Barack Obama 1979 prom pics published in TIME magazine.
Oh and it gets better. This is the note Obama wrote to his date:
Kelli,
It has been so nice getting to know you this year. You are extremely sweet and foxy, I don’t know why Greg would want to spend any time with me at all! You really deserve better than clowns like us; you even laugh at my jokes! I hope we can keep in touch this summer, even though Greg will be gone. Call me up, and I’ll buy you lunch sometimes ###-####. Anyways, good luck in everything you do, and stay happy.
Your Friend,
Love
Barry Obama
Picking the right guy to play Obama, that was the challenge, I mean, who is Obama really? We don’t know. We never got his transcripts and they say he’s kinda aloof. So I needed someone who could really dive in and really become Barack Obama and as it turns out, the answer was right in front of me all along: Daniel Day Lewis. He becomes his characters – Hawkeye from ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ and Bill the Butcher from ‘Gangs of New York’ and Abraham Lincoln in, ‘Lincoln’. And you know what? He nailed it. - Steven Spielberg (x)
Repeatedly interrupted by applause, Mr. Obama asked his audience to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination and justice that Israelis enjoy.
“Put yourself in their shoes - look at the world through their eyes,” he said. “It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents, every single day. It is not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It is not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; to restrict a student’s ability to move around the West Bank; or to displace Palestinian families from their homes.
“Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer,” he said. “Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land.”
He asked the audience to consider what kind of long-term future they want for their country, invoking the words of Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli military leader and prime minister who steered the country through multiple wars with Israel’s neighbors.
“It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel,” Mr. Obama said, quoting Mr. Sharon. “If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we will lose it all.”
The New York Times, “Obama Lays Out Case for Israel to Revive Peace Talks” (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/middleeast/obama-lays-out-case-for-israel-to-revive-peace-talks.xml?f=19)
I’m actually sitting here, crying as I read this. This is what I have wanted to hear from the US government for years. There is a distinct reason why almost all of Obama’s predecessors (rock on, Jimmy Carter) have failed as mediators in the Israeli peace talks: they have all taken sides with Israel. One of the big reasons why I voted for Obama was because he does not blindly support the Israeli government. He is not afraid to be critical of the Israeli government and as simple as that sounds, it’s what the region has needed for decades. This is only a start and these are only words, but I hope like hell the right people stop behaving like hawkish, douchebags and do what’s best for their people. Because enough is enough.
Today In Black History: February 6, 1990 - Harvard student Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review; this role is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.
In 2010, third-year Harvard Law student and Review editor Stephanie Grace circulated an email that began “I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.” The email was forwarded to the entire Black Law Students’ Association.
The Harvard Law School has been described as a “racist breeding ground,” and Stephanie Grace’s email represents just one of many more incidents that still contribute to a hostile climate for students of color at Harvard Law and other college campuses nationwide.
President Obama on the dangers of playing football, in an interview with The New Republic published today. We had an extensive discussion about the sport’s toll on its players — and the morality of being a football fan — with a former NFL player and the widow of a former player on Saturday’s Up w/ Chris. (via upwithchris)
That’s why football is having an “existential crisis.”
(via think-progress)
UGGGHHHH, THESE TWO
Good Morning ♥ ‘s!
It’s such a GRAND Historical Day Today! Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Happy Inauguration Day, and 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom! We’ve come a loooooong way baby; can’t stop, won’t stop now! Steady forward…
Watch President Barack Obama’s second inauguration here starting at 11:30am ET:
Four years ago today, I watched President Obama take the oath of office from a hospital bed at St. Luke’s Roosevelt, exhausted and very sick. They held my procedure until after Obama’s speech and I wore my Obama t-shirt into my procedure. I remember thinking it could only get better from that moment on. And did they ever. Today, I’m sitting next to my best friend and roommate, full of optimism for the next four years. Four years on, I’m a college graduate, working for an off-Broadway theatre company and on my way to becoming a professional director. Happy Inauguration, all and here’s to another four years of President Barack Obama.
President Obama Responds to We the People Petitions Related to Gun Violence
President Barack Obama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man’s web as he greets the son of a White House staffer in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 26, 2012.
First of all, congratulations. Take a moment to bask in the glow of a victorious candidate…
…done basking? Good. We’ve got some work to do.
