The Obamas at a state dinner on March 11th 2016 for the new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
Left to right: Malia Obama, Justin Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, Sasha Obama, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama.
Malia is now 17 (born two months before Google) and Sasha is 14 (born three months before 9/11).
It is hard for me to look at this picture and not see it as the end of a golden age, even though it was hardly a golden age – though it might come to seem that way if Trump comes to power! (Well, compared to most of world history, it is a golden age, at least for the US.)
Source: 2 Fro Chicks.
See also:
- Gratuitous Obama Picture #10 – Malia at 15
- Gratuitous Obama Picture #9
- Gratuitous Obama Picture #8
- Gratuitous Obama picture #7
- Gratuitous Obama picture #6
- Gratuitous Obama picture #5
- Gratuitous Obama picture #4 – Malia and Sasha seven years ago on the night of the first inauguration
- Gratuitous Obama picture #3
- Gratuitous Obama picture #2
- Gratuitous Obama picture #1 – Malia at 10.
- 9/11
The Obama women look resplendent!
I dislike the Prez’s policies intensely, but they have been a good First Family.
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Best looking first family ever!
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Obama gave Blacks exactly what they craved for, an attractive mirror image. Mrs. Obama is no great beauty, but nobody can touch her as far as elegance goes.
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Reblogged this on Mixed American Life.
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Gro jo: What are you babbling about? I just said how good looking they are. Do you have to turn everything into a simple-minded criticism of black people?
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They are a beautiful family.
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Yep. They’re the real life Huxtables.
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paszymanski, Which part of my comment did you object to? His presidency did a lot less than LBJ’s for Blacks, but, damn, they sure know how to dress. If you know better just state your facts. My babbling are factual, what about yours?
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I never thought there could be an African royalty in the White House, but that’s exactly what the picture depicts. The Black women – First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama – look absolutely beautiful!
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The Obamas might just be one of the youngest first families for over or more than 100 years. I don’t see a family younger but not sure about the Kennedys.
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What a GORGEOUS first family!
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Later today I will vote for Trump. Get sensible, good, attractive people back in the White House.
And also, for all observers, Abagond’s worldview is
Africans ruling over Western country = Golden Age
Westerners ruling over African country = Horrible racist exploitation evil imperialist colonialist
Nonwhites moving to White countries = wonderful diversity
Whites moving too Nonwhiecountries = Horrible racist exploitation evil imperialist colonialist
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Good for you. I am voting for Alfred E. Neumann. He will have a better effect on the country plus, he’s cuter!
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@Herneith, I was responding to Michael Cooper, who seemed pleased about having Africans in the White House.
Blacks ruling White countries is no different philosophically than Whites ruling Black countries, and yet to most on this blog Obama is a hero and Ian Smith (Rhodesia) is a villain.
PS: It is spelled Neuman, not Neumann.
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@TeddyBearDaddy
The Kennedy’s would’ve been younger back when John F. Kennedy was in the White House. I believe that Kennedy’s children were only toddlers when he became president.
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a golden age that was hardly a golden age = fools gold.
I say it was a shit age.
http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2015/07/23/under-obama-blacks-are-worse-off–far-worse-n2028985/page/full
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The golden age of Obama. The only black people it benefited were his daughters.
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@ Bobby M
Under Ian Smith, Whites owned most of the land and held most of the top positions in government – the same as in the US under Obama! Obama is at best a fig leaf or water boy for the White power structure.
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@ Bobby M
What were your main reasons for voting for Trump?
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What were your main reasons for voting for Trump?
Probably his hair-do.
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@ Bobby M
You are bringing here a false similarity.
Obama is President of the USA by the will of its people, expressed two times in the last 8 years.
Ian Smith was never elected Prime Minister of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) by the population of that territory. At best he represented the will of the White minority of that country at that time, putting aside the will of the majority of the population living there.
A more similar recent case of a White individual who was leading a majority Black country is Guy Scott of Zambia. See following link
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zambia/11196185/How-Guy-Scott-became-Africas-only-white-president.html)
The important point here is consent. Is that leader – of a different color – being there with the explicit consent of the majority population of that society, or, is he/she there ruling only by force?
Obama and Scott are/were there with the consent of the respective populations of the USA and Zambia, respectively. Ian Smith was there because the local White minority so wanted and the Black majority could not, temporarily, make his wishes be heard.
From those differences follow many consequences. For example, it’s not a coincidence that the cabinet of Obama has more White members than Blacks or non-Whites, despite the fact that Obama is himself not-White. The same for Guy Scott’s cabinet in Zambia: has more Blacks than Whites, despite the fact of Scott being White! On the contrary the Ian Smith’s cabinet at the time has never had a Black member. It was a White only minority government.
It is not that strange to find similar situations in other countries of this world.
Look at the recently appointed Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa who is not White
(http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/indian-origin-antonio-costa-is-new-portugal-pm/story-P6QIMGFuQBkQ09HtJF7wkI.html)
And in Africa, where mixed race individuals are often seen as not-Blacks, a situation even more similar to the Obama’s – who is also mixed-race – happens sometimes. For example, the President of Botswana, a Black majority country, is a mixed race individual
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Khama)
In all these cases you will not find an uproar because the leader happens to be a person of a color different from the majority population. People will judge those leaders by their deeds and not their color. As it should be, by the way.
Only the racists have a hard time swallowing such situations!
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ERRATA:
In my last comment, where is
the Black majority could not, temporarily, make his wishes be heard.
should be
the Black majority could not, temporarily, make its wishes be heard.
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@munubantu
A well thought out and written rebuttal.
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@nomad
Not entirely true. You forgot about the various Black flunkies, hangers-on and other “assets” to his administration like Rev. Al Sharpton. They really raked in the shekels and basked in the reflected glow of their patron.
To them it was a short but very sweet golden age.
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and i’m gonna remember every one of them
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@Afrofem
They say everything can be replaced
They say every distance is not near
So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here
Yonder stands Obama in this lonely crowd
Man who swears he’s not to blame
All day long I hear him hollering so loud
Just crying out that he’s not to blame
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The Obama girls growing up fast (as teens so often do)
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@nomad
Yeah. I’m sure his memoirs will be filled with, “ohhhhhh, it’s not my fault”.
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@Afrofem
any day now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCn8IC5RpE&w=420&h=315)
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@ nomad
Thanks for the link.
You are a true Simone fan. I’m only now learning to appreciate her lyrics.
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@Afrofem
“Yonder stands Obama in this lonely crowd
Man who swears he’s not to blame”
“Yeah. I’m sure his memoirs will be filled with, “ohhhhhh, it’s not my fault”.”
You are right. The hollering has already begun. Check out this article.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/03/18/obamas-plea-for-validation/
“he whines to Goldberg that he is somehow caught in a web spun by “the Establishment.”
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@nomad
Thanks. I liked the lack of sentimentality and fawning in the essay.
“Obama’s overall stance is one of dissociation from his own administration and its conduct….This can be seen as the soon-to-be-memoir writer’s attempt to cast himself as detached statesman while distancing himself from errors made… It suggests that he has been playing the role of participant-observer while in the Oval Office. Moreover, it conveys his sense that somehow the words he utters are equivalent to actions. Indeed, a feature of his presidency has been a frequent mismatch of words and deeds which never get reconciled…That raises a cardinal question: is this honest reflection or a characteristic flight from accountability?”
This essay brings up the very real possibility that The Prez has been deluding himself as much as he deluded his followers. Hmmm.
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“Man who swears he’s not to blame”
Used to have Melissa and Chauncey nem to do it for him.
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Is he planning to escape to Dubai?
http://www.eutimes.net/2016/01/top-us-admiral-fired-for-questioning-obama-purchase-of-mansion-in-dubai/
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^^^^^
That’s a white supremacist ‘news’ site.
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@Herneith
Thanks. Good to know its just a rumor. About as unlikely as an Admiral being fired for watching porn.
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“Obama’s recent visit to South Africa when the 94-year-old Mandela was hospitalized created a golden opportunity for analysis and a questioning of long held assumptions about both men. The personal triumphs of these two individuals have not translated into success for Black people in either of their countries.”.
Margaret Kimberley.
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@taotesan
Margaret Kimberly is a pretty astute writer.
Good to see you writing again!
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I like the Obamas I won’t apologize for that. I will miss them. I enjoyed seeing him tango in Argentina.
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I love Obama and his family and I will miss them all. One of the greatest presidents ever.
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDBsi1-BZqo)
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I will say this and it’s gonna piss some people off. If either Hillary or Trump becomes president I’m gonna be missing the Obama’s.
It’s just going to be years of animosity and scandle.
Obama did things I didn’t like but he also did things I did like. I also think that as a couple they did a fine job raising their children. The pictures of Obama with his wife and kids have always showed a strong family man and family values.
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