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They. Are. Stunning!
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Wow! These photos are overwhelming-a sensory overload of goodness.
They are simply stunning Jackie, I think I’m going to be at that link for a week!
It was fun to go there and read the captions. I thought that was the president’s niece in the third one down-she was a tiny baby when he was first showed how to blow on a dandelion in one of my favorite photos of his early years. I love the affection he shows so openly to his family. I can’t remember a former president who felt so free to do this.
Also have to say that PBO is the first president that I cared to follow. Can’t remember giving a darn how other presidents acted.
AMEN
simply awesome photos….simply awesome
Yes, continuing the amazing high from the Kennedy Center Honors concert last night. Congratulations, Jackie!
Hello
Beautiful Photographs.
Pete S., Man you Rock!
WOW…I’m overwhelmed. Simply in awe! :) Thanks Chips for posting!
These - and all of Pete’s - are wonderful, Chips! Way to look at something pleasant a couple days before the end of the year. Love it!
JO’B I think these photos are the antidote to all the R ugliness. One look at them and it washes all the Trump/Cruz/Rubio/Bush nonsense right out of your mind. This really is light overcoming darkness.
Totally agree!
OH! I could not agree more, jackieg:) Stunning! I could study each and every one for hours…. I just want to wrap myself in this!
I gasped my way through them Jackie, lots we hadn’t seen before (I think?), just breathtaking!
We’re so lucky we all “get it.” They will be missed, for sure.
Being a mother and grandmother of twins the one with him holding the twin babies moved me to tears.
They are all stunning pictures!!!!
Yup, yup! :)
I thought of you Donna when I saw it! :-)
Chips and friends: Thanks a mega-bazillion for the marvelous photos (!! Pete !!) and all the work put into culling them.
Another adorable one of PBO and his niece Savita above!!
Btw the magnificent performance at Kennedy Center by Ms. Franklin has stopped the clocks over here…
I love Pete’s caption regarding the first picture you have posted Chips…
Dec. 22, 2015
“When some of my friends heard that the President had hiked the grueling Koko Head Crater Trail, they sent me messages on whether I had made it to the top. The trail is 1,048 wooden steps, which climb more than 1,200 feet up the crater’s ridge. Some call it the ‘Stairmaster from Hell.’ I’ll admit that I was huffing and puffing up the trail, but to my friends, this photograph is proof that I indeed made it to the top with my boss.” (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Awww, I feel for Pete-even the thought of climbing 1,048 steps is exhausting. The man deserves a medal!
I wonder if Pete had to stop for a rest every hundred steps or so. I know I would have!
:-) It’d be a hoot if it said ‘Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy’ - then we’d know he’s a fibber!!
Hahahaha, Chips, “honest” Pete would not trick us like that :D
Well, the Governor of Kentucky has followed through with his promise to destroy Kynect.
And I have not one single, solitary, any resemblance of an ounce of sympathy for them.
Nada.
Not for the muthaphuckas who never had insurance before Kynect, and couldn’t be bothered to get their azzes up to vote….
but, especially for the muthaphuckas who never had insurance before Kynect and voted for this asshole anyway…
2017…..
yeah, sure…whatever.
………………………
Bevin: Medicaid changes to come in time
Bevin, who campaigned on a pledge to reshape Medicaid and the expansion under the Affordable Care Act, said it will take time to change the program but he expects to succeed.
“We are going to transform the way Medicaid is delivered in Kentucky,” Bevin said.
Bevin has enlisted the help of Mark Birdwhistell, a former secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services under former Gov. Ernie Fletcher.
Birdwhistell, vice president for health services at the University of Kentucky, said he’s ready for the challenge.
“The people of Kentucky need a Medicaid system that is affordable and sustainable,” he said.
Bevin and Birdwhistell said Kentucky will begin work on a waiver they will ask the federal government to approve to let Kentucky establish its own Medicaid plan, as Indiana and some other states have done.
They expect to introduce the plan in 2017.
Bevin Wednesday morning voiced support for a Medicaid waiver system similar to the one used by Indiana to hold down costs and said an effort during the coming six months will show “whether this will work or not.”
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-governor/2015/12/30/medicaid-changes-discussed-bevin/78064514/
I have never seen a number of these pics. thanks for this, TOD. Nobody else would inform us about the existence of these pictures.
Sad, but so very true!
Not a big fan of The Young Turks but enjoyed this video thanking President Obama for the good he has done.
Thank you, pkayden.
This tape is sensational. A MUST Watch!! Never mind Cenk. (sometimes pronounced “jerk.”) He hits it out of the park with this one.
Speaking of hitting it out of the park—-Pete Souza’s photographs!!!
I am less happy about the unconfirmed allegations that the WH spied on Congress.
The part of that story that I want to know about is exactly which US Senators and Congresspeople committed treason by collaborating with a foreign government against our own government.
All the media will want to do is bash the President.
Haven’t heard about the allegations of the WH spying on Congress. I find that hard to believe but will wait and see.
Deflect, so the people won’t know that elected officials were conspiring with a foreign govt AGAINST the US. Fuck them!
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-us-israel-and-little-espionage-among-friends
Good article. Puts things in perspective
I agree. The article uses the word sabotage regarding the GOP/Israel/Nuclear deal
Which is precisely what they all intended to do. Sabotage a deal that the major countries of the world agreed upon….more importantly, they acted in a treasonous manner, AGAIN! I would LOVE to know the names of those little POS congresspeople that were actively plotting against the United States…they are evil hypocrites.
Df. as the article implies, it is unique in history for members of Congress to conspire with a foreign government against the United States. If Democratic members of Congress had done this to a Republican president, there would be 24/7 outrage, calls for impeachment, censure and endless hearings. But Republicans consider themselves exempt from all loyalty to their country, all laws and all oaths of office because-contempt for this president overrides any other consideration.
I’m going home and will keep watching the Aretha video until I am able to view it without breaking down & crying. So far I haven’t mastered it.
I have rewatch the whole show and still cried the whole way thru it.
If find it somewhat interesting that the news is pounding the president to put more troops on the ground.
But recently, The moment he announces that Iraq will have 3500 troops on the ground… They slam him for a week.
It’s like they goad him to make a decision, prolly getting a tip from congress that this is what is going to happen.
Then, they opine about it for the week leading up to the decision in writing.
Then, when it’s in writing they slam him for more troops???
Let me get this straight? They want more troops on the ground… So they excoriate him for taking them out.
Then, when the conditions on the ground manifests themselves he announces SPEC Ops troops, and they freak out!
I’m so confused.
Please help? Lol
Happy New Year Jovie! Hope your yellow lab is doing well :)
Likewise…She’s good . She’s still naughty every so often… She chewed up my New England Patriots hat I got for x mas.
She seems to think that things I like are hers to Chew?
😩😩😩
You know very well, Jovie
PBO always too little too big too soon too late
All the GOP wants to do is OPPOSE.
Savita is such a cutie pie!
So endearing! Lovely pics of our President interacting with his cute little niece.
Thank you, meta. I’ve always loved that first photo of him with Sevita and the dandelion. She’s such a big girl now and so adorable.
:) I know I’m gonna get lambasted for posting this gentle ‘minder, but I don’t care! :)
The Scy-Fy New Year’s Twilight Zone Marathon begins even earlier this year starting at 7PM today!! (Dec 30), and continuing right thru Jan 1.
So folks, stop whatever you’re doing…cancel your New Year plans, and park out in front of your screen for an exciting 48 hrs of nonstop Twilight Zone fun!!
:O :O
Actually pf58, the Marathon is extended until Jan 3rd (an extra 36 hrs worth of fun)….that should make you even more excited than you obviously already are! :)
lololol
Actually….i did not watch Twilight Zone that much…i was …should i say ..a lil fearful…but there are 3 episodes that have left a lasting impression…
there was an episode in which a person’s punishment for wrong doing was that a mark was placed on their forehead and no one could speak to that person for the duration of their punishment..they were essentially shunned…if was as if they did not exist….if you did speak to them you would be punished as well….this person suffered greatly….but soon his time was up….after he was received back into the community he came across a person who was suffering as he had been….he made a decision to speak to that person..even though he knew he would be punished..
there was an episode in which a man was being punished by being placed in a room where there were mountains of books….he thought that this was an odd punishment because he greatest joy was to read…..but somehow his glasses got broken…and without his glasses he could not read….
an episode…in which a bigot was transported back in time to Nazi Germany….he found himself wearing the insignia of a Jewish person….hiding from the nazis….
But considering the important decisions that await the electorate in the coming year – both nationally and statewide – consider one more suggestion for self-improvement: Become more politically engaged in the coming year.
Pf, politically engaged also means actually bothering to learn the facts when events occur, not running with any rumor or half-baked lie that fills the air waves. Those who reach out to voters need to be armed with information so they can counter the ignorance and the fears. Taking the time each day to become informed pays off in big dividends when it comes time to GOTV and vote.
yes it does..
Each year I think that Pete cannot top himself with his end of the year in photos posting, but I think that the photos selected this year are the best. I also enjoy the tone of his descriptive comments that accompany each one. My favorites are the ones that feature PBO with his daughters, his niece, and his favorite baby girl Ella Rhodes.
My favorite pictures are those that feature with Malia, Savita, and Ella Rhodes.
I just saw this on my facebook feed and wanted to share it.
Stunning, indeed!
Could look at them all day!
Luvvie has weighed in on Aretha at Kennedy Center Honors.
Aretha Franklin is Every Older Black Woman at the Kennedy Center Honors
Awesomely Luvvie — December 30, 2025
Last night was the airing of the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, saluting Rita Moreno, George Lucas, Cicely Tyson, Seiji Ozawa and Carole King.
Aretha Franklin performed “Natural Woman” to a standing ovation to honor Carole. President Obama and FLOTUS Shellie were getting their entire good times because the Queen of Soul can’t help but slay. She even moved Barack to tears. She is legend and she has been on more stages than she can count. She can literally do this and leave everyone hollering IN HER SLEEP.
LAWD..when Shaun King is trending on Twitter, I know it’s not for good reasons.
He wants LeBron James to sit out the season and this is going to force the police to make an arrest in the Tamir Rice murder.
smh/
Every time I try to load rest of the pics, it says the web server crashed. Anyone else had that problem?
Everyone of these pictures is swoonalicious! I especially like the ones with Malia. They make me wanna go smother my Dad with hugs and kisses. ❤️
4th from the bottom - Boop! 😄
I’m watching August Rush for the umpteenth time, tissue box close at hand. 😭
Vote!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/30/photos-of-the-year-october/