At stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.
Ted Kennedy, as quoted by President Obama in his Health Care Speech to Congress
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s
written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make
your own future.
President Barack Obama, in his speech to students scheduled for the first day of class.
I love the message (and their creamsicle milkshakes…), but that has got to be the worst Barack Obama caricature I’ve seen so far in DC!
It’s almost cliché by now to say that Barack Obama is a new-media president…He’s done books and audiobooks; he commands audiences on both YouTube and from the podium; he BlackBerrys; he makes a nice photo. He recognizes that, in the same way a blog can’t survive on just one post a day, a presidency can no longer survive on one message per day or one press conference per year. Instead, you have to turn on a fire hose.
Brilliant NYMag article on Barack Obama’s “Media Ubiquity,” arguing that it will be one of the most defining aspects of his Presidency.
If I had a good curveball, I wouldn’t be president.
President Barack Obama
The blog BrightestYoungThings just combined three of my favorite things: food, the Obamas, and Google MyMaps, resulting in the above “Obama Ate Here” map. Check out the places Obama has eaten in DC here.
Budak's Tumblr: From SF, but living in DC. Social Entrepreneur and Travel Writer. I like adventures, roadtrips, photography, California and empanadas.
