On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres dance during a taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” marking the second anniversary of the “Let’s Move!” initiative, in Burbank, Calif., Feb. 1, 2012 (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Today
2:0: The President meets with the White House Task Force on Cancer
I’m highly excellent Jackie - although tomorrow is shaping up to be wacky. I’d arranged for a fella to put in a new light in the bathroom, for the house alarm to be fixed and for a bed to be delivered, and they all called to say they’d be arriving pretty much the same time tomorrow. It’s going to look like rush hour outside my home :???:
If I did I’d be buying 10 new players for United today (transfer deadline day). So far, United are only being linked with a defender Arsenal don’t want any more. I may cry.
The good news is you’re not trying to do it all yourself. Wasn’t there a time when you tried to put a bed together? I’m thrilled you didn’t attempt the electrical thingie on your own. We love you too much to lose you.
Don’t like that hat on POTUS. My question I ask myself and I should ask America “was America ever great?” America had, has it’s problems like every other country.
Perfect. At a certain point tonight, Iowa will be in the rear view mirror of rapidly escaping cars and buses and no one will give it a second thought for four more years.
I don’t want our FLOTUS to ever leave the White House. No one will ever be more loving, beautiful, innovative and passionate about making the world a better place for all of us. I’m betting that the White House staff will be weeping when she leaves and it will feel as if the place is bleaker without her.
and then I heard creepy Ted Cruz tell children at his rally…when he gets to the White House there will be French fries back in school lunches. he is such a pig!
david axelrod feels that when the opposite party tries to oust the incumbent president… They always become the antithesis of that person.
In this instance, axelrod believes that republicans voters are clinging to trump bc he’s the opposite of Obama.
Big tough guy with bravado and says thing not very well thought out etc.
If you think about it, Me axelrod is correct…
He also points out -how his cabdidate, the senator Obama, did the same to bush.
First of all, the party is not trying to oust PBO - he’s serving his 2 terms and will leave when it ends. Secondly, by the end of GW Bush’s term, his approval ratings were in the toilet, unlike Obama’s. GWB was not only a domestic failure, he was viewed by the international community as a failure and laughing stock.
The only reason the GOP has embraced Trump is that he appeals to the lowest common denominator. He is NOT tough. He is not big. Trump appeals to racism, misogyny, xenophobia in the Republican base, and that’s the ONLY way they can get their voters excited.
Axelrod on cnn will say whtever CNN wants him to say, which is some meaningless “both sides” drivel. I’m not beholden to CNN for a gratuity or paycheck so I can speak the darn truth, which I’m doing right now.
Well everybody in America has a different POV and a different perception based on the life’s challenges.
I’m just trying to understand why people are so pissed off from my POV.
I haven’t worked since 2003 so I’m out of touch with the working class.
But I do have real rices and friends and I ask lots of questions.
Plus, everybody thinks that they are the ones who are correct and that the opinion they posit is the correct one.
America the beautiful!
Indeed jovie. It’s always good to get people’s perspectives. But we cannot always assume that people are being honest with themselves and with you about their reasons for their anger.
I disagree with Axelrod, because when Senator Obama talk about then President Bush he didn’t make up lies about Bush. The Republicans that is all they do. Trump is the opposite of Barack Obama in the way that only matter to Trump supporters, Trump is white and he is a racists like they are. And about the anger, what the hell have they got to be so angry about try living as a black person, a black man, it has always amazed me how the white man has a right to be angry the black man doesn’t, he should be thankful. Last time I look unemployment is still much higher for black community, and I have not mention the safety part. Blacks have to fear criminals and the polices.
Also many of you on this site always ask the question…? What is the country so angry about?
And this is the question I keep asking myself?
I keep asking myself the same question all the time.
As near as I can tell… The white uneducated Male, who is working 40 hours a week and barely making ends meat… Are pissed off… Always has been.
But 9/11, the 08 recession, spending trillions on the Iraq war, and Katrina, really hit Americans hard.
And so the republicans are taking advantage of things they caused and have successfully blamed Obama.
The swift boating is very real and I’m not saying it’s going to work. But it has 2 out if 4 elections so far.
This is the rubber match…. So to speak.😏
The “white uneducated male” that you speak of is not “pissed off” because he’ working 40 hrs week and barely making ends meet.
He’s pissed off because he feels that his privilege as a white male is being eroded because (as he has been told by FOX NEWS and other RW media outlets) that the Black President has been on a mission to destroy the white race, to take their guns, to allow Muslims to rule, to let illegal immigrants freely into the country, to allow women to kill babies before they’re born, to let the blahs do whatever they want, etc…
This is what the Limbaughs and the rest of the toxic RW screeching heads have been pushing and have been ever since the Nixon ‘Southern Strategy’ was carried on by the likes of Lee Atwater.
They’ve got Joe Sixpack convinced that Muslim Obama hates “their” country and is giving “their” money to lazy (black) welfare recipients. And they WANT to believe it, despite the fact that any thinking person knows that the decisions to outsource jobs are made in boardrooms or by senior managers. And we all know what color dominates there.
And never mind explaining to these idiots that there is a larger NUMBER of white welfare recipients than black recipients. They then argue that whites on welfare only need it while they’re trying to find work. Blacks are just there to collect the money so they don’t have to.
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…HOME TODAY SO I CAN CATCH THE COMEDY IN IOWA..IT’S A LAUGH A MINUTE…AND..I SEE BY DAH PAPER THAT ALL HANDS ON CARSON HAS MADE A PREDICTION…HE BELIEVES THERE WILL BE A GREAT UPSET IN THE RESULTS…I’M SURE HE HAS PLACED HIMSELF IN THAT CATEGORY AND IS GETTING READY TO MEASURE THE DRAPES!..I NEEDED THIS TODAY…LAUGHTER GREATLY RELIEVES MY INDIGESTION!
Living in a state that leads the nation in adult film rentals, a Utah Republican lawmaker has proposed a bill that would declare pornography a “public health crisis,” and a national epidemic.
Watched a current affairs show on TV this evening - something I rarely do - happened on this one accidentally but it was so good that I stayed. There was an amount of discussion about racism and white privilege - and although related to Australia Day, it was obvious that the current level of both in the US has also brought this discussion to the forefront.
There was also discussion of why young men hurt themselves and others when out late drinking on weekends. One of the participants was a long time emergency centre doctor. He spoke of the trauma, the devastation for those hurt & their families & then added “at least, unlike the US, we don’t have to cope with people being shot”. This was followed by sustained applause. There are many trying to reduce the strength of our gun laws. Fortunately with zero success.
That’s certainly true,Bob. For JCPOA to be taught in US schools, someone here would have to understand it. Can’t see that happening when it’s to the advantage of so many that Americans be kept ignorant.
we vote in such an archaic way in this country…because voting is the domain of the state…there can be 50 different ways to vote…this should be regulated by the feds…our system needs to be modernize and brought into the 21 century…we can bank electronically..yet we still have caucuses…paper…old machines…etc…
The President had a commission that when around the country a few years ago to talk about voting …etc…and then there is the Brennan report that writes quite a bit about voter suppression and access to the ballot…
i have not heard anything about the President’s task force…but access to the ballot will only get harder…
So do the GOP people only vote once Meta? I read somewhere that the votes for anyone who gets less than 15% go to the front runner. Is that right?
It’s weird to those of us who don’t have primary elections. Our candidates are chosen by party members - or (I think) the state executive for state wide positions (senators). We don’t have any country wide positions.
If your candidate doesn’t meet the 15% threshold, then the other candidates vy for your vote. You can also try to persuade those in other camps to join you to bring your number up to 15% and make your candidate viable.
I’m with you, vetivera. Haven’t watched political TV or punditry since 2009, at least. I’ve discovered Law & Order SVU streaming on Netflix and so I’m watching all those. Olivia Benson is my hero.
No more politics for me. I will continue to vote. I want a Democrat to win, but once POTUS and FLOTUS walk out that WH door for good, I wash my hand of politics.
I feel the same way. Here we have the brightest os stars as POTUS, a real humane and brilliant visionary, and it’s just excruciatingly idiotic to see how so many have lost their minds.
Morning, Chips and TODers.
Well, would ya look at who’s our earliest early bird - mooooooooorning Jackie!
Yep, here I am just chirping away. How are you today, Chips?
I’m highly excellent Jackie - although tomorrow is shaping up to be wacky. I’d arranged for a fella to put in a new light in the bathroom, for the house alarm to be fixed and for a bed to be delivered, and they all called to say they’d be arriving pretty much the same time tomorrow. It’s going to look like rush hour outside my home :???:
won the ireeesh lottery, didja?
If I did I’d be buying 10 new players for United today (transfer deadline day). So far, United are only being linked with a defender Arsenal don’t want any more. I may cry.
:lol:
The good news is you’re not trying to do it all yourself. Wasn’t there a time when you tried to put a bed together? I’m thrilled you didn’t attempt the electrical thingie on your own. We love you too much to lose you.
:lol: I’ll have you know that the bed I assembled, after several false starts, is still in one piece :cool:
Confession? That toilet seat I, um, installed last week? It’s a touch rocky :???:
Congrats on 1st-est jackieb.
FLOTUS!
Mooooooooooooooooooorning DF!
Morning sweetness:)
💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
He did it all with effortless style, too. Didn’t have to wear a stupid baseball cap to announce it.
ABSOLUTELY…AND OF COURSE…A ROLE MODEL PRESIDENT…THEY BROKE THE MOLD…THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER ONE!
I love it!
Good Morning TODVille.
A good night sleep helped me calm down… on those Sanders “high” polls.
Don’t like that hat on POTUS. My question I ask myself and I should ask America “was America ever great?” America had, has it’s problems like every other country.
same Bella2758 comes off as frivolous bs to me.
GE from down under - we’ve been hearing all about Iowa in my world. One report related to how popular is Rand Paul! - I hadn’t noticed that.
Congrats on first jackie - and a very close 2nd desertflower.
Morning, 99. If Rand Paul is popular, neither he nor anyone else has noticed it yet.
It was a really weird report - pictures of a rally and all ??
fair & balanced and all that.
Perfect. At a certain point tonight, Iowa will be in the rear view mirror of rapidly escaping cars and buses and no one will give it a second thought for four more years.
I don’t want our FLOTUS to ever leave the White House. No one will ever be more loving, beautiful, innovative and passionate about making the world a better place for all of us. I’m betting that the White House staff will be weeping when she leaves and it will feel as if the place is bleaker without her.
jackiegrumbacher, I agree. I feel the exact same way about FLOTUS.
Love her. :)
and then I heard creepy Ted Cruz tell children at his rally…when he gets to the White House there will be French fries back in school lunches. he is such a pig!
moneygalls. literally.
https://infogr.am/politicos_fec_tracker
So Hillary Clinton is the biggest fundraiser and here Bernie people were telling me he was out raising her.
david axelrod feels that when the opposite party tries to oust the incumbent president… They always become the antithesis of that person.
In this instance, axelrod believes that republicans voters are clinging to trump bc he’s the opposite of Obama.
Big tough guy with bravado and says thing not very well thought out etc.
If you think about it, Me axelrod is correct…
He also points out -how his cabdidate, the senator Obama, did the same to bush.
First of all, the party is not trying to oust PBO - he’s serving his 2 terms and will leave when it ends. Secondly, by the end of GW Bush’s term, his approval ratings were in the toilet, unlike Obama’s. GWB was not only a domestic failure, he was viewed by the international community as a failure and laughing stock.
The only reason the GOP has embraced Trump is that he appeals to the lowest common denominator. He is NOT tough. He is not big. Trump appeals to racism, misogyny, xenophobia in the Republican base, and that’s the ONLY way they can get their voters excited.
Tell David axelrod on cnn? Lol
Also how is Davis Gregory on cnn now? Lol lmao
Axelrod on cnn will say whtever CNN wants him to say, which is some meaningless “both sides” drivel. I’m not beholden to CNN for a gratuity or paycheck so I can speak the darn truth, which I’m doing right now.
Well everybody in America has a different POV and a different perception based on the life’s challenges.
I’m just trying to understand why people are so pissed off from my POV.
I haven’t worked since 2003 so I’m out of touch with the working class.
But I do have real rices and friends and I ask lots of questions.
Plus, everybody thinks that they are the ones who are correct and that the opinion they posit is the correct one.
America the beautiful!
Indeed jovie. It’s always good to get people’s perspectives. But we cannot always assume that people are being honest with themselves and with you about their reasons for their anger.
I disagree with Axelrod, because when Senator Obama talk about then President Bush he didn’t make up lies about Bush. The Republicans that is all they do. Trump is the opposite of Barack Obama in the way that only matter to Trump supporters, Trump is white and he is a racists like they are. And about the anger, what the hell have they got to be so angry about try living as a black person, a black man, it has always amazed me how the white man has a right to be angry the black man doesn’t, he should be thankful. Last time I look unemployment is still much higher for black community, and I have not mention the safety part. Blacks have to fear criminals and the polices.
A journalist who covers the Indonesian Police Criminal And Detective Agency (Bareskrim Polri) has just followed me. Should I be worried?
I read somewhere ireeesh are root causes for all kindsa scams…. or mafias. Not sure, which.
There you go confusing the Ireeeesh with the Indiiiiiiians again :roll:
GM Chips, Danny and TOD Family. That chart on the fundraising is something else. Hillary has a “yuge” war chest.
Gooooooood morning to ya, Roberta!
Good morning TOD!
Congrats JackieG :)
h/t to our Arapaho!!
Also many of you on this site always ask the question…? What is the country so angry about?
And this is the question I keep asking myself?
I keep asking myself the same question all the time.
As near as I can tell… The white uneducated Male, who is working 40 hours a week and barely making ends meat… Are pissed off… Always has been.
But 9/11, the 08 recession, spending trillions on the Iraq war, and Katrina, really hit Americans hard.
And so the republicans are taking advantage of things they caused and have successfully blamed Obama.
The swift boating is very real and I’m not saying it’s going to work. But it has 2 out if 4 elections so far.
This is the rubber match…. So to speak.😏
The “white uneducated male” that you speak of is not “pissed off” because he’ working 40 hrs week and barely making ends meet.
He’s pissed off because he feels that his privilege as a white male is being eroded because (as he has been told by FOX NEWS and other RW media outlets) that the Black President has been on a mission to destroy the white race, to take their guns, to allow Muslims to rule, to let illegal immigrants freely into the country, to allow women to kill babies before they’re born, to let the blahs do whatever they want, etc…
Well everybody has an opinion.
Good morning.
Yes, opinions are like noses, but some noses are healthier than others. Some opinions are more based in reality than others.
Good morning to you jovie!
Lol
Thank you hopefruit2, I could not have said it better. Bravo. Racism has alot to do with that anger.
yup. by all counts, the black man saved their lily white asses.
THIS.
This is what the Limbaughs and the rest of the toxic RW screeching heads have been pushing and have been ever since the Nixon ‘Southern Strategy’ was carried on by the likes of Lee Atwater.
They’ve got Joe Sixpack convinced that Muslim Obama hates “their” country and is giving “their” money to lazy (black) welfare recipients. And they WANT to believe it, despite the fact that any thinking person knows that the decisions to outsource jobs are made in boardrooms or by senior managers. And we all know what color dominates there.
And never mind explaining to these idiots that there is a larger NUMBER of white welfare recipients than black recipients. They then argue that whites on welfare only need it while they’re trying to find work. Blacks are just there to collect the money so they don’t have to.
Conscious ignorance.
GOOD MORNING TOD FAMILY…HOME TODAY SO I CAN CATCH THE COMEDY IN IOWA..IT’S A LAUGH A MINUTE…AND..I SEE BY DAH PAPER THAT ALL HANDS ON CARSON HAS MADE A PREDICTION…HE BELIEVES THERE WILL BE A GREAT UPSET IN THE RESULTS…I’M SURE HE HAS PLACED HIMSELF IN THAT CATEGORY AND IS GETTING READY TO MEASURE THE DRAPES!..I NEEDED THIS TODAY…LAUGHTER GREATLY RELIEVES MY INDIGESTION!
BBL…USING BRAIL TO SEEK OUT THE COFFEEPOT!
:lol: Good luck Sue!
Living in a state that leads the nation in adult film rentals, a Utah Republican lawmaker has proposed a bill that would declare pornography a “public health crisis,” and a national epidemic.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/utah-republican-sponsors-bill-declaring-pn-a-public-health-crisis-worse-than-cocaine/
what is porn?
I just Googled ‘porn’ and I may never recover.
no wonder that kindly feller wants to ban it.
Which way do I look at the photos for them to make sense? Upside down?
look, I don’t know google. I don’t know porn, ok?
I’ll try sideways.
I was talking to a coworker and I felt a disturbance in the force, did someone mention the word porn?
no, no one did. you heard it wrong.
The force is never wrong.
But guns aren’t a “health issue.”. This country has turned to shit.
Watched a current affairs show on TV this evening - something I rarely do - happened on this one accidentally but it was so good that I stayed. There was an amount of discussion about racism and white privilege - and although related to Australia Day, it was obvious that the current level of both in the US has also brought this discussion to the forefront.
There was also discussion of why young men hurt themselves and others when out late drinking on weekends. One of the participants was a long time emergency centre doctor. He spoke of the trauma, the devastation for those hurt & their families & then added “at least, unlike the US, we don’t have to cope with people being shot”. This was followed by sustained applause. There are many trying to reduce the strength of our gun laws. Fortunately with zero success.
Good Morning BFF and TOD.
Which is four more hours than the #JCPOA will ever be taught in American schools ….
for all you football lovers :)
psst, bt.
This will make a lot of top flight chefs very happy.
I’m for that!
If only our educational system were this nimble. We’re still debating Dinosaurs and if the earth is flat or not.
Or if science is true or the Earth is really only 6,000 years old. Did I mention how much I hate stupid people?
wow…won’t mentioned in any school here..in fact our history books have always lied about the history of our country and the world
That’s certainly true,Bob. For JCPOA to be taught in US schools, someone here would have to understand it. Can’t see that happening when it’s to the advantage of so many that Americans be kept ignorant.
Wishing all of you a most excellent Monday … bbl ………
From Google today) Happy Black History Month.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/project/black-history-and-culture
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmersonPolling/status/694030260841619456
smh
Sanders reminds me of my magoo.
Mister magoo. Oh never mind. Lol
this was the emerson poll that didn’t stick
they say the opposite things.
Q poll is an outlier to the other six polls that have come out in the past three days favoring Clinton. The Q poll methodology is flawed.
Good Monday morning, Chips and TODers.
also, isn’t goppers’ ballots secret? I remember some mittbot shenanigans in 2012.
It’s either a show of hands or secret ballot. Not sure what determines which, maybe local tradition.
first, they said mittbot had won. then sick rantorum raised heel and he was declared the winner after 2 days, iirr.
we vote in such an archaic way in this country…because voting is the domain of the state…there can be 50 different ways to vote…this should be regulated by the feds…our system needs to be modernize and brought into the 21 century…we can bank electronically..yet we still have caucuses…paper…old machines…etc…
The President had a commission that when around the country a few years ago to talk about voting …etc…and then there is the Brennan report that writes quite a bit about voter suppression and access to the ballot…
i have not heard anything about the President’s task force…but access to the ballot will only get harder…
So do the GOP people only vote once Meta? I read somewhere that the votes for anyone who gets less than 15% go to the front runner. Is that right?
It’s weird to those of us who don’t have primary elections. Our candidates are chosen by party members - or (I think) the state executive for state wide positions (senators). We don’t have any country wide positions.
Yes, the GOP only vote once. It’s the Dems who go through all that viability threshold stuff.
If your candidate doesn’t meet the 15% threshold, then the other candidates vy for your vote. You can also try to persuade those in other camps to join you to bring your number up to 15% and make your candidate viable.
Thanks meta - sorry I went to bed & missed your replies earlier
Good Morning, Everyone :)
God morning TOD folks! For the first time in years I am not watching political TV. Rather watch reruns of Murdock Mysteries. Great cartoons.
I’m with you, vetivera. Haven’t watched political TV or punditry since 2009, at least. I’ve discovered Law & Order SVU streaming on Netflix and so I’m watching all those. Olivia Benson is my hero.
I actually like politics, always have. PBO made it exciting and of course his presidency has been historic but now I just feel sick.
No more politics for me. I will continue to vote. I want a Democrat to win, but once POTUS and FLOTUS walk out that WH door for good, I wash my hand of politics.
I understand Annieb. As private citizens they won’t be in the news as much. I am sure gonna miss them.
I feel the same way. Here we have the brightest os stars as POTUS, a real humane and brilliant visionary, and it’s just excruciatingly idiotic to see how so many have lost their minds.
Murdoch Mysteries are always the better choice, Vetivera. I love them.
Could watch them all day.
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Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/01/chat-away-766/