This is what I will celebrate tonight.

[sheshe2]

You gave us dignity and grace also class and sass. You taught us to move and did indeed help us to improve this Nation. You gave us a healthy garden on the White House lawn to teach children nutrition. You reached out to all Americans. You gave us a laugh when you poked fun at yourself in your self depreciating way and made us cry when your grief overwhelmed you and tears ran down your cheeks.

You gave us far more than we gave you. You gave us love and hope, I will never forget that. I am sorry for how many treated you, yet please know a majority appreciates all the work you and your family have done for us.

You will be forever missed as our President, yet I know you will not be far away in the future. You won't leave us alone in the dark.

Thank you Potus and Flotus, I love you both.

[Lucinda]

1. KNR

[NightWatcher]

2. We're going to go from Classy to White Trashy so fast that there's going to be a sonic boom.

I hope some historians have safely secured the good stuff somewhere far away from he who goldleafs everything, like a poor man's King Midas.

[annabanana]

57. Obama Nation to Abomination.. overnight. . . n/t

[Madam45for2923]

3. Thank you sheshe2 ! Happy New Years to us all!

Hugs!

[sheshe2]

10. Back at you Madam.

I can't celebrate the new year. I will only celebrate the last eight.

It is all I have in me.

[Uponthegears]

32. I hear this

BUT

What they gave us over the last 8 years is quite a lot to hold onto.

[OldYallow]

34. It's just a start

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We have much to do. The enemy is at the gates.

[sheshe2]

47. Yes.

We know that, yet this post is not for that right now. This is a long goodbye to the beauty that graced our house for eight years. Please let us mourn our loss for one day.

[sheshe2]

35. Yes....

That is exactly why I posted about them and not hailing in a new trump year.

I will hold them in my heart.

[GentryDixon]

4. We have been so blessed by this famiiy.

It breaks my heart how they have been treated. I live in white bread, conservative Utah, and I still have my Obama sticker on my car. They can kiss my liberal ass if they don't like it.

His legacy will be proven after my lifetime, but I am sure that is so.

Thank you, Obama family.

[sheshe2]

36. Well...

I took my Hill sticker off the other day after I was tailgated by a huge pickup with a confederate flag on their plate. Over 3 miles and they were inches from my bumper. Guess what...I am in a blue state. It was scary. It was a lonely stretch of road.

Stay safe.

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[sheshe2]

52. Yes.

[brer cat]

6. Oh yes!

We have been blessed to have them for the past 8 years. I hope they never go far away.

[sheshe2]

12. He will be with us, brer.

He promised. And....he will be free to say what he believes, Barack unfettered.

[ancianita]

7. ...

[sheshe2]

53. Ssssh.

Don't cry. He will be with us.

[Initech]

8. We're going from a real POTUS to a real POS.

[Rorey]

13. POS - says it all

I, for one, am sort of relieved that the White House is a "step down" for ex-porn worker Melania, so hopefully she won't be there much. It'll be nice if that orange puke doesn't go there much also. I'm disgusted that either of them will ever be in our White House. I have always wanted to go on a tour, and had hoped it would be in the coming year. Ugh. trump ruined that for me.

[Initech]

15. Mar-A-Lago will be the new Crawford Ranch.

And yeah I won't go to DC during Trump's reign unless it involves a protest. Trump will probably be the only president in history with his own gift shop wing of the White House.

[panader0]

9. I still find it incredible

that we could go from having such a fine POTUS and FLOTUS to the completely
opposite extreme. I will miss them as a first family for their dignity and I will
miss BHO for his wise leadership. We were all lucky to have him for 8 years.

[enough]

11. Grace, dignity and spirt. Hoping to emulate those things in the coming times.

How they have done it in the face of political obstructionism and virulent racism is far beyond my understanding.

May they and their family have peace, love, understanding and prosperity.

[mopinko]

14. i hear ya. so happy i will be getting them back, at least

part time. i know the library is going to be so much more than a dusty archive. i know they will be here a lot for that, even if they dont come home to stay.
i intend to be a part of that.

[sheshe2]

16. I am so glad you will be getting them back mo.

As for the library, well me thinks it will have a huge flow of traffic from people of all colors. I believe it will become a safe warm haven for blacks as well. a place to love and learn. Teach!

[mopinko]

42. they will transform the south side of chicago, and

probably the west side too.
we still have vacant lots, by the block, from the riots when dr king was shot.
the area is amazing, the university, then nothingness.

but they will change all that. i honestly believe they will. hell, just bring the farms and the gardens. all else will follow.

so looking forward to it all. hope there is a space for me to tell my tales from the trail. omg. what a time.
but whatever is needed, i will try to be there.

[3catwoman3]

17. Thank you for these lovely pictures.

I am so distraught at what is to come that I cannot even find words for the depth of my distress.

[NastyRiffraff]

18. Thank you sheshe

They are so beautiful, inside and out. I said I'd miss them even before the Great Disaster, but now I'm crying at the thought of them going, and what's coming to our White House.

[sheshe2]

20. Hey NR...

I can't celebrate the New Year, not this time around.

They made me happy these last eight years. We are out of the light and into the darkness.

[Gothmog]

19. Agreed

[sheshe2]

28. Returning from Sandy Hook

tears

[nini]

21. My gut tells me he is going to be the one to take the donald down

The gloves will be off when he's out of office and he won't sit back and watch everything he achieved get flushed down the toilet.

This is personal to him. It's going to be interesting.

[sheshe2]

24. I think you may be right nini.

[mopinko]

43. i hope.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. Thank you sheshe!

Eloquent.... I appreciate it and....I needed it!

Warm wishes for the New Year, she.

[sheshe2]

23. Warm wishes is a good way to put it.

The tradition phrase. I can't even say them this year.

Love you, Blanche.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. I know what you mean.....

That's why I wanna say something that feels good, and genuine... not forced cheer. ❤️❤️❤️

[sheshe2]

46. It is perfect Blanche.

[hunter]

25. Best of my year, my oldest kid's amazing wedding. Perfection.

Worst thing, me locked up with the 5150 crazy people, danger to self and others, and an additional $8,000 of medical debt. So much for insurance...

In this half century+ of my life on earth I've never been a danger to anyone else. At my very, very worst, back before modern psych meds, I was considered mostly harmless, an amusing diversion from sordid post midnight domestic violence calls. Crazy dude body surfing at two o'clock in the morning, can't find his clothes.

[mcar]

26. Best POTUS and FLOTUS of my lifetime

All due respect to on dear HRC.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. I know it's wrong

but that top pic makes me think of a Sir Mix-a-lot song

[sheshe2]

29. No clue what that song is

[awoke_in_2003]

37. Baby got back. nt

[sheshe2]

38. K

Thanks will try to find it.

[lunasun]

33. Hey now behave :)

[Kath2]

30. Awesome, she.

I am so sad to see the Obama era end.

[sheshe2]

31. Welcome to DU.

He kept us safe.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. .....

that just tore my heart.

💔

[sheshe2]

44. Love you.

[sagetea]

41. God...I'm going to miss them

I keep seeing the ghosts of the founding fathers holding onto their legs, like a child would do, as they are walking out the door.

I KNOW they don't want Tiny hands orange in there either!!!


A'ho

sage

[sheshe2]

45. I cry for our loss.

Thank you sage.

[Lifelong Protester]

50. I am so sad to see them go.

I hope they don't 'disappear' (as they have the right to do after the 8 years of crapola that's gone on).

I predict we will not know how good he was until he is gone from office. She is alsoe such an inspiration.

I grieve for our country now.

[sheshe2]

51. I wish to bid a fond farewell to name removed.

I alerted yet MIRT got ya first.

You logged on for this response...



Oh then your "sassy drones" comment.

Happy effing new year.



Sweet Dreams.

[NBachers]

54. I still can't take my eyes off her . . . World-scale class, poise, beauty, intelligence, humor . . .

[secondwind]

55. This is the most important thing about your post, sheshe2.... HE WILL NOT LEAVE US ALONE. This

gives me hope. He will be nearby, putting in his two cents, and keeping us strong.

[BlueMTexpat]

56. Beautiful, ss2!

The class, poise, dignity and gravitas exemplified by Barack and Michelle Obama have elevated the Office of the President.

The pussy-grabbing reality game-show host with several bankruptcies who preaches hatred, his nude-photo-posing Stepford Wife, and his progeny from Hell will bring that same office crashing down to earth like a meteor. Let us fervently hope it will not be a meteor that will bring down ALL of civilization.

This is NOT hyperbole. Unfortunately.

[bettyellen]

58. Love this!

[smirkymonkey]

59. Lovely tribute she she!

I am saddened to say that we will never see such grace and class in the White House again in our lifetimes.

[lunatica]

60. Yup. I sent them an email last week