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Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, center, holds the autographed basketball given to him by President Barack Obama following their Oval Office meeting Tuesday, July 28, 2009, to discuss the outcomes of the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Looking on at left is Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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abbyladybug says:

Haha. So cute!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

marie-ll says:

:-)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Kooklamou - Massachusetts, USA says:

Awesome shot!!!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

inflictfreedom says:

Well done, happy serious.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

vini.floripa says:

2 points?
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

artbuste2000. says:

Il faut surveiller les touristes. Ils sont bien capable de voler le ballon du Président.
www.webmarchand.com/ballons_de_basket_ball.ht m
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Bukanza says:

Really nice picture - love the expressions.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

ready aim click(Happy New Years!) says:

From downtown!!! Swish! Obama is a baller!!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

© David J Peacock - www.davidjpeacock.ca says:

I love this stream. :-)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

G r e n says:

gotta love this prez
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

M’sheArt❤2♪ says:

'~[)) cute
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

kaisangtenzin says:

Free Tibet!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

666isMONEY ☮ ♥ & ☠ says:

Can't read what it says on the ball but U can see the President's last name and campaign symbol nicely painted on.

Love the premier's smile. Hope they lend U$A some $$$.

One of my flickr friends is in China now sending back awesome photos. He's going to "Qingdao, 600 km. from Beijing, by nighttrain some 15 hours of travelling, where a former student of mine, invited me to be his VIP guest at his wedding."
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

kevenqu says:

姿势不错！
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

-fCh- says:

The US-Chinese train has left the station long ago; we are only checking the roadmap and recalculating the schedule now.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

xieqiang.li [deleted] says:

haha, two actors
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

That's a MAN? At first glance I thought she was a woman.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

索空 says:

糾結。
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

PirateLemur says:

That ball is going to, or is worth a lot of money.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

caribdis_77 says:

"The jump shot, Wang, is a serious thing. Keep your eye on the basket; elbows in; release at the apex of your jump. Use your legs, not your arms. Nothin' but net."
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Doug Bethune says:

The Vice Premier needs to remember to keep that right elbow tucked in...That is unless he's taking jump shot lessons from Walter Berry.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

natsncats says:

Hoop it up, Mr President! Cool shot ;-)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

sawyerlaw says:

Spalding endorsement?
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

canaltowntraveler says:

Confused, Is Qishan a center or in the center. Is this a new form of diplomacy... Leader basketball, international issues decided by a pickup game, love the concept.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

arndsan アーンド　さん  says:

Obama go!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

pjarc says:

bea
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

سنا الفضه ~ says:

Fantastic image!
Please add this photo to

"ســـــنا الـفضــــه - Sana Al Fida Awards"
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

zécarlos[ ô ]unroyal says:

I don't think Vice premier is a good player...

Nice shot indeed.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Gruddy says:

yeah,thats it!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Balliolman says:

An unusual memento! :)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

blakmagic says:

That's our President! No shot goes uncontested. ^_^ Perfect photo as always.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Aly's New View [deleted] says:

That's so cool! Hoping we get to see some pics of Detroit Shock at the White House! Canada loves you Mr President!! :)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Beth Wales says:

A Great candid shot. Well timed. Love the expressions.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Nazra! says:

don't break anything sir.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

Look MA, I went to the White House and all I got was this stinking basketball.
All you raging liberals can relax, I am only making a joke like Letterman. hehehehe

Actually, during the meeting NO issues were decided
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

*Rosemea says:

Smiles;-))
I love the expressions!!

XOXOXOXOOX
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

gleek.net says:

i want to know what obama is saying here. is he giving tips on how to play? :)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

picsure photography says:

Better get pretty friendly quick! We're all going to be speaking Chinese one day anyway. They own nearly half our national debt... and when they come to collect and we can't pay up... hello United States of Chinese Corporate Interests!!!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

Yep! The Chinese have us in their pockets and they know it
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

BlueStates says:

What a great ambassador we have in Obama.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

sn00py78 says:

It looks like Abe in the painting approves (and maybe a little jealous).
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scott Smith (SRisonS) says:

Amazing capture!!!!

--
Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Kyle Kutuchief says:

Obama is definitely teaching him how to shoot properly. Great shot.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

hmf284 says:

Obama's "3 pointer for the troops" (on Youtube) is the best shot ever!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

parandole says:

good and good
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

Black Panthers taking over: Soon we will have Big Brother in our homes telling us what to eat, what to wear, what to say, just as Chinese have been doing for decades to their people. Is it any wonder real Americans want to protect themselves with an arsenal of guns.

therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/k lein-gates-l...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

freeuyghur says:

Free Uyghurs!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

forgetfulmare1 says:

oh, thanks for mentioning abe; totally missed that.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Rsqr says:

Sino-US is gonna shape the 21st century, no doubt.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

FanFan 凡凡  says:

Lovely!!!!!!:)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

porchlife says:

Put ears on it and it's as big as bama's head. I'd rather have an IPod with his speeches. Then I could erase them and put something decent on it.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

WinaVD says:

Everything running well ? Awesome shot!!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

Thank you Pete Souza, such a wonderful photo!
We love you.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

porchlife says:

Vitalissue! Are they paying these people to comment on these photos?
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

porchlight, Some of them are "Sockpuppets" The same people with different names.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

jdog1063 says:

Obama:
Now remember, Vice Premier, I wanted to be a professional basketball player, but wasn't good enough. So, I decided to settle on President instead.

Vice Premier:
Hmmmmm . . . applooval lating only at fitty puhcent as Plesident, too!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

Laugh out loud, jdog10...: I like humor. Even on this stream.

But it is a G o r g e o u s photo...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

666isMONEY ☮ ♥ & ☠ says:

All his enormous spending is going to destroy our country there won't be any government left in four years. We will all be in ruin. Nothing left for our children.

I believe that . . . it's really gonna hit the fan when the price of oil shoots up again, soon!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

elephantsgerald says:

This totally looks like three pointer tips.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

小大仙2009 says:

这个篮球应该是made in china！哇哈哈o(∩_∩)o...哈哈
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

edjane obama says:

Great!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Ninja Weasel says:

He looks even more like an arrogant, patronizing man here than usual.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

jdog1063 says:

"He looks even more like an arrogant, patronizing man here than usual." - Ninja Weasel

Nope, this is his normal look. The other pictures in which he appears less arrogant and patronizing are attempts at posing!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Mona Loldwoman Happy New Year says:

They all look happy with each other, somehow comforting.
Feels better.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Qahne says:

Ninja Weasel says:

"He looks even more like an arrogant, patronizing man here than usual."

Who? Our Puppet-Ruler, or the Chinese Vice-Premier? If you operate on the frequency of the informed, you'll choose the former.

--Kimmy
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

tyrussmalley says:

How do I get one of those sweet Obama basketballs?
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

nubludust says:

that's a sweet shot
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

Let us take corruption OUT of our government!

www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_with_Bill_Whit tle/__Beyond...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

My view: just like the Basket ball game,

Life = always in Motion.

Barack Obama is here to make us grow.

Some people see it as their Vital Issue to stay in
their comfort zone...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

ready aim click(Happy New Years!) says:

Yes sir!! I love your view on things Chris ;-D
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

S Chris, what do you think of the SEIU (Obamas goons) making threats on ordinary citizens lives....you know the citizens, the ones who are against spending Trillions of dollars we don't have?
If you say you don't know about that , then you are not living on this planet Earth. You are in another orbit.

I have been on the receiving end of threats myself in flickr e mail from the slobbering fools that crawl around smelling Obama' seat cushions on this photostream..

So excuse ME if I limit who can post on my photostream.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=10365

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
The bills being rushed through Congress will be paid for largely by a $500 billion-plus cut in Medicare over 10 years. Knowing how unpopular the cuts will be, the president’s budget director, Peter Orszag, urged Congress this week to delegate its own authority over Medicare to a new, presidentially-appointed bureaucracy that wouldn’t be accountable to the public.

Since Medicare was founded in 1965, seniors’ lives have been transformed by new medical treatments such as angioplasty, bypass surgery and hip and knee replacements. These innovations allow the elderly to lead active lives. But Emanuel criticizes Americans for being too “enamored with technology” and is determined to reduce access to it.

Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, agrees. He recommends slowing medical innovation to control health spending.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

Vitalissue: there is a law called "action and reaction" in this universe. When you use inappropriate style and language on a forum where people come with delicate feelings towards a public person, you should have expected some indignant reactions...
Stefaan
PS. You have a fine new buddy icon.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

Vitalissue: it is a good thing you come with elaborate standpoints now. The concept that western wealthy countries have a tendency to use to much and much too expensive technology in their medicine world and health care, you know, is existing in our country (Belgium) too. And some great minds like prof. Piet Nijs, react against the de-humanising results of these treatments and this underlying concept of life, of the human person. In the context of palliative care, it is a key idea that we have to take care of the dignity of the person and the dying process int he first place, not to try and "win'" every possible hour of life, using technology. You never saw these poor people surrounded by tubes and machines? In the USA you have a perfect antidote: the attitude towards death held by the Native Americans.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

The problem with health care iinsurances is that there tend to be a herd of people (sometimes doctors) who milk the system, to the expense of the Country and the tax payers!
You can believe Barack Obama that it can not be an option to stay in your actual system: it is "milked" evermore, and will be crushing under its own cost in a few years; those evolutions are predictable by experts.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

S Chris

1. The milker is Obama.....Milking people with rationed health care and bankrupting our country.

2. Is there something wrong with my buddy icon? Do you want to take that away from me?

3. NO ONE has the right to threaten a person with their life. Reaction or not! However we have the right to defend ourself from persons who want to.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

666isMONEY ☮ ♥ & ☠ says:

The Wall $treet plutocrats bankrupted our country with the Commodities Futures Moderinization Act, which Clinton stupidly signed on one of the last daze of his Presidency.

How do U afford Health care? Were U a good slave to a corporation for 30-years always paying Ur 30-year mortgage on time like a good slave or are U rich so U can afford to pay thousands of dollars/year for health care?

Medical/pharmaceutical mafia is what it is.

". . . For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; and by thy "sorceries" (φαρμακεια = assortment of drugs) were all nations deceived. -- Apocalypse 18
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijspoort says:

@ Vitalissue: I am sorry if somebody threatened your life. That is terrible; I did not understood that from your message. (Your icon is lovely, I mean it!)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

S Chris, Thanks for your sentiments, I appreciate that.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Valerie Hadoux says:

Just Excellent and funny !!!...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

S. Middlebrook says:

@ Vital can you post some of those threats so we call all see who sent them? Did you report them?
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy New Year 2010 says:

Of course middlebrook, they are reported promptly
The matter is being looked into.

Why? are you worried middlebrook? For some reason the threats have seized since I posted about them here.

I also notice the SEIU hoodlums are not showing up at town halls, hitting on folks at meetings. I wonder why they were at the town halls since they are not at all effected by Obamacare.
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

S. Middlebrook says:

No I not worried. Why would you even ask that? I have done nothing wrong, so why should I be worried?

As much as I think you need to get a grip and quit attacking people, everyone eles needs to follow the rules ALSO.

See, if someone show the least little kindness to you, you throw it right back in their face. I feel so bad for you, so filled with hate as you are.

And I notice you keep attacking people, do you think you need to stop?
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Peeceful says:

American basketball, an international sport. These guys know how to connect. Soooo cool!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

fingaroll says:

"You might have Yao Ming... I'll give you that. But we invented the game AND we got Jordon, LeBron & Kobe... so there!"
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

fingaroll says:

"... oh, and one more thing... I will elevate over you and jam on you."
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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