October 23, 2009 – 12:21 pm
The White House unveiled this portrait of the first family this morning (October 23).
It’s the first official White House portrait of the Obamas. The picture was taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama are shown smiling, with the arms of their daughters, Sasha and Malia, draped around them. [...]
October 16, 2009 – 6:09 pm
Kids really do say the darndest things.
Proof? A New Orleans fourth-grader named Tyren Scott was rather blunt yesterday (October 15) when he asked President Barack Obama a question about the current ill-mannered state of politics. “Why do people hate you?,” he asked the president, adding that folks are “supposed to love you. [...]
October 9, 2009 – 1:21 pm
President Barack Obama made his first public comments in the Rose Garden of the White House today (October 9) about receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Saying he was “surprised and and deeply humbled,” Obama added: “To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of some of the transformative figures [...]
October 9, 2009 – 5:29 am
American President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy [...]
October 8, 2009 – 1:55 pm
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama took the kids out to the South Lawn for some serious star-gazing last night (October 7) — but not of the celebrity kind.
This “star party” was meant to encourage kids to take an interest in science, and to that end Mr. and Mrs. O. invited 150 local [...]
October 2, 2009 – 12:21 pm
This is not a good day for the Obamas.
First comes news that the jobless rate has spiked to its highest level since 1983, and now Chicago has been eliminated from the competition for the 2016 Olympics. In the first round of voting, no less!
Tokyo is also gone, so the final vote is between Rio [...]
