Forever Beloved

Crowd cheers for @BarackObama as his motorcade departs the Museum of the American Revolution. pic.twitter.com/b5YO54tOF0

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) August 20, 2020

Democratic National Convention: Night 2

Michelle Obama: Rockstar!

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

As Michelle said, we’ve got to do everything we can to elect @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. So make sure you have a plan to vote. Vote early. And tell everybody you know to register to vote at https://t.co/XdZz4dh82T. https://t.co/rAUsWHusbV

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 18, 2020

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Love you, MO ❤️

— Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) August 18, 2020

Confirmed: Michelle Obama's "vote" necklace was made by Black-owned jewelry brand ByChari.#DemConvention https://t.co/wDUVUYSwux

— Jenna Amatulli (@ohheyjenna) August 18, 2020

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.@MichelleObama speaking truth to power. Donald Trump is not up for the job—but @JoeBiden is. pic.twitter.com/UDCCofB0Rv

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 18, 2020

"Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head...it is what it is."#DemConvention pic.twitter.com/OArXv15lVV

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 18, 2020

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I want to live in the country that Michelle Obama believes we can be.

— L. Joy Williams (@ljoywilliams) August 18, 2020

It really is extraordinary that the two greatest political communicators of our time fell in love. #DemocraticConvention

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) August 18, 2020

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Listen to Michelle Obama: “We’ve got to vote early, in person if we can. We’ve got to request our mail-in ballots right now, tonight, and send them back immediately and follow-up to make sure they’re received. And then, make sure our friends and families do the same”

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 18, 2020

.@MichelleObama is just the best. Full stop.

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 18, 2020

“I Know Joe”

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Obamas: Pure Gold

These Outtakes From The Obama’s First Christmas Address Are Gold pic.twitter.com/bNMXTMzFij

— Marie Claire (@marieclaire) December 24, 2018

May 1st

The White House, seven years ago tonight: pic.twitter.com/AiTV0b27L2

— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) May 1, 2018

May 1, 2011 pic.twitter.com/fdcxvJDFN6

— meta (@metaquest) May 1, 2018

President Obama: Truly The People’s President

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Here’s the full text of President Obama’s essay:

In the evening, when Michelle and the girls have gone to bed, I sometimes walk down the hall to a room Abraham Lincoln used as his office. It contains an original copy of the Gettysburg address, written in Lincoln’s own hand.

I linger on these few words that have helped define our American experiment: “A new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Through the lines of weariness etched in his face, we know Lincoln grasped, perhaps more than anyone, the burdens required to give these words meaning. He knew that even a self-evident truth was not self-executing; that blood drawn by the lash was an affront to our ideals; that blood drawn by the sword was in painful service to those same ideals.

He understood as well that our humble efforts, our individual ambitions, are ultimately not what matter; rather, it is through the accumulated toil and sacrifice of ordinary men and women – those like the soldiers who consecrated that battlefield – that this country is built, and freedom preserved. This quintessentially self-made man, fierce in his belief in honest work and the striving spirit at the heart of America, believed that it falls to each generation, collectively, to share in that toil and sacrifice.

Through cold war and world war, through industrial revolutions and technological transformations, through movements for civil rights and women’s rights and workers’ rights and gay rights, we have. At times, social and economic change have strained our union. But Lincoln’s words give us confidence that whatever trials await us, this nation and the freedom we cherish can, and shall, prevail.

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The White House inspires some of its inhabitants: https://t.co/5xrd5phASW pic.twitter.com/JzVjdEZlo0

— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) August 1, 2017

Fourth Congress Of Indonesian Diaspora

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Today, @BarackObama met with young Indonesians in Jakarta and learned how they're making a positive difference: https://t.co/50Fb2DbWq1 pic.twitter.com/IZBhdfTDB3

— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) July 1, 2017

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"My time here made me cherish respect for people's differences": Obama pushes tolerance, respect in Jakarta https://t.co/ZufVkVFH5E pic.twitter.com/VVStuCI8JT

— ABC News (@ABC) July 1, 2017

Huge cheers for @BarackObama as he quotes "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika" motto in call for unity during visit to #Indonesia https://t.co/0BB0J1o4Ho pic.twitter.com/KBFEdJvHHD

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 1, 2017

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Apple Keynote Address From First Lady Michelle Obama

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