President Barack Obama stands alone in the Green Room before speaking at the White House Summit on Community Colleges, Oct. 5, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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The only adult in the room 
A most satisfying photo of The President
THIS IS THE VERY BEST I’VE SEEN YET ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. IT IS A SHAME THAT THERE ARE SO MANY BIGOTS STILL SPOUTING THEIR LIES AND DISRESPECTFUL COMMENTS ABOUT THIS GREAT MAN. WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR AMERICANS TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE ?
What a marvelous presentation. I hopeit gets more circulation, quickly.
Norman I. Eichberg
Besides my father who has gone on, you are one of the greatest men I’ve ever known.
Mr. President – you are exactly what that title should always represent and definitely what our country needs. Strenght, compassion, intellegence and true grit!
As a professor at a 4 year university, I know the value of community colleges. Our 4 year insitutions focus on research and while that is not wrong, it often does not meet the needs of our students. More often than not, students talk about resenting professors who use TAs to teach while they go off to write yet another article no one will read and will not make a difference in anyone’s life.
I am inclined to agree. I focus on experiential learning..imparting skills as well as theory…community colleges are key to moving our country forward out of economic stagnation. Tenured faculty at 4 year research institutions will find they are left behind when it comes to real world applications if they do not soon embrace experiential learning as a equal partner in higher education.
What a blessing to have a President that truly reflects the best values of our country, one that works everyday to achieve the promise and potential of our nation and one that addresses the needs not only of our most favored nation but one that has a worldly vision and the determination to realize that vision.
And boy can he dress………
Thank You MR.President you represeny us WELL continue the Great Work And Compasion
What a beautiful presentation. I am sitting here in tears as our beautiful President is portrayed in his humanity, humility and forth-rightness. Thank you so much.
A thousand words.
You make me very proud to be an American! When I see you I smile; when I hear you speak my chest fills with pride because we have a well spoken, well educated, thoughtful individual to call the President of Our United States!
Thank you for a job well done.
No matter what else happens,history has been made, and will never be erased.
For the greatest country in the world to be filled with so many people full of hate & bigotry ,STILL, is a sad thing to me. A house divided will fall.There’s nop escape from that in politics or in any other arena.
All I can say is for me and my house, in the name of The Lord God,and in my prayers daily,
PRESIDENT Barak Obama, I salute you!
President Barak Obama:
A Man who Inspires in a culture in our United States of America where we have few models.
A Man with A Vision greater than our self serving goals.
A Leader whose ego is fed by purpose, a belief in abundance, and a goodness that reaches out to all people.
A Leader who understands the common power of all human beings and cultures and believes that cultivating not oppressing is key to world peace.
A Person who is not afraid.
A Candidate who will have my help again in 2012. I’m planning my life around this work. I urge you to set your calendar accordingly. It’s time once again to step up. Four more years of President Barak Obama will set our country on a path that is essential for us to be a global participant. Losing President Obama will set us back thirty years insuring the United States a mere subplot in the 21st century.
Small people have small minds. When we read the stories of history, with all the adversities that all great people suffered, we tend not to realize that it is only in hindsight that many people recognize the value and greatness of the persons that ran the race before them. Few are the ones that supported them in the moment. But such is life…darn! Our minds are so overcome with a spirit of ungratefulness that we cannot see another person’s effective contribution when it is directly before us. It makes us feel better to say unpleasant things about them. With a criticism should come a suggested better solution, but alas! these are far and few between. I wonder if that is because they cannot operate at his level, so they feel better to throw stones?
I have never been more proud of a President of our nation than I feel for this man. I have been around 88 years and I feel optomistic about our future.
Beautifully said, and perfectly to the point.
I Feel so much pride when I look at this picture of our great president. President Barak Obama, JOB WELL DONE!!! God Bless You.