Auma Obama, sister of President Barack Obama, introduces him
President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Safaricom Indoor Arena in Nairobi. He laid out his vision for Kenya’s future, and broad themes of U.S.-Kenya relations
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#obamaleaving Just a few more hours and my little brother is about to head off again. Hard for us but we are warmed by having had him here.
President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with civil society leaders at the YALI Regional Leadership Center
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President Barack Obama waves as he departs for Ethiopia aboard Air Force One from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya
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President Barack Obama waves as he arrives at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. He is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Ethiopia
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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn greets U.S. President Barack Obama
As Stephen Colbert says goodbye to one chapter tonight, we remember that beautiful moment heshed a tearon November 4, 2008 when Senator Obama became President Obama.
Don’t think I ever posted this before, it’s an ‘exchange’ between Irish politician Michael D Higgins and that Tea Party-loving hatemonger radio guy Michael Graham on Irish radio from May 2010.
Don’t miss the last 5 seconds 😉
You can hear the full 21 minute interview here, if you’re interested.
Michael D Higgins was elected President of Ireland last year.
President Barack Obama presents a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Aug. 12, 2009
ThinkProgress: Of all the candidates vying for the GOP presidential nomination, Rep. Michele Bachmann perhaps has the most colorful record of flubbing historical facts … today, on the right-wing Christian attorney Jay Sekulow’s radio show, the congresswoman evinced a far more disturbing lack of basic knowledge about world history. Specifically, Bachmann said the American people are worried about “the rise of the Soviet Union.”
Apparently no one’s told her that America’s one-time Cold War nemesis has not existed for 20 years:
BACHMANN: What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward. And especially with this very bad debt ceiling bill, what we have done is given a favor to President Obama and the first thing he’ll whack is five hundred billion out of the military defense at a time when we’re fighting three wars. People recognize that.
In December 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 separate countries. It’s hard to believe Bachmann that the American people live in continued terror of an “evil empire” that no longer exists.
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