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PennsylvaniaMatt

(966 posts) Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:01 PM Dec 2012

Awesome New Photos Released From WH Photographer Pete Souza

Here are some of my favorites:

The moment Mitt Romney called the President to concede!

Hugging Jim Messina the day after the election

Volunteering with the First Family on Thanksgiving

Driving with former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

Back stage prior to the third Presidential debate

Full photostream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/

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Awesome New Photos Released From WH Photographer Pete Souza (Original Post) PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 OP

When was that driving picture taken, and where??? elleng Dec 2012 #1

The President actually told that story on The Tonight Show! PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 #2

Funny! elleng Dec 2012 #3

Hi elleng...Man/Band on the Run! sheshe2 Dec 2012 #8

PERFECT, she2! elleng Dec 2012 #10

Mine too... sheshe2 Dec 2012 #15

The South Lawn I believe...n/t monmouth3 Dec 2012 #4

It's a Chevy Volt frazzled Dec 2012 #6

Man,thanks! There are TONS of photos in that gallery! CurtEastPoint Dec 2012 #5

I hear you! PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 #7

Thanks sheshe2 Dec 2012 #9

I like the one backstage before the third debate. The President must have just told his two bluestate10 Dec 2012 #11

My favorite is the one with President Obama on the phone with Romney PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 #12

Best job EVER? Earth_First Dec 2012 #13

DU rec...nt SidDithers Dec 2012 #14

I'd rename this one "The Jokes over and we're ready to spring the trap." Snarkoleptic Dec 2012 #16

Excellent, PennsylvanizMatt! I have not seen these and I Cha Dec 2012 #17

They are all awesome photos! PennsylvaniaMatt Dec 2012 #18

elleng

(130,740 posts)

1. When was that driving picture taken, and where???

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:03 PM

Dec 2012

They LET him drive???

PennsylvaniaMatt

(966 posts)

2. The President actually told that story on The Tonight Show!

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:07 PM

Dec 2012

It was taken on October 12 on the South Lawn of the White House. It was funny because the way he told the story, he and Gibbs were kind of secretive about it when the President got behind the wheel, and how the Secret Service did NOT, under ANY circumstances, want him to leave the South Lawn!

elleng

(130,740 posts)

3. Funny!

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:12 PM

Dec 2012

'POTUS on the run!!!'

sheshe2

(83,654 posts)

8. Hi elleng...Man/Band on the Run!

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 09:58 PM

Dec 2012

elleng

(130,740 posts)

10. PERFECT, she2!

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:03 PM

Dec 2012

One of my favorites!

sheshe2

(83,654 posts)

15. Mine too...

Reply to elleng (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:33 PM

Dec 2012

Love The Beatles!

Good to see you!

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)

4. The South Lawn I believe...n/t

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:18 PM

Dec 2012

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

6. It's a Chevy Volt

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:19 PM

Dec 2012

There's a bigger picture of it in another thread, and you can see on the dashboard that it's registering 250 mpg!

CurtEastPoint

(18,622 posts)

5. Man,thanks! There are TONS of photos in that gallery!

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:19 PM

Dec 2012

I have such a bromance going on with our President!

PennsylvaniaMatt

(966 posts)

7. I hear you!

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 07:47 PM

Dec 2012

I love these behind the scenes pictures!

sheshe2

(83,654 posts)

9. Thanks

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:00 PM

Dec 2012

I can never get enough of the Obama pictures!

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)

11. I like the one backstage before the third debate. The President must have just told his two

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:13 PM

Dec 2012

aids how many horses and bayonets still existed in the military.

PennsylvaniaMatt

(966 posts)

12. My favorite is the one with President Obama on the phone with Romney

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:27 PM

Dec 2012

Imagine what was going through his head when that picture was taken. A year of campaigning leading up to that moment, and after governing this nation for 4 years, through good times and bad, finding out that he will go down in the history books as a two-term President!

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)

13. Best job EVER?

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:28 PM

Dec 2012

ABSOLUTELY!

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

14. DU rec...nt

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:30 PM

Dec 2012

Sid

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)

16. I'd rename this one "The Jokes over and we're ready to spring the trap."

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Sat Dec 8, 2012, 12:53 AM

Dec 2012

Cha

(296,857 posts)

17. Excellent, PennsylvanizMatt! I have not seen these and I

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Sat Dec 8, 2012, 03:49 AM

Dec 2012

see a Lot of the Presidential Historical Pics.

Very Interesting the pic of when mitt called to concede.. guess he had Prez cell #!

PennsylvaniaMatt

(966 posts)

18. They are all awesome photos!

Reply to Cha (Reply #17)

Sat Dec 8, 2012, 12:02 PM

Dec 2012

Pete Souza usually uploads new photos about twice a month on that Flickr photostream in the link at the top. I love seeing the President behind the scenes!

And that picture of the President on the phone with Mitt is historic. I actually heard somewhere that on election night, when Mitt realized it was over, his personal assistant called President Obama's personal assistant Marvin Nicholson and they both put the two men on the phone. I would have loved to hear what they said to each other!

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