February 2009
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US President Barack Obama (L) walks with first lady Michelle (R), daughter Sasha (2nd L) and an unidentified friend walk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before their departure on February 7, 2009 for the Camp David presidential retreat where they will spend the first weekend for the first time. AFP…
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TV producer/writer Mara Brock Akil and successful old coot/comic, Bill CosbyBoth “Girlfriends” and “The Game” creator, Mara Brock Akil and comedian, TV pioneer, resident “Old Man Who Doesn’t Care What YOU Think Anymore” Bill Cosby both gave their takes on how Barack Obama’s presidency would affect the number of African Americans on scripted television. Naturally,…
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US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet the audience as they attend Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s performance entitled Fiftieth Anniversary Highlights at the Kennedy Center in Washington on February 6, 2009. AFP PHOTO/YURI GRIPAS Date Night for President and First Lady Obama came Friday night as the two visited the Kennedy…
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President Barack Obama had a few words over the stimulus Thursday and a Democratic retreat in Virginia. He grabbed the Bully Pulpit and shook hit hard, perhaps hoping some compromise would break out. Instead, it became an off-the-cuff, verbal smackdown of his opposition. A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and…
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First lady Michelle Obama, listens to her husband, U.S. President Barack Obama, speak at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, February 5, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)New York Times writer Judith Warner gets into the psychology of those who have both healthy, unhealthy and borderline devastating emotional attachments to the First Couple — even though…
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A ton of Obama insiders (as well as the Obamas themselves) were invited to the 50th Anniversary Gala for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, but … gosh durn it … they were too busy making change, so I had to settle for this picture of DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and his wife, Michelle. It…
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Not since President Barack Obama’s “Pastor Pickin’ Problems” have I seen so much hubbub and dust up over the bevy of political appointees for whom April 15th is just another day in the spring. First Timothy Geitner had his tax troubles (although got “Grandfathered in” as the first one to eff up), then New Mexico…
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