A lovely end to a testing day…..

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After today, depressing and all a read as it was, maybe Charles Pierce was right: President Obama “should have run for president of a better country than this”.

But, there’s always hope:

Deal reached on background checks for gun purchases politicalwire.com/archives/2013/…

— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) April 10, 2013

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(Almost the) Full concert:

happy thanksgiving, b&m

The song, ‘God damn you’re beautiful’, is by Chester See – you can see his own video here

And bless him, he’s an Obama supporter – when I first used his song in my (now deleted) YouTube account he left this comment: “I am Chester See and I approve this message.”

embrace

President Barack Obama embraces First Lady Michelle Obama as they wait to speak at a rally on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, Oct 17, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

flashback …. watching him watching her

Barack Obama watches his wife Michelle give a speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 2008