whatever happened the little smilie guy?

Barack Obama at a classmate’s birthday party in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1971:

….well, he turned in to a big smilie guy:

🙂

the time is now

On March 15, President Obama visited Northern Ohio, home of cancer survivor Natoma Canfield, who recently had to give up her insurance after a 40% rate hike. She was invited to tell her story before a crowd with the President but a recent diagnosis of leukemia prevented her from making it. Natoma, along with the countless other Americans in need of quality health care, are the reason health reform is needed so urgently.

lookalike? eh, o……kay

Barack Obama’s impersonator Ilham Anas of Indonesia poses in front of an image of the President after being interviewed by Reuters TV in Obama’s former school, State Elementary School 01 Menteng, in Jakarta March 16, 2010.

healthcare reform: the final push

Strongsville, Ohio, March 15, 2010.