President Barack Obama speaks during the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting at the Yanqi Lake International Convention Center in Beijing. Asia-Pacific and world leaders gathered for the annual summit, with free trade at the top of the agenda as they sought to narrow differences on how to open commerce across the vast region.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, third left, as China’s State Councilor Yang Jiechi, second right, stands by during a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping
President Barack Obama talks to Vladimir Putin during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Beijing
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Zients, @PennyPritzker in OpEd explain why visa reforms - secured by POTUS on Asia trip - are big deal for US economy tinyurl.com/mdtrxuy
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President Barack Obama readies his shovel as he takes part in a tree planting at the International Convention Center at Yanqi Lake during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit
President Barack Obama talks with Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet after taking part in a tree planting at the International Convention Center at Yanqi Lake
President Barack Obama walks with China’s President Xi Jinping, at the Zongnanhai leaders compound ahead of a dinner
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Is anybody watching this concert?
I was, but the Zac Brown Band is not my fave type of music, so I’m checking back in :-)
Thanks a trabillion zillion for all your hard work on this Nerdy, a wonderful wrap-up of the President’s day!
My pleasure.
Thanks, Chips.
Great photos you chose NW. Our President looks a little tired. This has been a grueling trip for him, but accomplishing a lot.
I noticed that he looked tired, as well. Has to be hard to pick up and travel for a week (and more), and represent the country, after the drama of a national election.
Great photos of the trip.
Thank you Nerdy! Fantastic pictures of the hardest working elected official ever!
Some of you may find this of interest -it’s a long video but I found some time to watch it just now and it’s well worth it imho. The Supreme Court is bordering on treasonous, no?
Thanks, Forus50.
President Obama is a handsome, distinguished looking man. That is another reason why there are haters.
Great photo of Jennifer Hudson
Wow! she looks gorgeous!
And Meryl Streep
Love the photos and President Obama and President Jinping are voracious readers and lovers of history.
See CNN headline accusing Obama and Putin of acting in “poor taste”. CNN——what a piece of poo network. Just desperado for s__t-stirring headline.
CNN is the very definition of poor taste.
Not to mention lack of brains, common sense, honesty and decency.
Do I want to know what was supposedly in “poor taste”?
I didn’t want to read their stupid post—think with PBO it was gumgate and with Pooty—-making out with China’s first lady. (shawling her)
Completely missed “gumgate”, thank goodness.
Indeed.
Don’t forget, these are the people that sent a ‘corespondent’ to help the republicans win this year.
Nerdy, thank you for the wonderful pictures. PBO seems to be enjoying himself which gladdens my heart.
Ditto from me NW, this is a beautiful summation!
Yet another outstanding post by NW!!!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks, Bob!
I’ll add to NW’s thread title… “is just beginning”
as in: The President’s Day… is just beginning.
It’s a little before 9am in Beijing. I mentioned yesterday that Josh Ernest had a 5 o’clock shadow at the press briefing, which occurred during the morning hours in China. Think that means he hadn’t had a wink of sleep yesterday, and probably very little overnight. :(
And then it’s off to Burma…
Such an exhausting schedule.
GOP back in charge (they think)—time to be patriotic again, I guess, as long as you exclude the source of 6 years of goodness for the USA—President Barack Obama.
This comment is due to my sour feeling about this concert.
nevermind—they are doing “Fortunate Son!!!!!!”
Vickie, your comments over the past couple of days have me thinking of writing a post about what “honoring the troops” really should mean. Give me a couple of days to stew on it. What it should mean and what it means when GOPers say it are 2 different things separated by a chasm.
I think it’s great—Bruce rockin out now with Dave Grohl and Zac Brown band. Something for everyone. And I think it’s well done. John Oliver now, who I love.
Jon Oliver was funny. Black Keys playing now…Yay!
To NW for this post.
Oooooo……thanks so much! :)
NW you’ve done it again! Fabulous. Thank you!
Thanks.
Au :star: for Vicki. Congrats.
Thank you, Nena
Today, those numbers have changed:
Dow closed at 17,618 plus today…..another record high so did S&P 500.
UR is today at 5.8%
White is at 4.4%
Black is at 10.9%
Latino is at 6.5%
All off from record high in 2009.
More folks are insured today.
Speaking of “honoring the troops” one of my colleagues told me this morning that 400,000 veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars are requesting and waiting for mental health care. And yet, the repubs talk, but will appropriate no money. I have no use for them, and frankly, am not impressed with this concert tonight…..a good deal of the audience, I know, are redneck, neverserved wannabes. I have no use for them. These people in the concert have NO idea what it is to serve.
Talk, talk, and no action. I say this as the daughter of a veteran, the wife of a veteran and the mother of a veteran, who basically roll their eyes at these people.
carolyn,I feel much as you do.
my dad is a vietnam combat vet, and an extreme obama-bot (i send him links from here quite often). we spoke on the phone and he pointed out there were around 180,000 troops in afghan/iraq when president obama took over, and now what is it, under 10,000 total?!? he was wishing president obama could’ve been president and been able to do something like that for the vietnam war. talk about TRULY supporting the troops! he tries not to get cynical with concerts like this one tonight or when people say “thanks for your service” if they find out he was in vietnam, since he feels the best way to really support our military is to vote for democrats because they increase service member benefits and keep out of unnecessary “wars” for the most part. so proud of him!
Tell your dad I love him!
ha! i will! he had a rough upbringing and then had all that happen, yet came back and held it together, and ended up being a good father to my siblings and i. he’s getting more radically liberal with age, yet still pragmatic too, so that’s been really nice for all of us.
Sounds really nice, indeed! Nothing wrong with “radically liberal,” in my book. <3
That’s great to hear about your dad. My daughter (22) says that she hasn’t met one soldier, and she has met several both in AZ and in CA, that likes or appreciates PBO. They have all been Republicans (and these are mostly younger soldiers). I know her experience is not an accurate sample of what’s out there, but I have also heard the same thing from the wife of a Coast guard officer, who was my aide in my classroom for 5 years. She told me all her friends and fellow military people hated Obama, though she didn’t hate him, she didn’t vote for him in either 2008 or 2012. I really am uplifted when someone like your dad gets it right.
This dislike is partly because FOX is played on bases…..they are poisoned against their own leader. They should read the message from the veteran on the previous thread about NEVER voting for a Republican. That is the best I’ve seen.
Stunning. Breathtaking! This is all about hope for this world.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Yardarm posted a link to this story on Upworthy earlier today.
Happening now? Any press coverage?
8:00 pm The President participates in a State Arrival Welcome Ceremony
Local Event Time: 9:00AM CST
Great Hall of the People – Beijing
Open Press
And then later:
10:40 pm The President delivers statements with President Xi Jinping of China
Local Event Time: 11:40AM CST
Great Hall of the People – Beijing
Open to pre-credentialed media
I’m not aware of any media coverage, but I will search online if I can.
P.S. The “press” is only interested in PBO’s gum chewing a la CNN….
So Only US is invited to this Summit/Economic Asia Gathering?
I had a heated argument in Aug of 2008 with a Russian……he argued that Russia is European. I said….Hell No. Russia is in Asia, as such, they were not Europeans…….Geographically speaking.
I wish I had this summit in mind to complete my argument.
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APEC = Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
Russia has an enormous Pacific coastline.
In school I was taught that the Ural Mountains were the dividing line between Europe and Asia, so western Russia is part of Europe while the vast majority of their land (i.e., Siberia) is part of Asia.
Well, the Chinese Mongols lived in Russia, and they were of Asian descent - so, your friend’s argument would have failed right there.
LIVE Coverage here: http://www.livestation.com/reuters?source=redirect
You’re amazing! You always come through. Thanks, JER.
You are welcome, Meta.
DITTO…but as uusual…I.AM Late.. :-)
Link not working for me. :(
Is this the only stream?
Lots of updates, via RTs, in the sidebar ….
#BackBarack
<3
There were a couple of other groups I will look into that are also working for positive change. OFA definitely supports President Obama and I want to stand with them and so happy to do so!
Can’t watch Carrie Underwood. Will someone give me a heads up when she’s gone? :-)
Not the hugest fan, but I think if truth be known, she is very liberal. I know she reads what they write for her at the CMA’s —-but so does Brad Paisley who is done a lot of WH events. But she’s vegan, huge animal rights activist, spoke out in support of gay marriage, said she would only attend a church that does the same, interned with an Ok. Dem state rep.—-she found one in OK!, supports Habitat for Humanity and a lot of other causes on the left side of the spectrum.
Thanks dotster.
I’m a country music fan, but country music mixed with pop turns me off (not a pop music fan).
Only have the internet to tell me what’s popular now, since the only country music radio station in the Los Angeles market switched formats eons ago.
Carrie Underwood is a Registered Republican.
Thank You!
And may I add a hypocrite….
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/celebrities-political-affiliations-20122210/25601
Carrie Under-Who?
Wasn’t she among the crew that was dissing the President at the CMAs the other day? Could be wrong, but I thought I heard that.
So when her face showed up on the Concert for Valor, I changed the channel Probably missed some other artists that I would’ve wanted to see too. I’ll see if I can watch it later On Demand, then I can fast-forward past her.
On the Early Bird Chat this morning, Hopefruit and others mentioned that she was disrespecting PBO recently. I had heard the same from a musician friend awhile ago. Here’s Hopefruit’s comment from this a.m.:
“Carrie Underwood is one of the singers at the concert to honor Veterans, but just a few days ago last week, she was trashing our Commander-in-Chief at her CMA show. And she trashed the ACA that same show year before.
You don’t trash the Commander-In-Chief and his beneficial policies in one breath and claim to honor the military/Veterans in another. #FAIL”
p.s I know a few R’s that support marriage equality, shop at Whole Foods, etc. but somehow still support the Republican party and hate PBO. Maybe Carrie Underwood is one of those. SMH…
I love to see
President Barack Obama,
Who grew up among us,
Travel to foreign shores
To represent our country.
He does not go looking
How to do harm or
How to get back at
Or simplistically to find out
Who’s “against” us.
He goes in peace
With a full inventory of
Innovative ideas
About how we can all
Work together
For a more productive world.
Isn’t it something we all want
I remember thinking as a child
I remember praying as a child
That everybody in the world
Could work together
In the pursuit of happiness.
Isn’t that what America
Is supposed to be all about?
Not colonialism
Not hatred
Not putting up walls
Not forgetting to lend a hand.
If you’re poor, we’ll teach you to fish
If you’re sick, we’ll bring our medicine man
If you’re oppressed, we’ll help to
Bring your children back down from
The mountain.
I love to see
President Barack Obama,
Who grew up among us,
Travel to foreign shores.
Lands that never
Seem as “foreign” to us
(Do they?)
When he shines his light on them.
That’s how to represent
America the Beautiful
And leave the “Ugly American”
To other times
To lesser people
To someone else’s storybook.
You tell great and true stories with your poetry, JO’B. Thanks for sharing them with us!
Thanks so much, VC. Hope you had a good day!
I did, thank you, J. I’m having to make up for that 6-day long week-end I took at the beginning ;) ;) of November.
Superb, Jacqueline. Hope our President sees it!
#BackBarack
Bob! I’m near tears. Thank you so very much.
You deserve the recognition, Jacqueline. Least I could do was to try to find a way to have the President see it.
#FORWARD
JO’B, what a beautiful tribute to our President! :)
Thanks, hf. :)
Beautiful, JOB. You are a talented and insightful poet.
Thank you so much, jackieG. Means a lot.
_/|\_
Love this
Job, wou’re an absolute jewel! Thank you for sharing your enormous talent here at TOD! We are so lucky to have you has part of our big family!
I can’t thank you enough for writing that, Dudette. Thanks so much. And I feel the same about you!
wow! pitch perfect, JOB
Thanks, friend.
This tweet underscores what I posted earlier about 400,000 Iraq/Afghanistan vets needing mental health help. Thank you GWB for doing this to so many people……..you are unspeakably awful!!!
Lol
crimea river, vlad.
20 moves ahead…..
Not usually a fan of short jokes (since I’m vertically challenged myself, don’t understand why it’s OK to ridicule people for their height, which they have no control over), but PBO’s expression is priceless.
MSM who jump on the bandwagon and claim PBO is “aloof,” or inscrutable haven’t taken the time to look at some of his expressions.
For instance, that one of Berlusconi and Michelle — or that one of Dominque Strauss-Kahn and Michelle, etc.
Love President Obama. Love John Kerry. Love Susan Rice.
I love to see them out and about, together!
I remember taking a picture like this in 1981…..in a London Hotel.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2269190/thumbs/o-PRINCE-SELFIE-570.jpg?6
Love her!
LOL!! One day, they’re going to call President Obama the trillion dollar man because he’s the most influential and smartest politician ever to grace our planet. I’m so happy it was in my life time.
A trillion dittos + 1!
In_deed.
Thoroughly enjoyed the Presser by Josh “The Voice” Earnest, Ben Rhodes and Co. Thanks gain NW for this post.
Again :oops:
I think in one of the “brief meetings,” Vlad said something like, “Mr. President, will you pass the salt?” Or something.
o.m.g. chips. your tweets have made me spit-take my breakfast, and now dinner today. you’re single-handedly helping me lose a few pounds through humor. brava!
ROTFL at this photo and your description, Chips. He is considerably shorter than PBO. :)
I mean the photo where they are on the stairs.
Thanks Chips! I will tune in :)
It’s a horrible channel, though, Hopefruit, full of RWNJ commentators. Grr. Hoping it’ll be here too:
http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml
UGH….thanks, I will try to focus on just the segment when they are delivering their remarks. :)
I knew you were smart :-)
FLOTUS doing a segment now at the concert—-lots of moving stories interspersed throughout——personal stories of valor of our troops.
The veteran’s story that FLOTUS introduced was amazing and incredibly moving! His name was Cedric, but I didn’t catch his last name. Been Googling trying to find it.
Chips, Left this for you on a previous thread. It’s a hilarious and spot-on comedy piece by Merrill Markoe, featuring her dog. Hope you can check it out when you get a chance (10 min). I know this will remind you of Danny. :-)
Flippin’ hilarious Madame Soph, my rascal was doing exactly the same to me today while I was trying to work, dropping his shredded football on my laptop in a rather impatient way :-) Tooooo funny!!
My girl kitty does the same! She loves the half-chewed, torn-up toys the best and brings them to me as gifts sometimes. She also plays fetch!
I loved when the dog is thinking about how the rubber thingy had the advantages of a “dead thing” without the drawbacks! :-)
Vlad’s got some probs back home—-poisoned polluted atmosphere and this….
Maybe, but won’t he be able to make up for it with his pale, flabby bitch t*ts flappin’ up and down on a horse??
:)
I can say these things because 1) the description applies to me too, EXCEPT I WEAR A SHIRT, ESPECIALLY ON A HORSE, and 2) Vlad-ey-Mae Poutin’ deserves it.
He’s driven Russia to total loss of credit worthiness. Even Milken couldn’t find a way to peddle the junk.
Good. This kind of bad economic news couldn’t happen to a more deserving dictator. I hope the Russian people realize what a disaster they’re saddled with.
FYI
PBO and Oprah doing another moving segment—-re. Medal of Honor recipient
And Bruuuuuce…..
Wow.
Rihanna is truly beautiful—maybe the “mostest” of all….
Gotta say, I was kinda shocked to see she wasn’t nekkid today. Guess it’s too cold.
I tuned in to catch FLOTUS who was resplendent in a red dress and inspiring and then Bruce.
Bruce did 3 of his biggest eighties hits as dirges. “Born in the USA” sounded like a eulogy for a country that has truly lost its way.
His first selection was a sad muted “Promised Land” and his finale of “Dancing in the Dark” was the most mournful I’ve heard him do it.
Bruce can be counted on to accurately catch the zeitgeist.
No “Land of Hope and dreams” tonight. The Good guys lost last week. No pretending rah-rah can fix that.
His mournful - you nailed it - rendition of Dancing in the Dark was … superb.
Have our stupid press not yet figured out that PBO is the ONE person everyone is interested in…..that everyone wants to stand by him…that he is the center of every conversation…….that their obsession with him shows that he is the most important person in the world, even as they try to diminish him…..which of course they can’t: they only diminish themselves. And that Putin looks like a total nonentity next to him????
His policies are working……Russia is feeling the pain, ISIL is being degraded, and no longer the awful threat……the stupidity boggles the mind!
Totally on target, Carolyn!!! ^5
I’m seeing on twitter Senate won’t take up Loretta Lynch confirmation in the lame duck session? Is this true?
WTH, Senator Reid?
If true — a very astute move by Senator Reid. Let the GOP OWN the fact that if they don’t confirm her, AG Holder is on the job until 20 Jan 2017.
#BackBarack
Good point Bob. Didn’t quite see it that way, but now it makes sense because it puts the GOP in the corner as PBO wanted.
egg.zac.leeeeee* hf2
*h/t to dear amk!
Feels more like payback to me! PBO wants her confirmed.
Perhaps, meta, but I think President Obama wants AG Holder on the job until he finishes his Presidency, especially now.
If that comes to pass, I hope AG Holder has the physical strength to carry it out. I know his wife would take exemption to that.
Whoa! Meant to say, “exception to that.”
If this is true, meta, it means that Senate Democrats have totally abdicated their ability to govern. Harry Reid should hang his head in shame.
Meta, Rachel just covered this in detail with lots of snark. :)
Ah, so that’s where it’s coming from. Thanks, COS.
This man never stops thinking of others.
OMG—mr. dote-ster just did the most hysterical Eminem imitation ever—kinda makin’ fun—-wish y’all could have seen it—-I fell off the couch in tears. He said what’s the big deal—-he could do that any day- —hop dance—f word, grab crotch, f word, grab crotch, hop dance etc. etc. etc. (we’re not fans)
I WANT A VIDEO!1!!1!1 :lol:
:D :D
LOL! Hell, I’d be happy with some stick figure drawings and maybe some garbled audio! :-)
Putin has a very creepy W Bush vibe:
Yes, shades of GWB and Angela Merkel…….he is truly a creep…….as is GWB.
New post soon-ish, Danny demanded his 157th walk of the day ….. shoulda got a hamster.
Or a kitty (or two) :)
I know this not high priority here, but the Oregon Ducks football team are now #2 in the playoff rankings. They win the next two plus Pac-12 final and they’re in the national playoffs. Totally doable for them.
My undergraduate and postgraduate alma mater. My freshman year -1966- they lost every game. Haha…
Bill! My friend’s son started at Oregon this year. I haven’t missed a game! LOVE Marcus Mariota! And did you see that amazing 100 yard touchdown in the Utah game! I feel sorry for that kid that celebrated early and lost the ball, but I’m glad Oregon won! :-)
I didn’t hear about the rankings…. Yay! (ex-cheerleader here :-) )
Indovina! La nostra amica qui a TOD Kasai anche parla l’italiano!
:)
I’m so proud he’s our President.
Squeeeeee!
My two cents: That “What’s happening?” thingie on Twitter is goofy looking. Giving me whiplash. I feel as though it’s an affront to a civil society. Ya know?
No two ways around it, propaganda won the day on Nov. 4. The constant negativity against PBO by the media would depress anyone who did not have an alternate source of info. Good news that could be attributed to the President was ignored or dismissed. The psychological effect this has on people cannot be denied, due to the fact that far too many people still look to the media for an unbiased reporting of “what is going on”. Hearing a news reader or pundit say something on television carries more weight than anything a politician says to the average American. The demise of the Fourth Estate could very well spell the end of our very imperfect experiment with democracy. Add to that the FACT that this is a profoundly racist country with a depressingly large segment of the population that can be manipulated into doing the 1%ers’ bidding merely by stoking racial fears and anxieties. The final, and perhaps fatal, blow has to be how difficult it is to maintain a political coalition party (Dems) in a country with as selfish and lazy a populace as the United States. I have no idea how this mess will play itself out. The South will never accept a Northern Democratic President (the last one was JFK and he was not popular in the South either). Perhaps if PBO were a Southern White man, his populist message would be able to get thru to the knuckle draggers. As it stands now, far too many on both the LEFT and Right only hear REPARATIONS when PBO speaks of how the rich are exploiting everyone else in this country. The MSM/GOP eagerly exploit this sad reality. PBO is the best President of my lifetime. The most honest, hard working, pragmatic and farsighted world leader of our time. This selfish, hateful, infantile and ungrateful country does not deserve a leader of PBO’s caliber.
The New York Times @nytimes · 1m1 minute ago
Breaking News: U.S. and China Reach Climate Deal After Secret Negotiations
:)
#BackBarack
Huffington Post retweeted
The Associated Press @AP · 2m2 minutes ago
BREAKING: Obama sets goal to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025.
And, I fully expect he will kill Keystone, soon :)
I agree, Bob.
Hayes Brown retweeted
Jonathan M. Katz @KatzOnEarth · 25s26 seconds ago
@katherinemiller “the agreement with China needs no congressional ratification” - NYT
Hayes Brown retweeted
Ali Gharib @Ali_Gharib · 1m1 minute ago
Holy coordinated rollout RT @nytopinion: Op-Ed by @JohnKerry, from Beijing: China, America and Our Warming Planet: http://nyti.ms/1v1qGC8
BOOM!
#BackBarack
Heads up:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/11/the-president-in-china-news-conference/