Photos: The Obama Presidency, January, 19th 2010

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A newly-completed waxwork figure of U.S. first lady Michelle Obama joins her husband U.S. President Barack Obama at Madame Tussauds in London, January 19, 2010.




Ayla Brown, daughter of Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, celebrates Brown's U.S. Senate special election victory for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy in Boston, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Brown beat Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, and Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian running as an independent and not related to the late Sen. Kennedy.


Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, is photographed by television cameramen after voting in Wrentham, Mass. , Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Brown is running against Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left empty by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.








Anyway.....

"Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011900009.html

President Barack Obama walks into a classroom to have a discussion with 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va. , Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.










And you know, things could be worse....

A private security guard stands outside a burning store in downtown Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010. U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swooped down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies on Tuesday as a huge international relief operation to help earthquake survivors gained momentum.


PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - JANUARY 19: A Haitian aid worker stacks cases of water as hundreds of Haitians wait outside a truck January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid has started trickling out to Haitians devastated by last week's earthquake that ravaged the country, though many fear not enough will reach desperate citizens in time to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.


You'll notice the flag they hold seems to indicate no particular party affiliation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - JANUARY 19: Haitian men stand with a US flag in support of US Army soldiers stationed across the street at Port-au-Princes central hosptial January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid has started trickling out to Haitians devastated by last week's earthquake that ravaged the country, though many fear not enough will reach desperate citizens in time to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.


List of Haiti Aid Organizations YOU can Donate to Now.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...