, Romney,…
Yes, maybe they’ll all cancel each other out, and the screen will go dark!
mbuh-bye Allen!
oh yay! I saw West contest this and just inwardly groaned so I’m glad.
Why don’t Allen West go some where and get lost. He is a embarrassment to us all.
There was a clip of Rush Limbaugh saying something like we have Allen West and Herman Cain on one of the MSNBC shows as a reason AAs should love them.
He’s going to spend the rest of his life thinking he was denied justice! I love it! Such a scoundrel.
I’ll have to look up the name of that judge, and send him/her a crate of Florida oranges for that fine decision. Nice.
Thank God! Now go crawl back under that rock and stay there!
Judge should sentence him to some COMMUNITY SERVICE so that f’er can make up to the citizens of FL for his utter immorality over the years.
Aint enough community hours in the world to make up for that shit he did
My President looks good today! Emerges at Podium to thunderous applause and cheers!!
Sure looks good seeing him behind that podium in the White House!
“feels good”, although he does indeed “look good” too…
yes it does…
You tell ‘em Mr. President!!
The line is in the sand!
i love how he laid it on the table…..very pragmatic…..loved it….
Breaking- President Obama puts Boehner and GOP in the box of their own making:
WOW, I was out of my seat when PBO essentially said that we could take care of tax cuts for everyone under $250K right now if Speaker Boehner would take action in the House of Representatives.
Well there it is. The bullshit is over. Compromise has got to be on the table!
There you go Boehner, in case you had forgotten what the President, and the democratic, position was!
BooooooooooM!
POTUS isn’t playing. AND NEITHER ARE WE.
Hopefully they will force the Orange Man to bring the jobs act up for a vote. Since POTUS made it clear that it already passed the Senate the whole thing is on Boehner. He deserves it!
THISSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
I say what I mean and I mean what I say!
Sounds just like Popeye.
He’s strong to the finish – he must eat his spinach!
You’re telling on your self.
Memo to the chattering class and GOP: PBO states the facts!
Boehner thinks it’s 2010 and that Grover Norquist is running things.
You inspired me Bill
I think I saw that something over 60% of all exit polled voters support raising taxes. Good move PBO!
The lowest # I’ve seen was 64%
I thought I heard 60%, too. But no matter what, it’s a persuasive number that Republicans ignore at their peril.
I think you’re right, Bob, but I was conservative…(oops is that a bad word here?)
Not the real meaning of the word, which now has nothing to do with the Republican Party and their crooked, tea-soaked agenda…
Hay stuck up crazy ass Republicans I hope you heard the President of the United States.
Letting y’all know I’ve already acted. I called my three reps this morning and did my line in the sand. I also told the aide that if I don’t see that my three TN reps are working WITH this administration, the office will be getting at least one call a week from me. When I called Corker’s office, I also added that the ONLY way I will ever have a sliver of respect for him is if he publically apologizes to the citizens of TN, as well as the rest of the country, about his part in the meeting of Jan. 20, 2009.
{{{{{ tnmtngirl}}}} Power Princess!!!
” I also added that the ONLY way I will ever have a sliver of respect for him is if he publically apologizes to the citizens of TN, as well as the rest of the country, about his part in the meeting of Jan. 20, 2009.”
Yes. Excellent. Letting them know, in no uncertain terms, we the people are fully aware of their plot against the President and the Nation.
Keep at it!!!
Great. You go girl. Tell it.
that is a great idea…start now and put pressure on our elected officials…esp regarding the bill that the Senate passed regarding middle class tax cuts….
Now the butt hole on MSNBC are salivating over this Benghazi piece. To hell with the economy I guess. Let’s worry about the new cabinet members. sheesh!
Mitchell is so desperate to attack this President that she immediately pivoted to this Benghazi nonsense and had her panel of ignorant half-baked overpaid entitled morons like Matthews to go after the President.
What is the Benghazi thing they are talking about now?
It’s hard to make sense of what they’re really saying because they are mixing all kinds of issues, Obama’s relationship with Patreaus, whether or not he met with Patreaus yesterday or whether he will meet with him today, the CIA, Whether or not Susan Rice will stay on or will she be promoted to SOS.
Just a whole bunch of nonsense without saying anything informative or substantive. This media is 100% corrupt.
While ‘Boner’ and his boys are off in a corner trying to decipher what was said.
That’s Mr. Boner to you, good day sir!
Sorry. He doesn’t deserve a title, good day back atcha.
That is why I listen to the President on my computer, then I came to Obama Diary to read some comments. I refuse to listen to those jackasses on MSNBC, TeaNN, Fox , or any of those other cable pundits. So what is the Benghazi ? What is going on with that? Anything new.
This is how I feel about Chris Matthews:
I’ve been saying for years that Chris Matthews is crazy. There is something unbalanced about that man. Tomorrow he will be all in and singing the President’s praises. His moods swing with the wind. This is the same guy that I read said on tv the night of the election that he was glad Hurricane Sandy happened and then had to go on air the next day to apologize. He is nuts and needs to be called on his craziness at every turn.
He is bipolar. He needs Obamacare, a plan that will cover all his pre-existing conditions and the ones he is developing as he ages.
Come 2014…he will be covered under the Health care law…for all pre-existing conditions
What’d he do today? Guess the tingle’s gone already.
What did he do?
Check my comment below.
He’s still mad at President Obama for not mentioning Bill Clinton in his victory speech tuesday night.
Thisssssss!!
Love it, HF.
Chris Matthews is back to his old bullshit about President Obama needing to become pals with the
Republicans. Does Chris not know that President Obama was reelected, I mean really? Lady Greenspan and the rest of these fuckers are so stupid and mean.
Why can’t these pols just do their freaking jobs. Why does President Obama have to play golf with them and schooze to get anything done. This is infuriating. Right now the Wall Street folks are upset because President Obama hurt their feelwings. Cry me a river already. PBO saved their arses and now they are making money hand over fist and they don’t like the words PBO used to describe their unethical behavior that resulted in the meltdown of 2008.
yanno…tweety is on this rant…about how the President is a family man but that he needs to smooooze more with the fellas….and not sure what he wants the President to do with the women…
He’s living in the 60′s, where the tradition of back slapping was the key to success for all politicians.
Matthews is probably my age (I’m 62). He has no right to demand that politics be the way he remembers it two generations ago any more than Republicans who try to take us back to the 1950′s.
He has become unwatchable. His political discourse is bi-polar and even if you agree with him half the time, he’s ceased being relevant because the mood swings are just too much to process.
I heard somewhere that life in DC has changed a lot over the years. Now when the work week is shorter most legislators go home right away instead of hanging around DC. They do not have the time they once had to play golf or hang out after working hours. The person talking about it said it really changed how things work in government. He also mentioned the lines drawn in states’ boundaries to elect representatives favoring the candidates of the party in charge at the time of the redrawn boundaries (after census).
The acrimony in DC is directly traced back to Newt Gingrich. It was him and him alone who decided that it should more resemble a war than governance. he set the tone, he set the rules. Interestingly, he was one of the last to ‘negotiate’ behind closed doors with the ‘enemy’: impeachment trial of Bill Clinton during the morning and ‘negotiating’ the destruction of our banking regulations in the afternoon.
How the heck are you going to come friends with someone who don’t want to be friends with you? To compromise it takes two. And you don’t have to be best buddies with someone to do the right thing.
The GOP plotted on Day One to overthrow President Obama’s administration for political purposes. They also mischaracterized the President’s agenda with lies and misled the American public – terrifying them. They’re lucky not to be indicted for treason. And after the crap they did these past four years during times of serious, global. depression-era crises, they should be grovelling at President Obama’s feet. And instead, they have come out of the gate talking about themselves being a “firewall” against President Obama’s agenda, which he has now earned the right – twice – to implement. Chris Matthews needs to… I can’t even find the right words.
I know some people here like Chris Matthews, but let me tell you that his brand of racism is worse than that of the loony FOX NEWS cult. He had the audacity to say that Obama should have Romney as his Treasury secretary – in all seriousness…while attacking Obama’s administration as being the “weakest cabinet” He needs to know that his episodes of going after
Then he launched into some diatribe about Obama not bringing his party together, etc, rehashing the President’s Tuesday speech where he didn’t thank Clinton, etc.
I have long looked at MSNBC with a jaundiced eye, but today their nasty vitriolic disrespect towards our President was on FULL display. Not one criticism of John Boehner. Not one criticism of the lazy Republicans in the house & senate who take half the year off while obstructing the President’s policies. Why was Andrea Mitchell “bigging” up that loser Scott Brown – who got soundly defeated by Elizabeth Warren?
It is clear Chris Matthews has some mental issues, why would President Obama put a bold face flip flopping racists liar as his treasury secretary? No more Matthews for me for awhile.
The President coming out on the podium to a standing ovation, followed by a solid decisive statement about plans to reduce the deficit, freaked out these fools on MSNBC.
They are SCARED..hence their catty, rude reactions. Right now they see Obama as the enemy and are operating accordingly. Tweety would have loved a Romney Presidency (despite his pretenses otherwise), and he made that clear today.
Did he REALLY say that Romney should be the Treasury secretary ?????!!!!!!!!! Ok that’s it the man needs psychiatric help.
That’s what blew my mind. Romney’s name should not have featured anywhere in Matthews’ analyses of this tax cut/deficit reduction issue.
Toure said the same thing yesterday—-an msnbc push? I give up on our news media—-completely.
After all the ending talks about Romney’s dishonesty he would think we need him to help? I don’t want Romney anywhere near anything having to do with running our country. The things that came out all added up to not being able to trust Romney.
Chris Matthews is bipolar. He is not consistent. He needs Obamacare, a good plan that covers all his pre-existing conditions.
Who the f**k elected Chris Matthews President?
I know that GOP maintained control of the House …but how many seats did the Dems get….
The Dems gained 7 seats in the house and 2 seats in the senate. Overall, Dems in congress won more votes than GOP.
There are a few seats not yet called in the House. One third of AZ votes not yet counted.
You’re right Bill – so far that’s the status. I think DEMS are expected to gain 9 seats when all is said and done.
That is awesome….thanks…
President Obama’s statements …
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Pres-Obama-Announces-Plans-to-Address-Economy-and-Fiscal-Cliff/10737435726/
Thank you for this good link. I was out and got home too late to see it on TV. I want to listen to the President, not talking heads!
Thanks for the link, Bob! Missed the live
Cant wait to hear the president speak. I feel good today and want to thank Chip for this wonderful place of support for our President. Amazing coverage leading into the final days of the campaign. I just kept your page up and refreshed often. Kept me on top of everything. Many thanks.
A little victory moment – “Express Yourself”
Bizgirl the President has finished speaking already. Maybe you can get a clip of his presser on CSPAN.
Hey now, that’s nice! Thanks bg!
nice one bizgirl! the president is carrying on the good work, and so are we—but that doesn’t mean we’re not dancing and singing while we work!
Note to any concern trolls:
C-SPAN One will carry Jay Carney’s press briefing LIVE and online. Can’t wait to see him smile/smirk/ at the moronic “reporters” who called the election WRONG.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/White-House-Daily-Briefing/10737435727/
DITTO!!!
and see what questions they will ask….Ooo weee…
by the way is Carney staying or will PBO be picking a new Press Secretary….and if so who would you suggest…
I believe Jay is staying. There’s been no news on that front.
thankss
Awww..
Can you imagine John Roberts doing this?
This is so delightfully awesome. Sesame Street will NEVER get old.
Children’s Television Workshop was the best job I ever had. Great mission and people who cared about educating all children. Sesame Street changed how we teach children.
@hardball_chris I think you began to realize how much of a damn fool your sound like in making suggestions of what PBO should do.
wonder what the first question will be…
Love it, Dudette. Thanks!
I loooove this show. It’s so witty and full of unvarnished truth.
This is AWESOME! Love it Dudette! Thanks!!
Made a suggestion, upthread, about how all us @BarackObama twitter followers could be a force for change.
Here’s a simple example:
#FORWARD
Will do, Bob!
WE CERTAINLY DO HAVE A BUNCH OF SICK FOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY…AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES PATRIOTS….AKA…CNN NEWS RIBBON…’OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION DRIVES GUN SALES.’…SICK PEOPLE INDEED…SHAME ON THEM!
Happened in 2008 too. They’re still sick!
Pres. Obama will travel to the NY area next thursday to view Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and visit affected families.
PBO coming to NY Thurs. to support those of us affected by the Sandy and the N’oreaster. Will be great to have him here. His support will certainly add some cheer to what has been a hellish couple of weeks.
I guess that’s at Cuomo’s invitation & not Bloomberg’s.
hmmmmmmm
Hey Melanie… how are you hun? Have you got heat, power, etc?
All things considered dudette, I’m okay. Lost power for a while during Sandy but it was restored. Lost power and heat during N’oreaster. Got power back now waiting for my boiler to be repaired. A whole lot of people have it way more worse than me. Thanks for asking.
Glad you’re okay. {{{melanie}}}
Can we do anything for you?
Your good wishes and thoughts are plenty. Thank you.
Honestly, I don’t know how Jay puts up with the idiots who ask questions. I’d be so tempted to call them out for asking stupid questions, being ignorant, pandering within the Faux echo chamber and being unprofessional. He’s an absolute saint.
i know! But certainly hope he stays till 2017. Love his sexy behind! Was he traveling with PBO on the campaign trail? Didn’t see him.
Me too…
Me too…
Me neither.
Yes, he was there on the campaign trail, but when there was campaign news, they had to have Jen Psaki give the news, to keep the Office of the Presidency and the Campaign separate. Jen did a great job!
Carney says POTUS will veto any bill that contains a tax cut for the wealthy and that Tim Geithner has agreed to stay on until Pres. Obama’s inauguration next year.
Alrighty!
In case you missed it.
Pres. Obama Announces Plans to Address Economy and “Fiscal Cliff”
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Pres-Obama-Announces-Plans-to-Address-Economy-and-Fiscal-Cliff/10737435726-1/
hahahhaha!! Jake Tapper’s feathers are ruffled!! asked if PBO has a disdain for the WHPC!!!!!!
hahahahhahah!!!
he should ask us…
hahahhahahhahha!!!
Tapper is such a bitch! hahahhahahhahahhahahhahahahahhaha!!! 
White house press corps is whining about Pres. Obama not giving a press conference sine June. Duh….he was running for reelection and gave multiple interviews to many of them sitting in that room and national TV stations.
Jake Tapper wants to know if Pres. Obama has disdain for the press corps. Short Answer: FUCK YEAH.
Can’t Jake just shut up… Again, Jay is a saint and I can’t stand to listen any more.
Well I did stay on to hear Jay mention “poorly reported” accounts of Benghazi. Good for him.
perhaps the question should be….
do you have a disdain for PBO?
Right on, PF58
“No Jake, only YOU!”
As a shift in focus, maybe we can answer Tapper and his ilk in press corps whenever they come up with their garbage – practical way for TOD media to remain engaged and give Carney some grass roots support for the next couple of weeks? Not that he doesn’t do quite well on his own, mind you, but sometimes we can express things in ways he can’t – and no Utal, maybe not in such colourful language.
Back in a bit – gone on the road.
VC, thanks for speaking up for me. I am sick of these entitled and unethical media people who masquerade as journalists.
Jake Tapper is the consummate anal orifice.
he’s mad at what he perceives as PBO’s disdain.
So what? He doesn’t run anything but his mouth.
ha! so true. I’m just so amused by how pissed he is. Of course PBO doesn’t like them. They are a bunch of idiots who carry GOP water. Why would he respect them? SMH!
Egg sack lee!
I’m sure they would have been thrilled under a Romney admin – the guy who didn’t have a press conference for weeks while trying to become Leader of the Free World. The media leaves me ill.
His brand of gotcha journalism pisses me off.
Tapper is mad and bringing up Benghazi. Ha! Fricking ass.
[P.M. Carpenter is have a great afternoon re: pressers]:
President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to fiscal balance while splendidly applying some intense heat on the GOP House. He said he was open to “compromise” and “new ideas”–two concepts vigorously rejected by tiresome tea partiers–and he reiterated the electorate’s recent demand: “cooperation, consensus, and common sense.” You will note in this C triad the pregnant omission of John Boehner’s “common ground,” which has become famously synonymous with GOP entrenchment.
Perhaps the highlight of Obama’s news conference was his repetition of “I will not, will not” reduce the deficit the Republican way, and by that he meant, of course, piling more burdens on the backs of those least able to bear the load. Obama’s kicker, the highlight of the highlight: The electorate just ratified this choice. A delicious moment.
What’s more, Obama reminded that electorate that Damocles’ sword awaits us. Congress can do nothing, and watch everyone’s taxes go up, or it can follow the dictates of Election Day and simply reimpose Clinton’s rate on upper-income taxpayers. This, Obama more than merely implied, is the House GOP’s choice.
So do get back to us, won’t you, dear Republicans?
http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/
[PM on Boner, same link]:
Condensed version:
Speaker Boehner said the president must lead–meaning do things the Republican way–and that the GOP is perfectly willing to settle on “common ground,” as long as it doesn’t entail compromise.
Boehner, though, seemed unsteady. Perhaps that’s only wishful thinking on my part. But to me it sounded as though Boehner was merely throwing out a pro forma, initial bargaining chip, with a face value of approximately zero–and he knew it. President Obama cannot conceivably retreat from his pre-election position of an end to the upper-end Bush tax cuts, which, statutorily, is coming anyway.
True, most Republicans cannot retreat from their defense of them, but Boehner–and maybe a handful of partisan colleagues?–likely comprehend that they lost and Obama won the election.
WHPC ask all the same questions: why isn’t PBO out here answering our questions. Because, bitches! He’s got better things to do than entertaining you’re stupid butts.
Jake Tapper demands Carney release a tick tock of where Pres. Obama was during the Benghazi attacks. Carney pretty much told Tapper we’ve been transparent and released everything we know and we’ll comply with the investigation and Tapper kept nagging at him. Carney repeated what he said and then Tapper kept mumbling. Carney just ignored him and moved on. Shorter Carney: Who the f**k are you?
i love how PBO has checked the HOUSE….saying that the Senate has passed the Bill to prevent a tax increase for the Middle Class…that is now up to House….YOUR MOVE….
Ed Henry and Benghazi. Ha! Said FAUX News wants to interview PBO too since Brian Williams got a chance to do so. hahahhahahhahhahha!!!
the press corp is very petty
Ed Henry begged Carney for Pres. Obama to do an interview with Fox News. Carney just smiled and moved on.
Ed Henry: how comes the campaign got to film PBO crying but WHPC didn’t get to do that?
Jay: well, he wasn’t talking about Benghazi or the fiscal cliff, this was about the kids he was thanking.
Idiot “journo”: if you are going to reform the tax code, why separate the Bush tax cuts for the middle class and the rich?—— idiot GOP response.
oh…. it’s Chuckie Toad.
I quit. The presser front row acts like there was no election at all. I see nothing that’s informative. Just a bunch of wounded little egos!
I don’t know how Jay stands the jackals. They are insufferable.
Me either Ladyhawke, me too.
Don’t Quit – TAKE ACTION.
Now that we have all had a day or 2 to rest I am hoping I can encourage everyone here at the blog to to work as a team to support the President’s agenda for the next 4 years.
The operative word here is work, as in taking actions that make a difference.
He just gave a great speech.
We can either post lots of comments complaining about the Press Corp and speculating on how Boehner will react or….
We can call our congressional representative and tell them we agree with the President and want to see compromise and common sense. We want Congress to pass a tax cut for the 98%.
I have a web page with contact info for Congress, please keep me busy by posting updates and revisions here.
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/05/contact-congress-address-phone-twitter.html
We can also contact Boehner @SpeakerBoehner email http://boehner.house.gov/contact/ (202) 225-6205
When we see a tweet that supports the President we can retweet it.
We can post our support on Facebook.
If a petition is started we sign it and pass it on to others.
Having spent the past month gearing up my OFA team to get out the vote, this seems like a relatively simple task to do the items listed above.
We did not win the election by complaining – we won it by taking action. Let’s keep that up and see where it takes us.
One final comment, I meant no offense to yardarm. I watched a small portion of the press conference and share your disgust. I just used your post to illustrate a point. My comment is based on the Presidents comment of dont BOO – VOTE
We get to decide how much time (and blog posts) we spend complaining and how much effort we put into taking actions that support the President.
As I hang up my “neighborhood team leader” name tag, I have to tell you. Doing something that makes a difference feels wonderful.
Let’s do a little of that everyday…….
Thanks Linda. I agree. I commend you on your practical focus on action. Your site is fantastic. One approach could be to target individual Republicans that may break away from their lockstep voting and appeal to their common sense. Not sure how many you need for majority and also who could be swayed, perhaps Murkowski, McCain, Boehner…
Great point, Linda. We won’t have OFA to egg on us everyday, so we have to be our own self-motivators. That’s the beauty of this community. When one of us gets distracted, another can get us back on track. Thanks.
Thanks for the pep talk. When I said “I quit”, I meant those senseless pressers. I plan on spend a lot of phone time to let certain pols how I feel. Oh, make no mistake, I’m still in the fight!
Listening to this presser, it’s clear the WHPC doesn’t realize how irrelevant they’re becoming. We don’t need you; we have youtube!!
MSNBC….has announced that Gen Patreas has submitted his letter of resgination…Oooooooooo weeeeee….
something about an extra marital affair….whattttttttttt????…..
say whaaaaaat?????!!!! hahahhahhahhahhahahhaha! no?! seriously?
Sigh! Well it’s about time. Did we make it a whole month without some politician turning up in a sex scandal?
I understand that the general has been married 37 years.
Never too late, apparently.
Somebody just said that Patraeus resigned. Jay said that he’ll let Patraeus talk about that and that he’s sure PBO will have something to say about that later.
He had an extramarital affair. He’s resigning. The media is salivating for a “scandal” and are desperately trying to make this the scandal of the century. Many men in high office have affairs. Some of them resign. Others don’t. That is not a national emergency. And it certainly is no where near the astounding electoral defeat that Romney, Rove, Koch, Wall St, and the corporate media suffered earlier this week.
news flash! men and women have affairs, in high office, in lowly jobs, in the summer spring winter fall, indoors, outdoors etcetcetc. if patraeus is quitting his job over this, it is not about the affair.
Not if the person he had the affair with is someone he traditionally shouldn’t sleep with. Insert possibilities………..
noooo!!! not inserting any possibilites!! brain must stop these images!!! ann coulter! nooooo!!! karl rove!!! nooooo!!!!!!! rick santorum!!!!!! aiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
hahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
RAFALCA?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????
hahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahha!!!! That is hilarious!!!!
aaaaaaaaahh
Someone he met when he heard tapping coming from the next bathroom stall? I hope not. Please let it be one of the fair sex nd let her be his color…pretty pleae.
Andrea Mitchell is obsessed with Patreaus’ relationship with PBO. She so wants to make this about President Obama and nothing else.
why did Patraeus resign?
I heard the woman was writing a book about him and may have had access to classified information. Investigation was in process.
oooooh shit!!!!
The jackals are really just glorified gossip columnists. They are obsessed with process and personality. It’s pathetic.
Love me some Mary
Wow, MaryJ went combat ready!
Wow – CIA Director Petraeus resigns due to extra-marital affair. (Ya know, I’m so glad it wasn’t due to incompetence or a falling out of grace with the President. I know that’s self-serving relating to Democrats, but really it serves the President better that there be no administration-related problems, and we don’t get to hear negatives as PBO gets ready to take on his second term.)
GEEZE.
WHAT?! Geez!
Turn on CNN. They are reporting Petraeus resigned due to extramarital affair. Geez…
WTF IS THIS?
thinkprogress BREAKING: Petraeus resigns as head of CIA, cites extra-marital affair (via @NBCNews)
4 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
The extramarital affair news was out since over a week ago. He resigned today which is why it’s being covered. Most Americans don’t even know who Patraeus is.
So very true!
Poor Jay. Can’t beleive this breaks in the middle of his presser!!
I know, the jackals are obnoxious. It’s really disgusting. I am so sorry that Jay has to deal with them.
He said he was not going to discuss personnel matters, yet they keep asking the same questions over and over. They are worse than kids.
I assure you, Melanie, he knew it was coming.
Melanie, this is not breaking news. I knew about this affair well before the election. Jay Carney knew about it as well. Patraeus simply officially resigned today – but that’s probably because the President asked him to.
The MSM is making this into a much bigger deal than it is. Don’t let yourself be manipulated by them in that way. Romney’s utter defeat earlier this week is of far bigger consequence than a powerful man having an extramarital affair. Ask Bill Clinton.
Hopefruit, this IS breaking news. Just because you knew it, doesn’t mean millions of others did. I know there was stuff floating around on the Drudge Report, etc. but there were no specifics. He is the head of the freaking CIA; it’s a big deal. Don’t worry about me being manipulated. My mind is not weak. Let’s not pretend this is not a story. Everything is not the media’s fault.
News of Patraeus’ extramarital affair was on Twitter – which is how I found out. I don’t have any private knowledge of what’s going on in PBO’s cabinet. People were not paying attention because they were distracted by the looming election. Furthermore, the MSM were not prepared to make a big deal of it because they were hoping that Romney would win anyway.
His resignation today is what is new – like I said, it’s NOT a big deal – ask Bill Clinton. 20 years from now we are not going to be talking about Patraeus’s extramarital affair anymore than we are dwelling on Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky in the ’90s.
It IS a big deal right now. Who in the heck is thinking about 20 years from now? Unless there’s more to come, it may not even be a big deal in couple of days. Right now it is a story and it is not inappropriate for the media to cover it.
By all accounts and from the same MSM, Patraeus was expected to resign from his CIA position at some point in the near future to possibly pursue a WH bid for 2016. President Obama, I’m sure had expectations that he would be dealing with a lot of new cabinet appointments at the beginning of his 2nd term, and prepared accordingly. Obama is rarely off-guard about things like that.
Yet you are feeding into the foolish MSM narrative by insinuating that “poor” Carney was caught completely unawares of this “breaking news.” and you’re doubling down on the nonsense after not just I, but Bobfr pushed back on this narrative.
The MSM is pushing a gossipy, snarky angle because they’re still hurting from the utter defeat on Tuesday, and need to “get back” at Obama in some way. That has been their usual approach with this President.
Yet you are feeding into the foolish MSM narrative by insinuating that “poor” Carney was caught completely unaware of this “breaking news”
Feeding into the mainstream narrative?? You are so far gone. There are 2 stories. One that he resigned and two from a sex scandal. Millions of Americans didn’t know. It’s a big story. Get over it and move on. Period.
Glad to see you’re taking my advice.
Stop obsessing over the media. They are not going anywhere. If you don’t agree with them, ignore them. BTW Bob has just posted an update on this not so big story on the next thread:))
Oh look. Rev. Al is leading off his show with the not so big story. Breaking News.
It’s not your place to tell me what I should and shouldn’t ignore. The media is the main platform by which information about current events gets disseminated, and they have an ethical, professional and moral obligation to report the facts, and not mislead the public for their personal agendas. They are not doing their jobs, and I will say it as long as I need to. The media as it is is a menace to society and a danger to democracy.
And your comment about “poor” Carney was not based on news about FBI issue – it was based on limited information about Patraeus’ resignation. Stop mixing issues.
President Obama just released a statement. He probably had this statement written up since last week (or the week before). However, he had an election to win – which he did. That’s the BIGGER DEAL here. Had Obama lost the election, Patraeus’ resignation would be a footnote in the back pages of the daily paper.
Patraeus had an affair. He has resigned. Yes he is the head of CIA. But what does his affair, other tantalizing gossip, have to do with President Obama? I am sorry I am with hopefruit2. This is a useless sensational story that has very little to do with government or governing. This is a private matter. Unless, of course, Patraeus had an affair with a woman, or man, who was connected with the terrorists who killed our ambassador in Libya.
David Petraeus offered his resignation to Pres. Obama yesterday afternoon because he had an extra-marital affair and has to work things out with his wife of over 30 years, Holly Petraeus. He said Pres. Obama accepted his resignation after he explained he needed to be let go for personal reasons.
UT, I think this should have been the end of story! I don’t know about any one else but I do not care to dwell on private personal issues. Men and women have been having affairs from time immemorial. Right now, Petraeus’ family needs space and privacy to solve their situation. What would have been a story is if the Gen. resigned over issues related to his official duties.
ARGH, twitter is broken.
Thank goodness. It’s not just me.
Well, I was stoked that they appeared to get the posting / refreshing thing solved but now this. That must be a monster of a fat client piece of software for their servers on their end.
The posting/refreshing thing is fixed for me only if I tweet a new comment not if I reply to someone else’s tweet. Now this. Sigh. They need to get better techies and fix this.
Is anyone having weird problems with twitter? Are you only seeing your tweets and no one else’s new tweets?
Me too
Looks like others on twitter are having the same problem too.
All the tweets I’m seeing say they were posted 5m or 6m ago, instead of “now” like it usually does.
Yes. The page won’t even refresh.
Crashed on me. I refreshed and it seems okay now.
the press always says that they ask questions for the American People….i do not think that we would ask the questions that they ask
On Wednesday Pres. Obama will hold a press conference.
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3:02PM EST November 9. 2012 – NBC reported Friday that CIA director David Petraeus has resigned from the CIA, citing an extramarital affair.
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell said the resignation was submitted in a letter dated Friday and was accepted by the White House.
In a letter, Petraeus noted that he had been married for 37 years and had exercised “extremely poor judgment’ in conducting an extramarital affair.
Petraues took over as head of the CIA in September of 2011 following his tour as head of allied forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/09/david-petraeus-cia-resign-nbc/1695271/
CHIPS FRONT PAGE THIS PLZ! THIS MAY BE THE GREATEST THING ON THE INTERWEBS RIGHT NOW IF NOT FOR ANY OTHER REASON I WILL GO SEE LINCOLN THE MOVIE NOW
Not available in my country.
Awesome sauce!
This one works.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134832n
Cool!
That was perfect.
I love this, thanks
Now MSNBC’s narrative is that PBO’s cabinet is in turmoil because so many people are leaving. Trust the media to try to turn a positve for PBO into a negative.
ALL administrations undergo change after a significant election. That is par for the course. My advice to anyone here is to simply not allow the media to pull your strings with their bullshit. They are mighty pissed off that their golden boy LOST soundly, and their pre-cooked narratives associated with an Obama loss or narrow win have had to be scrapped. So now their latching on to this CIA/Benghazi issue is their desperation speaking.
The US media has lost the last shred of credibility after this election. While they laugh at FOX for the state of disarray – the rest of the media was quite happy to further the lies from FOX and engage in this horse race nonsense. They shouldn’t be laughing quite so loudly. They did a great disservice to the public, and have done so through out any Democratic president’s administration for the past several decades, as well as furthering the propaganda from the right that lied this country into debt and into war. I’m done with the media, apart from getting headlines that I can investigate. They are pathetic and useless.
They are trying to distract him from the Fiscal cliff negotiations, and trying to weaken Him.
Everything to republicans is tax cuts, that is all they care about, will use anything to get them, even this stuff about Petreas!
Yes, you’re right – they are trying to use every nonsense to create an issue.
We need to launch a massive pushback against MSM! They know they failed to unseat the President, so, they are now launching a malicious campaign to undermine him before he has even been sworn in for a second term. These people are evil.
You’re so right Nathkatun7. That’s why I get doubly ticked off when people come here pushing the very MSM angles we’re trying to guard against.
OFF-TOPIC: HUNK ALERT! (sorry fellas)
Javier Bardem gets Hollywood star
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20265440
Academy award-winning actor Javier Bardem has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bardem, who plays villain Silva in the latest Bond movie Skyfall, was joined by his female co-stars Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe.
“It’s too soon for me,” he said, “But it’s a great honour to receive it.” Skyfall opens in US theatres on Friday, after becoming the highest-grossing 007 film in the UK to date, with box office takings of more than £57m in 12 days.
“I grew up in a family of filmmakers and actors dating back, back, back to the earliest days of Spanish cinema,” he said. “And I’ve been lucky enough to work as a professional actor for 25 years. I share this honour with all the amazing directors in Spain and out of Spain who took a chance on me.”
Bardem received a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men in 2008. He has also received two further nominations for best actor, in 2001 (for Before Night Falls) and 2011 (for Biutiful). [more in the article]
Not just a pretty face:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/javier-bardem-sons-of-the-clouds_n_2073962.html
OMG, LOVE him. A very fierce actor.
Pres. Obama has released a statement accepting Petraeus’s resignation.
There’s no rest for the weary. Our energizer bunny President Obama just keeps going and going and going.
OBAMA ACCEPTS PETRAEUS RESIGNATION, SAYS THE GENERAL HAS ‘MADE OUR COUNTRY SAFER AND STRONGER’
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-accepts-petraeus-resignation-says-general-has-made-our-country-safer-and-stronger
good. the more bush people we get out of government, the better. it’ll be interesting to see who president obama pushes for that job. by the way, have they reported if david patreaus’s affair was with a man or woman….just curious…
Is twitter working for you????
No. Not at all. It’s kind of frozen.
It’s not working for me. I’m only seeing my own tweets. i thought something had happened to my account.
yep, that’s what I’m seeing too…
Ok, why is Andrea Mithcell so upset? Is she the mistress?
She’s really mad that PBO won re-election, and so she’s desperately trying to make every story seem graver than it is. Notice her constant reminders about the early relationship between PBO and Patraeus.
I thought it was my computer.
it was bobfr, with his call to citizen journalism/activism!!
LOL! It’s working fine for me – for now. Twitter has moods and glitches.
Sorry everyone
just testing the system, eh?
I am having the same problem Donna
Kid reacts to President Obama win:-)
That little boy is so sweet, and he’s a real cutie pie, too. It’s amazing how many kids love our president. Kids know good people when they see/meet them. I hope he does get a chance to meet PBO sometime within the next four years.
I wanna go see Bronco ‘Bama too!
me too:-)
Kasai..how do I reach you? I want two or three of your pictures..can you do a link thing again?
Hi Miss Pat…you can send me an email here> kasaicreations@mail.com..and if you’re on twitter you find my info there as well.
thanks:-)
I will, thanks.
I’m terribly sorry to hear about Petraeus. He has been decent and honorable in public service. I hope he and his wife work things out.
Yes he has. And the mere fact that PBO selected him for an important position gives you a sense for what kind of person he is. PBO bases his selections on quality and character.
Well said Bill! Now I hope the media will allow the Gen. some privacy to work out this difficult situation with his wife and his family.
Sadly it ain’t gonna happen. The elephant in the room is Benghazi!
Allen “Wack Job” West needs to wake up and smell the Coffee! It’s so sad that this man is pissing on the graves of all the people who sacrificed so much to make it possible for him to vote and run for office.
allen west is a reminder that the rethugs lost their elections tuesday because their candidates were horrible AND because they have an evil campaign in charge of electing the fools. it was both. the silly argument over whose fault it was is just more rethug smokescreen: their whole operation is wrong for america, from the candidates, to the message, to the methods they employ, to their funding sources. all of it.
lawddddd….The Supreme Court….
will hear challenge of Voting Rights Act…
in light of the Voter Intimidation and Voter Suppression….
mercy mercy mercy
btw, prettyfoot, i read recently that the supreme’s will probably push a bunch of right wing agendas through before pbo gets a chance to appoint new justices and shift the balance back to moderation. this announcement about the voting rights act is a signal, i suspect, that they will indeed hit as hard as they can, while they can.
hmmm…we shall see,,,,never expected it to go well with ACA ….but it did…what they do with Affirmative Action will say where this is going…
hmmm…we shall see,,,,never expected it to go well with ACA ….but it did…what they do with Affirmative Action will say where this is going…
The South…is not changed…The GOP….has proven that…
‘ The Obama administration aggressively used Section 5 during this year’s election season to challenge restrictions on voting passed by Republican-led legislatures. The states said the changes were meant to combat voter impersonation fraud or make Election Day easier on election officials.
Courts generally backed the administration. Federal judges blocked new voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas for the election and forced officials in Florida to ease planned restrictions on early voting, which has become an important tool for Democrats in increasing African American turnout. ‘
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012
shoot–sorry, link is not correct. i’m having trouble with links lately. is it just me, or are the newpages blocking these link-posts?
Photos from Dublin’s election night festivities, Cousin Henry was there too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassydub/with/8162728957/#photo_8162728957
Thanks for the link, xtine. I found the pic of Cousin Henry! He is soooo cute, and I love his unwavering support for PBO!!!
Woot!
Cool! I also saw Henry tweet about an election night party at Ollie’s. How crazy fun would that be??!!
I loved Rachel Maddows segment where she pointed out that when republicans pick women candidates how they still vote for the democrat whose male. It seems like the republicans believe that if they just pick a minority or a woman that some how these groups will run to the their candidate. Maddow was spot on when it comes to this.
I was glad to see that Mia Love lost her campaign, Jeff, because, imo, even though she was a Black and is female, she would not have done a thing for women. She would have been another Marsha Blackburn/Michelle Bachmann.
I think it’s funny though that a democrat beat Mia Love so handily in the ruby red state of Utah. You have to admit there was some almost racial here!
I’m not sure about this democrat either way, the guy seemed highly conservative almost dixiecrat like.
Yes, I’ve read that he is more Blue Dog than true dem. My former dem rep here in Middle GA was the same way. After he voted against HCR, he lost his seat in 2010. I’m really hoping someone will step up to run against Austin Scott, the republican who replaced him. Personally, I just didn’t want to see the Utah seat occupied by a republican because, iirc, I’d read that he was the only dem member in Congress from Utah.
I think a lot of (not ALL) Utah is so obviously racist.
She is not just conservative but ultra-conservative on all issues——tea party supported. Likely too far out there even for Utah. I’m sure the Dem seemed more moderate in comparison. All need to be judged by the content of their character.
I’m not convinced that’s why she lost. Time will tell if this guy will be a good congressman or not. Remember at one time Utah did not accept blacks in their church.
jeff, we know you mean to write, ‘ the mormons did not accept…’. fortunately, utah and the l.d.s. church are not entirely the same organization!
Jim Matheson is already a US Representative for the 2nd district in Utah. He’s a Blue Dog which is to be expected since he is from Utah. He was re-districted to the 4th District where he beat out Mia Love (thank goodness).
IF THERE ARE PROBLEMS W/ INTELLIGENCE REPORTING…IT MEANS SOMEONE IS NOT WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE AND THERE ARE OTHER LOYALTIES…BUSH WAS A PUPPET…PBO IS NOT…ALL I CAN SAY FOR TODAY IS ‘GOOD RIDDENS!’ WORKING WITH INTEL IS LIKE FILTERING SNAKE OIL…THAT HAS TO BE KEPT IN MIND. GOOD PRESIDENTS FACE THIS PROBLEM.
Thanks, Bobfr,
Another one bites the dust!!!! Dr. Ruiz will better serve the people in his district since he knows what it’s like to really have to pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps.
Fantastic news!
Thank goodness!
She was acting like a bitch about this. Yea! Another seat for us!
Great news!, Thanks Bob for sharing this.
Wait, there was a candidate running here in CA named Mary Bono Mack and I didn’t know about it? OMG now my childhood’s coming back to me.
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
all dressed in black, black, black…
If anybody thought for a second that TeaNN would stop with the partisan bullshit coverage after the election, peep this headline:
“Obama calls on House to pass tax hikes for wealthy”
Funny, I thought the bill was to extend tax CUTS for the middle class, but the headline focus on shit that’s not actually IN the bill.
their agenda is so well documented, we aren’t surprised this is what they’re worried about. what is surprising is that they’re completely owning up to it: disaster! rich people are pissed !!
Forgot the link: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/politics/obama-fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
SMDH
[This is interesting ...]:
“…But Obama administration officials tell the Back Channel that there are several reasons Kerry may have to cool his heels a while–having nothing to do with Kerry not being held in high esteem by the White House. Among them:
1) Secretary Clinton, who met with Obama and Vice President Biden at the White House Friday, feels an obligation to see the Benghazi investigation through and not leave any taint from that investigation to be faced by her successor. This could have her staying on til February or March, one administration source, who requested anonymity, told Al-Monitor Friday.
2) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told the White House that he will be “furious” if he loses Kerry from the Senate, to leave the Massachusetts Democratic Senate seat facing Republican Scott Brown with millions of dollars in the bank left over from his unsuccessful Senate race against Democrat Elizabeth Warren. The White House may feel especially obliged to listen to Reid, because he is a key reason the Democrats held onto their Senate majority, and because “they have to keep Reid happy as a clam” on the fiscal cliff negotiations, the official said. (Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and his wife are due to have a ‘social’ dinner with President and Michelle Obama at the White House Friday night. But while some thought Patrick might be in position to run against Brown if a Kerry nomination leaves the Senate seat open, other sources say Patrick has his eye on the AG job.)
3) While there are important constituencies in and out of his administration pushing for Kerry, including reportedly Vice President Biden, Kerry’s predecessor as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations panel, “Obama loves” Susan Rice, his US Ambassador to the United Nations, the official noted. If Clinton stays on through the Benghazi investigation, that may blunt and defuse Congressional Republican wrath (and political opportunism) over the administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks that has heretofore targeted Rice, among others, and that has raised concerns about whether a Rice confirmation hearing would become a huge, ugly partisan food fight.
4) A Kerry departure from the Senate would leave New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez first in line to assume the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—and the White House has a lot of problems with Menendez on foreign policy issues, administration sources said. On Cuba, Iran sanctions (Menendez has sponsored hawkish Iran sanctions legislation that has limited the administration’s negotiating options), Turkey (Menendez has championed efforts for an Armenia genocide resolution, that has riled Turkey), Iraq, “Menendez doesn’t play ball and has been a huge thorn” in their side, the official said.
Lots more here: http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2012/11/3126/why-john-kerry-may-have-to-cool-his-heels-on-secretary-of-state/#more-3126
Excellent points
This to me is juicier than where David P. put his pecker! Also liked the bits about Susan Rice.
me, too, though your double entendre is a little unnerving
Hi-five!
I love simply LOVE Susan Rice!
Desperately trying to video of her segment from The Black List (HBO documentary)
Portrait from it here though: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/blacklist/index.html#23
I meant “…trying to FIND video of her segment” (arrgh). No luck so far, but here’s the trailer: http://itsh.bo/dELYpl
A few clips from Vol 1 are on Youtube (including Deval Patrick, Rev Al, Colin Powell)
http://www.youtube.com/user/blacklist/videos?view=0
Sadly Dr. Rice’s segment is not there.
Exactly, Xtine!
interesting analysis. thanks xtine.
You’re welcome! I like Laura Rozen. She picks up some fab stuff!
Kerry is needed in the Senate. Period
Can’t watch martin because a bunch of gossip hacks are on yacking about extra marital affairs. Idiots!
It shows how much they prefer to focus on nonsense, LLO. Everything boils down to a “blow” against the Obama Administration. If this were really the case, the Obama Administration would have failed a long time ago, especially if one thinks of how much republicans have held up PBO’s appointees across the board. What I have loved and admired about the president is his resourcefulness. Even though the republicans have been asses about his appointees, he uses the talent he has at these agencies and still makes them look bad.
“Everything boils down to a “blow” against the Obama Administration.”
There you have it. That’s the underlying message in all MSM reports of any current event remotely or closely associated with Pres Obama.
Wow, we are back to FULL METAL PUNDITRY here. I guess making up for the 3 week moratorium?
love this part: ‘Leebens-Mack was joined in his advocacy of a Charles Darwin write-in by Atlanta syndicated radio host Neil Boortz, who said that Broun is bad for Republicans in general because he makes the Party “look like knee-dragging, still-tending, tobacco-spitting Neanderthals.” ‘
oh, really? ‘look like’?
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1sNCP)
New post everyone, just catching up now, back soon:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/11/09/growing-the-economy/
OK, so Ashley Judd has not ruled out running against The Turtle. I believe she will. Her activism has kicked up and she is being talked about in these circles. The good news is that Mitch McConnell’s approval rating in Kentucky is hovering around 37/50. Ashley also completed an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2010. I hope she jumps in sometime in the not-too-distant future.
THE TURTLE HAS ‘LONG OVERSTAYED’ HIS WELCOME…HE NEEDS TO GO!