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Posts Tagged ‘veterans
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Nov
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Remembering
Arlington, Nov 11
Back soon.
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Sep
12
This and That
Mt Adams, OH, Sept 17 (Scout Tufankjian)
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An airplane pulls a banner in protest at remarks made by Mitt Romney over the site of the Univision Facebook “Meet the Candidates” Forum in Miami, Sept 19
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President Barack Obama reacts to a photograph during an interview with David Letterman during a taping of the “Late Show with David Letterman” at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, N.Y., Sept. 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Aug
12
This and That
Steve Benen: …. I watch a whole lot of Obama’s speeches, and I’d say he seemed a little more fired up than usual. (Pay particular attention to his tone of voice in the last 90 seconds.)
Las Vegas, August 22
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Politico: President Obama said he’s beating Mitt Romney “by a few points” and said time is running out in the 2012 presidential election.
“I can’t resist a basketball analogy,” he told donors at a Lincoln Center fundraiser that featured NBA commissioner David Stern and current and former basketball stars including Michael Jordan. “We are in the fourth quarter. We’re up by a few points but the other side is coming strong and they, they, they play a little dirty. We’ve got a few folks on our team in foul trouble. We’ve got a couple of injuries and I believe that they’ve got one last run in them.”
“I’d say there’s about seven minutes to go in the game. And Michael’s competitiveness is legendary and nobody knows better than Michael that if you’ve got a little bit of a lead and there’s about seven minutes ago, that’s when you put them away.”
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Politico: President Obama mocked Missouri Rep. Todd Akin here, telling a fundraising crowd packed with pro basketball stars that the embattled Senate candidate “somehow missed science class.”
“Recently some of you have been paying attention to the commentary about the senator from Missouri, Mr. Akin,” Obama said. “The interesting thing here is that this, this is an individual who sits on the House Committee on Science and Technology but somehow missed science class. And it’s representative of the desire to go backwards instead of forwards and fight fights that we thought were settled 20 or 30 years ago.”
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Coming up:
12:00: VP Biden delivers remarks at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va
1:25: President Obama & Michelle Obama deliver remarks at Alliant Energy Amphitheater, Dubuque, Iowa
6:35: President Obama & Michelle Obama deliver remarks at Village of East Davenport in Davenport, Iowa
C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2 *
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Thanks Dotster
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President Obama sits for breakfast at Riley’s Cafe with U.S. military veterans in Cedar Rapids, August 15
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Aug
12
This and That
President Barack Obama meets with the White House Rural Council to discuss ongoing efforts in response to the drought, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 7, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Wednesday:
10:35: President Obama departs the White House
2:10: Arrives in Denver, Colorado
3:20: Delivers remarks at a campaign event
5:10: Departs Denver
6:00: Arrives in Grand Junction, Colorado
7:25: Delivers remarks at a campaign event
8:30: Departs Grand Junction
9:15: Arrives in Pueblo, Colorado
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You’ll be bored silly hearing me say this …. but a gazillion apologies for not replying yet to all your emails, things have been a bit bonkers busy, so I just haven’t had the time.
Just to make one thing clear, though: the only fundraiser this little blog supports and endorses – and will ever support and endorse from now on – is Obama/Biden 2012, absolutely no other, personal or otherwise. I’ll reply to you all asap, but I just wanted to make that 100% clear.
You can donate through one of the fundraisers set up by the highly lovely people who inhabit this blog:
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Please do what you can, especially in light of today’s NYT story:
Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party organization backed by the Koch brothers, is set to begin a $25 million advertising assault aimed at President Obama, its largest effort to date….
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