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Hope he gets some sleep!



President Barack Obama arrives on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 in Washington after returning from an eight-day European trip and a five-hour visit to the Iraq war zone.

[Bicoastal]

1. WOW. He looks tired...

...but honestly, I can't remember a Presidential overseas trip where more got done.

[elleng]

2. WHERE'd you get this PIC???

Been wishing and hoping and waiting and dreaming . . . .

[Undercurrent]

4. Day Life

http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/photos/1/grid

It's good that he's hope but I have never seen the man look so tired, and worn out. It was an intense, packed trip with a world of pressure. I heard he was fighting a cold the whole time he was in Europe too.

[elleng]

6. Yes, he does look tired, but travel does that to everyone!

Esp the way he did it: If its Wednesday, this must be Strasbourg! And beginning with jet lag, right into meetings! I heard the cold at his first news conference with Brown. Hope its gone now. Hope he can get some rest! GOOD that he doesn't have to drive to work!

[elleng]

7. Thanks.

Welcome Home, Sir.

http://www.daylife.com/photo/02eD5bnfxo2x1

[willing dwarf]

3. The exhaustion shows

You can see the weight of the world on him here. I don't look forward to seeing the ravages of the office on him. His youthful appearance as a Senator and a candidate may be recalled by us all as "the good old days." or perhaps more rightly as "the good young days."

You can see the work he's been doing just there in his posture and on his face. God bless him!

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Hopefully he ages well.

Though I don't know a president who has. I mean, even Bush looked trashed when he left office. Kennedy was bloated, but much of that was the medication he was on. Reagan looked old when he was elected and even older when he left.

The worst, though, was FDR. I mean, I always think of Roosevelt as a grandfather figure to America, but the guy was only 63 when he died.

[Ken Burch]

8. And a still-vigorous 50 when he was sworn in.

You can see what those thirteen years did to him:


in 1933



in 1945