P030210PS-0962:President Barack Obama signs H.R. 4691, Temporary Extension Act of 2010, in his private office in the residence of the White House, March 2, 2010.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
It was around this time a collective “Oh, SNAP” was heard around the room, and John McCain shat his draw’rs.
President Barack Obama walks with Vice President Joe Biden along the Colonnade, Feb. 3, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a Republican member of the Cabinet, feigns being a blocking back for President Barack Obama as he arrives backstage to meet with GOP House leaders before speaking to their issues conference at the Renaissance Baltimore Harbor Place Hotel in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 29, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
I still love him. I really, really do.
I thought it was assertive, I thought he gave clear-cut goals and deadlines. I thought he established some new agenda, and reinforced old. I thought he laid the smackdown to other side of the isle. In short, he did everything I had hoped he would do.
He hit our generation early on with promises of tax breaks for tuition, and student loan forgiveness. He (after 35 minutes, I might add, I was surprised he buried it that deep) addressed the health care debacle..taking blame where necessary, calling for ideas from those who sought to block its passage, and stressing the reasons why the change was needed so severely. He gave time-lines for fiscal budgeting, and addressed the need to lower a budget that he had to raise to dig us out of our whole. He laid a clear goal for the end of the Iraqi War. He called for the end of “Dont Ask, Don’t Tell” this year. He acknowledged the difficulties he has faced in going head-forward with his goals of change upon entering office.
He told republicans to stop acting like defensive lineman and do their fucking jobs.
And he ended with a familiar, poised, calm and confident oratory that I have missed…oh, how I have missed it.
Way to go, Mr. Prez. You still have my vote, sir.
“I’m gonna finish this shave ice, then I’m going to kick Yemen in the nuts.”
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
-Charles M. SchulzOr shaved iced. You get the point.
“President Obama has named the first transgender woman to work as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department, according to a new report.
In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality’s board of directors, said that ‘as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others.’”
“Scott & Barry 3rd grade 1969.”
“A former Manoa resident sent President Barack Obama an old photo of the two of them taken while they were third-grade classmates at Noelani Elementary School, requesting an autograph more than six months ago. He recently received the autographed picture back, as well as a personally signed thank-you note.
Scott Inoue, now a chiropractor in Stockton, Calif., said the small, black-and-white photo had been stashed away for almost 40 years at his childhood home in Manoa. For some reason, Inoue said, as he was growing up he always remembered that photo and wondered what became of “Barry.”
President Obama’s Veteran’s Day remarks today at Arlington.
There will be a day before long when this generation of servicemen and womenstep out of uniform. They will build families and lives of their own. God willing, they will grow old. And someday their children, and their children’s children will gather here, to honor them.
Obama’s secret message for Fox News
I’m sorry, I will always be a sucker for these.
Daily dose of omgmypresidentissoadorable! Obama.
President Obama in the early hours Thursday morning saluted the remains of a service member killed in Afghanistan. (Photo: Doug Mills / the New York Times)
