This is Texas. And they seem to be happy to see him.

Is the GOP lying?

Say it ain't so!

Don't let red Texas know that.

Like anywhere else...

What about all those people lumping everyone in South as one monolithic group of redneck idjits?
Surely, they couldn't have been mistook.

To some outside Texas (who have spent little or no time there) the 3 million+ Texans (including me) who voted for Obama are a figment of someone's imagination.

trolls, trying to divide and conquer.

and exurbs.

that too, from El Paso!!

and would love to meet the President - this President. Despite many things he hasn't done he still seems more like a real human being than any we have had in a long time.

It took all my self-control to politely smile, and he was wise enough to change the topic.

they are in it (politics) for the money. Ask , Dancing Boy, Thomas Delay !!

First picture:

"Obama punched by employee when he reaches over the counter to pilfer the cash register"

i love your bite

And this warms my heart. Now I think I will have some barbecue.

Love, Peace and Shelter.

it is hard to tell from the pic

He always looks like he is having a wonderful time when he's with the people!

. . . as someone else said, he looks more at ease with the people there than their governor.

With the right-wing crazies toting assault-rifles to Target and everywhere else. I know this is Austin, but you can't tell me there are no right-wing nutjobs in Austin and it only takes one.

That being said, it must get awful confining with the Secret Service.

DU subversive fistbump!

That's our Prez muchas gracias, bigtree!!

I just have never seen a picture of Gov. Perry in the general public where he didn't look like he couldn't stand the smell, but was putting on a brave face (badly).

. . . I've never seen Perry as pleased as this to be among his own constituency. Prez looks right at home~

Barack Obama wears the Presidency well. He is comfortable.

Outrageously so. It's nice to be the President, people wait in line for five hours to get some of that grub.

Why is he pushing this traitorous TPP and TISA?


U.S. compromises on labor rights in latest round of TPP negotiation.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025222981

TISA: Obama’s Latest Betrayal of America and Americans in Favor of the Big Banks (William K. Black)
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5167072

TISA: Secret Agreement Further Deregulates Wall Street
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025151134

. . . in the heart of one of his most adversarial states, and NO ONE treated the President or those who came to see him and interact with him as rudely as you are on this thread.

You want to talk about TPP and TISA?

START YOUR OWN FUCKING THREAD.

Better yet, take it up with the President. This is no better than the hecklers at the president's appearance today. Graciously, he offered to speak with them after the appearance. Just like that event, no one interested in this thread deserves to be heckled by this kind of shitstirring bullshit. Contact the White House with your concerns (or construct your own thread on those issues) and try treating your fellow DUers with more respect.

Hell of a lot more important than a barbecue, don't you think?

. . . I never raise my voice in opposition to these concerns in other threads and I'm almost 100% in agreement with you that these are a threat to worker's rights. I read and learn from the TPP and TISA threads here. They are some of the most informative threads, out of any I've come across, on the web (and don't tell me Manny's latest performance thread is one of them).

You know damn well that I'm not going to start calling our Democratic president a traitor.

Quit stinking up the barbecue.

Nice to see your BS cutter blades as sharp as ever.

The TPP and the TISA *must* be stopped, and I consider this kind of adulatory fluff offensive while the president is actively working to advance these assaults on Americans and on our democratic system.

Complaints about "rudeness" here are absurd. These aren't normal policy disagreements that can be set aside for a barbecue and cheering session for the president who is pushing these assaults. We aren't talking about policies we merely dislike but that still fall safely within the bounds of expectation for a democratic, representative government. This is something far more malignant: This is the deliberate trading away in secrecy of our ability to use our own democratic systems to protect ourselves from predatory corporations.

I think Americans still look at the poverty and the miserable conditions workers in other countries are forced to endure, and they don't understand why, and they honestly don't think it can happen here. But these trade agreements are exactly what's necessary in order for corporations to make it happen here. Corporations have looted entire countries and impoverished entire populations for profit. We aren't special to them. They are buying our government and pushing agreements like this, that dismantle and allow corporations to overrule the very protections that have kept it from happening here. We can't afford to be distracted by fluff and propaganda while our own president is actively assisting this.

. . . and still oppose his policies.

I wrote very clearly that there is practically ZERO daylight between your view of the issues you raised on this thread and my own. But, still you insist that we have to emulate you in your protest of anything humanizing about this President.

Why can't you leave people here alone? You're not doing anything on this thread but aggravating people. You don't want to be distracted by what you see as 'fluff' then put me on fucking ignore. No one asked you to look at this thread. No one.

Don't kid yourself either that all of that grandstanding you're doing makes you any more concerned or active about the issues you raised. I don't know how anyone could be so delusional as to believe that deliberately aggravating people (who actually agree with you on the issue you raised) is accomplishing anything.

You just look like a fool coming on here with this shit, and you look even more ignorant, understanding that there's no substantive difference between how you feel about trade agreements from this administration than I do.

In fact, you're no better than a disruptor for continuing, even after you got agreement. It's borderline psychotic. You're accomplishing NOTHING looking for backslapping approval on this thread. You've accomplished NOTHING bullying me around or ridiculing me for indulging in this little slice of humanity.

I don't come onto your threads with bullshit about your posts being a distraction from whatever I support. That would be absurd. You should recognize that and check yourself.

I made an effort to reach out and generate an understanding on the post above and you rewarded that with more derision on this thread. You don't deserve to expect me to share your concerns, but I even went to Manny's bullshit thread and demonstrated that I had enough of an understanding and appreciation of the issues you raised here to make a substantive dissent with the President. I can see now that you're just interested in pushing people around. You're the LAST person I'd choose to advocate for anything I believe in. It's just amazing to me that you actually believe this is proper advocacy to bully people around, EVEN AFTER THEY AGREE WITH YOU!!

Perfect.

You're asking everyone to accept your conclusions regarding it and attributing malice to them over it.

Tell her he's committing another impeacable offense he's he's fistbumping for gawdsakes

. . . did you see how that guy ATTACKED his fist?

BTW John Boner just blamed President Obama for the problems on the border ....
So Obama is behind the gangs and crime in central America that is making kids
and teens flee their homeland and travel 1,000 miles to the U.S. where they are
delt w/under a law signed in 2008 by w bush?

. . . one awesome pic.

My son says folks have been photoshopping it all day . . . Palin sitting there, stuff on his head, etc. . . .

Why You Don’t Know Obama Has Created 4.5 Million Jobs

Do you have any idea how many more jobs Obama has created than Bush did? You don’t, because liberals are less likely than conservatives to cheerlead.

"The terrific June jobs report may be the signal we’ve been waiting for that we’re finally turning the psychic corner. The overall jobs number was great at 288,000, and the unemployment rate was down to 6.1 percent. But the most important number was that the employment-to-population ratio, which many economists think of as the truest measure of the jobs market, was up a bit to 59 percent, a high for the recovery, indicating that maybe more people are finally out looking for work than staying home.

A lot of liberals puzzle over why the Obama administration isn’t getting more credit, or doesn’t do a better job of making sure it gets credit, for such good economic news. There are a lot of theories, and most of them hold varying amounts of water. But the main reason to me is fairly obvious: Liberals don’t speak as one big fat propagandistic voice on this subject in remotely the same way conservatives do when a Republican president is in power.

Before I get into all that, I want to review some numbers with you, because unless you’re a hyper-informed political junkie, I doubt you know them. How many net jobs has the economy created during Barack Obama’s presidency, and how many did it create during George W. Bush’s tenure? Notice first that I wrote “has the economy created” rather than “did Obama create/did Bush create.” I think it’s a better description of reality.

I also should note that I just measured the numbers under each president—I gave Bush the numbers from January 2001 to December 2008, and Obama the numbers from January 2009 to the present, with the following asterisk. January 2009 was when Obama became president, but he didn’t start until the 20th, of course. That was a particularly awful month, with 798,000 jobs lost. So I think it’s reasonable to give Bush, whose policies helped cause the meltdown anyway, two-thirds of that 798,000. (January 2001, by the way, was a tiny number, 30,000 jobs lost, but just to be consistent, I assigned only 10,000 of those to Bush.)

........"

He/she is all over the place today, shitting on anything postive being posted about the president. He/she can't seem to seperate the likeable/human side of this president from policy he/she dislikes. I've had enough and am putting the HATER on ignore. Sad that every criticism, legitimate or not, posted by that individual will be ignored by me. Exactly like Faux news. Hmmm. Coincidence??

is back out on the loose, I see.

it is obvious he very much enjoys himself although I think I would be disappointed I did not see Michelle.

Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Raiit, the Nevilles down south, Stevie Ray . . .

. . . and El Shaman!

Thanks for the Barack vid!

My FAVORITE artist who originally hails from Texas.

. . . I'd bet each and every artist we listed was influenced by Earle. Bravo Texas, brett!

....there's no REAL barbeque outside of the state of North Carolina. All others are cheap imposters. Particularly Tejas. Turn good beef into barbeque? What are they, nuts?!

. . . I'm inclined to agree, but I can't say I've explored the southwest's enough to make a qualified judgment.

. . . that's the rub.