Thursday, December 29, 2016

This final People Magazine interview with the Obama's will make your heart break at the very idea that they are leaving the White House.

I swear every time I think I am coming to terms with losing Barack Obama as our President, and Michelle Obama as our First Lady, something like this comes along to remind that I am not even close to being  okay with that fact.

The dignity, the gravitas, the sheer humanity of this couple makes me so very proud that I voted for them and supported them these last eight years.

They deserve their privacy and to have their lives back even though it sometimes seems we will be lost without them.

42 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:47 AM

    Buckle up folks, we're in for a bumpy ride -

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/despair-for-2017-1.3913984

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    1. Anonymous8:28 AM

      https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-ties-to-conservative-nonprofit-questioned-93c7115fb9ed#.ftfyvv3xe

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    2. Anonymous8:32 AM

      "“I think there was a general sense that the president had the ability, that this was going to be a billionaire presidency,” he said. “I don’t think anyone who voted for him was not aware that he was a very, very successful businessman.” <gingRICH

      https://thinkprogress.org/gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-conflicts-of-interest-kleoptocracy-17d500c1d6c6#.w3jsy4thz

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  2. I am already missing them . . . . .

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  3. Anonymous7:03 AM

    Yes they will be missed. I have Michelle on tape, dancing with Jimmy Kimmel. That gal has got rythm. Can you imagine any of the trump "ladies" doing that? Class, intelligence, human dignity are all missing from the tRump clan.

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    1. No, re his "ladies" doing anything spontaneous or authentic. They seem to have come out of a big cardboard box and blown up.

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  4. If only Democrats who stayed home last November 8 had tattoos on their foreheads so the rest of us could punch the shit out of them...

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    1. Anonymous11:25 PM

      What about the Dems who DID vote even though they knew it was PISSING IN THE WIND?

      The Republicans have gerrymandered us into mortal fucking living hell.

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  5. Anonymous7:24 AM

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/29/trump-betrays-veterans-shows-intention-fixing-healthcare.html

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/29/roof-caves-republicans-gop-caught-obamacare-repeal-trap.html

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  6. Anonymous7:29 AM

    I agree and now we are gonna have a dummy retard old fat orange turd as prez. Hope he rots even more and bring ryan and mitch with him. Old tubby will be 71 next year. Old

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  7. Anonymous7:32 AM

    Who watched the Challenger explode? Who heard them announce JFK died? Who had to do any drill where one gets under a desk?

    This is why it pisses me off that professors cottle students just because of an election. Holy fuck, pussy generation.

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    1. Anonymous7:51 AM

      Cottle?
      No wonder you hate professors.
      Never attended college, did you?

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  8. Anonymous7:33 AM

    This will turn your stomach, Gryph:

    Trump transition takes swipe at President Obama:

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/trump-transition-takes-swipe-at-president-obama-the-people-elected-a-real-man-a-true-man/

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  9. This is one beautiful, loving, unified, supportive, connected, couple. I will miss them in countless ways, but I will always hold them in my heart as my Forever POTUS & FLOTUS. To know that a white supremacist, racist, ignorant, narcissistic, misogynistic pervert will soon hold the Oval Office makes me physically ill. Calgon, take me away!!!

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  10. Anonymous7:49 AM

    Media whore strikes:

    Bristol Palin goes on bonkers rant against ‘sissies’ who refuse to perform at Trump’s inauguration

    ...She includes Celine Dion, KISS, Garth Brooks, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, and Elton John, of whom Palin writes: “The Pinball Wizard himself, Sir Elton John, quickly shot down any chance he would ever perform for President Trump. In his explanation to The Guardian, Elton delivered a jab at American country music, too, which is surprising considering he stole all their rhinestone outfits.”

    That, and other sick burns, can be found here.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/bristol-palin-goes-on-bonkers-rant-against-sissies-who-refuse-to-perform-at-trumps-inauguration/

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    1. Anonymous8:05 AM

      Leave it to the no talent to demean the talented. All you'll ever be known for, Brissy, is spreading your legs. Ask Taylor Swift how pissed she was having to sit next to your mother SNL 40.

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    2. Anonymous8:06 AM

      http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2016/12/11-list-artists-refused-perform-donald-trumps-inauguration/

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    3. Anonymous8:34 AM

      Bristol, your mother made you a celebrity eight years ago. Why not offer/volunteer your many talents to Trump's inauguration committee and win some points with your mother Sarah.

      You "danced" (more like shook your chest while Mark Ballas dragged you around the floor) on two seasons of DWTS. Only a select few receive that DWTS opportunity each season and you received it twice. You're obviously good at something to merit that extra consideration.

      You were a highly paid abstinence speaker, a TV personality on more than one series, a writer (with a ghost) and featured on several magazine covers. Remember all the undeserved opportunities Sarah gave you for being pregnant.

      Again, since you are so very talented and have matured over the years, why don't you volunteer to be a part of the entertainment at Donnie Drumpf's inauguration.

      Just find a dance partner, perhaps your husband MOH, and lie on the floor and grind away like you did with Mark. You were pregnant then, just like you are now. You were willing to "dance" like that then, so why not now? And don't say you want to be modest now that you are married. That modesty ship sailed over a decade ago.

      BTW, where is that DWTS baby?

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    4. Anonymous8:45 AM

      Earth to the dumbshit: NO one is obligated to perform in honor of someone that stands for everything they're against. Get that through your THICK head. "Stop using our songs at rallies!" was their RIGHT! Do you get that, you bumbling fool?

      As for Sir Elton John, his outlandish dressing for concerts was well known over forty years ago and you're saying he ripped off country music???? You should really think before you post, honey. You prove your your well known idiocy every time you do!

      SHEESH.

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    5. Anonymous9:24 AM

      8:34 AM - she's no celebrity!
      Infamous is a good word.

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  11. Anonymous7:58 AM

    OT? “I think we ought to get on with our lives. I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly.”
    " We have speed,"< drumpf is ON it....
    "I don’t know what he’s doing. I haven’t spoken to Sen. Graham. ... [A]s you know, he ran against me.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-computers_us_586470ace4b0d9a5945a273f

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  12. Anonymous8:23 AM

    "Hatred of women was on the ballot in November, and it won."
    "It’s a traumatic experience to realize that what once seemed like petty instances of boys being boys were actual sexual assaults diminished by a rape culture that normalizes unwanted touch."meant that the women, too taken aback or intimidated by Trump’s power to protest, consented to his alleged abuse."

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/12/28/_2016_was_the_year_america_learned_what_sexual_assault_looks_like.html

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  13. Anonymous8:27 AM

    Somehow, I really don't think President Obama and First Lady Michelle are going to disappear. They are going to continue living in D.C. (after they return from their Hawaii vacation) and I'll wager President Obama will counter Trump (who will NEVER be my potus!) as he might see the need arise.

    I'm so glad I voted for him both times and find them to be such an elegant couple. They truly are loving and kind people to ALL!

    Trump and his wife (or daughter) will NEVER measure up to the Obamas!

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    1. If Trumpie can Tweet idiotic "presidential" decisions before he is sworn in, Obama should be able to offer some real presidential wisdom after he leaves office.

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    2. Well spoken. Thank you.

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    3. It's obvious all of the advice Obama has offered to Trump has fallen on deaf ears. Obama will mostly be dealing with the media, upstaging Trump with how decisions should be made, etc. He'll be school Trump through the media. Not outright ridicule or humiliation, but that will be the result.

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  14. Anonymous8:30 AM

    not that the deficit is a terrible thing (far worse), when O took office his first 3 years saw an increase in deficit spending.

    When republicans took over in 2012, it started decreasing.

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  15. Anonymous8:43 AM

    DONALD TRUMP CURSE?

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    Marching Bland
    While many high school marching bands did not apply to play at Donald Trump's inauguration, these schools cited a variety of reasons and are not boycotting the event.

    At least one D.C. public school marching band has participated in the past five inaugural parades, but none applied for consideration this year.

    AT LEAST ONE HS BAND HAS MARCHED, WHAT IS BALLOU HIGH SCHOOL'S EXCUSE FOR SNUBBING THE DONALD?

    Ballou High School’s Majestic Marching Knights performed Destiny’s Child’s “Lose My Breath” at George W. Bush’s second inaugural parade in 2005, and stepped along Pennsylvania Avenue as they played James Brown’s “I Got You (I Feel Good)” at Barack Obama’s second inaugural parade eight years later.

    But the beloved band decided to take a break in January and not apply to play in the inaugural parade after several other recent performances, the principal said.

    COME ON MAN!
    Ballou HS you are located in Washington DC, you are in your own hometown so you can't use Donald Trump's excuse "Sarah Palin Lives Too Far Away to speak at the RNC". Ballou you can see the White House from your cafeteria! It is an honor and your civic duty to march in Trump's inaugural parade.

    Dunbar High School’s band marched in Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 but the school will sit this one out because they are rebuilding the band, the principal said.

    DUNBAR HS you only need one drum, one horn and one drum majorette with a baton to be a band and you will be qualified to march for The Donald!

    Eastern High School also chose not to participate, the principal said, without elaborating.

    EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL no need to elaborate not marching for a racist. We understand.

    A D.C. Public Schools spokeswoman said she was not aware of any band in the district that had applied to participate in President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade Jan. 20.

    AT LEAST THE DC BANDS DIDN'T USE BRISTOL PALIN'S EXCUSE FOR NOT SHOWING UP BECAUSE THEY HAD MONO

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    1. Anonymous8:57 AM

      When did she have mono? When someone told her she did she replied "news to me."

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  16. Anonymous8:55 AM

    Just read something you might like, G:

    http://johnpavlovitz.com/?s=thanks+obama

    Kind of sounds like an ode you would make to our outgoing President.

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    1. DetroitSam5:18 PM

      This was a very moving tribute from a Christian pastor to President Obama.

      I tweeted it to the @realDonaldTrump.

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  17. Anonymous9:05 AM

    Don't play with our emotions. Is it true Bristol Palin will be doing her infamous DWTS Gorilla Ballroom Dance in the inauguration parade and when she's in front of the White House bleachers she will stop and do the dry hump dance on the asphalt? I think she should since she is an excellent dancer as well as a DWTS All Star dancer.

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  18. Anonymous9:27 AM

    COWard!
    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/fox-news-host-obama-is-going-to-go-out-a-coward-for-pursuing-middle-east-peace/

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  19. Anonymous10:24 AM

    The Palin kids( Bristol is already a lost cause ) should emulate the Obamas and not their mom. Then maybe the rest of them won't turn out to be quitters , grifters and immoral ..

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  20. Anonymous12:13 PM

    Wow. The Trumps are gonna top that? No way! No way in hell. I will never respect Malania the way I do Michelle. And that bloated thing they are calling president elect is too gross for words.

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  21. Sharon1:14 PM

    We have had the best, the absolute best representing this great country for the last 8 years. Watching the Kennedy Honors the other night it was lovely to see a tribute to our other great president. No one came close to the dignity of the Kennedy's until the Obamas...both of them. The Obamas were real in every sense of the word and our only chance of making it back from 8 years of Bush. My greatest sadness is how ungrateful this lazy country has been....history will show the true dignity Obama showed throughout the Republican traitor obstruction. They only care about the power, never the country and that is still true as ever today.

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  22. Anonymous1:26 PM

    Unfortunately President Obama will not be getting his life back, at least not for the next 4 years. With a total despot at the helm he is going to have to play watchdog over this administration and guide the Democratic caucus in Congress. While I'm happy that he will still be on watch I'm sad that he doesn't get to just sit back and enjoy his family and his interests.

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    1. I think he knows that. But the pressure will be much less, he'll have some of his life back. He'll be able to taper back over the next few years until Sasha graduates. Then they can decide where to go from there.

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  23. Even if HRC had won, I'd have been sad to see the Obamas leave.

    The knowledge of who's actually going to be succeeding them has made me physically ill. They and we deserved better.

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    1. It will show such an extreme shift that the difference will be apparent to everyone. And the shift will not be positive.

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  24. The Obama family has served this country for decades, first at the community level, then the state, then the Federal.

    I think they deserve a break. They won't be leaving us completely, just changing focus and intensity.

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  25. I always smile when looking at them. They are a teriffic couple.

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