On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama meets children as she visits the Emthonjeni Community Center in Zandspruit Township, Johannesburg, South Africa June 21, 2025
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Whoa!
GoooooooooooooooBrookyln!!!!
Ms. Chips, If it’s possible can you post Gov. O’Malley’s speech?
If anyone can find the video Sabreen, I definitely will!
Heeeeeyyyyyyyy Chippppppsssssss!!! :)
Greeeeeeeat to see ya GB!
Congrats on 1st GB!!
Hope you are doing well.
Thanks, Bob! doing okay.
Great news!!!
Congrats gobrooklyn!
Thanks!
GB! Goooooooooooold for you! Congrats! :-D
:) !
Everyone at the soccer match or what? :)
No, we’re here….congrats on #1 :)
Thanks, hopefruit! :)
Hey! GB!!!!!
I was thinking about you. Hope you doing well.
Hey GGail; Doing better this week. Thanks.
Happy to hear that you are having a good week.
Thank you, MomSense!
Do hope she catches a clue ….
#FORWARD …. TOGETHER!
Heh!!
Ha! That’s awesome! Love it! :-)
Be still my heart!!!!
Look at you Meta, mixing with the stars!! :-) Wonderful!
I love Favs!!
And he loves you back!!!!
I have such a crush on Favs!!! SO envious!
meta!!!!
WOOOOOOOT!!
Meta - My heart’s pounding because your heart’s pounding. So impressed! Also with Jon for being so natural about everything - he also credited Pres. Obama with “a lot of” the words. Isn’t looking to top anybody, just being himself. Love it! Congrats!
Haha, thank you! In all the interviews I’ve seen with him, he seems like such a sweet and very smart, funny guy. I can see why POTUS loved working with him.
Two of a kind, sounds like!
Jacquelineoboomer, you are an observant person indeed. Jon and PBO are two souls that were meant to be together. The respect that they both have for each other is seldom seen, and certainly seldom lasting. These two will last always. Trust me on this one as well. HZ
Agree, HZ. Jon reminds me of a quote I heard once: There is nothing so exhilarating as the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.
Been in that situation, myself, in my previous career, and luckily worked with and for experienced people who really listened!
I really like this ad! For you futbol lovers out there! :-)
Here’s the transcript of Gov O’Malley’s speech:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/06/21/martin-omalley-iowa-democrats-convention-speech/11209343/
Brilliant, thanks DF!
You’re welcome:) Beautiful pic of FLOTUS with those children:) Children and our POTUS/FLOTUS just go together…like peas and carrots!
:lol: And would ya believe it, I am currently ‘cooking’ peas and carrots :-)
:) Of course I knew that! I have ESPN!
I. Am. LITERALLY. Cryyyyyyyyyyyyying :lol:
You know I had to post this! :-D
Yay!
But I want video so I can watch him say the words too.
[With my best Peter Sellers in “Being There” impression…] I like to watch. Heh! ;-)
I hear you! This is just to tide you over:)
:-)
Ask and it shall be yours ….
http://www.c-span.org/video/?320008-1/governor-omalley-iowa-democratic-state-convention
I looooooove you Bob!!!!!
:)
You, Sir, are a PRINCE among men! I thank you and bow to you! :-)
:)
Not sure what CSPAN is doing. They had a link to the video at the URL I provided and now they have a ‘program not aired yet’ message at that URL.
Yep. I couldn’t get it either. Just a picture of him at the podium.
Video now restored!! :)
I got it here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?320008-1/governor-omalley-iowa-democratic-state-convention
Just finished watching/listening to him.
Loved the story about his son’s observation about the silliness of some people riding in the front of the bus vs. others riding in the back of the bus “back then” — “Dad, didn’t you guys realize that you were all going to the same place?” :-)
Thanks Bob. I found the transcript but not the video. You’re great!
Fantastic speech with clear echoes of President Obama without being a “me, too.” I think that Mrs. Clinton is not going to know what hit her.
From your lips to God’s ears, as they say!
Amen jackieG, and jacquelineoboomer!HZ
Whoa, campaign slogan, “We are all on the same bus.” Love that his young son said, “didn’t you all realize you were going to the same place.” This country is ready for more change that President Obama has started, moved forward and continues to push for. He has opened the door for more that believe the same.
Just had to repost this from last thread
Bringing this over from previous thread - A couple nice articles of Malia playing tennis (from 2012). :)
https://www.dyc.edu/news-center/news/2012/0820_obama_tennis_trophy.aspx
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215706/Malia-Obama-plays-tennis-high-school-friends.html
Cool! Love all the different shots of her in the second article (from 2012). Gosh, time flies!
TY, hf!! Those photos of Malia reveal a stunning beauty. POTUS and FLOTUS must beam with pride every day.
Thx hf, it’s nice to see Malia growing up normally!
I was at a friend’s lunch and met a guy who sells solar in the Bay Area. He said business is BOOMING. Except for the occasional Republican who says they won’t try solar because “Obama is pushing it.” Dumb jerks!
Glad to hear business is booming as it should be.
Let that RW bucket of pee stay in the dark ages. We’re moving #FORWARD!
Let them keep paying through the nose then!
Exactly! So dumb.
But what about boners tan?
I vow to watch futbol tomorrow - will there be any games?
:lol: The World Cup lasts FOREVER, GGail!
PS Argentina broke Iran’s hearts, scored the winner in added time!
ok, I’ll look for it on the innertube.
My son bought me a Mac and I’m learning my way around it.
If you have a link, please provide :-)
Team USA. plays yet another “Group of Death” team that’s supposed to dust the floor with ’em! Let’s see what happens! Go TEAM!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Amen sista!
People better act like they know. Hmph. :)
GLAAD gives Prez Clinton another award…..
But but but..Martha Radditz sez…
This is how you do it. Help your team win even though you’re not on the ballot. You listening Hillary?
#BAM
PBO playing golf today but nary a peep from Mark Knoller - after he saw what happened last weekend…he’s not gonna try to make an arse of himself & the GOP again this weekend
What happened last night?
What do you mean? I don’t understand. Nothing happened last night.
Did I say last night? I meant last weekend. I don’t know what happened last night either.
Freud and all..//
Anyway, last weekend PBO did a couple fundraisers and played golf on Father’s Day, and Mark Knoller was all over that like white on rice. His Tea-followers responded as usual with their nasty, snarky tweets.
A couple days later we find out that the Benghazi capture was going down around the same time PBO was golfing, and Mark Knoller knew nothing about the capture while he was busy counting PBO’s golf games.
It’s becoming a well-known meme that whenever PBO plays golf, a highly sought out terrorist gets caught. This has happened on a few occasions but originated with the Bin Laden capture when PBO played golf on that same day.
Ahhh. Right. Thanks for the recap. Knoller wants so badly for PBO to invite him to play around of golf and give him a permanent ticket to the White House buffet line.
I think you’re right about that.
May she rest in peace. Because she lived and became a scientist, many lives were saved.
:)
What a fun, adorable family! :-)
Sorry, disappeared for a nap :)
How great is this pic?
Uncle Joe!! Looks like everyone’s out there today having fun wherever they are :) Especially our DEMOCRATS…
VP Joe is looking GOOD!!
Aim for the WHPC, Joe!!
Thanks jovie for the link. I will try to watch it if i can. :) Dudette would also love this.
The guy on the right looks like a young Muddy Waters.
He really does. I was scrolling past and backed up to see if it was him.
Feeling threatened…so here come the teleprompter jokes…where have we seen movie this before?
Romney like tactics!!!!!!
Ugh! Really?
Doesn’t Hillary from time to time use a teleprompter. Suddenly the political world is stunned that a politician will on occasion use a teleprompter. If that’s the best they can do then O’Malley’s speech must have them genuinely terrified.
x 1,000,000,000,000! —> “If that’s the best they can do then O’Malley’s speech must have them genuinely terrified.”
FYI !!
Is that EST time. I really want to see that.
Jackie, yes, EDT. However, you can see it now at the link I posted above. It’s the same link in Craig’s tweet.
Here you go:
Wow, how did I miss this? The Great Alfre Woodard’s gonna be POTUS (on a TV show)!!! Oooo, I cannot wait to see this!
Trying to get my groove on before my lunch break comes to an end.
Yes, Yes, Yessssss!
Speaking of Hound Dogs:
This looks good too. TV for geeky-nerds! Woot! :-)
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/06/21/governor-omalley-at-the-iowa-democratic-partys-state-convention/
Now my dog is biting my feet while I take a nap, after mowing lawn.
She really likes my toenails.
Ouch !
:-) Tuck those feet away Jovie!
Maybe some critters crawled up in there and she’s trying to get at ’em for you. :-)