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Dec

Rise and Shine

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: Barack, Daniel, hawaii, Hirano, Inouye, irene, memorial, Michelle, Obama, photos, President, service, widow

President Obama hugs Irene Hirano Inouye, widow of the late U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, after she receives the flag that draped his casket at his memorial service, Hawaii, Dec 23

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MoooOOoooOOooorning everyone. I hope you’re very impressed: I almost have the February photos video made, which gives me a whole week to get the other 10 done.

Equally impressive, you’ll agree, is that I have all of this afternoon to get all of my Christmas shopping done. I vowed to be more organised this year than last, I think you’ll agree I’ve succeeded.

So, chat away and I’ll be back later with a very, um, seasonal February video and my presents bought.

Sep

christie’s after someone’s job. (pete souza’s)

By Chipsticks 57 Comments

Categories: All Videos
Tags: Barack, camera, chris, christie, funny, governor, hands, hurricane, irene, jersey, new, Obama, paterson, photo, photographer, President, to, waybe, woman

Thanks Terrick

Sep

comfort zone

By Chipsticks 78 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: Barack, chris, christie, comforts, girl, governor, hurriance, irene, jersey, new, Obama, paterson, photos, President, video, wayne, woman

President Barack Obama comforts residents in a neighborhood hit with flooding from Hurricane Irene in Wayne, N.J., Sept. 4 (Top photo by Pete Souza)

Sep

paterson, new jersey

By Chipsticks 205 Comments

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Tags: Barack, chris, christie, hurricane, irene, jersey, new, Obama, paterson, photos, President, visit, visits

People cheer as President Obama’s motorcade travels through Presidential Boulevard in Paterson, N.J.

“I know that there’s been some talk about whether there’s going to be a slowdown in getting funding out here, emergency relief. As President of the United States, I want to make it very clear that we are going to meet our federal obligations – because we’re one country, and when one part of the country gets affected, whether it’s a tornado in Joplin, Missouri, or a hurricane that affects the Eastern Seaboard, then we come together as one country and we make sure that everybody gets the help that they need. And the last thing that the residents here of Paterson or the residents of Vermont or the residents of upstate New York need is Washington politics getting in the way of us making sure that we are doing what we can to help communities that have been badly affected.”