GM finally am able to get kind of caught up with all my blog sites. Have helped my older sister with her estate sale. And this week isn’t going to be any better. I signed up for a Debate Watch Party that should be fun. Watching upwithchris it about the Suprememe Court.
Hope everyone on TOD has a great day.

Morning all. Down with an awful cold, head stuffed, tears streaming, throat scratchy. Husband still in the grip of a nasty coughing cold. Still, the sun is up and the trees are turning beautiful colors, so all’s right with the world.

It’s a Good Morning here in the land of “Pleasant Living”. I hope everyone is doing well even with the fall allergy season. Just do something to help the POTUS today. Find one more person to register to vote.

In NYT, there’s an article, “Psst: We Feel Bad About Our Arms” and it shows 3 pictures of FLOTUS. “May I suggest that some of her colleagues, a growing cohort of copycat arm-flashers, might want to check the mirror before again preening sans sleeves? It’s time to face the truth: we don’t all look like the First Lady.” It compares FLOTUS fashion trend to others First Lady trends, as Mamie Eisenhower’s bangs, etc. Basically, we just have one beautiful FLOTUS, inside & out.
I meant to thank someone yesterday for posting that video of Michelle’s introductory speech for The 2008 Pres run – she’s just as special as he is.

The Up With Chris segment about the Supreme Court once again highlights why Pres. Obama and Democrats need to win. A rightwing court that will/choose to hear cases on affirmative action, voting rights act, marriage equality etc is a dangerous one.

Good morning every one. I remember that Black Female attorney from being at Rainbow Push on Saturday mornings. Nearly a year or so she exposed voter suppression and the map of shame in addition to how to fight back. Then she said voter suppression was either coming to our state or a state near us.

I posted their link here a while back. I see the map’s been updated. It is now an ” Animated Map of Shame” which allow you to click on it and see how quickly many states rushed to pass government-issued photo ID laws without considering the consequences.

Hi good Peeps,
Today’s a marvelous day. Enjoy it, but I must say that we have our work cut out or us. The corporate media has it’s marching orders to defibrillate Romney’s dying campaign by any means necessary. Why? Cuz media need their pound of flesh re: Romney’s & superpac ad revenue. GOP never intended for that inconvenient thing called Democracy to get in the way of their venal agenda. There’s very little difference between what al Qaeda has done and the tactics of the GOP. I’m not being hyperbolic here. These people WANT power. All of it. They’ll do anything, anything, to get it.

So folks whatever we can each do to convert our healthy poll numbers into ACTUAL votes cast should our ONE and ONLY focus now. Polls don’t WIN elects; VOTES do. T Please help however you can. Thanks

We need a GOP that is willing to compromise to move the country forward. We don’t need a party which will obstruct every dang thing the current administration proposes. Hopefully, now that the Repubs have figured out that they failed at making President Obama a one-term President, they’ll actually do something constructive like pass the Jobs Act.

Wow, McCain was pretty honest in that particular statement. He went as far as saying that americans are a little bit hopeful now ! Isn’t he undermining the Romney/Ryan message ? Maybe he wants Romney to lose, so either Huntsman or Jeb Bush could have a chance in 2016 ?? (I remember reading that John McCain pushed Huntsman to run this year….)

Whoever picked Candy Crowley to moderate the debates needs to be punched over and over and over again. And if that person was a man, he needs to be punched hard in the nuts. HARD. I haven’t watched CNN for a long time and thank goodness. Axelrod and Governor O’Malley were the reasons I watched this morning and Maryland, you are fucking lucky to have Governor O’Malley. Crowley kept interrupting Axelrod over and over again but he got his points through. He sure did. O’Malley also did well and has the patience of a saint considering he was sitting next to GOP woman hater Roy Blunt who kept lying and lying and having his lies aided by Candy Crowley. Crowley practically crawled into McCain’s lap and almost gave him a lap dance….that’s how much she was GOP shilling.

She’s a moron. A bloody moron. An amoeba is smarter than her. Whoever picked her to moderate the debate is a fucking fool and should be punched over and over and over again.

As a current resident of MD, I feel proud to say that yes, we have a great gov, although admittedly I didn’t help to build that since I was not yet an MD resident when O’Malley got elected.

Candy Crowley deserves to be mocked, harassed and humiliated if she ever pushes that bullshyte during the debate on Wednesday. I for one will be scrutinizing her very very closely. And something tells me that I and all of us here at TOD won’t be the only ones. Candy Crowley HAS BEEN PUT ON NOTICE.

When Chris Christie first ran for Freeholder and was sued for defamation, it wasn’t his fault and he did nothing wrong.

When Chris Christie went from “not a candidate for US Attorney” to being appointed US Attorney after he was directly responsible for raising hundreds of thousands (and his brother donates hundreds of thousands) for Bush, the donations had nothing to do with it.

And when many top NJ lawyers pointed out that Christie didn’t have any experience in criminal law and his appointment was directly connected to the above hundreds of thousands in donations for Bush, that was just a coincidence.

Well up and at ’em O’s!!!!! It’s wonderful to join my TODdies on this great getting up day! I’m tuning in to the Sunday shows today, cause it’s much easier to swallow when our team is ahead. Imagine Chrispie flopping around like a beached whale trying to defend Mittwit? That can’t be fun for him. Also, with exception of a few, the moderators smell blood and they go on a feeding frenzy like the sharks they are. It doesn’t matter whose blood at this point. Not to mention, they want to be seen as shaping the winner. Expect them to be less hostile.

My political take today is Wednesday can’t get here soon enough. Wednesday is my Zumba nite, but I’m going to jiggle my wiggle for a PBO debate victory. I’m going to try and at least stay in the room. During the previous debates, I would hang in the doorway and either run away or come back into the room depending on the question and whose turn it was to answer it.

cookemom – lol going in and out of the room. I only do that for POTUS debates and when my baseball team is in the playoffs. I am afraid I am going to leave the TV off and just follow a live blogging of it – too stressful otherwise. I’m a chicken I know!!

I’m basically a chicken so yesterday’s post of Michelle Obama introducing her husband at a campaign in ’08 talking about getting over fear spoke to me. I am still nervous about the debate especially about Romney’s intent to smear our PBO saying he lies. I don’t fear PBO’s debating or explaining skills will not be up to speed. What I fear is the way the media will paint the debate results and their complicency in helping Romney by not holding him to the fire using commercial breaks to aid him and the same tactics they used in the infamous ’08 Primary Debate with George Stephanopolis and Charlie Gibbs.

It’s been a really busy week for me (fiscal year-end). I was able to join the canvass to NOVA yesterday. All I can say is that people are really engaged and from what I can see at least in Northern Virginia things are looking really good.

The campaign has a big fundraising deadline tonight. Please donate what you can and if you can’t can you please retweet my link.

Thanks and have a great productive O’Day!!!

Ashes 2 ashes, dust 2 dust, I hate 2 have 2 ask again but I must, I must. Can you donate $5 b4 the deadline 2nite? https://t.co/gzOTDChe

I like this tweet, because I am tired of people acting like, and speaking like the President is winning by default……just everyone else is being so bad. He is winning because he is so GOOD and doing things RIGHT, and he is getting his message across. People try to take credit from him all the time, and I get angry about that. He has been a good president, he has done good things, and he is a good campaigner, the best I’ve seen. No one in my memory can compare to him, certainly not Saint Ronnie. He was basically lazy, and read a script. This man understands what is going on, and is the most involved president I’ve known of.

Yes, I just had to set someone at Old Orange straight on this issue. Apart from his solid record of accomplishments during the last 3.5 years, President Obama is simply unparalleled in the campaigning department.

I also agree that President Obama has not just been lucky. He is an excellent candidate and campaigner and he has a good campaign group. They have strategized for months and because they have a plan can jump on sudden opportunities that fit their narrative.

Luck? LUCK IS OPPORTUNITY MEETING HARD WORK AND PREPARATION. Got a plaque that says that after many people told my daughter she was lucky for getting so many academic scholarships at the end of her senior year in high school. She was demoralized that people did not recognize the hard work she had put in to get straight As all through high school, for being the president of the National Honor Society, on high school and community sports teams, on the ski team, involved with her church youth group and for starting and participating in a high school tutoring group. The plaque spoke to me about her work. The words also depict President Obama’s hard work.

Successful white folks are successful because of hard work. Successful black folks are successful because of luck.
I first saw this attitude in sports — the black guy is naturally gifted, the white guy lacks the gift but makes up for it with hard work.
Why? Because black people are lazy so if they do well it HAS to be luck.
This drives me even CRAZIER than I already am.

During the Republican presidential primary debates, a telling pattern emerged. Mitt Romney, who first ran for public office back in 1994, called Rick Perry a “career politician.” Mitt Romney, who owned stock in and profited from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, criticized Newt Gingrich for working for Freddie Mac. Mitt Romney, who lobbied for funding for the Salt Lake City Olympics and has many of DC’s top Republican lobbyists intimately connected to his campaign, attacked Rick Santorum as a lobbyist. It seemed that each attack that Mitt Romney leveled at his opponents was done before they had an opportunity to say it about him.

If precedent holds, then the best way to interpret Romney’s charge that Obama will “say things that aren’t true” is that he is attempting to inoculate himself against the abundance of falsehoods he plans on espousing at the debates.

Mitt Romney’s propensity for flip-flopping long ago passed into self-parody, perfectly epitomized by his own campaign’s reference to an etch-a-sketch. But it is important to remember that his ability to say one thing one day and say the opposite the next with a straight face is rooted in his casual relationship with the truth.
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As a quick refresher, here is but a small sampling of Mitt’s lies in the past, and those he is most likely to repeat.

Paul Ryan To Fox News: ‘I Don’t Have The Time’ To Explain How We Will Pay For Our Tax Plan

By Adam Peck

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Ryan has been the Republican vice presidential nominee for nearly three months, and has still not found the time to explain how a Romney administration would fund its tax plan of 20 percent deductions across the board. Perhaps that is because if he did, voters would balk at the cuts that would need to occur in programs like Medicare for the plan to remain revenue neutral.

Ryan’s refusal to talk specifics only lends further credibility to the various studies and reports that have found time to do the math. And as ThinkProgress has reported, those studies from non-partisan organizations show that the Romney/Ryan tax plan would actually result in a huge tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. And the only way to keep it revenue neutral is to balance their plan on the backs of middle class families, who would see a tax increase of more than $2,000.

So, NBC nightly news will be focusing on Afghanistan, and Calling it -at the Brink.
All week long, as the media I so surprised that their are Green on Blue attacks?
So surprised?
The Taliban captures these Afghan police forces, and tells them either kill Americans, or your Family dies.
And Ruchard Engle is well aware of this, he just has an agenda.
That is all!

Don’t forget today is the last day of the quarter for the various campaigns. In addition to PBO, we need to give to those downstream races in order to send PBO a Congress he can work with. I’ve decided to help out Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Joe Donnelly Indiana, Elizabeth Warren of Mass, and Joe Tester of Montana. These are close races, but there are many others. Find a few and show them some love today.

After the Romney campaign spends all week tampering down expectations of Mittwit’s debate performance, Chrispie raises the bar higher than ever. I do believe there’s sabotage afoot, that man is no friend of his Repub leader.

David Gregory is now begging David Plouffe to talk to Pres. Obama about coming on to Meet The Press. The look Plouffe gave him was priceless. Plouffe then said “well, there’s 37 days until the election. Anything’s possible.”

David Gregory is such a goof…..I will never watch his show even if the President goes on there which he won’t. David Gregory’s ratings are in the toilet and like his best friend Mitt Robme, nothing can improve his favorables…….people don’t like them.

Thanks UT. Done. And do not forget our Senate races. Just did one for one of my Senator’s friends. We need to keep the Senate solid for POB and get the help to Nancy. I also just did one for our Ms. Smashing Nancy!HZ

David Gregory is an asshole. He lied on MTP that Pres. Obama fundraised in Las Vegas the day after the attacks in Libya that killed four Americans. This NEVER happened. Twitter is on fire calling him and Meet The Press out. Journalist Jon Ralston is pissed off too and calling David Gregory out for perpetuating that GOP lie.

$2.00 $3.00 grateful for whatever. I am almost to one of my three goal.
1. Do all I can with my group in my city to phone bank, organize to go door to door.
2. Set up and meet my goal for my FR Page
3. Be first on TOD at least once.
4. GET POB/BIDEN re-elected .4More 4 -44.

Thank (((((((( Love my TOD Family)))))))) Give some goodness claps. My gut is great today. Miracles are happening. Thank you all for your beautiful thoughts. You lift my heart and spirit up so much.HZ