Photos: Clio the Leo takes a break; The Obamas do not. (The Obama Presidency, Days 527-540)

[Clio the Leo]

US President Barack Obama gestures for the crowd to keep quiet about his visit to the O&H Danish Bakery to buy kringle pastries so that First Lady Michelle Obama wouldn't find out about the visit, during a town hall event on the economy at Racine Memorial Hall in Racine, Wisconsin, June 30, 2010.


President Barack Obama gestures while speaking about immigration reform, Thursday,July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington.


Members of the Women's Professional Soccer champions Sky Blue FC, including Tasha Kai, center, from Kahuku, Hawaii, stand as President Barack Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010, to congratulate the team on their victorious 2009 season and for winning the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer championship.


An oil-soaked brown pelican rests on the tarball-littered beach of Horn Island, Mississippi July 1, 2010. More than 10 weeks into the crisis, oil continued spewing into the Gulf, clean-up success remained limited and a proposal by the Obama administration to halt all deep-water drilling for the next six months remained in limbo.


Former US president Bill Clinton (r) chats with President Barack Obama during the memorial service for Senator Robert Byrd July 2, 2010 at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia. Democratic Senator Byrd, history's longest-serving member of Congress, died on June 28, aged 92.










US President Barack Obama greets wellwishers on July 2, 2010 upon return to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland after attending a memorial service for Senator Robert Byrd in West Virginia. He will be spending part of the July 4th weekend in Camp David.


First Lady Michelle Obama poses with residents after stepping off Marine One July 3, 2010 at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. Obama returned to Washington after spending part of the July 4th weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat.




First Lady Michelle Obama applauds during a Fourth of July barbeque for military members and families and government employees and families July 4, 2010 on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC.






Fire and smoke rise from the Q4000 oil vessel, as drilling of two relief wells continue, in the Gulf of Mexico, July 4, 2010. A commission appointed by President Barack Obama to study the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill gives academics and environmentalists a prominent role in making recommendations about the future of offshore drilling in the United States.

Israeli right-wing activist blows a Shofar or Jewish horn as he protests in front the US consulate in Jerusalem on July 06, 2010, against American pressure on Israel to continue the freeze of construction in the settlements during President Obama meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.


WASHINGTON - JULY 07: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks to employees while visiting the Treasury Department July 7, 2010 in Washington, DC. The Treasury Department was the 20th agency she visited to thank employees for their public service.


President Barack Obama and Missouri Senate hopeful Robin Carnahan, center, shakes hands with supporters during a campaign rally in Kansas City, Mo. , Thursday, July 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais.


US President Barack Obama points as he leaves after speaking at a fundraiser for US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 8, 2010.


US First Lady, Michele Obama takes a short walk on the Panama City Beach beach July 12, 2010 after a gathering about trying to help the local economy that has been affected by the oil leak to the southwest in the Gulf of Mexico. Mrs Obama made a day trip to Panama City Beach in Florida to meet with local officials and beach goers.






Anti-U.S. and pro-North Korea civic group members wearing a mask of U.S. President Barack Obama, top, and wearing South Korean military uniform, perform during an anti-U.S. rally demanding to recover the OPCON or operational control near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 13, 2010.


Actress Rosie Perez arrives in a wheelchair and neckbrace to hear U.S. President Barack Obama deliver remarks at a reception to honour the work of the HIV-AIDS community, in the East Room of the White House in Washington July 13, 2010.


U.S. President Barack Obama waves and winks at guests after delivering remarks at a reception to honour the work of the HIV-AIDS community, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, July 13, 2010.



Indian sand-sculpture artist Sudarsan Pattnaik gives the finishing touches to a work depicting US President-elect Barack Obama on the beach at Puri, some 70 Kms from Bhubaneshwar on January 20, 2009. Washington pulsed on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration with a building sense of joy, racial healing and a lightness of mood rarely witnessed during grim months of economic decline.

[Catshrink]

1. #5-7: The first and second Black Presdients share a chuckle

[tishaLA]

2. thanks for the great pics

Does anybody know why Rosie Perez is in a wheelchair?

[FrenchieCat]

3. I want to know as well. She also has a neck brace on....

possibly some kind of accident?

I do know that she is on the President's HIV AIDS' Advisory Board,
and that's why she was there.

[Clio the Leo]

4. Nope. I googled it and couldn't find anything. nt

[NYC_SKP]

5. She was wearing a neck brace at the GLADD awards, too. Accident during a film shoot.

http://en.terra.com/celebrity-gossip/pictures/rosie_perez_wears_neck_brace_at_glaad_awards/38881

Rosie Perez is wearing a neck brace. How did she get it?

“I was on a shoot, and a day player got too excited in a fight scene.”

It’s not easy being a famous actress!

http://showbiz411.wordpress.com/?s=rosie+perez

[spiritual_gunfighter]

6. haha look at those tattoos

that is crazy.