2014: Madame Soph’s Most Memorable Moments

by Madam Soph

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January 14th

PBO announces NSA reforms, once again demonstrating the difference between actions and words

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February 11th

FLOTUS’ gorgeous dress at the French State Dinner:

 Stephen Colbert was seated next to FLOTUS, the place normally reserved for the First Lady of France:

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February 12

PBO signs executive order raising minimum wage for federal contractors, leading the way for state and business leaders to do the same for workers around the country.

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March 6

PBO’s first of many chess moves as he announces financial sanctions against individuals and entities responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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March 13th

PBO breaks the internet with Between Two Ferns – Healthcare.gov signups surge afterwards

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March 27th

President Obama in Italia

With Pope Francis, President Giorgio Napolitano and, admirer of PBO, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi:

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November 4th

Campaigning with PBO proves to be a winning strategy:

 Running away from a successful, popular President? Not so much:

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November 11th

U.S. and China jointly announce bold agreement on Climate Change and Clean Energy:

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December 8th

President Obama visits the Colbert Report in Washington and delivers “The Decree”

Stephen ended the interview by asking the question,

“Barack Obama: Great President or The Greatest President?”

Stephen’s conservative character usually asks guests this question about GWB as satire, but this time, sitting across from the great President Barack Obama, he was able to ask it authentically

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December 17th

PBO announces new Cuba policy:

Conservative Catholics’  belief in Papal Infallibility is tested:

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December 19

PBO trolls the men of the WHPC….

by calling on 8 women reporters and zero men:

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And finally, the moment Dudette posted this pic of PBO on a well-deserved Vacation…

 Be still, my California-girl heart!

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Happy New Year!

Here’s to 2015, two more years of the Greatest President!

Photo Of The Year: September & October

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Your July Winner:

President Obama greets Emmitt and Pat Smith and family, and Team 22 on the Rose Garden steps of the White House (Photo by Pete Souza)

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Your August Winner:

President Obama during a statement on the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and Iraq (Photo by Doug Mills)

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September

(1) A little girl looks up at President Obama as he talks with wounded warriors and their families in the East Room during their tour of the White House (Photo by Pete Souza)

(2) President Obama visits Stonehenge in Wiltshire in the United Kingdom, after leaving the NATO summit in Newport, Wales

(3) President Obama greets children as he is welcomed by Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn, Estonia

(4) President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive on stage for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards dinner

(5) President Obama hugs Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. who is resigning from his post (Photo by Doug Mills)

(6) Presidents Obama and Clinton backstage at the Clinton Global Initiative (Photo by Pete Souza)

(7) Before being introduced at a White House event to launch the “It’s On Us” initiative, aimed at ending sexual assaults on college campuses, President Obama listens through a door as Lilly Jay talks about being sexually assaulted (Photo by Pete Souza)

(8) President Obama meets with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine in the Oval Office (Photo by Doug Mills)

(9) President Obama greets retired Army Command Sgt. Major Bennie Adkins and family in the Oval Office before awarding him the Medal of Honor (Photo by Pete Souza)

(10) President Obama picks up 13-month-old Larnell Maurice Perry Jr., grandson of Angelene C. Carter, who was killed in the September 11 attacks at the Pentagon

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October

(1) A boy dressed as a college graduate looks up at President Obama as he greets costumed trick-or-treaters during Halloween festivities by the South Portico of the White House