Posted on 08/13/2009 11:12:55 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
President Barack Obama has a beaming smile as he arrives with new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during a reception in her honor, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
President Barack Obama reaches around the head dress of Chief Joseph Medicine Crow to place a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Chita Rivera, who, as a Puerto Rican-American, broke barriers as an actress, singer and dancer to become a Broadway star in West Side Story and was the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award, during ceremonies at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009.
President Barack Obama presents a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sidney Poitier and then to Rev. Joseph Lowery who has been a leader of the civil rights movement since the 1950s, and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in the East Room of the the White House in Washington.
President Obama: "At the Y-M-C-A!!!"
Obama: "MMMMMmmmmmm!! BOOGERS!!!"
In your heading, I think you meant “Medal of Freedom recipients.” The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award.
"...and if the ribbon's blue, fat cats, it's not for YOU!" < /Lowry >
No photos of the Kennedy family member who accepted one on behalf of Ted Kennedy, murderer??
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CAPTION THIS!!!
"I'm so proud of myself. I got her confirmed. I'm so happy that I won again."
Did you notice his head thrown back again? He's the most arrogant pos in the world.
Slobbering Love Affair
He meant “Medal of Freedom”
Looks like a whack left lovefest to me!.....
A PC lovefest, leftist gala, with nary an AWB.
It all reveals Bama’s contempt for regular Americans.
Chita Rivera? Chita freaking Rivera? Geez, I woulda thought he would have first honored Betty La Fea.
Soylent Green Award
It looks something like the Legion of Merit, but it’s made of people.
The medal of freedom is NOT the Medal of Honor! Please correct your heading.
Lucky’s a good person — she knows — must be a mistake so cut her some slack please! :-)
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