Live Blog: Farewell Mr President! We’re going to miss you and your family!!!
Posted: January 10, 2017 Filed under: just because | Tags: Final Farewell 2017, President Barrack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama 21 Comments
Tonight we stand together on a precipice and we look once more to our leader to make sense of things. President Obama’s farewell address from Chicago will be broadcasting live on CSPAN and other outlets tonight at 9 pm EST.
President Obama Farewell Address President Obama delivers his farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. He’s expected to talk about the future of the country and American democracy, the role younger generations can play in the years ahead, and his time in office.
Many of my friends have headed there. He had a great run and now we’re about to see things get horrid again.
Obama’s loyalists spent the day grabbing each other for hugs in the airport, catching up, posing for iPhone photos, laughing sarcastically about how funny it is to run into each other here of all places. They’ve made jokes about writing poetry, venting. They ask what people are going to do next.
“I’m fired up,” one said to another on a plane from Washington Tuesday morning, with a twist on the old Obama line. “I don’t want to go. I’m ready to stay.”
These are weird times at the White House, a mix of senioritis and bitterness and throwing themselves into whatever work is left to take their minds off of what’s coming next, reading the emails that come every day with each new wave of departures and deciding which Gmail addresses and cell phones to copy into their personal phones.
Getting a cup of coffee downstairs at the mess can bring on a wave of emotions. Walking through the halls, each day a little more aware of the countdown, they try not to think much about what’s coming but they can’t stop thinking about what’s coming. The photos blown up and hung in the West Wing that were regularly updated as a running picture diary of recent weeks have now become the greatest hits—a shot of the inauguration, one of the president with microphone in hand and singing along with a band at the White House, done up in a tuxedo and First Lady Michelle Obama in a gown on the way to an event, sitting alone at his desk in the Oval Office marking up a piece of paper. Down in the press area, on the wall that every morning was used to print out front pages from around the country to see what was registering with the news of the day, now are print-outs of the best days of the administration—when Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, when he signed Obamacare, when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.
“People are certainly taking stock of their tenure here, and I know the president is,” Earnest said Monday afternoon, in an interview with MSNBC.
We’ve spent 8 years without a scandal and with a first family that shine like stars. It’s been frustrating on many levels but when the President catches his stride he lands on the right path and he took us in the right direction.
Join us to say good bye to a man with whom we’ve all had a complex and complicated relationship and his always classy and smart First Lady.
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i will miss them so much,
Yes. Michelle looks like she’s dressed for a wake.
She is. Ours.
Great post, Dak. Thank you.
He deserves so much more respect than he got. And to watch Trump destroy his hard work and the work of so many …. It’s just sad.
Yet if Obama sat on intelligence info about Trump, the buck stopped on his desk.
Spot on, Luna.
He said tech and not immigrants or trade is making those jobs obsolete! Yes!! That’s it!!!
Who’s not crying? If you’re not, you’re not human. What a beautiful speech.
He’s good at speeches.
He should have made a speech about the intelligence briefings when he was first warned the Russians were interfering with the campaigns.
He and the heads of the intelligence committees in Congress.
Agreed.
How did we go from this to what’s next. Wtf is wrong with those freaks that voted from that Orange insane Asshole?
Please remember that that majority did NOT vote for him!
Check out the UNVERIFIED story on buzzfeed: short story, Trump compromised by Russian intelligence over financial and sexual matters. Also see twitter feed #goldenshowers for many laughs, even though Trump as traitor is no laughing matter.
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia
A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.jpOy60oK9O#.xc8mK53MgA
I loved every word, each moment. His message to the young, and the young at heart, work that you must do, and he’ll be right there with them.
Shout out: We love Hillary Clinton, and all the involvement she has been in making a difference in our Country. Always on our minds.
So sad. It just makes me so very tired. I wanted to welcome the first female president, so I’d feel like I could rest. I’m too old to keep fighting, and I don’t think I’ll now see a woman president in my lifetime. Bye, bye Obama; we’ll miss you.
Yea. I feel it too.
Hard for me to feel much respect for Obama today after we know more about what he did not do. His administration will be remembered for the misjudgement that gave us Trump.
yes