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President Barack Obama plays peek-a-boo with Maeve Beliveau, the daughter of Director of Advance Emmett Beliveau, in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 30, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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tangledstrings says:

I love all the pictures of the President with children. There's so much reciprocal joy in their interactions.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

callie anne (Callie) says:

adorable!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

stevej_1960 says:

Great shot. I agree with tangledstrings; President Obama seems to have a wonderful repoire with children. The presence of children at the white house over the last few years seems kind of sad, Sure there have been children, but the toddlers seem way too under-represented and they bring out the innocence in most of us. Perhaps an hour or two a day with toddlers should be a requirement of our leaders.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

andres_azpilicueta says:

Tender propaganda, he is about to open the drawer and sign the act to buy another gazillion bombs, as every other president.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

leslie.hawes says:

Very sweet photo. Love the candid shots.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Oh Nuts says:

Cute
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Mahnaz Ahmed says:

wonderful!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

I am Sina says:

this is great! Is that Mr. Souza's reflection in the mirror?
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

rmcarrier1 says:

Fantastic shot.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Mona Loldwoman ( Happy Holidays) says:

Great capture of a candid moment. Mr Souza.
A lovely heart warming moment.

@ I am Sina , I think it is.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Ahmed Awad Ellaban says:

i like it
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Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Kiki FL says:

Does it get any better than this? Fantastic!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Nu2photography says:

Awesome shot.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

bigsassysmurf says:

sooooo cute : )
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

*Summer's Rose says:

He hasn't forgotten to be a daddy...I adore this!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

tunde4 says:

Priceless, precious, I love Obama!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

triviazheng says:

president is the best father
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

radiant star says:

So cute.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Heike 1964 says:

so cut and I love how the president plays with children. He is a very good father.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

halstatt1 says:

This is one president who is comfortable with children of all ages. They truly respond to him. So sweet!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

*Roseméa MacPherson says:

Adorable!
XOXOXOX
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

DianeMerced says:

Lovely photo.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Denis Collette...!!! says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vision Quality Group / Invite only, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

...champagne... you're on P5 ...!!! :)
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Scott Smith (SRisonS) says:

VERY cute capture!!!!

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Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

lat454205 / Lisa says:

I'm showing my age...

There's something about this photo that reminds me of John John Kennedy ( I know it's a little girl ) when President Kennedy was in the White House.

This is really a sweet shot.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

yeoldeblackhippie says:

beautiful
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Eugene Savenko says:

Great shot, and interesting man! :-)
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

field hockey says:

nobody is afraid of obama,he is a to friendly/nice for this game.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

bananajode says:

Awwwww...how cute is this??!! :-D
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

pjarc says:

bellissimo momento
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

smallwon says:

It is wonderful to have a real, down to earth man and father in the White House. I appreciate his efforts and applaud him.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Theresa Thompson says:

What a treasure for this sweet little girl to have.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Niklas Plessing says:

exquisite
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

iwillglo says:

too tooo toooo cute!!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

kisstheraingirl12489 says:

some of you need to put politics aside regardless of whatever political party you're part of. this is adorable whether you agree with obamacare or not. Lighten up, he's not a devil.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Michelle Miramontes says:

precious scene
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Victoria Shade says:

I adore this photo.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

fourfeetflying says:

I agree; what a wonderful moment to capture! You know, he IS a man and a dad, too...It's nice to see that in our leadership.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

ruizspieces26 says:

wow, wow, WOW!!!! I love seeing a man with so much power play with the innocence of a child. Very nice picture. :)
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

jdog1063 says:

Obama:
Where's President Obama?

Maeve:
Dat's what Mommy and Daddy say when day talk about Afghanistan!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

OBAMA for 2012!! says:

What a great mind you have jdog1063, you should go into the movies!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

motivsucher says:

Very cute!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Flag in distress 11/04/08 says:

What will the future hold for our children:
So far, we have more than an alarming 10% unemployment"

This, from Financial Armageddon>
Fraud in non-financial sectors? Say it ain't so. Well why should auditors and management be committed to truthful accounting if the example set by our powers that be is to deny, deny, deny

[They] don't want to change the bankers, because if we do, if we put honest people in, who didn't cause the problem, their first job would be to find the scope of the problem. And that would destroy the cover up....

Geithner is ... covering up. Just like Paulson did before him....

These are all people who have failed. Paulson failed, Geithner failed. They were all promoted because they failed....

Until you get the facts, it's harder to blow all this up. And, of course, the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts....

[Question] Are you saying that Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others in the administration, with the banks, are engaged in a cover up to keep us from knowing what went wrong?

[Black] Absolutely....

They're deliberately leaving in place the people that caused the problem, because they don't want the facts. And this is not new.
anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://ww w.financiala...
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

sweetie pie2001 [deleted] says:

Flag in DisTROLL you can turn yourself on and off depending on the situation. Caring on this photo but vile and disrespectful on all the others. You need an academic award for being such an actor!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijs says:

The fact that this man that is now a president of a large country, has once been a fatherless boy, of mixed descent, with a heroic but often absent mother... and that he is now still in contact with the child in him, able to play, while he carries the load of the trouble of countries and peoples from around the globe, and is able to discuss these issues with the leaders of those countries, isn't this a miracle by itself?
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

DaQueen70 says:

So adorably cute!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

tunde4 says:

Flag, everything you are describing is the result of Bush's presidency. The Bush and Cheney duo with their ill fated advisers ran this country to where it is (and trust me, it would be much worse had it not been for the intervention from Obama).

You need professional help. Get it. Bring your checkbook, you will need it.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

gairid1791 says:

Flag, you should bring this to one of the poklitical blogs--this is a place to discuss the photography, not ideology.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Sumi-L says:

the photographer wears a suit and tie?
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

fuzzylogic55 says:

:)))
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

tsevis says:

Lovely photo!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Flag in distress 11/04/08 says:

Obama told the kid....It's all about me and you have to learn my song mmm mmm mmm Barrack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GG33pvJ4o
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

MmmaryE says:

Beautiful photo... real.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Flag in distress 11/04/08 says:

Guess WHAT? Super stimulus...saves more jobs than actually exist!

Beware all ye who doubt the power of the super stimulus. The Associated Press documents the proof.

President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

OBAMA for 2012!! says:

No I don't want to guess...
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

s h e is f r a nk says:

thats where they keep the presidential m&ms..
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

mcbfly says:

Cute!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijs says:

Sumi, nice to meet you here again. With your sharp hawk eye... ;-)
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

edjane obama says:

wow,so beautiful...i love this!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

lalasiy says:

Wow:) the people that take these pictures have the best job in the world :)
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Michele Brutti says:

:)
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

John-F says:

this is so cute. thanks for sharing these intimate photos of the President with us.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

We-Present: Travel-UggBoy-The-Photographer! says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called THE BEAUTIFUL GROUP!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

fondant.com says:

Aw. I love this. Thanks for posting it.
patricia
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

denebola2025 says:

Love it!
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

BlueisCoool says:

What an incredible shot - God bless the President!

Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Scrutinizer says:

Barry must have mistook the tot to be a foreign king or emperor....bah haha
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Inevitable2 says:

SAVANNAH, Ga. – An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.

Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, 21, claims she had no choice but to refuse deployment orders because the only family she had to care for her 10-month-old son — her mother — was overwhelmed by the task, already caring for three other relatives with health problems.

Her civilian attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Monday that one of Hutchinson's superiors told her she would have to deploy anyway and place the child in foster care.

"For her it was like, 'I couldn't abandon my child,'" Sussman said. "She was really afraid of what would happen, that if she showed up they would send her to Afghanistan anyway and put her son with child protective services."

Hutchinson, who is from Oakland, Calif., remained confined Monday to the boundaries of Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, 10 days after military police arrested her for skipping her unit's flight. No charges have been filed, but a spokesman for the Army post said commanders were investigating.
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Flag in distress 11/04/08 says:

Peek a boo, don't look now but recovery.gov is reporting BOGUS JOBs

The problem with Recovery.gov is not human reporting error, but an error of human design. Highly trained professional economists don’t agree on how to tell when a job has been “saved or created” yet the Obama administration expects a Kentucky shoe-store owner to accurately create such data? “Just throwing in any number.” That just about sums up the accuracy of Recovery.gov. And the usually compliant mainstream press is beginning to notice.

The Washington Examiner has begun tracking stories from established media outlets on bogus job claims made by the Obama administration and they have already identified 75,343 fake jobs out of the 640,000 that the Obama administration claimed. You can track Obama job fakery from around the country on the Examiner’s interactive “Bogus Jobs” map here.
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijs says:

Thank you, Flickr memeber Inevitable 2, I read the news on single mom soldier Hutchinson too. I was moved.

I would like to talk politics for a moment here. That is what the president is good at. It normally is not my strongest side.

But if I remember well, both the Irak war and the Afgan war have been started on false or not so valid grounds: there where no rockets in Iraq; the need for revenge after the attack on Manhattan was not very honorable and should by now have come to an end.

Some say the Taliban need to be countered.
Is Afganistan a close allie with historical ties to the USA? Like England or Belgium for instance? (The historical ties with UK are so close and important that the president wears a white tie on protocol when the British Queen comes on official visit... ). THEN it would be appropriate to go there and help the foreign nation to sort out problems indeed. But what are Americans doing in a far away country with exotic culture like Afganistan? Please. Why are you sending single moms to that mountains and plains and urban area's to go and be killed? It is clear that your presence there is not bringing peace. Your military presence is a factor that is causing distress.
I would like to tell president Obama that to me his decisions on these two far away wars are the real criterion that will show me who Barack Hussein Obama is today. I have never understood why Barack Obama is not more firmly against those military engagements. Thank you.
Stefaan Hublou, Leuven, Belgium
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

neil k. says:

Is there anyone Obama won't bow to?
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Scot Patrijs says:

... This wonderful Man is like a diamond: he has so many brilliant sides...
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Flag in distress 11/04/08 says:

Yep Scot, Little butterflies come out of his mouth when he speaks and a pot of gold appear at his feet. La La Land here we come.
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Cicius says:

Very nice shot !
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

andijohari says:

President and child...i hope to the future that kid to be president.
Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )

Jewlicious says:

Nice pic. What's with the abacus in the corner? Guess times are tough, can't afford a calculator??
Posted 8 days ago. ( permalink )

doktor_zoom says:

Someone alert Drudge! Obama's bowing again!
Posted 8 days ago. ( permalink )

Scelia says:

your reflect is in the mirror :D
Posted 8 days ago. ( permalink )

mcbfly says:

Jewlicious, LOL. That's a tray of pens.
Posted 7 days ago. ( permalink )

ready aim click says:

Cute pic, the prez is great with kids.....
Posted 7 days ago. ( permalink )

raodk45 says:

Oh, what a lovely moment
Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )

flickerbug.01 says:

A child is a welcome guest anywhere/anytime. T
Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )

puppies8691 says:

aww!
Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )

suebujam says:

Universal language. Way to go Mr. President.
Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )

ceciliamuy says:

Preciosa foto!!
Además de saludarlo Sr Presidente quería comentarle que en mi Pais Uruguay hay elecciones para elegir a nuestro presidente. El parlamento ya fue elegido y tiene mayoría parlamentaria la fuerza de izquierda...,estoy preocupada ya que si llega salir el presidente de izquierda también habrá mayoría absoluta. No nos abandone nunca, aquí hay gente que lo aprecia mucho a Ud y Su País.
Confío en Ud que velará por Nuestra Democracia.
Con el mayor respeto y agradecimiento hacia Ud, su Flía y todo lo que representa, gracias.

Cecilia Manzi y Flia de Uruguay, Sud América.-

PD:Felicitaciones al Sr fotógrafo Pete Souza, tiene un profesionalismo, chispa y sencibilidad muy particular.
Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )

Ash Bennette says:

Very cool picture, showing the human side is great!
Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )

samkiller says:

Just great! Luv this man
Posted 3 days ago. ( permalink )

Marcelo Rossi says:

Muito legal, gente grande e importante tb tem que ser feliz. Otima imagem
Posted 3 days ago. ( permalink )

WinaVD says:

Lovely moment !
Cute!
Posted 2 days ago. ( permalink )

Nikkormat prashanth says:

Great moment..........some people are very cold and pessimistic here!
Posted 2 days ago. ( permalink )

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