Raw Video: Obama Visits Lincoln Memorial

[nmbluesky]

Run time: 01:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZIrl_0ag6k   Posted on YouTube: April 09, 2011 By YouTube Member: AssociatedPress Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: April 09, 2011 By DU Member: nmbluesky Views on DU: 1661

 
President Barack Obama made the short trip from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to make clear that national parks and monuments are open for business. (April 9)

[JohnnyK]

1. Thanks, Barack... and nmbluesky!

[RBInMaine]

2. I love the way he shook the cop's hand. PUBLIC SERVICE MATTERS !

[Merlot]

11. Class act all the way.

[vroomvroom]

3. You know its Election time when....(Reason #103) nt

[me b zola]

4. Yeah, rather than govern in a way that would be helpful to people

...just show up for handshakes!

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[RBInMaine]

9. Your reply is extreme and entirely shameful. Yes, shameful!

[me b zola]

10. No, what is shameful is the manner in which Obama is governing

...and activist who would be screaming bloody murder if someone with an "r" after their name made the same policy decisions, but attack principled people who speak out against conservative policy no matter who enacts it.

[RBInMaine]

15. Your perspective is choked by ideological purity absent of political reality. He is the most PROGR-

ESSIVE leader since LBJ. YouTube Maddow's analysis for a refresher course.

[me b zola]

23. Ahh, political reality

Just what the conservatives are forcing down our throats

[dencol]

12. b zola is right.

This guy just is about to shift significant portions of the cost of war and bailouts on students and the middle/lower class. That's what's shameful.

[RBInMaine]

18. You need a basic civics class. Or maybe try SchoolHouse Rock. He doesn't have unlimited power.

These decisions are made WITH congress and the congress that he has to work with. You really need to find some political reality. Who will you support in 2012? Nader for the hundreth crazy time? Gonna waste your vote and time on some non-reality pipe dream in outer space? Get real please.

[russspeakeasy]

21. No he doesn't have unlimited power, but he HAD the "bully pulpit"

and he refused, (refuses) to use it..

[dotymed]

19. Were all of these people Republicans?

Obviously they had the money to spend to vacation in Washington and enjoy the sites. Too bad he wasn't "glad handling" the majority of Americans who happen to live below the poverty line. Maybe they could have welcomed him with negotiating tips...

[RBInMaine]

7. Gee, so terrible to go out and see the public.(???) SHAMEFUL reply. PISS on it.

[HankyDubs]

14. lmao

point your rage cannon somewhere it can do real damage. Progressives pointing out that this was a photo-op? C'mon that's using a howitzer against a sweet lil bunny. Take (PURELY METAPHORIC) aim at the corporate plutocrat who just tossed you under the bus.

[RBInMaine]

17. I suggest you find your local planet.

[medeak]

5. K&R just took my family there

lifelong dream of mine....grown children now but they told me the best time they ever had....can't imagine if had arrived and museums and mall were closed...would have gone postal.

[JJW]

13. He is no Lincoln

[RBInMaine]

16. Right, Lincoln who suspended habeus corpus and mainly signed the Emancipation Proclamation only to

thwart Britain from supporting the South and applied it only to the confederate states and not border slave states. NONE of our Presidents have been perfect. Obama is easily the most progressive since LBJ (who also gave us Vietnam).

[democracy1st]

20. man you're smoking dope! LMAO Obama is the most progressive pres since LBJ LOL

[BluePatriot21]

22. I'm not fooled at this as ANOTHER

democrat side failure to add to the list, and another rolling over of the President as he hands over more of what they want as they lie and say "The American People have spoken" and elected 87 freshmen idiots into a minority of what controls the government. Didn't "we" the American people speak and say "F U" to the right and the last 8 years of Bush fascism? What the hell is wrong with this country?

Listening to Harry Reid last week act like Droopy Dog in front of the Mic had me embarrased to be a democrat, no wonder they walk all over us and steal our lunch money with fighters in the ring like that. What a bunch of pussies we are represented by, he hands over the lunch money time and time again. Same as Pelosi, Impeachment is off the table? When do we get a spine in our leaders who have the hunter killer instinct that these people have on the Republican right? They want to hunt us down and kill every last one of us, steal our homes, steal our lands, steal our money and take away our rights and our leaders just stand there and take it.

Not one of these leaders has had to suffer in this country, maybe we can take away a few of their mansions, maybe let them collect unemployment and lose their home/homes/mansions/vacation estates to foreclosure? Maybe then they would stop and actually fight? I hear Pelosi say last week that's womens rights are being threatened, oh my god I thought she was going to fold and do the same thing she did when she said impeachment was off the table again.