Photos: Obama's Got a New Girlfriend (The Obama Presidency, Day 618)

[Clio the Leo]

President Barack Obama, hugs 105-year old Virginia Shelton as he arrives a town hall style meeting in Richmond, Va. , Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/29/a-backyard-stroll-through-health-reform-des-moines">A Backyard Stroll Through Health Reform in Des Moines
President Barack Obama holds a discussion on the economy with neighborhood families in the backyard of a home in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.


















President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One prior to leaving the Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092904700.html">Obama orders sanctions on Iranian officials for human rights abuses
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) listens as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces new sanctions against members of the Iranian regime on September 29, 2010 in Washington, DC. The Executive Order signed by President Obama imposes sanctions on Iranian officials determined to be responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses in Iran or against Iranians.


President Barack Obama greets the crowd as he steps off Air Force One in Richmond, Va. , Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.


President Barack Obama listens to a question as he holds a discussion with families in Richmond, Va. , Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.








Virginia Shelton 105, of Ashland, VA, a retired nurse holds onto U.S. President Barack Obama's hand


U.S. President Barack Obama salutes as he walks from Marine One to the White House on September 29. 2010 in Washington,





A US soldier with a Christian cross tattoed on his forearm steers a vehicle across a base in Kandahar on September 1, 2010.

[rocktivity]

1. No fair--she has fewer wrinkles than I do!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[mzteris]

2. she's obviously

had "work done"...







:sarcasm:

[Bitwit1234]

3. I have to say this...the republicans are always bashing

Obama for being for the black people. Then answer me this, why are all the white folks sitting in that back yard and eager to listen to him...republicans stink......

[Clio the Leo]

10. Because most GOP arguments are devoid of actual logic. nt

[PopSixSquish]

4. That Means Virginia Shelton was Born 1905, Only 40 Years After the End of the Civil War

Today she sat next to the President of the United States, an African American, whose wife and children are descended from slaves.

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

God bless you Virginia Shelton...

[Clio the Leo]

5. And she was approaching 20 during the Great Depression....

... the perspective she must have.

[applegrove]

6. What a cutie for 105.

[Clio the Leo]

8. I'd say she was quite a looker back in 1930.... I'm serious. nt

[proteus_lives]

7. A black President speaks in Richmond.

Somewhere Abraham Lincoln is smiling.

[Clio the Leo]

9. And somewhere crazy white people are angry...

.... and THAT place is Eric Cantor's office. :)