Reply #2: (Bonus Sub-thread) The Obama Presidency: December 8th, 2009 [View All]

[Clio the Leo]

(No extra charge for this one btw!)

Elouise Cobell poses outside the law offices of Kilpatrick & Stockton in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. The Obama administration says it will spend more than $3 billion to settle a long-running and contentious lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians.


U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (3rd R) walks with Afghan Minister of Defense Rahim Wardak as he arrives at the Presidential Palace in Kabul December 8, 2009. Gates flew unannounced to Kabul where he met Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the most senior visit by a U.S. official since President Barack Obama announced a new strategy last week, sending 30,000 extra troops but pledging to begin withdrawing them in 18 months.

(well, at least their guys have nice looking uniforms which ANY military expert will tell you is key to fighting insurgents.)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul December 8, 2009. Gates flew unannounced to Kabul where he met Karzai, the most senior visit by a U.S. official since President Barack Obama announced a new strategy last week, sending 30,000 extra troops but pledging to begin withdrawing them in 18 months.




WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 08: Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of United States Forces Afghanistan U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal (L) and Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry speak before testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the war in Afghanistan December 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. Although they previously disagreed on the way forward in Afghanistan, McCrystal and Eikenberry said they fully agree with President Barack Obama's plans for increasing U.S. forces in the war-torn country.


Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) (L) and ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) talk before a hearing about the war in Afghanistan December 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.


WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 08: A demonstrator from Code Pink for Peace holds up a sign before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the war in Afghanistan December 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.

(Obviously, she is not lurking at DU or she would know we've been telling her for days her sign is misspelled, lol)



President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009.


DENVER - DECEMBER 08: Edward Faktorovick, out of work for seven months, reads a job listing while at a career fair December 8, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. He said that he is looking to get work in the tourism industry. Some 500 applicants turned out for the job fair, despite the bitter temperatures and snow. In an effort to boost jobs nationally, President Barack Obama today proposed small business tax cuts, new infrastructure spending and energy efficiency.


Workers make finishing touch on the bronze statue of young U.S. President Barack Obama at a park in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. The statue of President Obama as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in the park to inspire children in the country where he lived as a boy, officials said Wednesday.


An installation with pictures of 2009 Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama, right, and 1964 peace laureate Martin Luther King is seen in the Nobel Field at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Obama will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday.