53 years: the journey in images (BOG POST)

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1961


Meanwhile, in Chicago …. a girl is born.
1964


A Punahou School yearbook class photo from 1976 that includes the 9th grader who would grow up to become President Obama
1976



Barack Obama in his first year at Harvard Law School
1988

In Massachusetts!


Barack Obama, 28, photographed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Vanity Fair’s June 1990 issue, after being elected president of the Harvard Law Review.

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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

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Best President ever. You have moved us forward and you have done it at a time of of great adversity. You inherited the worst possible economy. A world that has gone mad yet you calmly make the decisions that will correct these problems. You have suffered outright hate and racism from the right. Mitch McConnell and the GOP gathered on the night of his inauguration...

Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html

And Mitch...Our top priority...

President Obama has not given up on us, and I will not give up on him. I have his back. He is not prefect, no man is. I however trust him to take us forward. So GOTV 2014. If we win it?! Then hell yes, fasten your seat belts one and all. It will be one amazing ride.

Happy 53 years to you, President Barack Obama!

BOG