PHOTOS The Tourist (Pyramids!)

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President Obama with Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass

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President Barack Obama watches White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and presidential aide Reggie Love pose on camels during a tour of The Great Pyramids of Giza June 4, 2009 in Giza, Egypt.



President Barack Obama at the pyramids near Cairo, Thursday, June 4

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Short video here: http://www.politico.com/singletitlevideo.html?bcpid=1155201977&bctid=25292090001

Obama and Pyramids = coolness factor on 10. :)

:toast:

Yes, We can.


:hug:

:shrug:

http://www.politico.com/singletitlevideo.html?bcpid=1155201977&bctid=25292090001

Ax and Gibbs look hot and uncomfortable, maybe its time to take off the white shirts and wear short sleeves. LOL

Obama always looks so cool and at ease wherever he is. The man was born for this job.

The way they went on about his date in New York, I fully expect them to blow this completely out of proportion too.

Aaaaiieeee!

Thanks for the pics.

go see the Sphinx and the pyramids!!!!

Wasting money with all his own travel plans... He should be in Crawford cutting down a tree.

Anyone who hasn't seen Crawford hasn't truly lived.

two of my favorite things in the world in one photo!!!
Thanks so much for these.

Awesome! Just awesome!

Imagine having a "guided tour" like that ~ I wonder if GW would have even bothered to honor these treasures.

Our President knows how to care and recognize history and give it meaning.

Just these pictures would help young people/adults from all over the world want to visit.

Love it!

PS/ I had an treasured Aunt that traveled all over the world. She always sent me postcards from each place with the same message --
" You must see this some day."

When she returned from Egypt during the early '50s,she gave me a beautiful ring that I recently gave to my God Child. I still remember her giving it to me and telling me... " I am giving you this ring because I want you to have wanderlust."

Needless to say, I didn't have a clue but now I do and I call it my magic ring because from that day to this I have wanderlust.

in antiquities

I wish I knew his name but we see him quite often over the years whenever they find something new and when researchers come to visit

President is guilty of promoting PEACE....warlords are hating him...

accompanying our President. Dr Hawass is the premier Egyptologist...

There is so much history in the region...I am so thrilled to
see President Obama viewing this area as a treasure to behold and
preserve and not just something to destroy.


Tikki

What a bum!!! :o)

And he got to tour with Dr. Hawass. Lucky guy.

I can't imagine a better way to see the Egyptian antiquities.

Perhaps enjoying the beauty in a moment of solitude? :D

Thank you Jackeens!!!!!!!

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You do get to go to some cool places and see really neat things. Otherwise, not interested. :)

and all the other cool history in Egypt. :(

DEMAND to be on that trip, LOL.

Maybe they'll go back as a family another time.

the Eiffel Tower, L'arc de Triumphe, etcetera! in Paris, as they are going with the First Lady to France!

:rofl: that was too funny!

Poor Bobby Gibbs is looking sunburned in #14.

I love the first picture and no. 14 has his bodyguards with him Gibbs and Axelrod!!
that first picture Pres. Obama sure looks good!!!

I would love to go to Egypt and Lebanon, alot of history and real good food, I'm Armenian what can I say!!!

"how dare he not wear a suit?!? how unpresidential of him! why isn't he as formally dressed as his companion, who is sporting a fabulous formal denim suit?!?"

... on the tomb wall when he said "that looks like me! Look at those ears!"

Wait until you all see it, it seriously looks JUST like him. You would have thought a modern graffiti artist (Shepherd Fairey? lol) had been in there just before he went in.

Oh, and notice how he's laughing at Rahm and Reggie on those camels in the last photo?

:D

I'm a guy and hetero. but I find him hot. lololol.

Rahmmy fits well with the scenery with his middle-eastern complexion! Gibbs looks a bit uncomfortable, though! :rofl:

I LOVE your picture threads! :)

I bet Obama gets to see things in Egypt that regular tourists would never see. He surely appreciates the culture and history of the place, too. How very excellent for him!

What alternate universe have I entered?!

Jackeens, YOU ROCK!