The Best Behind-The-Scenes White House Photos From Obama's First Year

[dcsmart]

Whatever your opinion of President Obama's first year in office, it's undeniable that 2009 produced some amazing behind-the-scenes White House photography. Here are the best pictures of the president, his family and staff at work and at play.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/31/the-best-behind-the-scene_n_408591.html

[Diane R]

1. Who would unrecommend this? I voided your negative vote.

[zulchzulu]

2. It is confounding...

CONfounding, that is...

[dcsmart]

3. thank you...my question exactly....

[dcsmart]

4. 4 recs....and counting....nice...

[JDPriestly]

16. I'm beginning to wonder whether there is a glitch in the un-recommend

program that causes it to un-recommend every thread.

How could anyone un-recommend this? Love these pictures.

[live love laugh]

23. Visitors from the Party of No would unrec this. Wonderful pix tho. nt

[whistler162]

25. For the same reason you decided to highjack this thread!

[drm604]

5. Great pictures!

Thank you. They made me smile. :)

[dcsmart]

6. welcome...me too

:toast:

[NYC Liberal]

7. Awesome, K&R!

:)

[gratefultobelib]

8. Wonderful! I never get tired of photos like these.

[samplegirl]

9. Thanks for sharing

Great Pics.

:hi:

[DeepModem Mom]

10. K&R!

[Cha]

11. Thanks for posting this, dcsmart, and what

a year it's been. Thank Goodness we have President Obama in the White House:patriot::party:

[PopSixSquish]

12. What it Means to Have Barack Obama as President of the United States

[mzmolly]

13. K n R

:hi:

[UrbScotty]

14. Obama & staff reading the DU Lounge:

[Aristus]

15. Still thrilled to have Barack Obama as our President!

:patriot:

[katkat]

17. yes, but

still wondering why what he does does not match those great pictures. I'm still holding out for my middle of the night eureka moment that he's on too high a dose of tranquilizers. What else could explain the difference between the campaign and the Presidency except boundless corruption or stupidity.

[LibDemAlways]

18. The photo where he's holding Rahm's arm is a metaphor for

Obama's Presidency. Too much involvement with R's masquerading as D's. And it's by design. "Change has come to America" apparently meant little more than a new family would be occupying the WH. The policies have proven to be distressingly similar.

Not knocking the photos though. Nice work!

[treestar]

19. Being in the WH has to be different from campaigning

[teewrex]

20. I am still very glad that he is our president. The alternative was

was awful and the previous was worse.

[Autonomy]

21. K&R

who could not like this?

[EFerrari]

22. These are some great shots. If this politics thing doesn't work out for Obama

he has a huge career in modeling. The man can't make a bad picture.

[HughMoran]

24. Little kids doing high fives & touching his head are sooo cute

:)