Barack Obama Archives

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend the United We Serve volunteer event at the Fort McNair fitness center on Thursday (June 25) in Washington, D.C.

Michelle, 45, spoke at the event that loaded 15,000 backpacks with books, healthy snacks and toys for children of the men and women of the armed forces.

“Economic recovery is as much about what you’re doing in your communities as what we’re doing here in Washington - and it’s going to take all of us, working together,” the First Lady says in a video message on Serve.gov. “So, wherever your interests lie - whether it’s working with young people or caring for the sick and elderly in our hospitals, or helping to make the homes in your neighborhood more energy efficient - or any other issue, the most important thing is for you to get involved.”

Other pictures include the Obama family during the luau for members of Congress and their families on June 25 at the White House in Washington, D.C.

25+ pictures inside of Michelle Obama: United We Serve!

Check out this cute new portrait of the Obama family dog, a Portuguese water dog name Bo Obama.

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia and Sasha welcomed him into the White House on April 14th. Here’s a few little known facts about the pet pooch:

– Bo’s name came from two different places: Mrs. Obama’s father’s nickname was “Diddley” and Malia and Sasha’s cousins have a cat named Bo — and another cat named Diddley.

– Bo was a gift to the Obama family from Senator Ted Kennedy and his wife, Vicki.

– Even though Bo is a Portuguese water dog, he doesn’t know how to swim! More Here! »

President Barack Obama reflected on what fatherhood means to him and wrote down his thoughts. Read his original piece at Parade.com.

On Tuesday, a fly intruded during Obama’s interview with CNBC correspondent John Harwood at the White House. Obama swatted the fly and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is not happy, so they sent him a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.

“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”

Watch fly-killing President Obama below!

Jon Voight blasted President Barack Obama at the Republican congressional fundraiser dinner at the Washington Convention Center on Monday (June 8) in Washington D.C. Here are snippets from the 70-year-old actor’s fiery speech:

“Are we supposed to sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new Holocaust? Who’s going to take the responsibility to keep America, I mean Israel, safe. I’ll tell you why this really scares the hell out of me. Everything Obama has recommended has turned out to be disastrous.

“It saddens me greatly to think we were the great powerful good in the world. We as Americans knew America to be strong. We were the liberators of the entire world. We are becoming a weak nation.

“Obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken Julius Caesar. He think he’s going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk and really think he’s going to bring all of the enemies of the world into a little playground, where they’ll swing each other back and forth.

“We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression. Let’s give thanks to [Republicans] for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet, Obama.”

First Lady Michelle Obama does some clothes shopping at the Bonpoint boutique with daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, in Paris on Sunday (June 7).

(See pictures of Brad Pitt shopping at Bon Point with daughter Shiloh.)

The Obamas traveled in a 30-vehicle motorcade as they went shopping on the Left Bank and Champs Élysées.

President Barack Obama flew back to the U.S. but his family is staying an extra day.

20+ pictures inside of Michelle Obama getting down to Bonpoint business… More Here! »

First Lady Michelle Obama joins husband President Barack Obama, French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Caen Prefecture on Saturday (June 6) in Caen, France.

The two couples attended the commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in Normandy, northwestern France.

“As we face down the hardships and struggles of our time and arrive at that hour for which we were born,” Mr. Obama said during a solemn tribute. “We cannot help but draw strength from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow able to swallow their fears and secure a beachhead on an unforgiving shore.”

25+ pictures inside of Michelle Obama hailing the D-Day heroes… More Here! »

First Lady Michelle Obama looks fashionably casual as she visits the Eiffel Tower with daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, in Paris on Friday (June 5).

President Barack Obama arrived in France to attend the D-Day celebrations to mark the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in France, leading commemorations attended by thousands of Americans on June 6 at the ceremony above Omaha Beach, where more than 9,000 US troops fought and died in June 1944.

10+ pictures inside of Michelle Obama @ the Eiffel Tower… More Here! »

President Barack Obama appears on The Tonight Show and is interviewed by Jay Leno on Thursday (March 19) in Burback, Calif.

During the interview Leno tried to compliment the president’s bowling score but Obama said, “It was like the Special Olympics or something.” The White House quickly issued a statement and said Obama’s remarks were, “in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics.”

On his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to apologize before the program aired Thursday night. “He expressed his disappointment and he apologized, I think in a way that was very moving,” Shriver told Good Morning America today.

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