Cheat To Win

1. I am infatuated with the woman in the bottom right hand corner.
2. I love that this happened two blocks from my house.

This basically captures all of the zen-like positive energy coming out of the inauguration on Monday for me.

Though executive orders have always been a standard element of the presidency, invocations of dictators like Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Saddam Husseinare becoming commonplace in the right-wing blogosphere. In reality, Obama has issued fewer executive orders than any other American president in the last century.

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My love for him keeps growing when I least expect it.

Proud to do my civic duty. Vote - people died to give you that opportunity.

All y’all are basic bitches. I’m ready to storm this town tonight.

Quoi?

At a campaign event in Canton, Ohio, a supporter of President Obama listened to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The personal is the political. The political is transcendent.

Source: NY Times

Mr. Obama and Ruby Bridges Hall, the first black child to integrate an elementary school in the South, admiring the Norman Rockwell painting of her marching into school, which he hung outside the Oval Office.

Source: NY Times

While some may think it complimentary to be considered “magical,” it is infantilizing and offensive because it suggests black excellence is so shocking it can only come from a source that is supernatural. To accept a black leader who is extraordinary yet so human that he cannot be magical is an entirely different prospect than electing a black superhero. Anyone would vote for a superhero who lived up to my mom’s standard of having to be twice as good. But for it to embrace a nonmagical black person who cannot promise anything but hope, intelligence, sweat and experience, now that comes closer to equality. Equality is freedom from having to be twice as good to get ahead.

Yet again Touré drives home the all too important point regarding the strains put on African-Americans in contemporary society, and why this is election is even more important than the history of 2008.

This photo could not have existed four years ago.

It means a lot to me to see it today.

Nooo! Anna Wintour showed up and stepped in a puddle, and now she’s grimacing! Why wasn’t that puddle drained!?! Heads will roll for this.

Photos have surfaced of the preparations for SJP and Anna Wintour’s fundraiser for President Obama this week.  The dinner (paired with another fundraiser in Manhattan) ended up raising $4.5 million for Obama’s general election campaign, but these photos certainly won’t help the President connect with those families across the country who are suffering in a stalled economy.

In the photo, Mr. Obama looks to be bowing to a sharply dressed 5-year-old black boy, who stands erect beside the Oval Office desk, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels like his. The image has struck so many White House aides and visitors that by popular demand it stays put while others come and go.

As a candidate and as president, Mr. Obama has avoided discussing race except in rare instances when he seemed to have little choice — responding to the racially incendiary words of his former pastor, for example, or to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida. Some black leaders criticize Mr. Obama for not directly addressing young blacks or proposing policies specifically for them.

Yet the photo is tangible evidence of what polls also show: Mr. Obama remains a potent symbol for blacks, with a deep reservoir of support. As skittish as White House aides often are in discussing race, they also clearly revel in the power of their boss’s example.

That is some powerful stuff right there.

The caption for this photo on President Obama’s official Facebook page is “Clear eyes, full hearts.”

BOOM.

When University of Colorado student Madalyn Starkey posed for a picture with President Barack Obama, she had no idea the hilarious image would go viral.

I’m basically in love with this photo, y’all.

Source: Yahoo News