On This Day: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance while the band Earth, Wind and Fire performs at the Governors Ball in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 22, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Today
11:10: The President delivers remarks and takes questions from the National Governors Association
Nice, my wife and I are planning to rent a motorhome to see the country one of these summers. I wonder if there are classes I can take to learn how to drive motorhomes.
I really do, I’m so uneducated when it comes to other countries. I would like to think that I have at least the basic understanding of the rest of the world. Well at least I can’t see Russia from Austin, Texas.
Just read that following his death in 2005 on what would have been his 60th birthday, Belfast City Airport was renamed the George Best Belfast City Airport. Guessing he’d have been chuffed about that.
I mean if you name a male dog, Lisa, or Mary, then you might have problems when the other male dogs that come over to play. They might hear the guy they’re playing with called a female name, they might laugh or make rude comments or treat him a certain kind of way.
Good morning TODville. So love the video of Virginia meeting the POTUS and FLOTUS. The pure joy of her brings happiness to all. Off today to another class for election judging. Today is the poll book. Then Wednesday it is the Polling Place Manager class.
So thankful for this place and all of you here. I can’t wait for June and the meeting in DC. Have a great day everyone.
I wonder if T-Paw has even came back to MN at all after we gave him the boot. He is slicker than oil that one. I’ll always remember him as the guy who ‘borrowed’ $300 million from our school systems to paper over his budget deficit (sound familiar?) he also was the one that wanted to ban same sex marriage in our state.
Thank god we wised up and elected our current Gov Mark dayton, who not only got same sex marriage done, but also raised taxes on the wealthy and paid back that ‘loan’ to our schools and then some.
Oh boy, that ought to make a difference for Rubio. Who wouldn’t be impressed with a Pawlenty endorsement, especially in the south. Trump must be shaking in his boots.
Um, Kasich, don’t look now but women are people. Did the ‘women’ fleeing their kitchens have house dresses on and carry dishrags on their arms or was that a b&w movie you once saw on TMC?
JO’B, that’s exactly what that photo has always reminded me of. I’m sure Pete Souza had that in mind when he took it and waited until the exact right moment.
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2-22-16
Josh “The Voice” Earnest WH Presser LIVE, starting shortly 12:30pm EDT
He surrounds himself with anti-Obama surrogates who reflect HIS OWN FEELINGS about PBO.
His supporters are largely the group who has resented PBO ever since they think that PBO’s early team called them the ‘retareded’ ‘Professional Left’. They have NEVER stopped holding PBO personally responsible as if he holds them in contempt.
They’ve been looking for anyone to stick it to POTUS - whether it’s Snowden, Greenwald, Putin…now Sanders.
The BernieBots are a bunch of angry people who mainly have an axe to grind with POTUS.
Germany condemns ‘deeply shameful’ protests against migrants.
The German government has condemned a mob that tried to stop a bus from taking migrants to a shelter as “cold-hearted and cowardly”.
Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for Angela Merkel, apologised, calling the episode “deeply shameful”.
About 100 people in the Saxony town of Clausnitz on Thursday shouted “we are the people” and tried to block the bus carrying about 20 asylum seekers.
Video footage showing terrified migrants crying caused outrage.
“How cold-hearted and cowardly one must be to stand in front of a bus with refugees and shout with the aim of frightening the passengers, including women and children,” Mr Seibert said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35633471
My admiration for Merkel has been grown many folds since the refugees crisis started. Pity the world’s wealthiest country doesn’t do the same.
“I’m against President Obama because of the maturation saturation of the present situation. Brother Bernie has his hands on the pulse of a proud and powerful people, and not some demigod dealing in destruction. Neo-liberalism and fascism are hallmarks of a system that destroys socialism. Brother Bernie is beautiful, bodacious, and boisterous when it comes to taking this county from the hands of the oligarchs, and big money patriarchs.”
This morning on NPR there was an article about Trump from the NY Times with two people being interviewed both having knowledge about Trump from the Dem side. It surprised me to hear a negative Trump piece in the media. I tried to look up the article, but it is not posted on NPR or the Times online yet. Terms like Simulated Intimacy, Master of Illusion were both used.
Luvvie’s done another one.
Between Luvvie and the comments, I am close to getting a stomach cramp from all the laughing.
Flossie Dickey is 110 and Done With All of Us
Awesomely Luvvie — February 22, 2025
Last week, a woman named Flossie Dickey celebrated turning 110 years old. She’s been here since 1906, and has seen more things than any of us could imagine. That also means she’s dealt with her share of bullshit.Flossie has 3 kids, 12 grandkids, 20 great grandkids and 15 great great grandkids.
Cameras showed up to her nursing home to interview her and Flossie wasn’t here to entertain them or even act like she wanted them to be there. The video interview is a gift to the cantankerous old person who lives in me
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my favorite comment:
Deja
February 22, 2025 at 7:09 am — Reply
your parents dont name you flossie unless they expect you to be bout that thug life for 100 years…serving us all that petty labelle at 9 in the damn morning…
Here’s the reality. In the last 40 years, SCOTUS nominations are not about the nominee. They’re about each and every individual senator who gets to vote for the nominee. Bush 1 proved this with the confirmation of Clarence Thomas. POTUS’ nominee will be confirmed by the full senate with all due speed. Right now, we’re just going through the first dance.
Good Morning TODVille!
No Child!
Good Morning Chips.
How are Danny-the-Boy and his unexpected brother?
Sleeping at the moment :-) Newbie arrive back this morning - with a new name: Georgie. So, Georgie it is.
Georgie is cute. The name and the holder.
that’s a gurl’s name ??? confuse him more /smh
I thought Georgie was a boy’s name?
Excuse me you, the greatest Georgie in history was Georgie Best :cool:
ok, I am gonna quietly leave this with ya. see ya in the morn. (psa - close yer eyes over bad, bad parts)
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=georgie&num=100&lr=&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqq5Sy3YvLAhWGkI4KHa7RCQ8Q_AUIBygB&biw=1193&bih=601
:lol: I tried Googling ‘Georgie Boy’ and got a company that make motor homes - I think Danny is tempted to buy one and drive in to the sunset.
Nice, my wife and I are planning to rent a motorhome to see the country one of these summers. I wonder if there are classes I can take to learn how to drive motorhomes.
WATCH THE MOVIE ‘RV’ WITH ROBIN WILLIAMS…………….LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..YOU MAY CHANGE YOUR MIND!
yeah, that’s a babe magnet, alright.
Nope, credit cards are a babe magnet…..and I’m outta here, bye!
RUN!
I stand corrected, after googling this person because this is the first time I’ve ever heard of the guy, I stand corrected. Interesting eyes and chin.
“this is the first time I’ve ever heard of the guy”
Don, you have left me in despair. You need to enter a North Korean-style reeducation program.
I really do, I’m so uneducated when it comes to other countries. I would like to think that I have at least the basic understanding of the rest of the world. Well at least I can’t see Russia from Austin, Texas.
By the time I’m done with you, you will be an authority on soccerball. Do. Not. Resist.
also. too. #soccermom.
Just read that following his death in 2005 on what would have been his 60th birthday, Belfast City Airport was renamed the George Best Belfast City Airport. Guessing he’d have been chuffed about that.
And of course there’s the nursery rhyme, “Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry.”
I mean if you name a male dog, Lisa, or Mary, then you might have problems when the other male dogs that come over to play. They might hear the guy they’re playing with called a female name, they might laugh or make rude comments or treat him a certain kind of way.
Lisa :lol:
I was just picking out a female name, its the first name that came to mind.
Don’t forget that famous Johnnie Cash song “A Boy Named Sue.”
:lol: Exactly, Jackie!!
Oh I’ve missed too much! You have a new dog? Did you get a bigger yard? We love having two dogs!
Good morning TODville. So love the video of Virginia meeting the POTUS and FLOTUS. The pure joy of her brings happiness to all. Off today to another class for election judging. Today is the poll book. Then Wednesday it is the Polling Place Manager class.
So thankful for this place and all of you here. I can’t wait for June and the meeting in DC. Have a great day everyone.
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
i missed this…
i have seen this channel…i need to get more involved with it
thank god(dess) for small mercies. #punchableface
He looks ill.
IF YOU STARTED THE IRAQ WAR…WOULDN’T YOU BE ILL?…TRYING TO SLEEP AT NITE COUNTING DEAD BODIES AND LOST LIMBS!
Tim Pawlenty looks like the local bank manager that gets off by denying loans.
I wonder if T-Paw has even came back to MN at all after we gave him the boot. He is slicker than oil that one. I’ll always remember him as the guy who ‘borrowed’ $300 million from our school systems to paper over his budget deficit (sound familiar?) he also was the one that wanted to ban same sex marriage in our state.
Thank god we wised up and elected our current Gov Mark dayton, who not only got same sex marriage done, but also raised taxes on the wealthy and paid back that ‘loan’ to our schools and then some.
I remember T-Pal as the Gov who would rather risk citzens lives than to spend money on infrastructure.
Oh boy, that ought to make a difference for Rubio. Who wouldn’t be impressed with a Pawlenty endorsement, especially in the south. Trump must be shaking in his boots.
Former CIA director trashes Trump and Cruz on national security
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/michael-hayden-donald-trump-ted-cruz-219606#ixzz40ujx821q
You know you’re in trouble when you’ve lost the moral high-ground to the CIA.
Bloomberg’s trial balloon isn’t rising yet
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/michael-bloomberg-trial-balloon-219521
ummm (a la chandler bing)
Live Now (11:25 ET): President Obama Takes Questions from the National Governors Association
That was that old piece of crap tea party Governor from Kentucky talking about debt.
Thanks for identifying him, annieb.
Was wondering who that was, asking an asinine question, not one that could improve his constituents’ lives.
Women can leave their kitchens? Who’d-a-thunk-it. Kasich is so mid-century. Mid-20th-century, that is.
And they say he is the moderate one. OK, then. Hi JB
Kasich: people=men, women=non-people
Imagine having to sleep with this Neanderthal.
Um, Kasich, don’t look now but women are people. Did the ‘women’ fleeing their kitchens have house dresses on and carry dishrags on their arms or was that a b&w movie you once saw on TMC?
THERE WILL BE A NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH…GOD IS NOT HAPPY WITH THE CURRENT PRODUCT LINE!
Happy Monday TODers
Heeeeeeya Chips!!
#BucketList #2016AintOverYet
Ruh Roh!
Cannot wait!
ShaZammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Damn!! POTUS ain’t playing y’all!!!
Well, that should capture the news headlines for the next week. Good for PBO.
BOOM!!
I love these q & a’s. As the one Governor stated- each answer by POTUS is more brilliant.
Listened to the entire thing. What a man!!!! What a man!!!! That.Is.All.
Yes he is. Unsurpassable, imo.
This IS a Rockwell painting!
JO’B, that’s exactly what that photo has always reminded me of. I’m sure Pete Souza had that in mind when he took it and waited until the exact right moment.
Reminds me of this from Rockwell, depicting Ruby Bridges (in unhappier circumstances):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_We_All_Live_With
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2-22-16
Josh “The Voice” Earnest WH Presser LIVE, starting shortly 12:30pm EDT
LOVED LOVED LOVED this Q & A. I never fail to be impressed with PBO’s astonishing command of detail on an EXTREME breadth of issues. Stunning!
Yikes. I missed it. I hope Chips or NW will post it later.
What! I missed it!
I hope there’s video because it was subtle as is PBO’s habit but it was a thing of beauty.
He sure did Meta.
Thanks, Nena! I was hoping they’d do this.
;)
watch US MSM to ignore PPP, one of the best Pollsters since 2012.
Nena, I hope they suffer the consequences, rightly so.
Me, Too!
PPP is a Good Pollster! PA&OH are not TX&FL
This is the mother of this sweet young boy:
This is POTUS fixing his tie!!!!
ADORABLE and PRECIOUS day for this sweet young boy
Nice. Thanks for sharing this, Meta. We will never see this again anytime soon. I really love the Obamas.
Such a special iconic moment and I bow down to Pete Souza for capturing it so beautifully for all of us.
Yes and indeed Souza is superb.
I agree sherijr. Was that Matt Bevin from Kentucky who was slightly nasty, who asked the question about debt.
I hope President Obama dispatched that motherfucker.
I was responding to sherijr’s comment about the governor’s questions up this thread. I should have refreshed. :)
Yes and PBO handled it!
I want to see it!!
Ha!! That’s a good one :)
Sanders is the company he keeps.
He surrounds himself with anti-Obama surrogates who reflect HIS OWN FEELINGS about PBO.
His supporters are largely the group who has resented PBO ever since they think that PBO’s early team called them the ‘retareded’ ‘Professional Left’. They have NEVER stopped holding PBO personally responsible as if he holds them in contempt.
They’ve been looking for anyone to stick it to POTUS - whether it’s Snowden, Greenwald, Putin…now Sanders.
The BernieBots are a bunch of angry people who mainly have an axe to grind with POTUS.
I see the Pentagon is set to send to Congress its plans for closing Gitmo.
And on a side note Bernie Sanders voted against the closure of Gitmo.
Germany condemns ‘deeply shameful’ protests against migrants.
The German government has condemned a mob that tried to stop a bus from taking migrants to a shelter as “cold-hearted and cowardly”.
Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for Angela Merkel, apologised, calling the episode “deeply shameful”.
About 100 people in the Saxony town of Clausnitz on Thursday shouted “we are the people” and tried to block the bus carrying about 20 asylum seekers.
Video footage showing terrified migrants crying caused outrage.
“How cold-hearted and cowardly one must be to stand in front of a bus with refugees and shout with the aim of frightening the passengers, including women and children,” Mr Seibert said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35633471
My admiration for Merkel has been grown many folds since the refugees crisis started. Pity the world’s wealthiest country doesn’t do the same.
Let’s see…
And Then Sen Obama was accused of having Messiah Complex?
Both the Father & Wife, Heidi, speak the same Messianic diatribe.
So god wants Cruz to run, but god isn’t providing Cruz with the proper number of delegates to win a caucus?
Yup. He has a wicked sense of humor.
god drunk tweets? hoocuddanoed.
“I’m against President Obama because of the maturation saturation of the present situation. Brother Bernie has his hands on the pulse of a proud and powerful people, and not some demigod dealing in destruction. Neo-liberalism and fascism are hallmarks of a system that destroys socialism. Brother Bernie is beautiful, bodacious, and boisterous when it comes to taking this county from the hands of the oligarchs, and big money patriarchs.”
OY.
That was my Cornel West imitation.
Oh, man, see I thought that was an actual quote. Because.
This morning on NPR there was an article about Trump from the NY Times with two people being interviewed both having knowledge about Trump from the Dem side. It surprised me to hear a negative Trump piece in the media. I tried to look up the article, but it is not posted on NPR or the Times online yet. Terms like Simulated Intimacy, Master of Illusion were both used.
not sure he was responding to here, but good clip:
egg.sack.lee
So he’s going to wait until the ninth inning to impose martial law?
No, on the day hillary wins the presidency, he will.
what? you didn’t know he hates hillz?
I just don’t get it, these people make boat loads of money by saying the dumbest shit imaginable.
pox news, klannity, bill o racist. limpa - only in murka
Alex Jones and William Gheen are WACKO idiots.
Luvvie’s done another one.
Between Luvvie and the comments, I am close to getting a stomach cramp from all the laughing.
Flossie Dickey is 110 and Done With All of Us
Awesomely Luvvie — February 22, 2025
Last week, a woman named Flossie Dickey celebrated turning 110 years old. She’s been here since 1906, and has seen more things than any of us could imagine. That also means she’s dealt with her share of bullshit.Flossie has 3 kids, 12 grandkids, 20 great grandkids and 15 great great grandkids.
Cameras showed up to her nursing home to interview her and Flossie wasn’t here to entertain them or even act like she wanted them to be there. The video interview is a gift to the cantankerous old person who lives in me
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my favorite comment:
Deja
February 22, 2025 at 7:09 am — Reply
your parents dont name you flossie unless they expect you to be bout that thug life for 100 years…serving us all that petty labelle at 9 in the damn morning…
BWA HA HA HA HA HA H HA HA HA HA HA
drip, drip has started.
Here’s the reality. In the last 40 years, SCOTUS nominations are not about the nominee. They’re about each and every individual senator who gets to vote for the nominee. Bush 1 proved this with the confirmation of Clarence Thomas. POTUS’ nominee will be confirmed by the full senate with all due speed. Right now, we’re just going through the first dance.
Typical Kirk: throw a bone to Dems, hoping they won’t look at the rest of his miserable record. Won’t work this time.
SO MANY DRIPS IN CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATE SEATS..PBO=THE ADULT PRESIDENT!
MSNBC is TRASH. Disgusting display of collusion with Trump.
Despicable!!
Chicago Sun-TimesVerified account@Suntimes
BREAKING: Sen. Kirk splits from GOP leaders, says Obama should nominate Supreme Court pick. http://goo.gl/uLFiPl
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/22/question-of-the-day/
get that young man the technology…..
cause if that’s what he can do WITHOUT IT..
imagine, what he could do WITH IT.
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