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ucrdem's JournalPBO is making his 6th visit to Rancho Mirage in Palm Springs on Friday
Which is in my neck of the woods or at least within a hundred-mile radius, woo-hoo!
The president is meeting with Southeast Asian leaders at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage in 2013.
President Barack Obama will arrive in Palm Springs on Friday to meet with Southeast Asian leaders at a summit at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage, a White House official said. Obama will arrive in Palm Springs on Friday, Feb. 12, in advance of the summit.
The visit will be the president’s sixth to the Coachella Valley in less than three years. He’s previously used Sunnylands to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Jordan’s King Abdullah II and has played golf at area courses with longtime friends.
http://www.pe.com/articles/president-793650-obama-feb.html
And per this video he might also be looking for a retirement home out here!!
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/09/sunnylands-provides-informal-setting-obama-summit/80060366/
Sorry Cha!!!
p.s. not to worry but it's a nice idea anyway
Hillary: "Who's the best change maker?" Cheering crowd: "You are!"
Hillary: "People are right to be angry. But they're also hungry. They're hungry for solutions. "
** and the crowd goes wild **
NPR: Angry Trump and Sanders voters are upset about "creeping changes in the culture"
and a White House that is "unresponsive," from:
Updated February 9, 20168:23 AM ET
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/466108315/political-reporters-wrestle-with-how-to-depict-what-s-driving-voters
Which confirms a perception I've long held that supporters of both candidates basically dislike Barack Obama, never liked Barack Obama, and stopped liking Hilllary once she aligned herself with Barack Obama. All this is cloaked in a polite figleaf of populist economics which in Sanders' case has very little to do with socialism.
Thoughts?
A tiny New Hampshire town retakes a tradition: voting at midnight
Source: Boston Globe
MILLSFIELD, N.H.—It was all over in 4 minutes and 20 seconds.
The 14 voters of Millsfield cast their ballots at midnight. Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton won. And for the first time in 56 years, Millsfield voters again became among the first of the first in the nation to vote for president.
The voters who gathered in this wood-paneled bar aren’t the only ones who cast ballots while most of New Hampshire slept. Just up the road, in Dixville Notch, nine people voted at midnight, as they have for decades. And further south, in Hart’s Location—an actual incorporated town, unlike its midnight voting sisters—voters cast their ballots, too.
Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/new-hampshire/2016/02/09/tiny-new-hampshire-town-retakes-tradition-voting-midnight/S5qA6W88TALbsuPUrT6BvJ/story.html
And the winner is . . . Clinton
NPR: Trump and Sanders "may as well be speaking from the same script"
What Do Sanders And Trump Have In Common? More Than You Think
Updated February 8, 20168:00 AM ET
"The similarities are striking"
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/465974199/what-do-sanders-and-trump-have-in-common-more-than-you-think
...........
More from the report: "Trump and Sanders are both channeling anger," and spectators at their events share a "feeling that the system is rigged" and that there's "too much money in politics." Both candidates "speak to voters insecurities and disgust with the present system."
No transcript yet but there's usually one up in a few hours.
Note on the Clintons and Haiti: Aristide was toppled twice and returned to Haiti twice. Guess what?
He was first toppled in 1991, under Bush I, then returned to Haiti in 1994, under Clinton (Bill). He served again as president from 1994-96.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, October 14, 1994.
Aristide was elected president again in 2001, and in 2004 he was again toppled in a coup and forcibly removed to Africa -- under Bush II.
He returned a second time to Haiti in 2011 -- when Hillary was SOS.
The suggestion that the Clintons had anything to do with the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, is deceptive and misleading. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide
Wages Rise as U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls Below 5%
Source: New York Times
Is the American worker finally getting a raise?
After years of scant real gains despite steadily falling unemployment and healthy hiring, wages picked up significantly last month, a sign the job market could be tightening enough to force companies to pay more to attract and retain employees.
The half a percentage point increase in average hourly earnings in January was the brightest spot in a generally positive Labor Department report on Friday, which showed job creation slowing from the white-hot pace of late 2015 even as the unemployment rate fell to an eight-year low of 4.9 percent.
The last six months were the best extended period for employee paychecks since the recovery began six-and-a-half years ago.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-january-fed-interest-rates.html
Harriet Christian phone home . . .
We all laughed when she went off the deep end in 2008 but she was real. Apparently she worked as a waitress in NYC and died two years ago:
https://ladyboomernyc.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/harriet-christian-equality-champion/
Yes, she was a hopeless PUMA, but she believed in her candidate, and that counts for something in this crazy system. So here's to you Harriet Christian.
NPR: razor thin win for Hillary, 50.1 - 49.2%
Mara Liason says 83% of precints reporting; it's not an official call but she sounds pretty confident
CURRENT STATUS - Iowa Republican Caucuses
AS OF FEB. 1, 2016, 10:28 p.m. EST SOURCE: AP
CURRENT STATUS -Iowa Democratic Caucuses
AS OF FEB. 1, 2016, 10:28 p.m. EST
84.3% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING (1,417 OF 1,681)
NAME VOTES PERCENT
Hillary Clinton 582 50.1%
Bernie Sanders 572 49.2%
Martin O’Malley 7 0.6%
Uncommitted 1 0.1%
Other 0 0.0%
https://elections.npr.org/
NPR: Dem caucus goers skewing female (55%) and born before 1970 (over 45)
by lots. That's Hillary territory by a wide margin. Stay tuned!
Live link (showing Cruz beating Trump incidentally with 24%, but no Dem results up yet): https://elections.npr.org/
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