First Lady Michelle Obama In Milan: A Great American Ambassador

First Lady Michelle Obama and First Daughters Malia and Sasha Obama depart from Stansted Airport, England

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First Lady Michelle Obama arrives with her daughter Sasha and Malia at Malpensa airport in Milan, Italy.

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Italian & American middle schoolers helped the First Lady demonstrate how to cook a healthy meal in Milan. #LetsMove http://t.co/ADPVt9e8EW

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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) June 17, 2015

No matter where in the world we live, we all want healthy, nutritious food for our families: go.wh.gov/5ZMiKr #Expo2015

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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) June 17, 2015

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The First Lady is in Milan to meet with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife.

The First Lady and the Presidential Delegation will visit the Milan Expo 2015, tour the USA Pavilion at the Expo and participate in activities to promote efforts to support healthier families and communities.

With the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” the Expo Milan is promoting a global dialogue about the future of our food system.

The USA pavilion is titled “American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet,” and it showcases American leadership on global food and development issues, science and technology, climate change, nutrition and health.

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Read the First Lady’s Q&A in @La_Stampa on why she’s in Milan for #Expo2015 to help promote healthy eating: bit.ly/1QEPTgO #LetsMove

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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) June 17, 2015

Check out who's in Milan as part of U.S. Delegation to #Expo2015: @Mariobatali ✓ @CarlaHall ✓ @SweetGreen ✓ + more! go.wh.gov/5ZMiKr

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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) June 17, 2015

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First Lady Michelle Obama talks at James Beard American Restaurant in Milan, Italy

First Lady Michelle Obama with Mario Batali

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First Lady Michelle Obama, Former Miami Heat basketball player Alonzo Mourning, a member of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition; Chef, writer and restaurateur Mario Batali pose with Italian and American middle school students in Milan, Italy

First Lady Michelle Obama is welcomed by Prime Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini, as she arrives at the Santa Maria delle Grazie church to see Leonardo’s masterpiece “The Last Supper”

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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with Ester Renzi

First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama walk in Corso Como shopping street in Milan, Italy

The Dreaded Picnic…..

President Barack Obama attends a picnic for members of Congress on the South Lawn of the White House. The annual summer event was revived this year after being pushed back and then canceled last summer

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Yes. Elections Do Matter

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Yep, elections matter: PBO watches as AG Lynch is sworn in, using Frederick Douglass’ bible, by Justice Sotomayor http://t.co/GckvLHyJoW

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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 17, 2015

Pride

On chasing the “Archie Bunker voter”

In case it hasn’t been made painfully clear, the Democrats seeking to succeed Barack Obama as president have no time for his coalition.

First, Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee, urges the President to “take advice” from Nancy Pelosi on the TPP trade deal. You know, just like her husband did when he was in charge. Oh, except, Mr. Clinton didn’t. Call me confused, but I thought that, aside from sheer incompetence or malfeasance, the members of a president’s party were supposed to take leadership from him, not nip at his heels over every initiative.

Then, of course, we had Senator Bernie Sanders opining yesterday that black Americans needed to stop voting based on race. The sheer audacity of this statement is mind-boggling. There would have been no Democratic wave of 2006, or two Obama landslides, without the African American vote. And these same African Americans, before the arrival of Barack Obama, voted in almost lock-step for every tired-ass white Democratic candidate which made it through the primary meat grinder. Were blacks voting based on race when they voted for Al Gore or John Kerry?

That was insulting enough. But that was just the shot. Here’s the chaser. Sen. Sanders then went on to say that Democrats had to regain the “working class vote”.

Let that sink in. A sitting United States senator, caucusing with Democrats, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, an avowed socialist, made a distinction between black votes and working class votes. In his mind, the two are mutually exclusive, not overlapping in a Venn diagram. Blacks over there, working class over here.

President Obama showed Democrats how to win. And it wasn’t by slavishly pining after the “working class vote”.

Let’s call that vote for what it is: white voters who left the Democratic coalition in droves after the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and have stayed away ever since then, generation after generation giving its allegiance to the GOP.

Investiture Ceremony for Attorney General Lynch

10:30 EDT: The President delivers remarks at an investiture ceremony for Attorney General Lynch

Early Bird Rise and Shine

On This Day: President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron visit with students while touring Enniskillen Primary School in Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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Today (all times EDT)

10:30: The President delivers remarks at an investiture ceremony for Attorney General Lynch

3:45: Meets with winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring

6:25: Delivers remarks at a picnic for Members of Congress; South Lawn

* The First Lady is in Milan where she will meet with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, and visit the Milan Expo 2015

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From Yesterday

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President Obama is briefed on response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, during a meeting in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 17, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Obama greets hospital workers while visiting wounded service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2011 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Obama talks with housekeeping staff outside of a lodge at the Lough Erne Resort during the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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MoooOOOooorning!