I heard he was in Minnesota so this must've been part of that trip. Very cool.

it was a huge thing having him visit. They had a good pow wow later that day and evening after the pres left, lots of drumming, dancing, socializing.

it on FB, too. I was so enthralled.

Sid

Well done Mr President!

I feel sorry for the next president who follows. President Obama will be a hard act to follow.

Glad you're here! I, too, am very proud of this President. The grace with which he's held up against all of this ridiculous yet nonstop and sadly unchecked/unchallenged/unquestioned - and can still smile, and joke, and speak intelligently off-the-cuff (how'd YOUR imbecile do a decade ago, 'eh, GOP?) is just astounding.

We probably don't see his down moments. I'd guess only Michelle and a few select close friends and advisors see that. It's just stunning how together he is, and continues to be. He will be a hard act to follow - especially when regarded by history. It will be even more impressive, by then, to see what he's accomplished, considering the adversities he's had to face every doggone day! I think he will be regarded overall as one of America's greatest presidents. Too bad he can't get that kind of respect now.

I guess that's just how it is, though. During the horrendous reagan years, you would have thought he'd be next up for canonization forcryingoutloud. It's only years later that a few realists are starting to poke holes in his "legacy" - a true legacy from Hell. The whole idea of "st. ronnie" makes me snicker. These days even the pope disses "trickle-down." And that's how it should be. I thought he was the most dangerous and damaging president in American history - up til dubya, that is.

I agree, it is sad he can't get the respect he deserves today.

What you said.

Thank you. I have felt such rage during these past months that there are so many against our president. It is nice to be reminded that there are others, like you, who appreciate our president too.

President Obama has had a tough job, needlessly made worse by the "others" He has been gracious through it all, shown what true LEADERS do, with class. We have been fortunate to have him in the WH. Now that he does not have to worry about re-election, he is able to do what he REALLY wants to do, when the Supremes allow it. The other side has NOBODY who can come close to "our guy" and they know it.,

Who've they got? Well, plenty of human ticks, fleas, lice, leeches, and cow-pies, certainly. But they have NOBODY who can survive their incestuous, bozo-berzerko primaries who will be also fit for national office.

Hey, American women! Let's all get behind that guy on the far-wrong who yearns more than anything to snatch away your access to birth control! And wants to see you back in the kitchen where you belong, and preferably pregnant for the ninth or tenth time. Or otherwise it's okay for you to go be a minimum-wage worker somewhere. Hey, American minorities! Let's all get behind that guy who thinks you don't deserve the right to vote! They'll be delighted to send you off to war to get your legs blown off so they can have their no-longer-cheap gas, of course. And when that happens, don't you dare bother them about your health care needs, you damn moochers! Every man for himself! Safety net? WHAT safety net! Hey, Latinos? Go back to Mexico. You gays? Well, we all know you just made that up to get sympathy and attention and special privileges and freebies from big-gummmnt! Yeah that's the ticket. Where's my guns? Be back in a few hours - I gotta go parade around in public with 'em so everybody around me knows I'm the New American Savior-Rambo! Oh, and if you're sick - go read the Bible!!! Every man for himself (and the little woman knows her place - to shut up and stay in the kitchen and keep makin' them babies so I'll look like I'm packin' not only heat but some big-time testosterone)! Anarchy FOREVER!!!!!



Yeah! Let's all vote for THESE assholes! Don't they sound GREAT? The ol' red-white-&-blue dream team for sure! Yummy! Certainly MY "dream ticket"! But ironically, they actually must be into science big-time, much more than they let on. Because they've managed to invent the Great American Time Machine - that'll take you straight back to the 50's!!! The 1850s!!!!!!! Turn up the volume - heck, we can aim even farther back than THAT! How 'bout the Bronze Age! Then we can all go ride those dinosaurs in those photos sarah palin told us about! Watch me rope ya one! Where's mah spurs? YEEHAWWWWW!!!

Sorry... these assholes just bring out the worst in me.

And there is a difference between parties.

They're NOT alike. I don't care what argument people make. It comes down to what they DO.

Okay, fine, they're both corporate owned. That's a given until we get money out of politics and overturn Citizens United. Unfortunately, that's what IS, at least for now.

But that said, WHAT DO THESE TWO PARTIES DO - with that backing?

Do we see the Dems out there trying to restrict the right to vote? Do we? Where are they? WHERE are the Dems who are doing and preaching this? Somebody please show me!

Do we see the Dems out there trying to whittle away and take back, outright, a woman's right to have the last word over what happens within HER OWN BODY????? Where? Show me! I can say that 'cause I'm from Missouri. SHOW ME!!! WHERE ARE THEY? Where are the masses of Dems who are actively doing that? WHERE????

Do we see the Dems out there working and conspiring to screw Latinos and immigrants? Are DEMS the ones out there with the guns and the vigilante justice on the borders? Is it the DEMS dragging their feet in Washington DC and refusing even to bring up the question or put it up for a vote? Are the DEMS the ones obstructing any and all attempts even to TRY to develop some workable solutions? Are the DEMS the ones who are hearing from their constituents to screw immigrants and not do anything to help them?

Do we see the Dems doing everything they can to roll back or do away with, outright, the social safety net? Are the DEMS the ones we hear arguing about how we shouldn't have to pay for it? That we don't need it? We shouldn't bother? Nobody should be making us help the less fortunate - freedom-freedom-hate-taxes-hate-gummnt? Are the DEMS the ones who are actively trying to starve the poor by denying them the most meager access to food stamps? And then judging them and deriding them for what they buy with those food stamps, and lambasting them as lazy moochers?

Do we see the DEMS turning the families away who come to Congress to appeal for sensible gun restrictions - bringing photographs of their murdered first-graders from Sandy Hook? Refusing even to meet with them? Or if they do, waxing joe-the-plumber-esque and insisting their rights to have and to hold and even to make love to their damn fucking massacre machines trump YOUR kid's right to be safe in his/her own school? Are the Dems the ones stifling even the barest discussion or study of gun violence in America? We can't even TALK about it?????

Are the Dems the ones denouncing the World Cup as Un-American and a distraction from Benghazi?

Are the Dems the ones in Congress blocking ANY forward movement, blocking any movement at all - like some big crowd of Imodium pills with legs? Preventing ANY legislation, ANY at all, unless it's to try yet again the flaccid release of voting down "Obamacare"? Show me the Dems doing that!

Are the DEMS the ones who threw a hissy fit big enough to shut down the whole frickin' government because they were such Sore Losermen they weren't getting their way? Standing firmly in favor of denying the poor and the middle class affordable health care? 'Zat the Dems doing that shit?

And who's got the hard-on to send us back to full-on shooting wars in the Middle East again, starting once again with Iraq? Yeah, some of 'em were spineless cowardly suck-asses last time but you won't see many of 'em now. If you know of one, SHOW ME!!! I can't find 'em! Only ones doing that are on the other side of the aisle, most of 'em who never served to begin with. Are the Dems the ones with PNAC refugees advising them on foreign policy and stacking up like planes waiting to land at LAX - all ready and eager and panting with near-sexual desire to get back into the Defense Department and the National Security Advisor's offices?

SHOW ME. I wanna see. I wanna know. WHERE are the Dems here? Are the Dems the ones who've wasted taxpayers' money and time and confidence on meaningless scandal investigations that repeatedly and consistently turn up NOTHING?

Are the Dems the ones denouncing the very idea of government and proclaiming themselves "sovereign citizens" or some other bullshit that declares they and only they are The Law unto themselves?

Are the Dems the ones you'll hear proclaiming they're not scientists but somehow they still know that climate change is just a scary fairy story that some meddlesome liberals made up to keep all the Joe-the-Plumbers out there from having a good time (freedom-freedom dontchaknow!)? Is it the Democrats who want all the restrictions removed on polluters and the oil barons and the frackers and strip-miners, and want to do away with the EPA? Where? Point them out to me!

Are the Dems the ones turning their noses up at an increase in the minimum wage, STILL claiming we've gotta give all the goodies to the rich because THEY are really the "job-creators" when they're all cash-hoarders and hiding their money offshore and in fancy tax shelters so they don't have to pay their fair share. But hey, we've GOT to keep helping those who don't need any help! SCREW those who legitimately DO need help - they're just moochers! Income inequality? HAH! What a joke! Something else some nuisance liberal made up to pee on our greed-and-gluttony parade. Besides, price-gouging is America's Favorite Indoor Sport - at least for business. Dems are behind that? Who? Where? Show me!

Are the Dems the ones who insist that their 19th-Century idea of marriage and that you so-called gays are just making it up so you have some special "status" and rights that you don't deserve? HAH! Same for you, too, rape victims! george will says you're just making it up so you can cut in line and get special privileges, too, aren't you? The Dems are the ones fully invested in that, too? Where are they? Show me some!

And that's just part of it.

You STILL wanna try to sell me on the idea that there's no difference between the two parties?

decent, compassionate and hard-working again in my lifetime. Most important, I hope we get a Congress with a majority like him.

Welcome to DU LLD!

K&R

appreciate about President Obama. But, this is awesome!

Mike Lillis: Democrats: No Bluff, Obama Will Go It Alone On Immigration

"The Obama administration is “not bluffing” in its intent to take executive action on immigration policy if House Republicans don’t act soon, top Democratic leaders warned Thursday. President Obama has delayed any potential changes to his deportation policy to allow House GOP leaders time to bring legislation to the floor this summer. But if the Republicans don’t act in July, the Democrats say, unilateral changes by Obama are inevitable. “We’re at the end of the line,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. “We’re not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act."


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We'll see who gets the last laugh.

Great photos. Thanks for posting!

The Cowboy and Indian Alliance camped out on the mall in DC, though we were very happy to be joined by Neil Young (pretty cool).

I hope Pres. Obama stands with them to reject the pipeline.

When will he stand with Labor like this? What about our indigenous steel workers?

I salute the Prez for paying respect to our NA Brothers and Sisters.

At the same time your comment is inescapably very true.

if you ask me. I really like the way President Obama connects with real people, not just the rich and famous like so many in power do

I'm kidding, I'm kidding!

that a president visits there. This was big indeed.

Tikki

Our President rules!!

Never mind the small stuff, he's the greatest!!!

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hau, kola (or oops, manske) (I am quite rusty, can not remember the gender, sorry0

Love it!

!!

Whatever the disagreements I have about some of his policy decisions, I'm very glad that as a leader he takes time to acknowledge those that his predecessors neglected. And he elicits an excitement in people when he visits that I haven't seen for any other president in my lifetime.

he recognizes all the cultures and peoples that make up what we are and knows he is the president for everyone.

I'm all about out President. He fights the good fight DAILY in the face of boobery and disenchantment, right wing idiots, obstructionists, bigots, racists and the ever present hatred of the ignorant Gohmerts. God Bless President Obama!

This president has pulled off more "off schedule" visits than any other president that I've known. It tells you a lot about him. Sometimes is scares me because there are a lot of unpredictable people out there. Yet, it's the feel good episodes in this man's life, such as this moment, that is never reported in MSM. Why is it always the "doom and gloom" that makes the news and none of the feel good stuff?

It would be a pleasure to meet him and thank him in person. It was cool he visited that reservation.

to get to go and be there for this auspicious celebration!

A wonderful 1st rate couple, indeed!

The lies, opposition, distorted realities etc. He faces & overcomes are incredible!

Thank You President Obama for all Your work, tenacity, sensitivity and pure love for the USA & all our citizens as well as the positive effect You've had on the rest of the world!

POTUS & FLOTUS Obama

First Americans, Native Americans… Forgotten Americans.

Good on you.

Despite the efforts of the Ku Klux Kl...excuse me, I meant the Republican Party. And their weak kneed "Democratic" accomplices.

I remember how ashamed we all were to be Americans just 6 short years ago.