Barack Obama: Fist-Bumper-In-Chief
(White House photographer Pete Souza)
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Mr. Colbert suggested to his fans on Wednesday that he should hop in the race.
“My heart always leads me to me!” he exclaimed. “And I am so not Mitt!” He said he would “go home, sit down and talk it over with my money” before announcing a decision on Thursday.
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life: From John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s nomination acceptance address, now commonly referred to as “the New Frontier speech,” delivered at the Democratic National Convention, July 15, 1960, in Los Angeles:
“We are not here to curse the darkness; we are here to light a candle. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: If we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”
On the 48th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, here, an exclusive look at unpublished, never-seen photos of our 35th president.
A forward looking perspective would be a nice change from much of today’s politics.
President of the United States, Barack Obama, and Sgt. 1st Class Chad Stackpole, Sergeant of the Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., commemorating Veterans Day. (via fordkt:)
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President Barack Obama tours the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) (by The White House)
From this morning’s commute: part of the line waiting for the Georgetown Apple Store to open, with their new iPhone 4s’s.
Other related and unrelated thoughts:
- The line, at 7:25 was just under 100 people, wrapping around the PNC bank onto M Street. Gender balance was about 75% male, although it was much more unbalanced toward the front of the line (where people started waiting at who knows what time), and nearly 50-50 at the part where people had likely been waiting 20 minutes or less.
- Drizzly days, at least ones with pleasant temperatures like this morning’s, make for reflective bike rides.
- In my quest to spread happiness, I got three separate Secret Service officers to nod hello in response to my morning greetings as I passed by the White House. Perhaps that’s because they’re into the habit of politely bowing to the South Korean delegation that’s staying at Blair House this week. Speaking of which,
- I was detoured on my evening commute last night, due to the South Korea State Dinner at the White House. While it was mildly annoying to have to go a few blocks out of my way (and to have to ride on the sidewalk, to the chagrin of pedestrians), it still felt pretty cool to have my commute detoured by a State Dinner! Perhaps it’s because I’m still relatively new to the bike commuting, but I don’t get those kinds of warm fuzzies when I’m driving and have to wait for a motorcade to pass.
Obama’s Twitter townhall: what Twitter users want to ask the President vs. what reporters asked over the last two weeks. (via boston)
The inside scoop on what all of those vehicles are in The Presidential Motorcade (click through for a larger image).
Marc Ambinder takes an exclusive look into the inner workings of the Secret Service.
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My Mustache for Kids took some inspiration from this portrait of President Grover Cleveland, at the White House last night!
You can chip in by donating to Children’s Hospital at: http://firstgiving.com/jacquesarsenault (or spreading the word). 5 days from the Thursday deadline, we’ve raised almost $25,000 of our $55,555 goal!
Thanks!
In what has to go down as one of the all-time great moments of political image consulting, an 11-year old girl suggested to a fresh-faced Abe Lincoln that he grow a beard. And then he did. The website Letters of Note even has copies of the girl’s letter and Lincoln’s response. Beyond being the cutest historical footnote of all time, Ms. Grace Bedell, had some solid reasoning behind her request.
“I have got 4 brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you,” she wrote, “you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.” [emphasis added.]
