Photos: "Duty, Honor, Country" (The Obama Presidency, Days 488-490)

[Clio the Leo]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/24/long-gray-line">Video: The Long Gray Line
President Barack Obama stands at the commencement and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Saturday, May 22, 2010. At right is West Point Superintendent F.L. Hagenbeck.




Sorry Army people, but it doesn't matter how many troops he's sent off to war, you just cant give a Democrat a weapon and expect him to be excited about it. Next time, try a BOOK about weapons.
President Barack Obama holds a sword presented to him by class president Arron Conley during a commencement and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. , Saturday, May 22, 2010.


President Barack Obama congratulates Class President Arron Conley


President Barack Obama greets Elizabeth Anne Betterbed, who graduated with the highest cumulative cadet performance score,













Supporters of Democrat Colleen Hanabusa listen to live entertainment at the Hanabusa campaign headquarters, May 22, 2010 in Honolulu. The special election for Hawaii's First Congressional District seat takes place today between Hanabusa, Democrat Ed Case, and Republican Charles Djou with Djou favored to win the seat. The victory would be an embarrassment to Democrats given that Obama was born in the district. Case and Hanabusa have struggled to gain any footing amid intense party infighting.




Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou, left



Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) after she presented him with a letter from US President Barack Obama alongside US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) during the opening session of the second round of the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 24, 2010. The US and China opened two days of high-level talks due to cover a wide range of issues including tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship, blamed on Pyongyang.



President Barack Obama is introduced by Father Vien Nguyen, pastor of Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in New Orleans, which has been helping with the Louisiana Gulf Coast oil spill relief effort, as he hosts a reception to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 24, 2010.




See! Artwork!!! Folk art even!!! NOW he's HAPPY!
President Barack Obama holds up a quilt presented to him by an audience member as he hosts a reception to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 24, 2010.






Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth





The exterior view of Solyndra Inc. in Fremont, Calif. , Monday, May 24, 2010. President Obama plans to tour Solyndra, Inc. , a solar panel manufacturing facility, on Wednesday. Through the Recovery Act, the Department of Energy offered a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, Inc. , to support the construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its proprietary solar photovoltaic panels.



A hermit crab is covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead on the beach of Grand Isle, Louisiana May 22, 2010

[Cha]

1. Thank you, Clio..the photo-journals

are appreciated.

[inna]

2. Jingoism/Militarism sucks. Actually, worse, it kills.

:kick:

[blogslut]

3. Margaret Cho!

[Clio the Leo]

4. I thought the same thing....

.... the caption doesn't say one way or the other. (But if you think it's Cho, works for me!)

[blogslut]

6. It's her

http://twitpic.com/1qp3wk

:hi:

[ShortnFiery]

5. Does anyone know if our Rug took pictures at their protest of this speech?

I'd like to see those pictures Rug if you're out there? :hi: