5:0 EDT: President Obama Delivers Remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Reception
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Thanks Chips.
You are HIGHLY welcome, COS!!
Love you Chips. Get a delicious soothing cup of tea and relax. Thanks for all that you do for all of us here. (((((((Love you))))))HZ
Our beloved {{{{{{{HZ}}}}}}} :-)
I was a bit confused saying to myself : ” I thought his appearance at this was cancelled” and that FLOTUS would fill in;
then I remembered the earlier function in the White House that precedes the performance at the Kennedy Center;
ok it makes sense now - I am really slow
Actually Linda…..
:) :)
thanks a lot
Congrats COS :)
gcLinda mentioned this important video at the bottom of the previous thread and I agree it’s just what all Americans should take to heart, today and forever ….
Yes We Can
the President is funny
Yes he was PF58, and the audience enjoyed him also. :-)
:D
i loved that…going to miss the President in the balcony…
YAY!!!!!!!!!
Great!!!
I’m really happy!! :) It wouldn’t have been the same without him.
We LOVE our President!!
hf…do you know when the Kennedy Honors will be aired on TV?
//Stephen Colbert, host of the CBS talk show “The Late Show,” emcees the Dec. 6 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, saluting singer-songwriter Carole King, actresses Cicely Tyson and Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas, conductor Seiji Ozawa and rock group the Eagles.
The 38th annual celebration takes place at the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The gala will be recorded for broadcast on the CBS Network as a two-hour primetime special Dec. 29 at 9 PM ET. //
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/stephen-colbert-hosts-2015-kennedy-center-honors-tonight-374106
thanks
yes, we do really love our President!
Our POTUS was awesome. Really enjoyed this. Thanks you Chips.
I guess POTUS has to go get ready for his speech.
So POTUS will be able to attend the Kennedy Honors after his speech.
*seeing the President in the balcony
watching and listening to PBO at this reception, it is hard to think that this is not the only duty he has to perform tonight;
I don’t know how he manages to multi-task and yet be fully in each moment so that the people he is communicating to feel they are the only ones who matter to him.
he seems like he has no challenges to solve;
PBO makes being POTUS seem so easy that it is no surprise that a number of gop fools erroneously thought they are up to the task (that is until they are so incompetent that they can’t even run a campaign for a months);
American voters and PBO supporters across all parts of the world, we did exceptionally well to make sure that world gets to share his many talents every day he is office
Indeed. He makes it look a LOT easier than it is…and I pity some of the fools who are rushing in, thinking that the Presidency will be just celebrity photo-ops and endless ranting on Twitter and elsewhere….
President Obama looks mighty handsome
Congrats COS on your Au :star:
Seiji Ozawa…was the only one of the honorees to stand when the President approached them to shake their hands…
I, too, noticed that
beautiful photo and set up!
I wonder if any other President has had this kind of set up for a speech in the Oval Office;
most images I see are of Presidents sitting down at the Resolute desk - could PBO start a trend ?
That will be criticized.
Why?
If the News Media and GOPers can’t find anything wrong with tonight’s speech by Pres Obama before 320M Americans, they will pivot to Optics, Tone, Emote or Not Emote. It never fails since Jan 20th, 2015.
I mentioned this last evening on this TOD
I HAVE TO SAY…THIS IS QUITE UNIQUE THIS EVENING….WISH I HADN’T MISSED HIS EARLIER INTRO AT THE KENNEDY CENTER…THE MEDIA IS EXHAUSTING …ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS WRITE PBO’S SPEECH TONITE FOR HIM….APPARENTLY THEY ARE STILL RUNNING THE COUNTRY! NAUSEATING!
GE GCL.
My twitter feed was filled with MSM complaining about the podium.
JHC.
Example:
http://photos.essence.com/galleries/24-times-first-lady-michelle-obamas-style-reigned-supreme-2015?ESS+FB=ESS_socialflow_Facebook
TX and their Frequent adoration fantasizing Secession for over 100 yrs.
BTW, it is Unconstitutional.
Do it already instead of spouting this endlessly.
I found the video of former President Carter telling his Sunday School class that he’s cancer free. It touched me.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/12/06/watch-jimmy-carter-tell-his-church-hes-cancer-free/
I must agree with Mr. Seiji Ozawa’s mother’s objection to him joining a rugby team as a youngster
Isn’t that Lin Manuel Miranda that FLOTUS hugs in the front row?
GGail Yes that was the director of Hamilton, sitting in the front row next to FLOTUS.
Annieb, thanks, my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me 😘
That’s so fantastic. A cute little story my sister told at Thanksgiving. My sister lives in Atlanta and was visiting one of her friends at the hospital and a nurse came into the room and said, “One of your friends who brought the cookies and had put them out near the nurses station - I just saw President Carter take one and comment how good it was”.
Cam Newton & Drew Brees are putting on a clinic - what a game!
JER, you & Pete both have an eye for beauty! Thank you 😘
Hi there, GGail. Here is a photo for you.
JER, you are a Keeper!!! Thank you 💕
May God BLESS you President Obama as you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders.
You do it so elegantly and with such intelligence that we are always in awe of your abilities.
You are loved and respected Sir, by millions of us. Just keep on keeping on. We are there with you and for you.
Amen! Well stated!
AMENNNNNN
Happy Chanukah to all those who celebrate here!
JER, no picture of our First Lady. :(
Here you are Bella.
Thanks JER, that will do till I see what she is wearing tonight. I appreciate what you did. :)
I did see alittle bit of her when she and POTUS walk in.
Portland Timbers win MLS Championship Cup 2-1:
congratulations!
you beat us - Columbus Crew;
don’t if you saw my message to you earlier but I promised you that I would put my feelings aside, if your team beat us, because of your tremendous volunteerism for socio-economic justice issues;
so, here goes => Go Timbers !
Oh man, Cam & Drew are trading touchdowns! Whoop Wheeee this is a great game!!
I’d like to party with the people in that house to the right!
Ha, me too! Looks like Chevy Chase and his bonkers family live next door!
Exactly. The kind that puts the power out in the whole neighborhood. :)
Our beloved VP
guess the critics were “right” => “no women” on duty among the VP’s senior staff !
PBo was so cute and funny in his remarks at the reception. No one looking at him would guess that he had such weighty matters to address shortly afterward if we had not be given the word. This ability that he has to be completely present in the midst of the craziness that is the world today is truly remarkable. Of course, the greatest example of his focus was when he was slaying at the WHCD at the time that the bin laden kill raid that he ordered had begun.
TV and DVR cued up for his 8:00 EST address to the nation. See you afterward.
It’s so fun to turn on CNN, see their serious mugs, mute ’em, and see their jaws flapping in the breeze. Makes as much sense as it does when you can actually hear them speak.
Totally plan to turn it all off right after the speech, and form my own opinion of what the President tells the country. Which, I can tell you in advance, will be a good opinion!
It’s so fun to turn on CNN, see their serious mugs, mute ’em, and see their jaws flapping in the breeze.”
:lol: Best advice ever Jacqueline, cracking up at the flapping jaws!
It’s kinda sickening, those jaws, but laughable just the same! Feeling better?
Not feeling terrific, Jacqueline, but completely my fault for endlessly boasting about not having a bad cold for 10 years. From now on, my lips are zipped :???:
Your lips zipped? Oh, I hope not. :)
Jacqueline and Chips, I am not as brave as you all. :) I can’t stand all of those flapping jaws quarterbacking, as if they are privy to the same information received by PBO.
did the poll ask if the “war-supporters” (starting with the entire gop clown car) would be ready to sign up and send their own children to fight in Iraq and Syria?
or go themselves to defend our country?
Heads up
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/06/president-obama-delivers-an-address-to-the-nation-2/