ITT-------> PICTURES OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE FIRST FAMILY (no shops allowed)

I didn't start posting here till April of 2009 (I checked). It's very strange scrolling back through this thread to the time just before and after inauguration, when he was still treated as this Great Human Being--nice, but strange.

was he? Morbs' complaints and my sniping notwithstanding, this is one of the few places where he wasn't venerated.

http://i.imgur.com/Z3vxM.jpg

I think if you look at the comments that accompany the photos through most of 2008 and 2009, the tone is very different--veneration would be overstating it, but that great hopefulness or whatever you want to call it is still there. ("'Obama and the 1st Family' should be a new Cartoon Network show where they are all superheroes"..."A wonderful, actually happening in front of you version of Saturn"..."That photo makes me warm inside"--there are others.) You still get the part of the story that I think some people have either forgotten, or were never much interested in in the first place.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/shakes3/girls1.jpg

(No need to start listing his transgressions, which is not the point of this thread.)

I don't know -- it's a bunch of people posting cool photos. It's what ILE is for.

I guess that's what it comes down to: whether you look at the photo above and just see a cool photo, or whether you see something more. Not saying anyone's right, just that we're seeing something different.

I moved to the US in March 2009 and was reading this thread from the start, and I've noticed the same thing clemenza is talking about. There was a sense of delight and wonderment early on.

http://i.imgur.com/qyrr5.jpg

oh damn

haha

all the old presidents should just hang around the whitehouse all the time

http://blog.4president.org/.a/6a00d83451721569e2010536b3ae97970b-pi

looks like Carter was the only one not asked to stay for brews.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03bpeYsgzab3i/610x.jpg

And just to be fair and balanced, one for the National Review to go off on:

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03SAbwY01f6RR/610x.jpg

what in the hell is this.

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/13/12/21/2925692/5/628x471.jpg

"i'm not gonna pay a lot for this muffler"

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/Obama-NATO-football.jpg

john kerry weeps

http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2016766ba5b67970b-550wi

^ shops allowed imo

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/24/us/politics/24jacob-cnd/24jacob-cnd-articleLarge.jpg

Nice slide show.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7743236080_0ce4979888_z.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8428/7743235690_c136bff1a8_z.jpg

i always think of my brother-in-law, maria's brother, when i see O. he's got that obamappeal. good looking. smarter than the smartest person in the room. i always ask him when he's gonna run for office in seattle, but he says he's not interested. but he's the kind of guy you WISH were running things. you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbRAIojUihE

I laughed (even if he wasn't very freewheeling the other night).

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/081/7/6/The_Freewheelin___Barack_Obama_by_Vitamins3.jpg

Pretty sure that's a shop.

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2012/sep12/2012_campaign_trail_sm/campaign_trail_13.jpg

Looks like Pauly Shore in the upper right

good call

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/561464_10151236301514238_2040462366_n.jpg

bitches don't know about my white house

kinda cheating here but i like it
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/10/15/opinion/100000001846077/bronx-obama.html

that was fantastic!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/oct/18/barack-obama-presidency-in-pictures#/?picture=397905795&index=0
so many good photos here

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcu8w7D6qe1rk5df6o1_1280.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A7544poCUAARaUN.jpg

Obama is trill as fuck.

http://i.imgur.com/GrA6d.jpg

President Barack Obama, left, negotiating on details of the upcoming fiscal cliff with House Speaker John Boehner, far right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ml7W5crxZ7k

So Pete Souza's released a new batch of photos from the past year. I was amused by number 12:

After some early morning basketball in Los Angeles, the President talks with the players who included actors Don Cheadle, Tobey Maguire, and George Clooney, along with two of Clooney's long-time friends. Stacy Keibler is also at right

sometimes I get this feeling that conservatives must feel like "Crap - this guy is just way too cool for us to touch"

LOL @ creepy pauly shore photobomb

wow a lot of those are amazing

Is Tobey staying in character for a new role or is he actually letting himself go like 1000%?

http://gawker.com/5977203/can-you-spot-the-differences-between-president-obamas-first-and-second-official-portraits

that was the dumbest link in the world

http://i.imgur.com/rOvfGDZ.gif

oops that was on the inauguration thread

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/22/us/22girls1/22girls1-popup.jpg

11 armed guards just out of frame