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May

night everyone

Categories: All Photos, Articles and Michelle Obama
Tags: Barack, holding, Michelle, Obama, Ohio, photo, President

Columbus, Ohio, Oct 17, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Why have I posted this 2010 photo? Hey, because I love it!

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Thanks everyone, see you tomorrow.

May

welcome home

By Chipsticks 89 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Articles
Tags: Barack, Bob, bobfr, home, Obama, President, welcome

From Bobfr

Dear Mr President,

Welcome home and thank you for the enormous achievement your trip to Ireland, UK and Europe represents.

You have won the hearts and minds of countless individuals; you have warmed them with the generosity of your spirit; and, you have restored respect for America – no small task given the vast damage GW Bush and his Administration did to our values and our reputation as a Nation of Laws and one that respects the life of every person.

To the Future!

Bob

Yes.We.Can. … DO.More.Together!

May

saturday

By Chipsticks 42 Comments

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Tags: Barack, joplin, memorial, missouri, Obama, poland, President, schedule, service

All times Eastern

3:55 AM The President attends a U.S. Embassy meet and greet

4:30 AM Participates in an arrival ceremony

4:35 AM Holds a bilateral meeting with President Komorowski of Poland

5:25 AM Makes a statement to the press with President Komorowski

5:50 AM Participates in a discussion on democracy with President Komorowski

6:40 AM Participates in an arrival ceremony at the Chancellery

6:55 AM Holds a working lunch with Prime Minister Tusk of Poland

8:10 AM Holds a joint press conference with PM Tusk

9:15 AM Visits the memorial to the victims of the Smolensk plane crash

9:55 AM Departs Warsaw

6:50 PM Arrives at Andrews Air Force Base

7:05 PM Arrives at the White House

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USA Today: President Obama, who returns from a five-day European trip on Saturday, heads to Joplin, Mo., on Sunday to tour the damage from last week’s devastating tornadoes.

He’ll also make brief remarks at a memorial service for those who died and thank first responders who have been searching for survivors and consoling victims. He and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate also will meet with state and local officials to discuss the federal-state response to the disaster.

The service will be held at 2 p.m. CT at the Taylor Performing Arts Center at Missouri Southern State University.

May

berlusconi …. bonkers

By Chipsticks 40 Comments

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Tags: a, Barack, bemused, berlusconi, dictatorship, fool, g8, italian, Italy, judges, leftist, meeting, minister, mocked, Obama, of, President, prime, prostitute, ridiculed, silvio, summit, uncomfortable, underage, video

I have only two words of Italian - Paolo Maldini - so I have no clue what’s been said in this video. :oops:

But read below, and watch the ‘WTF’ body language of the President!

Reuters: Silvio Berlusconi’s latest international gaffe, when he complained to a bemused President Barack Obama about his problems with magistrates, was met with mockery, embarrassment and scorn at home on Friday.

Obama looked baffled when television cameras picked up the Italian prime minister buttonholing him at a Group of Eight meeting in France and treating him to one of his trade mark tirades about magistrates who have hauled him into court for four concurrent trials.

Microphones picked up Berlusconi telling Obama during a pause in the G8 meeting: “We have presented a justice reform that is fundamental to us. In Italy we have almost a dictatorship of leftist judges.”

“The prime minister has clearly lost his head,” said left-leaning La Repubblica newspaper in a front page editorial.

Pierluigi Bersani, leader of the largest opposition party, quipped that Berlusconi was probably asking Obama for NATO military action against the judges…..

(Berlusconi, 74, is currently on trial for having sex with an underage prostitute)