Official White House photographer Pete Souza this week released a 2014 review of President Barack Obama’s sixth year in office. The photos cover moments from the President donning a tiara for his photo op with a Girl Scout troop to a very intimate face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
There is also this.
All captions are from the White House (which also has many more photos).
February 11, 2014
“Ever the gentleman, the President helps the First Lady off the stage after she thanked the White House chefs during the State Dinner for President François Hollande of France on the South Lawn of the White House.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
March 27, 2014
“The President talks with Pope Francis following a private audience at the Vatican.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
March 24, 2014
“POTUS meets Rembrandt. The President looks at Rembrandt’s ‘Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul’ during a tour of the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
May 6, 2014
“Aides laugh as the President swats a fly that was invading his space in the Oval Office.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
May 24, 2014
“This photograph was from the annual White House Science Fair. It shows the President posing with Girl Scout Troop 2612 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I think the eight-year-old girls–Avery Dodson, Natalie Hurley, Miriam Schaffer, Claire Winton and Lucy Claire Sharp–are called ‘Brownies’. They had just shown the President their exhibit: a Lego flood proof bridge project. The fair celebrated the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
June 6, 2014
“The President talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a lunch with other foreign leaders to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France. I’m sure they were talking about a subject matter other than D-Day.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
June 9, 2014
“The President sits for a 3D portrait being produced by the Smithsonian Institution. There were so many cameras and strobe lights flashing but the end result was kind of cool. See the video at this link: http://1.usa.gov/1zhPtAf.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
June 23, 2014
“This was a photograph that went viral when we posted in on Flickr. Lawrence Jackson captured a young boy face-planting himself onto the sofa in the Oval Office as the President greeting his parents–a departing United States Secret Service agent and his wife.”
(Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
July 9, 2014
“The President salutes an Air Force member as he disembarks Air Force One to greet Texas Gov. Rick Perry upon arrival at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The President and Gov. Perry later discussed immigration aboard Marine One en route to a meeting with other officials.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Sept. 5, 2014
“We were at the NATO Summit in Wales when someone mentioned to the President that Stonehenge wasn’t that far away. ‘Let’s go,’ he said. So when the Summit ended, we took a slight detour on the way back to Air Force One.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Oct. 13, 2014
“During a meeting on Ebola, the President and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell listen via speaker phone to Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The President was dressed somewhat casually because it was Columbus Day, a federal holiday.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Nov. 7, 2014
“While walking with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from the Oval Office to a lunch with other Congressional leaders, the President stopped on the White House colonnade to discuss the upcoming Congressional session.”
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Wearing that crown proves that Obama wants to be emperor.
And also that he’s weak. It’s a twofer for the ODS-afflicted, like that infamous picture of him with a cigarette and a martini and an attractive white woman on his arm at a country club that showed him to be both an elitist and an uppity ni-CLANG. Oh, wait that last one was just a “he’s that guy” failed simile Karl Rove pulled out of his ass one time, not an actual photo or thing that ever happened.
I am speculating on that last photo with Mitch McConnell. The President’s gesture and McConnell’s clasped hands suggest that Mitch might be thinking, “I still can’t believe I have to stand here and be lectured by a twice-elected black President.”
Tiara is an All-Timer…
No doubt He and Putin where talking about The Ukraine, and trade sanctions, but I want know is what was he discussing with The Easter Bunny.