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“CHICAGO — In his 30s and 40s, the Rev. C.T. Vivian rode with the Freedom Riders, organized sit-ins in Nashville and worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many years later, before the 2008 election, he traveled the country along with other civil rights leaders exclaiming to voters that a Barack Obama presidency was exactly the kind of prize that they had been fighting for all their lives. All of that came back to him during a meeting at the White House three weeks ago between President Obama and several of those leaders. Mr. Vivian told the president how proud he was of him, and how sad he was to see him go. And then he began to cry. “If there was a way I could keep him there I would keep him there for another term,” Mr. Vivian, 91, said later from his home in Atlanta. “It is difficult for people who are not African-American to understand what it has been to have someone in the White House that you know understands you.”….But a large segment of the country has also been busy gazing upon the presidency that is ending. In interviews, African-Americans around the country said they were counting down the last 10 months of Mr. Obama’s term with pride, with sadness and also with a looming despair.
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Proud of @BarackObama‘s legacy https://t.co/CxnRSYH4zj blacks are sad to see him go https://t.co/Eup52IwDPx
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…. At dinner tables, Bible studies and classrooms throughout black America, elders, their children and their children’s children have been asking whether the breakthrough they thought they would never see will turn out to be an anomaly that they never see repeated…“I come from an area where we never thought it was going to be possible,” said Russell Singleton, 64, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and now tends a shoe shine station in the president’s old barbershop. He recalled as a child seeing a racial slur stenciled onto a sidewalk in bright yellow paint, and as a teenager hurling bricks the night Dr. King was assassinated. He added, shaking his head, “I don’t think I’ll see another black president in my lifetime and I’ll say in the younger generation’s lifetime.” “They won’t allow us to have the reins again,” he continued. “It’s a big prize and they hold onto it dearly.” On the West Side of Chicago, Jakya Hobbs, 13, said matter-of-factly that Mr. Obama’s election was a “miracle,” and not in a good way. “Our system isn’t built for a black person to become president,” she said. Perhaps no one expressed the feeling more viscerally than the young black girl who was captured by her grandmother on video wailing hysterically when she learned that Mr. Obama was soon leaving the White House…..
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The video went viral on Facebook, and after Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, showed it to him, he told the girl’s grandmother in a Facebook post to “dry her tears, because I’m not going anywhere.”…continued”
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“Caprina, tell her to dry her tears” —@POTUS: https://t.co/7R3TB081B6 #ObamaAndKids pic.twitter.com/An5ikZWC3V
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Hiya!
Congrats Don!
Thank you LovelyPlains.
Gorgeous post LP, honored to have my tweets included!!! Thank you so much for this, HUGELY appreciated!
See ya all later.
Cheers, Chips!
hey
I really really really hope one day little Caprina has a chance to meet President Obama and he offers her a big huf. She’s so adorable and POTUS has obviously touched her heart.
WOW
This Carpenter guy is great. He’s telling it exactly like it is.
Yes, he really did not mince any words. BRAVO.
I’m probably late to knowing this… because you folks are always ahead of me on everything… but did you know this: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obama-team-reunites-for-a-last-campaign-court-nominee/ar-BBqA3OT?ocid=spartanntp That POTUS has had his people organize this: WeNeedNine.org
I’m so impressed with this, he just keeps doing the most amazing, brilliant things.
Our POTUS is always 10 steps ahead. He should be the PERMANENT CIA Director.
Always! Ten steps ahead- at the very least :) I hope everyone will go sign up at weneednine.org it’s on facebook and twitter too.
Thanks:) Signed up and passed it on:)
awesome!
This may be my all-time favorite thread ever.
HEY LITTLE BASTARD IN THE CRUMMY WHITE SEDAN…FOLLOW ME TO MY NEW HOUSE AGAIN AND YOU’LL MEET THE MEAT GRINDER…YOU’RE THE MEAT…I’M THE GRINDER!
ALSO TAKING PHOTOS OF THE AREA!..THE BASTARDS ARE GOING TO HAVE SHORT LIVES!
After Rubio claimed that President Obama has no class, he became trash to me. I’m glad he’s been forced to suspend his campaign. I also hope his political career is over since he’s not running for his Senate seat again.
He should flee to a convent and reflect on all his past recent sins. This is Lent anyway, the perfect time for that. His last chance.
Great thread LP!!! Thank you …
Hi NCLB :)
back to work …..
Always happy for your tweets, Bob.
Reading those NYT comments uplifting our President brought tears to my eyes. Going to really miss our President when he leaves office. We will not see another like him in our lifetime. Lovely man and beautiful family.
PDA is getting their butts handed to them on twitter. I saw this crap about the confederacy on FB as well. I let those Bernie groups have it. They banned me from their group!
To justify the restoration of “white Supreamcy,” after the overthrow of Reconstruction, Southern white leaders kept depicting themselves as the “New South”! Northern progressive/reformists betrayed and eventually abandoned Blacks, Southern whites who were going around calling themselves the “New South,” went on a mission to disfaranchise Blacks to enact laws requiring the segregation of the races.
An apology does not make it all better
Where its always been until RW governments who give themselves massive retirement benefits, decided people should work until they die
You should read all the bs comments about this in the Canadian media/social media (obviously from those who are butt hurt that Trudeau got elected). They actually repeatedly squawk “Everybody is living longer these days.” Newsflash: *not* everybody is, speaking as one who has lost many friends, co-workers and family members long before they reached retirement age. If something doesn’t benefit these entitled idiots personally and immediately, they’re instantly against it. Ugh.
For any manual labor workers - 65 is a real stretch. My dad retired at 60 - exhausted
I think Manuel labor folks should retire at 50
Only reason my dad could retire was because war vets were allowed to get an early pension - for too many early retirement is not an option & our retirement age has gone up to 67
I know, 99ts! My point is the people who are employed in physically strenuous jobs deserve to retire at an early age.
And for many seniors, retirement - period - is not an option at all. As you say, contrast that with the gold-plated pensions that government employees and civil servants receive (at least here in Canada). My father retired early even though he and my mom were scraping by renting a tiny 1-bdrm apartment. But he was still very grateful that he retired early, because as it happened, my mother passed away from cancer before her 67th birthday. Nobody can predict what life will throw at them.
I hope you can set time a side to listen to Senator Reid on Donald Trump, the GOP, and the Future of American Politics:
[Dropping in on the fly. Hope this hasn’t been posted already — so far behind in catching with TOD! Ignore their try at negative spin. Doesn’t work!]
WASHINGTON — President Obama has said for years that he has finished his last campaign. But you would not know it by looking at the team he has assembled to push for his Supreme Court nominee.
The Constitutional Responsibility Project, which was formed to lead the fight to get the nominee, Judge Merrick B. Garland, confirmed, is a virtual who’s who of Mr. Obama’s two presidential campaigns.
Stephanie Cutter, who served as deputy campaign manager in 2012, will run the organization. Anita Dunn, the former White House communications director, is handling media, along with Amy Brundage, a veteran Obama aide. Also involved are Julianna Smoot, the chief fund-raiser for Mr. Obama’s campaigns, and Paul Tewes, his star field operative in 2008.
Founded within the last several weeks as a nonprofit organization, the project will accept donations, develop advertising, coordinate messaging, help manage operatives in the field, respond to attacks on Judge Garland and collect opposition research on Republican opponents.
On Thursday, the group is organizing a nationwide “stakeholder” conference call hosted by Mr. Obama for what organizers said would include thousands of the president’s supporters.
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More here: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obama-team-reunites-for-a-last-campaign-court-nominee/ar-BBqA3OT?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
You can’t make this stuff up:
Would like some feedback from some folks here who are much smarter than I am, more insightful and analytical. The article is suggesting that one reason the R’s aren’t moving forward with SC nominee is running Romney, have people voting among three people, peel off enough votes to have the House vote for who is president. ?????? What say ye?
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/17/how-the-gop-plans-to-steal-the-election-from-the-american-people-and-hand-it-to-romney/
I loved the post & all the quotes from the NYT - but WHY does someone have to be leaving before folks realise what they had. If this sentiment had converted to votes 2010,14 - what a different world it might have been.
Mr. President and First Lady
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Thank you, Dr. Maddow, for the warning. I have a good movie to watch tonight.
No Thank you Rachel. Not interested.
Don’t think so. I use to mute him before he start running for president; will continue same.
COS, I could never ever watch more than 4 or 5 minutes of him on the Senate floor! Just too grating.
Too much “billionaires, millionaires, and Wall Street” as if one Person could fix all that is rigged in the economy, particularly with the Congress we have.
Tired of his ‘one-trick pony’ rant.
I believe Dr. Carlson left his brain when he retired as Neurosurgeon in Chief. Since, he’s been incoherent, chocking, and disoriented.
How an educated man could have such a slave mentality is beyond me. He makes me want to vomit (sorry if anyone is reading this just after dinner).
He makes me wonder if he had to retire because he had lost some of his brain power and his running is an attempt to bolster his (retirement?) income. Sure he might have been well paid, but not everyone in that position manages their funds well and if he was ‘forced’ to retire earlier than intended he might be desperate for funds. I mean, for what other reason would someone allow himself to be so humiliated in the public square? Think of Christie as well.
CEB, Carter G.Woodson wrote about people like Dr. Ben Carson in his 1935 classic: “The Mis-Education of the Negro.” And psychiatrist, Franz Fanon wrote about people like Ben Crason in his “Black Skin, White Mask.”
“I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman
Absolutely love “Give ’em hell, Harry”!
Saw him at yesterday’s announcement of the SCOTUS nomination, though, and he looked very weak - like he had to hold onto Sen. Leahy for a bit, when they both stood up. Hope his stamina improves!
More funny promises from the good Senator from Vermont.
Well Bernie hopefully there will be no Supreme Court nominee of yours. I’m still trying to figure out why Bernie’s wife were out there in Arizona meeting that sheriff Joe Arpaio.
He still thinks he wil be appointing a SCOTUS Justice??? Fool’s Paradise comes to mind
This is embarrassing. SCOTUS takes cases that work their way through the courts. Does Bernie really not know how the Supreme Court works? He horrifies me more and more every day.
Wow, the Sanders supporters are REALLY getting ugly. But that’s okay, it’s all good for Hillary, to “prepare” her.
He obviously does not understand how the SCOTUS works. Cases have to come up to them and they have to decide to take the case before any decision can be made. A Justice does not individually decide to countermand a previous decision! He needs a basic civics course.
To each his own. I am with her, Senator!
Who cares??? I do not.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/16/hillary-clinton-running-campaign-bernie-sanders-promised
However not only is Sanders not getting a return on his investment, but he’s also currently under FEC investigation to which the campaign must respond by March 17th. As much as Sanders likes to tout his campaign contributions, now 5 million and counting, it appears that a significant number of these contributions may have in fact been illegal. From October of 2015 to January, the FEC flagged 665 foreign donations as well as 3,500 contributions that were over-limit. This is not small potatoes here. The limit for an individual contribution is $2,700 which means that these 3,500 contributors are over-paying by hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars which each contribution. This could easily explain how Sanders just recently reported that his campaign brought in a whopping $42 million in contributions for the month of February.
He ought not throw stones…..
About that FEC investigation…
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/14/bernie-sanders-potentially-illegal-campaign-contributions
oh my goodness- I admit I laughed verrry loud.
Hey, Tiny Hands! FU! Pay attention people…women are chattel.
…..and by daddy giving me a million dollars.
… maybe all women voters should think about cutting the cord on him, if they haven’t already. And soon!
About to be the nominee of the so-called party of “family values”
Pig. With tiny pig hands.
Romantic this one here is.
A real cad.
Who cares about Trump and Marla, but their daughter’s seeing all this - again - as she’s somewhat a part of his campaign, and has made a few appearances. Nice for her - NOT.
What a beautiful and heartfelt post….touches me..ty LP
Governor Blocks $2.85 Minimum Wage Increase After Giving Staffers $73,405 Raises
BY AARON RUPAR
MAR 17, 2025 4:38 PM
When the city Birmingham, Alabama voted last month to give its lowest-paid workers a $2.85 raise, Republican Gov. Robert Bentley signed a bill banning Alabama cities from raising their minimum wages at all. Now, news has emerged that Bentley recently gave four of his cabinet members $73,405 raises — an 80 percent increase from the $91,000 salaries they were making previously.
One of the beneficiaries of the raises, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Administrator Mac Gipson, argues his previous $91,000 salary wasn’t sufficient to attract the best talent from the private sector. But an author of the bill that gave Bentley the authority to raise cabinet members’ salaries in the first place says the 80 percent boosts are “outrageous.”
“I’m troubled by the amount of raises that I’ve read about,” Sen. Arthur Orr (R) told al.com.
The raises reportedly went into effect late last year, though news of them just broke this week. While the $73,405 salary increases were the largest, more than a dozen members of Bentley’s cabinet and a number of his staff members reportedly received raises as well.
I mean if you can’t take of your friends.
OH - OH, heads up!! POTUS and CofS are strategizing!!
The lining up of ducks has commenced!!
AMEN
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/03/17/ap-calls-missouri-for-clinton.html
2 days after the fact.
Mr. Sanders is a man who insist on hearing bad news immediately.
Love that line so much!!!
They were counting provisional ballots and absentees which could still come in through today.
Bravo, Congressman Cummings.
I’m with “Phyllis” !!! and the President !!!
Don’t worry, Bernie, Hillary won’t win them all, just enough to be President though.
Historian Douglas Brinkley is on MSNBC, talking about FDR’s efforts to protect our environment and Brinkley’s new book “Rightful Heritage.” He mentioned the Civilian Conservation Corps, which gave jobs to so many around the Depression years. My two uncles left Pennsy to go to California, to be part of the CCC, while young men. My older uncle told me he “confirmed the jobs” and his younger brother “looked for the women.” #GoodTimes Ha!
GE JO’B, tip of my hat to you this fine St. Paddy’s Day!
My mother grew up in Dayton OH, and her good friends relocated from OH to CA when they retired to hang out with her.
The husband was a HUGE CCC fan, so I always think of him when I hear about CCC. He retired from the auto industry, but was part of CCC during the Great Depression as a teen.
Anyone who visits the National Parks in the western US (and reads the signs, LOL) is grateful for the CCC too. Virtually all the roads were built during the 1930s by the CCC. If you’ve ever been to Glacier National Park — incredibly gorgeous, probably the most beautiful park in the lower 48), the Going to the Sun Highway takes you from one end of the park to the other (east-west) and was built by CCC — awesome engineering marvel.
Don’t make me cry, ’cause both of my uncles are gone, now - but I loved reading this! My oldest uncle traveled back to California a few times later in his adult life, and the first time he stopped by where he and his brother had lived, he found it had been turned into a parking lot. Ah, progress! Thank you - and tip o’ the hat to you on this fine St. Patrick’s Day evening!
Understand completely, JO’B.
It’s really interesting (to me at least, LOL) to peruse the Wikipedia listings of people who shaped the West during the 1930s (Will Rogers, Woody Guthrie, etc.) and earlier (such as Joe Hill) to see how much of the US they saw using the railway system.
I guess the Interstate Highway system crippled the railroads in the southwest US, but it’s interesting (to me) to visit towns in the west that were established because they were railroad stops — lots in Arizona (like Flagstaff, gateway to the Grand Canyon) where Route 66 took the relay baton, usurped by Interstate 40 — the McDonalds/Wendy’sTacoBell etc. Interstate offramps are impossibly dull and uninteresting in comparison IMO.
That’s all interesting (to me, too!!!)
Secretive Republican group meets to develop a plot to dump Trump. Just like the secretive RWNJ group met in 2009 to obstruct President Obama. Why can’t people who claim to belong to that party see any of this for what it is? I will never understand it, and have more or less stopped trying.
My friend quoted from a movie one time, a quote about something else, but it sure fits Republicans as Democrats see them:
“They hate us because they think we think they’re stupid. And we hate them because they’re stupid.”
Like their-part-of-the-species-didn’t-evolve-yet stupid. I try not to waste my time with hate, but …
This is deplorable. This is insane. This is ugly, bigoted, reprehensible. This is Donald Trump’s dog whistles without the physical releasing of the hounds. And this is coming on the heels of Bernie Sanders’ wife giving an on-camera platform to America’s most racist law enforcement officer in Arizona.
POTUS’ staff are not having it.
Have been only lurking the last few days, but this post is so beautiful I must comment. My heart gets so heavy when I think about this ending, but I also know they will be on to bigger things for all of us. We have been so blessed. I am looking forward to seeing what comes next. I just want our country to continue his legacy. Hillary must win.
SO exciting. I’m going to have to find a place to watch this!
Freakin’ sickening, isn’t it????!!!
A great piece by cole over at bj.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/03/17/i-dont-think-garland-is-a-sacrificial-lamb/
psa - don’t dive into the clueless commentariat.
Thanks for sharing this, Amk - good read. I also liked this comment that Mr. Cole highlighted at the end of the post…
“… and this from Aimai in the comments can not be said enough:
I also wanted to add that people seem to have a hard time grasping that Obama’s gestures, choices, policy tactics almost always have more than one side to them. They are usually a plan A and a plan B rolled together. To very young, angry, or stupid political viewers its always a zero sum game in which your first shot is your only shot and you can only get everything or nothing. But Obama’s pick of Garland wins whatever the republicans choose to do. He has asserted his constitutional duty, he has embarrased them publicly, he has split their senatorial caucus, he has given the democrats ammunition in senate races, he has increased the likelihood of right wing primaries, and if they roll over and take garland he gets a pick he is happy with completing three historic appts. Lots of his offers to the republicans have had this aspect. Its why they are afraid to negotiate with him at all.
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They are calling for a system that is built around a cornerstone that would have an independent citizens commission handle the task in an open and impartial fashion that would respect political subdivisions and make districts as equal in population as possible.
Good Evening TOD Community.
Wow! What a Magnificent Post, LovelyPlain. Excellent! Thank you!
Congrats, Don. Gold is indeed your color ;)
Actions have consequences. Wow!!!
Poor little criminal.
I may actually watch the news. LOLz.
This is so amazing. Me, too, meta!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/17/a-nice-evening-for-a-walk/
LMAO.
While it is sickening to see Trump still cavorting on the national stage, I am so glad that these two mofos are finished, I live in Florida and there has been nothing good for our state under the s0-called leadership of these not-ready-for-primetime- buffoons. Jeb especially, was a disrespectful, tantrum-throwing, holier-than-thou disaster that more reasonable people had to put up with for 8 long years. He thought the state was his fiefdom and I am thrilled that he suffered ridicule and ignominious defeat. As for Water Boy who shifts between being Anglo and Cuban based on which ever group he is talking to, he can now run home and grow up and grow a pair.