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Aug

This and That

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Tags: Barack, fundraisers, Obama, ofa, Ohio, President, veterans, video

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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People trying to comment here for the first time, thank you – but please read ‘How Do I Comment Here’ in the sidebar on the right. Reminder: Trolls of the Fire/Teabagger variety are never welcome here.

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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:

a4alice * Alycee * BWD * CollegeKay * Cookemom * DonnaDem4Obama

Hgerhard * HZ * Judith Fardig * Mae Who Love Our CIC

Marlz * Meta * Pamela *prettyfoot58 * proudmemberofglobalzero * Rita * Theo67 * The Obama Diary

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….

More here

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Jul

This and That

By Chipsticks 243 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: ad, air, airport, Barack, Barbara, boy, convention, fierce, force, foreign, lee, lies, mitt, national, nevada, oakland, Obama, of, one, photos, President, reno, romney, tampered, the, veterans, vfw, video, wars

Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada

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President Obama gets a hug from Rep. Barbara Lee after arriving at Oakland International Airport

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President Obama boards departs San Francisco International Airport for Nevada

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President Obama greets attendees after speaking during the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) at the Reno Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada

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President Obama holds up a drawing given to him as a gift after speaking at the 113th VFW National Convention

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Next up:

10:55: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at The Fox Theatre, Oakland

Jul

Rise and Shine

By Chipsticks 209 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Articles
Tags: Barack, denver, front, lies, mitt, Obama, page, post, President, romney, toons, veterans, video

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Thank you Hopefruit

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11.0: Vice President Biden addresses the National Association of Police Organizations’ annual convention in Manalapan, Florida

2:25: President Obama departs San Francisco en route Reno, Nevada

3:10: Arrives in Reno

3:35: Delivers remarks at the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (Live coverage)

5:00: Departs Reno en route Oakland, California

5:50: Arrives in Oakland

6:20: Attends a campaign event at the Scottish Rite Center, Oakland (Closed press)

8:35: Delivers remarks at a campaign event (Private residence, closed press)

10:55: Delivers remarks at a campaign event (Live coverage)

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Cagle

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Cagle

The Fact Checker (Washington Post): …. There are few original ideas in politics, just old arguments. We were reminded of this as we considered the ruckus over comments by President Obama that his GOP rival, former governor Mitt Romney, criticized as an attack on free enterprise. Romney immediately began jabbing Obama on the campaign trail and the Romney campaign rushed out an attack ad focused on Obama’s words – though, as we shall see, it sliced and diced the president’s quote to make it seem much worse.

…. The biggest problem with Romney’s ad is that it leaves out just enough chunks of Obama’s words – such as a reference to “roads and bridges”- so that it sounds like Obama is attacking individual initiative. The ad deceivingly cuts away from Obama speaking in order to make it sees as if the sentences follow one another, when in fact eight sentences are snipped away.

Suddenly, the word “that” appears as if it is referring to a business, rather than (apparently) to roads and bridges.

…. by focusing on one ill-phrased sentence, Romney and his campaign have decided to pretend that Obama is talking about something different – and then further extrapolated it so that it becomes ridiculous.

Full article here

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