On This Day - Pete Souza: “I love all the different things happening in this photograph by David Lienemann, with the main moment being the Vice President greeting a child during a campaign rally in Bakersfield, California.” Oct. 7, 2014 (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
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Today (all times Eastern)
11:15: The President meets with German President Gauck
12:20: Delivers remarks at the White House Summit on Worker Voice; East Room
2:30: Meets with Secretary of State Kerry
4:40: Participates in a conversation co-hosted by Coworker.org with workers, employers, unions and other advocates; East Room
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Barack and Michelle Obama at the second presidential debate in Nashville, TN, Oct. 7, 2008
On This Day: Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama with his wife Michelle Obama at the end of the Town Hall Presidential Debate at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center October 7, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee
White House.gov
Morning again!! Back in a bit!
FURST.
Yes you are, AMK! Thanks for this lovely trip down memory land, Chips. Love POTUS and VP!
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Hi Dudette, where did you get this eyeroll emoji from?
It’s a WordPress smiley. :-)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
Reposting from previous thread (after this one opened :) ):
GM TODville.
The #gunsense movement has new vigor.
Hope this ad runs in some publication somewhere every week between now and Nov 2016:
Bravo!
Glad to see that! We must each gather our courage and push back on the gun fetishists’ insane insistence that more of us be armed at all times. Even in my blue state, there are many such people in Southern Oregon near Roseburg planning an event to protest the President’s private visit with UCC families. The comments on their Facebook post are hateful and incendiary. I called the chief of staff for Senator Merkley who lost a family member in that murder to report the post and asked her to pass it on to the Secret Service and Dept of Homeland Security. We won’t let these sociopaths speak for Oregon about President Obama’s genuine concern for these families’ grief.
Heard a young woman spout off on TV last night that the President had better not make this political when he came to speak in Roseburg. She just made it political by saying that. We live north of Seattle, thought about going to Roseburg when President speaks, to support him, frankly I am concerned for my life if go their and express my opinion.
cool, my alma mater (well, two years count, right?)\
http://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-polytechnic-gets-100-million-donation-1444017601
Reposting also too :-)
HEARTWRENCHIING…………………………………ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL MEN ON THIS PLANET…………………WE LOVE YOU JOE WHETHER YOU RUN OR DON’T RUN!
I got that in my email this morning and immediately made a donation.
I LOVE this man. He is such a good man. I trust him.
Me, too!
Powerful ad!
And I love how he says “transfer into a world of happiness and meaning for those around you.” Not money, power, status, but happiness and meaning. To me that says so much about this man.
Also, why run an ad like this if he has not decided to run. Surely the Draft Biden people know something we have been waiting to hear for months now. What a beautiful way to kick off his campaign.
With fingers crossed…..
And I’m bringing this over. New thread posted by the time I finished typing this.
Okay people. Tell me if I live in a “lost their fricking minds” RED state!?!?!?!?! County next to us: County commissioners had a resolution before them last night that “God’s wrath over the SC legalization of same-sex marriage” would spare the county. One of the CRAZY commissioners brought the resolution before the commissioners. It failed in committee, but geez. These people are crazy!!!! Then, our esteemed Lt. Governor encouraged all Christians to arm themselves and begin packing. So, after he came out with that batshit crazy idea, a local gun store said it would offer a discount to any Christian coming in to buy a gun. I know many of you live in areas like this. Frankly, this is all getting scary for me. I messaged last night with a friend from church and she’s seriously considering looking for a new job because all the Board members and higher ups where she works are crazy right-wingers. She loves her job (Knoxville Area Rescue Mission), but not sure how much longer she can deal with the comments and attitudes. Feel like many of us are truly living in lalalalalala land. :( :(
Did see this LTE just now: Regarding Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey urging fellow Christians to get handgun carry permits, can anyone seriously imagine Jesus, the Prince of Peace, packing heat? I, for one, cannot.
I’m too upset to comment much on this now. Wow. Just wow.
However, it emphasizes how important down ticket races are, and NO ONE votes in those elections but the crazies. This was the plan of the Christian Right, going back to the 70’s: to infiltrate school boards, county commissions, local politics. Remake those bodies one by one, and move up. All the while, the Dems called them crazy and did nothing. Didn’t fight back on that level, didn’t establish Democratic media. Just thought calling them crazy would fix it all.
KABOOM, 57. Absolutely correct. Their plan did begin in the 70’s and they have never strayed from it. Consistency, excellent messaging-gotta give them credit-while the Dems sit back and do or say little, if anything.
Makes me CRAZY, tnmtngirl!
It’s like mass psychosis or something. We’ve got these wackos in Georgia too.
Well did anyone speak out when they brought the resolution before the commissioners? Did your friend speak out to Board and management at the job? If not, why not? They will continue to be crazy “in the name of god” until Christian calls them out on the bullshit.
Regarding the resolution: Yes, that’s the reason it didn’t even get out of committee. There’s been LOTS of people interviewed, speaking out against it and lots of people showed up at the meeting. At least, the rest of the commissioners didn’t bow to the one crazy! Regarding my friend: No, she hasn’t and probably won’t. She is a single mom and needs the job, but she is going to keep looking around for other opportunities.
oops, spam monster is awake. must be the wsj linky.
Sec Castro always demonstrates respect for his boss.
Good!
Isn’t this what has been going on for months? We see the two of them together, doing many things Presidential. Silent endorsement.
the VP has been doing this from the beginning…the Difference??…media is laser focused on his activities….no one gave a care when he went all over the world….be it the Ukraine or the East…
Yep
actually prettyfoot58 in recent months there was a slight shift in VPOTUS’ role. Yes, he has accomplished a lot over his tenure as Vice President but I agree with Vicki, in recent months, he stepped up a level. I think it is a strategy and a good one.
THIS !!!
I felt VPOTUS was wrapping up “administrative stuff” before he announced he was running. The last few months he has been stepping up and taking on more of a presidential lite position. Sort of like POTUS gradually moving to the side so VPOTUS can move closer to his side and people will accept what will be deemed a natural transition.
I have no doubt that POTUS endorsed VPOTUS. Biden had his back through think and thin. Was faithful, loyal and was at the ready to fight for our President. It is the right thing to do. VPOTUS is qualified, he is a good man and I personally trust him. He has my votes and my money on lock. Nothing he could do would change my position or my commitment to him. I am ridin’ with Biden.
Steve Harvey said something yesterday about Black Lives Matter. I might not say it the way he did but I will try. He said that we don’t want cops to lose their lives, he said that we know that all lives do matter, but what Black Lives Matter is trying to do is get people to understand is that Black Lives matter just as much as everyone else.
Black Lives are under threat. That’s why we emphasize Black Lives Matter.
I haven’t seen any white youths lying dead in the middle of the street for 4+ hours while the Police got their stories straight.
Vicki, show me a 12 year old white kid shot dead by cops as he plays in the park. And still the D.A. hasn’t done anything about the murder of Tamir Rice. And were is the media asking what is going on with that case?
Bella, of course you’re right on this and why Black Lives, specifically, is a matter of urgency now.
GOD BLESS MY PBO AND JOE…BBL…LOTS TO DO TODAY!
In that first picture of POTUS and FLOTUS it looks like FLOTUS is giving POTUS a pep talk, she is telling him to go out there and knock that old guy out, and that got POTUS laughing.
<3
One by one getting it done
Under the radar, one by one.
Yep
booby fucking jindal
Where is Bo?
actually no. Ben Carson may be ignorant and has shown the ability to spout Grade A bullshyte as well as the rest of the GOP field running for office, but he has never shot any black folks for breathing the same air, never had any arrested for walking down his street, hasn’t contributed to the poverty levels by bad hiring practices, or tried to shut them out of housing. I doubt that he committed any crimes himself and blamed it on the black guy so…this comparison is silly and dead wrong.
methinks it’s a retaliation for carson’s vicious diatribe that obamacare was worse than slavery.
In fact, this guy said it best.
How’s Ben Carson the worst thing to happen to black folks? What an incredibly ignorant and racist thing to say.
Jeff, note that no one said Trump is the worst thing to happen to whites. ridamndiculous.
This was a turn on the phrase that Carson uses all the time: Obamacare is the worst thing to happen since slavery, etc. I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek tweet, but people are taking it literally. Don’t know who’s right.
Never happen, he is too good to ignore those who need help, even as they curse him. I see that beautiful hand reaching out to those in need. Someone I know who had to opportunity to shake his hand said they felt warmth, kindness and a great strength in that hand shake, will never forget it
Of course he wouldn’t. Never in a million years. It was just a tweet to point out the heartlessness of the GOP who make these heinous choices on a regular basis.
The hypocrisy is mind boggling: The RW would be all over him if he turned his back, yet they support sociopaths like Trump, Carson and the entire GOP field for saying and doing it.
In a bid for progressives, Clinton starts to distance herself from Obama
By Anne Gearan October 6 at 9:12 PM
DAVENPORT, Iowa — In the run-up to the first Democratic presidential debate, embattled front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is attempting to set herself apart by criticizing one Democrat in particular: President Obama.
With direct comparisons and implicit criticism, Clinton is increasingly using the Obama White House — and the popular occupant who isn’t running — to say what she would do differently in a Clinton White House.
Much of her new criticism of Obama on issues such as immigration and the Keystone XL pipeline is a way to appeal to progressive voters
disappointed by some administration positions. The critiques also allow her to draw distinctions with Vice President Biden, a potential late-entering challenger for the Democratic nomination.
The positioning marks a notable shift for Clinton, who has spent much of her campaign embracing Obama’s broader agenda in hopes of harnessing the coalition of young and minority voters who helped propel him to two terms in the White House.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-a-bid-for-progressives-clinton-starts-to-distance-herself-from-obama/2015/10/06/4531c014-6c66-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html?postshare=1101444225722568
All Hillary would need to do is say she is “building on the PBO administration record”, like she did with Obamacare (which was mis-characterized by the media). But she’s too small to do that. Attacks are what come naturally to her.
The notion that she is more progressive than PBO is laughable. Hey, I’ll defend her against any GOP candidate, and I’ll turn myself inside out to do it if I have to. But it won’t be easy……..
57, I’ve been saying that to whomever would listen. The first Democrat that says that they will build upon what President Obama has created would win the nomination hands down. The Clintons are stuck in 90’s, what won back then will not work today. You would have thought that Obama handing the Clintons their asses on a silver platter in 2008 would have taught them how to campaign.
The Clintons showed themselves to be the petty people they are in 2008. For God’s sake, find a way to get even MORE people to vote for you, not divide the electorate even further.
Bernie Sanders is a child who thinks the world is simple, and destruction leads to utopia. Good God. He honestly thinks if he screams loud enough, everyone will fall into place behind him. Now that’s what I call NAIVE. He’s never worked to make Congress better, helped people get elected, worked for a functional system. But he thinks he can waltz in, become a Convenient Democrat, and bark to get his way. He doesn’t work with people,or find consensus. He absents himself, and calls it a crusade. He’s a petulant child. And I have been saying, will his supporters cut him some slack if he can’t deliver ponies on Day One? Or do the ridiculous expectations only apply to the black guy currently in the WH?
If he thinks anti-Semitism won’t rear its ugly head like racism did, he’s really delusional.
The apparent need of Hillary and Bernie to discount these phenomenal 7 years and the unprecedented obstruction, and think they can start from Square One, just astounds me. How petty, how small, how stupid.
Dangerously stupid!
Exactly Don!
[sigh!] Yep!
those wishy washy clowns who are now projecting saint sanders as their next god? good luck with that, hillary.
yanno….i know that we have said that we would vote for the nominee…but the jury is still out…
Donna mentioned something way back in the summer that she would vote and work for the row offices…and that is where is think i will put my energies as well…
more focused on my state….
the ODS and BS coming from the DEM Candidates leaves a bad taste in my mouth….
they are who they are…and i am who i am….
will say this tho….
2016 has the potential of being what 2010 and 2014 were…
be interesting to see what the PBO does when the the nominee is named…esp if they spent the entire primary bashing him..
rikyrah,
Perhaps there may be another reason. If VP Biden does run for President he will be running on the accomplishments of the Obama administration. If Hillary were to do the same thing, there would be no “difference” between the two candidates. Therefore, she must differentiate herself in some way, because this is still Primary season, Thus the attacks she makes on the President, similar to Bernie. It is just so sad that they feel they have to do this instead of running by saying how they would build upon POTUS’s great accomplishments.
She’s making a big political mistake. The people who are “disappointed” with Barack Obama are all voting for Sanders. And if I’m not mistaken, those voters are pretty committed to Mr. Sanders.
I think it’s ironic that now Clinton is against keystone, but when she was Secretary of State wasn’t she the one that was pushing for it.
“I LOVE this man. He is such a good man. I trust him” <3
I will vote for him for President of the United States.
This was supposed to be in reply to nospin’s great comment above. I suck at using WordPress Reader, among other things. :roll:
cool Dudette. I do. This guy is special. I am not looking for perfect. Unlike some…I am not even looking for another Obama. I am just looking for someone with integrity that I know may have to make tough calls and decisions that I may not agree with but I at least know deep in my gut he made that choice because he absolutely believes it was the right thing to do for the American people. Biden is such a good man.
I couldn’t agree more, nospin.
Good day TOD
#LetsRollJoe
Hi Bob!
I think I’m missing some context on this one. Can ya help me out?
here ya go.
Thanks amk :)
Sorry, Dudette - I had responded to Deray but evidently the link didn’t persist in the tweet stream.
No prob Bob! Link weirdness happening for me today too! Your tweet is spot on!
Ah! Thanks amk! Perfect!
Don’t we have a terrific Cabinet? Thank you for putting great public servants around you to do We-The-People’s work, Mr. President!
Totally agree, Dudette. He “sure can pick ’em”!
Good morning, Chips and TODville!
The VP! The President! The First Lady! (And thank God no full-face images of McCain.) (Eek.)
LOL.
context
now that would be funny as hell. He can’t even quit right. hahahahahahahahahaha Oh Sweet Sweet Karma, let it be so. hahahahaahaha
Booooooom….
actually i would rather he stay….
smh
Not to waste a good song on the Weeper …
lolol Jacquelineoboomer..this some is so appropriate. hahahaahahahahaha
How wouldn’t that be something else?
GOPers wanting to depose Boehner for years and now that he has given his last day being forced to remain?
That will be too dysfunctional…..even for GOPers in 2015.
The Irony is too Logical for the GOPers ;)
Sure must be a fantastic thing to be white. Murder people? Meh. Walk away free.
Wow…..that is unbelievable. I thought TX prides herself of Don’t Mess with Texas? I thought TX is the number one State with the most in Capital Punishment.
9 died and Nothing? Seriously? Didn’t they test the guns to find out who killed whom? This is just Nuts!
Campaign trail headline on MSNBC: “Clinton puts focus on economy and health care in Iowa”
Unless it’s $20/hr minimum wage, higher taxes for the 2%, and Single Payer, that’s already in the works. #RunJoeRun
Hello TOD on a Fine Wednesday Morning, waving from MN……where it is quite lovely, weatherwise……Blue sky, Sunny and Gorgeous.
Congrats to all the Gold :star: winners, starting with this post and 3 posts back.
Hello, Nena!
Hi there, ;) JO’B
POTUS is scheduled to speak at 12:30 pm EDT
Thanks, very much!
so, whatev happened to that gopolitico ‘hit piece’ on joe ? #24hours. That’s what happened. I toldja.
GA Nena!
That’s my Congresswoman. Take it to them Donna!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/07/ben-carson-perfectly-explains-the-republican-position-on-guns/
And it’s the total opposite of “pro-life”. I really think so-called Doctor Ben Carson should lose his medical license.
as my goddaughter the surgeon says, any idiot with technical aptitude can be a surgeon. Some of the stupidest people she knows are surgeons.
My husband is an infections diseases doc and says the same thing :)
and I am outta here.
like this…nite nite…AMK
PBO and I think VP Biden? about to go LIVE at WH worker’s summit:
Edited for clarity as to what I was referring ….
h/t Dudette & amk :)
#LetsRollJoe
Heads up
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/07/president-delivers-remarks-at-the-white-house-summit-on-worker-voice/