THERE IS SMOKE COMING FROM MY FB PAGE..I ANSWERED FRANKLIN GRAHAM TWICE ON HIS CLAIM OF A CHRISTIAN AMERICA…I’M SURE THE RIGHT WINGERS ARE GATHERING THEIR PITCHFORKS..LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..FRANKLIN HAS FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT SLAVERY AND ALL THE OTHER TRASH SPILLED IN THIS COUNTRY…STOP BLAMING IT ON OBAMA!
A CHRISTIAN NATION DOES NOT DO WHAT OUR HISTORY HAS RECORDED…WE MUST HUMBLE OURSELVES…ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS AND CHANGE THE WAY WE TREAT EACH OTHER…I THANK GOD..I AM COLOR BLIND…ETC…ETC…I AM JUST AN IMPERFECT SOUL//NO BETTER…NO LESS…THAN ANYONE ELSE!
This is on CSPAN-3. This should be televised to all Americans who feel the GOP has family values and fiscal conservatives all lies. Gov Snyder should be front and center testifying. These R fuckers want to blame the EPA.
Jojo, I’ve been watching this Flint Water Hearing since it started and the reckless House Republicans are during everything they can to shift the blame to USEPA and away from Snyder’s criminal cabal including MEDQ (Michigan Environmental Department of Quality) .
I HAVE THAT ON…IF ERIN BROKOVICH WAS THERE LAST YEAR DUE TO COMPLAINTS…SURELY THERE IS PLENTY TO BUILD A CASE ON….FRANKLY…ALL OF OUR PLUMBING IS IN TROUBLE BECAUSE NONE OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN REPAIRED…240,000 WATER MAIN BREAKS LAST YEAR…DOES THAT SAY ANYTHING!????????????????????????
Of course they want to blame Obama for everything, even the mess they do. Invading Iraq is Obama’s fault. World War 1 and 2 was Obama fault. So is racism.
THE CASE I WORKED AGAINST WAUKESHA CTY,WISCONSIN REMINDS ME OF THIS..SPRAYING 2.4.5.-T ALL OVER THE HIGHWAYS..WEEDKILLERS THAT ARE DERIVATIVES OF AGENT ORANGE. DOW CHEMICAL..WESTINGHOUSE..ALL GREED PIGS WHO EVEN PAID PEOPLE TO MOVE ELSEWHERE IF THEY GOT CANCER FROM WORKING ON THEIR PROJECTS.
Christie is simply… unfit. For many things, including the leadership of this country. His foul mouth needs to be washed with soap. Fortunately, there is a better remedy: he will soon lose his aspirational WH dream.
Can’t believe that this guy had the nerve to say subpoena. His a@@ should be in court right now for shutting down that bridge. He is the worst kind of bully.
The man is scum, Dudette. He has no business being in the public arena. The people of New Jersey were deluded when they elected him and I hope his long term prospects find him in a state penitentiary. I am also sick and tired of the demeaning way men treat Hillary Clinton and refer to her.
Good question for the Bernie supporters, how will he get the votes he need to pass some of the things he is talking about. These supporters of his must not have been paying any attention to what the Republicans have been doing the last seven years.
CONGRESS DESERVES ALL THE HELL THAT CAN BE GATHERED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE TRIED TO DO TO THIS PRESIDENT …AND …THIS WILL BE A TUFF YEAR….THEY HAVE TO LEARN THE HARD WAY!
I don’t expect Bernie to accomplish a thing but I do expect him to “do no harm”. He would be a seat warmer until 2020 when hopefully the DNC would have learned something or two.
My fear is Bernie would do harm with what has been accomplished with ACA in trying to get his agenda passed. I am not sure he is that politically savvy and instead of working in incremental change he has an all or nothing attitude which makes him dangerous.
Ryan & his GOP colleagues are simply shameful. They make EVERYTHING about Obama. All the GOP faults are Obama’s fault. It’s time for them to face facts. They sowed this ugly mess. Now they need to deal with it and stop deflecting. They look so incredibly stupid. I am so sick of the people.. Enough is enough.
Funny, LH, I wasn’t under the impression that Republican Party had “done” anything in the last seven years but obstruct everything that could help Americans, create jobs, improve the environment and modernize our infrastructure. Unless, of course, voting 63 times to repeal affordable health care is “doing something.”
You can sit back and enjoy the Religious Right tearing itself apart over the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The process is well under way and won’t be finished until the votes are in after Election Day.
There are Cruz evangelicals and Rubio evangelicals and even Trump evangelicals. This latter category stirs the most amazement in observers, not least among evangelical observers. They can’t seem to wrap their minds around why their fellow “believers” (like Jerry Falwell, Jr.) would prefer Trump to the self-appointed messiah, Ted Cruz, who is, after all, the Chosen One of many Religious Right leaders.
As has been pointed out here and elsewhere, the so-called Religious Right is not all that religious – they don’t practice what they preach, with their babies born out of wedlock, their high divorce rates, their addiction to porn, their worship of money, and their failure to read their own Bible.
What they do do well is hate. In fact, what unifies them is hate, not Jesus, whose message of love they avoid like the plague. And Trump has effectively tapped into that hate by skipping over the middle man.
He has proven you don’t need a Bible you’ve never read in order to hate effectively.
Sure, in Iowa, Cruz managed to out-hate Trump and get a win, but that’s bucking the trend. Iowa talk radio host Steve Deace, who supports Cruz, talked to the American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios after the Iowa caucus and despite his hero’s win, he is really having a hard time with Trump’s appeal.
Deranged Evangelicals Despise Donald Trump for Co-Opting Their Hate via @politicususa https://t.co/3v8VY9zZJ0 #p2 #p2b
SO MANY MUSLIM WOMEN WALK IN FEAR IN THE STORES…I ALWAYS TELL THEM HOW PRETTY THEY ARE…RACISTS WALK BY AND GIVE THEM HATE STARES…I NOW GET THEM BECAUSE MY NEW BUMPER STICKER SAYS 30 NATIONS BLENDED CHURCH! HAH! STICK IT YOU KNOW WHERE!
I KNOW I HAVE MUSLIM FRIENDS….I CAN’T WAIT TO PUT THIS ON MY FB LATER TODAY…THIS IS WHY I LEFT MY OTHER CHURCH..I COULDN’T STAND HEARING THE HATE ANYMORE!..:(..I CRY!
So on the internets today, sandernistas accused me of being a Hillary staffer after correcting their mis-information regarding just tossing TPP in the garbage as they want to do, because reasons they say.
News to me anyways, i hope Hillary pays her staffers well, i could use a raise!
I’m not saying there should be, but If ever there would be a President for Life, the one person who deserves that honor like no other is Barack Hussein Obama. He was born to lead the world. I’m in tears thinking about him leaving the White House.
.@POTUS: Speaking to my fellow Christians, if we're serious about freedom of religion, an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths
Cheer up! The window is only closing for his presidential speeches. Remember what he told us in the SOTU:
“It won’t be easy. Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen—inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.”
I loved PBO’s speech today. It was a master class in interfaith dialogue-relating Christianity, Judaism and Islam to a common source-Abraham-and a common rule of loving one another. It was about respecting our common humanity, but also embracing the responsibility to speak out and condemn intolerance wherever it festers. The haters on the right seem like petulant two-year olds compared to this evolved adult man. This is what real leadership looks like.
HERE’S THE PROBLEM..OTHER THAN ABSOLUTE FEAR CAUSED BY MEDIA ETC…MUSLIMS WILL NOT CLEAN THE WHITE MAN’S TOILET OR PICK THEIR STRAWBERRIES. MUSLIMS BY THE WAY CAN EMBARRASS MANY WHITE FOLK…THEY HAPPEN TO BE THE CLEANEST PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET…I’VE BEEN IN MUSLIM HOMES…THEY ARE AMAZING!..AND THE FOOD…OH YOWZA…AWESOME…I CAN ATTEST TO THAT!…WHITE PEOPLE ARE FRIGHTENED BY ‘THE DIFFERNET’…BUT IT IS THERE FAULT BECAUSE THEY DON’T BOTHER TO STUDY OTHER CULTURES AND MAKE FRIENDS. I AM SO IN LOVE WITH MY CHURCH…I CAN’T WAIT TO GET SETTLED SO THAT I CAN GET MORE INVOLVED IN CHURCH NEEDS AND THE HOMELESS…GOD WILLING! DIVERSITY AND GOD’S RAINBOW OF COLORS IS SUCH A JOY AND WE NEED TO RESPECT ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD…EVERY COLOR ON GOD’S CANVAS!
CNN posted tweets about it with video excerpts, so they must’ve covered at least some of it. Dunno about MSNBC.
Don’t really care, frankly. They’re all are on my shit list these days.
What an utterly nonsensical Bernie tweet. Of course you can be progressive on some issues and moderate on others. All that means is that you have a thinking brain that understands nuance and appreciates what is possible and what is not. I don’t know how this man has functioned in the real world with that rigid level of inflexibility. No wonder he shouts so much.
Bernie Sander’s tweet actually perfectly illustrates the stark difference between him and President Obama and why I think he would be a disastrous President. It’s this “all or nothing” purity test politics that he and his supporters believe in. I am both moderate and progressive. I would say that President Obama’s willingness to moderate on many issues is how he has been able to effect such profound progress and change for this country.
People who want all or nothing are never satisfied. That is a stupid tweet by the Bernie Sanders campaign. He should be ashamed himself pedaling his fairy dust to these young folks who knows nothing about politics.
It’s a telling tweet. It’s that uncompromising attitude that his supporters all exhibit, and it’s a problem for them dealing in a political world that’s not black and white, but all kinds of gray.
I say you can like some progressive views and some moderate views all at the same time. It is not essential to be put into one box with one title to vote Democratic.
But more than that, each candidate selling themselves as the “anti-establishment” candidate in 2016 has one thing in common: they have poor records of actually getting things done in public policy. The “establishment” has become an excuse for why these people are ineffective legislators or why, in some cases, they never bothered to seek to effect change in government ever before in the first place.
The "Anti-Establishment" Rhetoric and the Absence of Accomplishments https://t.co/V5LGYpp9Nl
— Spandan @ TPV (@thepeoplesview) February 3, 2025
“The “establishment” has become an excuse for why these people are ineffective legislators or why, in some cases, they never bothered to seek to effect change in government ever before in the first place.”
Good one, meta. The entire opposition to TPP is based on supposition and fear-very few have ever taken the time to actually read it. They just reflexively say it’s NAFTA on steroids without understanding that it fixes all the ills of NAFTA and replaces it. And not one of them has a solution to the way that the US can remain competitive in a global economy without the safeguards of TPP. They think that stomping their feet and whining will solve everything. Bernie is encouraging ignorance here.
After so many years of careful work and deliberation on TPP by PBO and his admin, it totally infuriates me that these knee-jerk emoprog slogans gain any traction whatsoever.
Clearly Bernie’s progressives do not understand the idea that to make progress one has to *move*! Like others have said here Bernie has his out-dated spiel and it seems like he’ll hang on to it to his last breath. Definitely not a ‘leader’ who can read the signs and adjust his route!
'Most progressives I know' - IMO that says it all, @BernieSanders. True progressives actually embrace *progress*! https://t.co/o36XLFYrw8
SW, I don’t believe Bernie is “progressive” even on the things he screeches are important. What exactly has he done on these issues during his tenure to date - other than voting *against* this or that?
HIS label for himself; not mine. Can’t imagine making progress under a Sanders administration…he couldn’t inspire the cooperation needed to effect such progress. Nor is he open-minded enough to accept that limited change is sometimes better than no change and that sometimes compromise is needed in order to move forward.
Nice! Thank you for this. Although I grew up in Canada, I didn’t really hear about Ms. Desmond’s story. In fact, I really found out about it after becoming an American citizen as I was reading some online stories about Black Eastern Canadians. This story needs to be told to all Canadians and taught in history classes.
Yea, we don’t do that well telling Black history in general. I visited the Black History museum in Nova Scotia a few years back and was introduced to quite a bit of ‘new’ info.
Well, the republicans are freaking out in congress in Paul Ryan & the budget. The freedom caucus, comprised of Tea badgers are saying they want massive cuts FY17 or they will all ore no.
They comprise of nearly 80 votes in the house.
Well, the honeymoon is over for Paul Ryan..
Bc he made a deal with the WH, no cuts and you’ll get those dreaded tax cuts for the wealthy that you love so much.
And now, it looks as though that deal is not going to be upheld.
Tax cuts for the rich equals cuts for the poor.
Check!
Hello TOD. Good Afternoon. Thanks for the PBO’s speech today.
Snowy. Sunny now, in MN.
Congrats to all the Gold :star: winners since yesterday. ;)
So Bernie is now question who can and can’t be Moderate and Progressive? Well, as a Roman Catholic, I am Liberal and Moderate and Conservative rolled in one BODY! I am Proud of all my Beliefs!
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”
So said JFK.
From FDR to PBO, I see a part of their Humanity, Liberalism, Moderation and Conservatism. It’s called Rounded Human Beings. It’s LIFE!
It’s all about Bernie’s definitions. He plants himself in his own bubble and expects everyone to eschew the error of their thinking and see his Light.
He is on my last nerve. I am perfectly happy if it’s a robust campaign, but he and his supporters are becoming ridiculous.
Yesterday, Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist, said that it would be fine if there was a longer, robust campaign because the Dems would talk of substance while the GOP would be flinging lie-deep feces. It’s as if Bernie heard that, decided how best of divide and hurt the Dems, and came up with this substantless “I’m a better progressive than you” childish game.
Good for Hillary, though: she made it about policy and actual progress.
DONE…IT HAS THUSLY FLOWN ON A CLOUD TO MY RIGHT WING FB…WHERE I PRESUME ALL ARE GATHERED IN A RASH!,,THUSLY IS MY OWN WORD FROM MY OWN DICTIONARY…DON’T BOTHER TO LOOK IT UP!
I will vote for this man if he becomes the nominee by the sheer motivating factor of a Cruz, Rubio, or worse Trump presidency is intolerable, inacceptable, and unimaginable.
Wow, the deep vetting of Sanders is beginning. Let’s see how MSM and people like Rachel and Chris cover the negative part of his record. Rachel made it a point to talk about all of the good thing s and how he is consistent. How deep did she dig? Did she miss this?
i understand you NC….but i have to work to ensure that will not be the only choice that i have vote for..so i am going to do everything i can to work for Hillary Clinton…NuffSaid
Prettyfoot, I will too. But I made the statement so that others can do the same and not decide that they are so turned off by Sen. Sanders to sit this election out. We can’t go back to a rethug and all the 2015 candidates on the right are just that.
Extremely unlikely that Sanders will get the nomination. New Hampshire and Iowa are so unrepresentative of the Democratic party since they are mostly white. If Hillary’s firewall holds in SC, NV and across the South he will be toast and it won’t take until the end of the primaries as in 2008. Support for President Obama is so strong and Bernie continues to disrespect and bash him. Not to mention that his policies are so unrealistic: how can you even talk about a revolution when half the country is in thrall of the GOP?
I don’t mind that people change their minds or stances on any matters over the years. We all do. That’s how we evolve and grow. But to attack one because s/he is not a die-hard progressive is disingenuous. In fact, those hardliners, whether progressive or conservative, are the reason that things can’t get done in Washington or in any government. It’s either my way or the highway; I am always right and you are definitely wrong (or evil).
We all know that POTUS could have done more had he had a Congress he could work with. POTUS compromised many times even as many of us screamed in horror. He knew that he had to deliver, even if what he got from the repugs was limited and will not affect every person as he wanted. Even during the first 2 years, he had to “make compromises” with members of his own party, those people that were too scared even of their own shadows (Blanche Lincoln, Burt Tupac, Mary Landrieu, etc), those famous Blue Dogs.
Unless Bernie believes that once elected, Congress will surrender to his ascension to power and let him enact all these promises that he is spreading around his campaign, he is honestly misleading the thousands people that “believe in a future” where he will on his own correct all the ills of society and politics.
I’ve seen the comments from his supporters. He’s the bookend to Trump. He’s got them whipped up in a frenzy of disgust and indignation against all things they consider “centrist”, “establishment” and “third way”. Say the buzzwords and they go nuts.
The hope is that even if they can’t back down in front of the rest of cyberspace and declare their intent to vote for HRC as the Dem nominee, some of them will at least have the sense do actually do so in silence.
Carly Fiorina on Wednesday urged the Republican National Committee to convince ABC News to let her into its presidential debate Saturday in New Hampshire.
The network had previously announced that it would not hold an undercard debate, effectively giving the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), former Pennsylvania Rick Santorum, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee the boot. All of those candidates, with the exception of Fiorina, dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses.
Guess what? The republican congres hold the very first hearing in the flint Michigan crisis.
Aaaannnddd…. They are blaming the EPA and want the corresponding emails .
Here we go again?
THERE ARE SO MANY TIMES WHEN THE HATERS AND NAYSAYERS HAVE TRIED TO MAKE A BUCK OFF OF BARACK OBAMA…HOWEVER GREEDFUL HEARTS DON’T HAVE A GOOD END…AS FOR THIS BOOK…PBO HAS NOT DWELT ON THE SUBJECT OF RACE BECAUSE HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF ALL PEOPLE. I DARESAY…I CAN’T SAY THE SAME FOR THE REPUGNANT WHITES IN OFFICE WHO HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR FROM THE GET GO…THAT THEY WANTED THIS PRESIDENT TO FAIL. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE SINCE PBO CAME INTO THE OVAL OFFICE…REPUGNANTS HAVE DANGLED A BLACK POLITICAL FACE OR TWO TO PUT UP A GOOD FRONT. THEY USE THEM AND ATTEMPT TO USE ANY LATINO THEY CAN GRAB ONTO FOR THE PURPOSE OF FULFILLING THEIR OWN DECEITFUL AGENDAS….THEY HOPE FOR PUPPET PRESIDENTS THEY CAN OPERATE…SO THEY HAVE PROFOUND DISTASTE FOR THE BLACK MAN WHO DIDN’T LET THEM SQUEEZE BY. OH NO…ITS CALLED EXECUTIVE ORDERS…AND WHEN YOU’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THE GREEDFUL GUYS IN SILK TIES…YOU USE THE LEFT HANDED PEN AND…WELL…GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT!…I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT FUN EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR PBO’S LAST YEAR AGENDA…PROBABLY SOME THINGS THAT WILL LAST ALOT LONGER THAN THE CARVINGS ON MT. RUSHMORE! THAT’S RIGHT..HE HASN’T BEEN GIVEN AN INVITATION TO THAT HISTORICAL BRO-MANCE! I’D PUT HIM NEXT TO HONEST ABE……….AND TITLE IT…THE INTENDED SLAVE THAT WASN’T!
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Bonjour!
Thank you Chips!
Good afternoon Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats NCLB, on being first.
To all, I hope that you are replenish with mental, physical, and spiritual energy today. <3 <3 <3
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Thank you Chips!
Seriously ….
And, even more seriously ….
bbl …
THERE IS SMOKE COMING FROM MY FB PAGE..I ANSWERED FRANKLIN GRAHAM TWICE ON HIS CLAIM OF A CHRISTIAN AMERICA…I’M SURE THE RIGHT WINGERS ARE GATHERING THEIR PITCHFORKS..LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..FRANKLIN HAS FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT SLAVERY AND ALL THE OTHER TRASH SPILLED IN THIS COUNTRY…STOP BLAMING IT ON OBAMA!
OK MR. PRESIDENT…ME SNEAKS ARE TAPPIN’….LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
It always amazes me when people want to talk about what a christian nation this is, how much was it when blacks were being treat less then human?
A CHRISTIAN NATION DOES NOT DO WHAT OUR HISTORY HAS RECORDED…WE MUST HUMBLE OURSELVES…ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS AND CHANGE THE WAY WE TREAT EACH OTHER…I THANK GOD..I AM COLOR BLIND…ETC…ETC…I AM JUST AN IMPERFECT SOUL//NO BETTER…NO LESS…THAN ANYONE ELSE!
This is on CSPAN-3. This should be televised to all Americans who feel the GOP has family values and fiscal conservatives all lies. Gov Snyder should be front and center testifying. These R fuckers want to blame the EPA.
Jojo, I’ve been watching this Flint Water Hearing since it started and the reckless House Republicans are during everything they can to shift the blame to USEPA and away from Snyder’s criminal cabal including MEDQ (Michigan Environmental Department of Quality) .
It should be MDEQ (Michigan Department of Environmental Quality)
I HAVE THAT ON…IF ERIN BROKOVICH WAS THERE LAST YEAR DUE TO COMPLAINTS…SURELY THERE IS PLENTY TO BUILD A CASE ON….FRANKLY…ALL OF OUR PLUMBING IS IN TROUBLE BECAUSE NONE OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN REPAIRED…240,000 WATER MAIN BREAKS LAST YEAR…DOES THAT SAY ANYTHING!????????????????????????
Of course they want to blame Obama for everything, even the mess they do. Invading Iraq is Obama’s fault. World War 1 and 2 was Obama fault. So is racism.
The people in Flint Michigan knows who is to blame, and it is Gov. Snyder.
THE CASE I WORKED AGAINST WAUKESHA CTY,WISCONSIN REMINDS ME OF THIS..SPRAYING 2.4.5.-T ALL OVER THE HIGHWAYS..WEEDKILLERS THAT ARE DERIVATIVES OF AGENT ORANGE. DOW CHEMICAL..WESTINGHOUSE..ALL GREED PIGS WHO EVEN PAID PEOPLE TO MOVE ELSEWHERE IF THEY GOT CANCER FROM WORKING ON THEIR PROJECTS.
GOV. SNYDER AND FRIENDS ALL NEED ORANGE SUITS!..EL PRONTO!
The luxury of being a white man is enviable. Just imagine such words being said by the black occupant of the WH!
Is Christie saying he beats his wife rear end?
THE ONE WHO WOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT CHRISTIE’S BEHAVIOR IS CORY BOOKER……………..
Probably, Bella. All she does is stand behind him with that painted smile.
HE NEEDS TO DROP OUT…HIS DONUTS ARE WAITING FOR HIM!
I GUESS I WILL ADIOS..IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE PBO IS GOING TO SHOW UP ON MY COMPUTER………………
POTUS is running late.
Christie is simply… unfit. For many things, including the leadership of this country. His foul mouth needs to be washed with soap. Fortunately, there is a better remedy: he will soon lose his aspirational WH dream.
Can’t believe that this guy had the nerve to say subpoena. His a@@ should be in court right now for shutting down that bridge. He is the worst kind of bully.
The man is scum, Dudette. He has no business being in the public arena. The people of New Jersey were deluded when they elected him and I hope his long term prospects find him in a state penitentiary. I am also sick and tired of the demeaning way men treat Hillary Clinton and refer to her.
I FEEL FOR HIS WIFE…I THINK SHE HAS TO PUT UP WITH ALOT OF FILL IN THE BLANK AT HOME!
Good question for the Bernie supporters, how will he get the votes he need to pass some of the things he is talking about. These supporters of his must not have been paying any attention to what the Republicans have been doing the last seven years.
I doubt he could even garner unanimous Dem support for some of his causes.
At the rate he’s going, Bernie will soon be loathed by Dems in Congress they way Cruz is loathed by GOP.
CONGRESS DESERVES ALL THE HELL THAT CAN BE GATHERED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE TRIED TO DO TO THIS PRESIDENT …AND …THIS WILL BE A TUFF YEAR….THEY HAVE TO LEARN THE HARD WAY!
I don’t expect Bernie to accomplish a thing but I do expect him to “do no harm”. He would be a seat warmer until 2020 when hopefully the DNC would have learned something or two.
My fear is Bernie would do harm with what has been accomplished with ACA in trying to get his agenda passed. I am not sure he is that politically savvy and instead of working in incremental change he has an all or nothing attitude which makes him dangerous.
TRANSLATION…BE PHONY UNTIL THIS PRESIDENT WALKS OUT THE DOOR!
Ryan & his GOP colleagues are simply shameful. They make EVERYTHING about Obama. All the GOP faults are Obama’s fault. It’s time for them to face facts. They sowed this ugly mess. Now they need to deal with it and stop deflecting. They look so incredibly stupid. I am so sick of the people.. Enough is enough.
Funny, LH, I wasn’t under the impression that Republican Party had “done” anything in the last seven years but obstruct everything that could help Americans, create jobs, improve the environment and modernize our infrastructure. Unless, of course, voting 63 times to repeal affordable health care is “doing something.”
Interesting read.
You can sit back and enjoy the Religious Right tearing itself apart over the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The process is well under way and won’t be finished until the votes are in after Election Day.
There are Cruz evangelicals and Rubio evangelicals and even Trump evangelicals. This latter category stirs the most amazement in observers, not least among evangelical observers. They can’t seem to wrap their minds around why their fellow “believers” (like Jerry Falwell, Jr.) would prefer Trump to the self-appointed messiah, Ted Cruz, who is, after all, the Chosen One of many Religious Right leaders.
As has been pointed out here and elsewhere, the so-called Religious Right is not all that religious – they don’t practice what they preach, with their babies born out of wedlock, their high divorce rates, their addiction to porn, their worship of money, and their failure to read their own Bible.
What they do do well is hate. In fact, what unifies them is hate, not Jesus, whose message of love they avoid like the plague. And Trump has effectively tapped into that hate by skipping over the middle man.
He has proven you don’t need a Bible you’ve never read in order to hate effectively.
Sure, in Iowa, Cruz managed to out-hate Trump and get a win, but that’s bucking the trend. Iowa talk radio host Steve Deace, who supports Cruz, talked to the American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios after the Iowa caucus and despite his hero’s win, he is really having a hard time with Trump’s appeal.
Has the President started speaking yet? Did I miss it? The feed doesn’t seem to be working for me.
I’m waiting too Dudette.
It has finally started. :)
:-D
MY SON DAVID HAS REALLY GOTTEN SICK FROM THIS…I HAVE TO CALL HIM TONIGHT AND CHECK ON HIM TOO!
YAAAAY..CNN SAYS HE’S COMING ON..BEEN RUNNING LATE!..WOOOT-WOOT!
Ah! The program has started. A lovely young woman is speaking now.
POTUS is at the podium!
SO MANY MUSLIM WOMEN WALK IN FEAR IN THE STORES…I ALWAYS TELL THEM HOW PRETTY THEY ARE…RACISTS WALK BY AND GIVE THEM HATE STARES…I NOW GET THEM BECAUSE MY NEW BUMPER STICKER SAYS 30 NATIONS BLENDED CHURCH! HAH! STICK IT YOU KNOW WHERE!
I KNOW I HAVE MUSLIM FRIENDS….I CAN’T WAIT TO PUT THIS ON MY FB LATER TODAY…THIS IS WHY I LEFT MY OTHER CHURCH..I COULDN’T STAND HEARING THE HATE ANYMORE!..:(..I CRY!
I can just imagine what the haters are saying about this visit. See I knew he was a Muslim.
The Christians version of what POTUS said, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.
THEY ALL ARE GOING TO USE THIS TO THE MIGHTY MAAAAX…THAT’S WHY I WANT TO GET THIS ON MY FB…………..
This is so pathetic. Can’t his mother come to get him? To deliver him from this misery?
THIS IS GREAT FOR RUBBER DART PRACTICE!
THIS IS SO AWESOME…THE ENERGIZER IS HITTING ALL THE HARD NAILS!..I LOVE MY PRESIDENT!
I CANNOT WAIT TO PUT THIS ON MY FB…I ALWAYS DO THAT BECAUSE I KNOW FOX NEWS WILL EDIT IT TO SUIT THEIR OWN CANNED HATE MAIL!
A wonderful speech by our President of the United States.
Truly.
Thank you, Mr President. The Unifier. Thank you. :bear: <3
So on the internets today, sandernistas accused me of being a Hillary staffer after correcting their mis-information regarding just tossing TPP in the garbage as they want to do, because reasons they say.
News to me anyways, i hope Hillary pays her staffers well, i could use a raise!
Another clown leaving the show.
……Again! How many times does the electorate have to reject this man for him to go away.
Until they stop profiting from the grift that raising their profile offers, we will continue to see him and the rest of the clowns come forward.
he was running?
I’m not saying there should be, but If ever there would be a President for Life, the one person who deserves that honor like no other is Barack Hussein Obama. He was born to lead the world. I’m in tears thinking about him leaving the White House.
:-(
Cheer up! The window is only closing for his presidential speeches. Remember what he told us in the SOTU:
“It won’t be easy. Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen—inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.”
Lovely reminder, MS! Thanks!
I loved PBO’s speech today. It was a master class in interfaith dialogue-relating Christianity, Judaism and Islam to a common source-Abraham-and a common rule of loving one another. It was about respecting our common humanity, but also embracing the responsibility to speak out and condemn intolerance wherever it festers. The haters on the right seem like petulant two-year olds compared to this evolved adult man. This is what real leadership looks like.
HERE’S THE PROBLEM..OTHER THAN ABSOLUTE FEAR CAUSED BY MEDIA ETC…MUSLIMS WILL NOT CLEAN THE WHITE MAN’S TOILET OR PICK THEIR STRAWBERRIES. MUSLIMS BY THE WAY CAN EMBARRASS MANY WHITE FOLK…THEY HAPPEN TO BE THE CLEANEST PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET…I’VE BEEN IN MUSLIM HOMES…THEY ARE AMAZING!..AND THE FOOD…OH YOWZA…AWESOME…I CAN ATTEST TO THAT!…WHITE PEOPLE ARE FRIGHTENED BY ‘THE DIFFERNET’…BUT IT IS THERE FAULT BECAUSE THEY DON’T BOTHER TO STUDY OTHER CULTURES AND MAKE FRIENDS. I AM SO IN LOVE WITH MY CHURCH…I CAN’T WAIT TO GET SETTLED SO THAT I CAN GET MORE INVOLVED IN CHURCH NEEDS AND THE HOMELESS…GOD WILLING! DIVERSITY AND GOD’S RAINBOW OF COLORS IS SUCH A JOY AND WE NEED TO RESPECT ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD…EVERY COLOR ON GOD’S CANVAS!
THEIR FAULT…BLONDE PROBLEM….:)..AND THE DIFFERENT!
damn, she’s about as adorable and awesome as it gets. Love her!
Inorite!
Did CNN or MSNBC cover the President speech today?
CNN posted tweets about it with video excerpts, so they must’ve covered at least some of it. Dunno about MSNBC.
Don’t really care, frankly. They’re all are on my shit list these days.
What a historic visit.
I’m glad I got a chance to hear the program.
Another thing checked off of PBO’s _ucket list :-)
Part of the plot in NH.
Il Douche’s loss is finally sinking deep.
Did he go all in? Yes he did!
AS USUAL..PBO IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT….CAN’T WAIT TILL THE VIDEO IS DONE….ANXIOUS TO SEND IT!..BBL………….
Dudette, thank you for these tweet summaries of this important speech. I’ve retweeted every one of them.
Thrilled to share our PBO’s words, jg! Always!
Tooo Funny
:) :)
What an utterly nonsensical Bernie tweet. Of course you can be progressive on some issues and moderate on others. All that means is that you have a thinking brain that understands nuance and appreciates what is possible and what is not. I don’t know how this man has functioned in the real world with that rigid level of inflexibility. No wonder he shouts so much.
For Bernie and his gang, it must be *all* or it’s nothing. There’s so much in between that they don’t even *want* to consider.
Bernie Sander’s tweet actually perfectly illustrates the stark difference between him and President Obama and why I think he would be a disastrous President. It’s this “all or nothing” purity test politics that he and his supporters believe in. I am both moderate and progressive. I would say that President Obama’s willingness to moderate on many issues is how he has been able to effect such profound progress and change for this country.
Bingo!
Dudette, I left you a “cheer up” message above, under the SheriffFruitfly tweet :-)
Thank you Dear! I needed that! ❤️
People who want all or nothing are never satisfied. That is a stupid tweet by the Bernie Sanders campaign. He should be ashamed himself pedaling his fairy dust to these young folks who knows nothing about politics.
It’s a telling tweet. It’s that uncompromising attitude that his supporters all exhibit, and it’s a problem for them dealing in a political world that’s not black and white, but all kinds of gray.
Yes! Leading and governing is nuanced not “this or that.” How we will miss this President!
I say you can like some progressive views and some moderate views all at the same time. It is not essential to be put into one box with one title to vote Democratic.
But more than that, each candidate selling themselves as the “anti-establishment” candidate in 2016 has one thing in common: they have poor records of actually getting things done in public policy. The “establishment” has become an excuse for why these people are ineffective legislators or why, in some cases, they never bothered to seek to effect change in government ever before in the first place.
“The “establishment” has become an excuse for why these people are ineffective legislators or why, in some cases, they never bothered to seek to effect change in government ever before in the first place.”
THIS!
Gonna read this now. Thanks for the head’s up PF!
I’M SMILIN’ NOW!…:)
“Borrows from Bush” my eye, but whatever…
This guy is on my last nerve.
Good one, meta. The entire opposition to TPP is based on supposition and fear-very few have ever taken the time to actually read it. They just reflexively say it’s NAFTA on steroids without understanding that it fixes all the ills of NAFTA and replaces it. And not one of them has a solution to the way that the US can remain competitive in a global economy without the safeguards of TPP. They think that stomping their feet and whining will solve everything. Bernie is encouraging ignorance here.
After so many years of careful work and deliberation on TPP by PBO and his admin, it totally infuriates me that these knee-jerk emoprog slogans gain any traction whatsoever.
Clearly Bernie’s progressives do not understand the idea that to make progress one has to *move*! Like others have said here Bernie has his out-dated spiel and it seems like he’ll hang on to it to his last breath. Definitely not a ‘leader’ who can read the signs and adjust his route!
“Clearly Bernie’s progressives do not understand the idea that to make progress one has to *move*! ”
My thoughts exactly, VC!
SW, that man is so irritatingly shallow that the sight of him before a mike causes my head to ache.
VC, I question, is he a “progressive” on ALL things or just the things important to *him*?
SW, I don’t believe Bernie is “progressive” even on the things he screeches are important. What exactly has he done on these issues during his tenure to date - other than voting *against* this or that?
HIS label for himself; not mine. Can’t imagine making progress under a Sanders administration…he couldn’t inspire the cooperation needed to effect such progress. Nor is he open-minded enough to accept that limited change is sometimes better than no change and that sometimes compromise is needed in order to move forward.
In brief: Bernie ain’t no leader! ;)
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I’m off to feed my face. :D
We got it Bernie!
No new possibilities for ever + ever and a day because NAFTA .
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Nice! Thank you for this. Although I grew up in Canada, I didn’t really hear about Ms. Desmond’s story. In fact, I really found out about it after becoming an American citizen as I was reading some online stories about Black Eastern Canadians. This story needs to be told to all Canadians and taught in history classes.
Yea, we don’t do that well telling Black history in general. I visited the Black History museum in Nova Scotia a few years back and was introduced to quite a bit of ‘new’ info.
Well, the republicans are freaking out in congress in Paul Ryan & the budget. The freedom caucus, comprised of Tea badgers are saying they want massive cuts FY17 or they will all ore no.
They comprise of nearly 80 votes in the house.
Well, the honeymoon is over for Paul Ryan..
Bc he made a deal with the WH, no cuts and you’ll get those dreaded tax cuts for the wealthy that you love so much.
And now, it looks as though that deal is not going to be upheld.
Tax cuts for the rich equals cuts for the poor.
Check!
Bernie Sanders supporters I will be voting for Hillary Clinton.
Canada’s Prime Minister on how best his country can help re ISIS
Hello TOD. Good Afternoon. Thanks for the PBO’s speech today.
Snowy. Sunny now, in MN.
Congrats to all the Gold :star: winners since yesterday. ;)
So Bernie is now question who can and can’t be Moderate and Progressive? Well, as a Roman Catholic, I am Liberal and Moderate and Conservative rolled in one BODY! I am Proud of all my Beliefs!
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”
So said JFK.
From FDR to PBO, I see a part of their Humanity, Liberalism, Moderation and Conservatism. It’s called Rounded Human Beings. It’s LIFE!
It’s all about Bernie’s definitions. He plants himself in his own bubble and expects everyone to eschew the error of their thinking and see his Light.
He is on my last nerve. I am perfectly happy if it’s a robust campaign, but he and his supporters are becoming ridiculous.
Yesterday, Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist, said that it would be fine if there was a longer, robust campaign because the Dems would talk of substance while the GOP would be flinging lie-deep feces. It’s as if Bernie heard that, decided how best of divide and hurt the Dems, and came up with this substantless “I’m a better progressive than you” childish game.
Good for Hillary, though: she made it about policy and actual progress.
yes…let Bernie defend his record…
I love this man.
AWESOME….FB HERE WE COME!………………………….<3
DONE…IT HAS THUSLY FLOWN ON A CLOUD TO MY RIGHT WING FB…WHERE I PRESUME ALL ARE GATHERED IN A RASH!,,THUSLY IS MY OWN WORD FROM MY OWN DICTIONARY…DON’T BOTHER TO LOOK IT UP!
LOL! at his button! He was never great in the first place so it’s impossible to make him great again.
Bomb?
Wow! One sucked out of the plane too!
Nena! You do know I need to fly to get to W DC, don’t you?
So very Sorry.
Flight to DC is Okay.
Phew! :D :D Now that I have that assurance in writing I feel better.
Nature break!
I will vote for this man if he becomes the nominee by the sheer motivating factor of a Cruz, Rubio, or worse Trump presidency is intolerable, inacceptable, and unimaginable.
Wow, the deep vetting of Sanders is beginning. Let’s see how MSM and people like Rachel and Chris cover the negative part of his record. Rachel made it a point to talk about all of the good thing s and how he is consistent. How deep did she dig? Did she miss this?
i understand you NC….but i have to work to ensure that will not be the only choice that i have vote for..so i am going to do everything i can to work for Hillary Clinton…NuffSaid
Prettyfoot, I will too. But I made the statement so that others can do the same and not decide that they are so turned off by Sen. Sanders to sit this election out. We can’t go back to a rethug and all the 2015 candidates on the right are just that.
Amennnnnnn
Extremely unlikely that Sanders will get the nomination. New Hampshire and Iowa are so unrepresentative of the Democratic party since they are mostly white. If Hillary’s firewall holds in SC, NV and across the South he will be toast and it won’t take until the end of the primaries as in 2008. Support for President Obama is so strong and Bernie continues to disrespect and bash him. Not to mention that his policies are so unrealistic: how can you even talk about a revolution when half the country is in thrall of the GOP?
The guy has said many OFFENSIVE nauseating stuff for years.
Ralph Nader squared!
Yep.
His “Most progressives I know…” schtick sets up an “us vs. them” mentality.
After he’s defined a “true progressive” as anyone other than HIM, how will he instruct his voters if and when HRC becomes the Dem nominee?
I meant to say ‘after he’s defined himself as THE only true progressive’.
I don’t mind that people change their minds or stances on any matters over the years. We all do. That’s how we evolve and grow. But to attack one because s/he is not a die-hard progressive is disingenuous. In fact, those hardliners, whether progressive or conservative, are the reason that things can’t get done in Washington or in any government. It’s either my way or the highway; I am always right and you are definitely wrong (or evil).
We all know that POTUS could have done more had he had a Congress he could work with. POTUS compromised many times even as many of us screamed in horror. He knew that he had to deliver, even if what he got from the repugs was limited and will not affect every person as he wanted. Even during the first 2 years, he had to “make compromises” with members of his own party, those people that were too scared even of their own shadows (Blanche Lincoln, Burt Tupac, Mary Landrieu, etc), those famous Blue Dogs.
Unless Bernie believes that once elected, Congress will surrender to his ascension to power and let him enact all these promises that he is spreading around his campaign, he is honestly misleading the thousands people that “believe in a future” where he will on his own correct all the ills of society and politics.
I’ve seen the comments from his supporters. He’s the bookend to Trump. He’s got them whipped up in a frenzy of disgust and indignation against all things they consider “centrist”, “establishment” and “third way”. Say the buzzwords and they go nuts.
The hope is that even if they can’t back down in front of the rest of cyberspace and declare their intent to vote for HRC as the Dem nominee, some of them will at least have the sense do actually do so in silence.
Another Meltdown after the Iowa Caucus
Carly Fiorina on Wednesday urged the Republican National Committee to convince ABC News to let her into its presidential debate Saturday in New Hampshire.
The network had previously announced that it would not hold an undercard debate, effectively giving the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), former Pennsylvania Rick Santorum, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee the boot. All of those candidates, with the exception of Fiorina, dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fiorina-demands-rnc-debate
Guess what? The republican congres hold the very first hearing in the flint Michigan crisis.
Aaaannnddd…. They are blaming the EPA and want the corresponding emails .
Here we go again?
“Poll: Trump up by 17 in NH, Bush rises to second place”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268062-poll-trump-leads-jeb-by-17-points-in-nh
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Trump 31%
Bush 14%
Kasich 12%
Rubio 10%
Cruz 9%
Rubio will finish fifth and think he won?
You mean the “please clap” guy is in 2nd in NH?
G.W. Bush look scared in that picture.
BOOOOOOOOM……
that last line must have cut deep…
Correct!
Well you can count on me not buying Bill Press or Michael E. Dyson book. They won’t get a dime from me.
THERE ARE SO MANY TIMES WHEN THE HATERS AND NAYSAYERS HAVE TRIED TO MAKE A BUCK OFF OF BARACK OBAMA…HOWEVER GREEDFUL HEARTS DON’T HAVE A GOOD END…AS FOR THIS BOOK…PBO HAS NOT DWELT ON THE SUBJECT OF RACE BECAUSE HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF ALL PEOPLE. I DARESAY…I CAN’T SAY THE SAME FOR THE REPUGNANT WHITES IN OFFICE WHO HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR FROM THE GET GO…THAT THEY WANTED THIS PRESIDENT TO FAIL. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE SINCE PBO CAME INTO THE OVAL OFFICE…REPUGNANTS HAVE DANGLED A BLACK POLITICAL FACE OR TWO TO PUT UP A GOOD FRONT. THEY USE THEM AND ATTEMPT TO USE ANY LATINO THEY CAN GRAB ONTO FOR THE PURPOSE OF FULFILLING THEIR OWN DECEITFUL AGENDAS….THEY HOPE FOR PUPPET PRESIDENTS THEY CAN OPERATE…SO THEY HAVE PROFOUND DISTASTE FOR THE BLACK MAN WHO DIDN’T LET THEM SQUEEZE BY. OH NO…ITS CALLED EXECUTIVE ORDERS…AND WHEN YOU’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THE GREEDFUL GUYS IN SILK TIES…YOU USE THE LEFT HANDED PEN AND…WELL…GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT!…I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT FUN EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR PBO’S LAST YEAR AGENDA…PROBABLY SOME THINGS THAT WILL LAST ALOT LONGER THAN THE CARVINGS ON MT. RUSHMORE! THAT’S RIGHT..HE HASN’T BEEN GIVEN AN INVITATION TO THAT HISTORICAL BRO-MANCE! I’D PUT HIM NEXT TO HONEST ABE……….AND TITLE IT…THE INTENDED SLAVE THAT WASN’T!
Republicans need to stay away from illegal drugs. That tweet doesn’t even make sense.
Grammatically that tweet is meaningless. Do they not have any educated people available????
Bqhatevwr, you goofy racists.
My favourite political cartoonist!
Loser can’t lose!
Chat on
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/03/chat-on-147/