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people, we’ve made it on to hollywood life!!! 


So mysterious it appeared on YouTube ….. last September:


“queen of our world”

By Chipsticks 16 Comments
Categories: Abroad: Africa 2011, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: africa, article, flowas.com, flowsa, graca, Machel, mandela, Michelle, Mundi, nelson, Obama, Regina, south, speech, video, wife

Flowsa.com: On June 22, 2011, I walked into the Regina Mundi church in Soweto …. to find myself among thousands who had gathered to hear an address by the US First Lady, Michelle Obama. How lucky was I? …

…. Slowly the choir rose and began to sing …. The audience began to sing along ….. Graça Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, delivered the most beautiful introduction … “We welcome you as a daughter of African heritage, and we can call you the queen of our world,” said Machel. I agree; Michelle Obama may definitely be the current queen of our world!

… As she approached the stage, holding clasped hands to her chest while fighting back tears, one could see she was moved by her introduction and welcoming…..

Her speech drew on the history of Regina Mundi, which means ”queen of the world” in Latin, paying tribute to leaders of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the civil rights movement in the US, urging the young women in the audience to follow their example.

“The young people of this continent – you are the heirs of that blood, sweat, sacrifice and love,” she said. At this point in time I was holding back tears.

….For 45 minutes Michelle Obama spoke with conviction, passion, elegance and grace that moved me and many other women to tears. Her speech was beautifully inspiring.

She concluded with the famous slogan from her husband’s 2008 campaign to inspire and urge young women to become proactive members of change for women empowerment in Africa. “If anyone ever tells you that you shouldn’t or you can’t, then I want you to say with one voice – the voice of a generation – you tell them, ‘yes, we can’,” she said.

Yes, I can too!

This concluded one of the most inspirationally-moving speeches I have ever heard….

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Thank you SouthernGirl2 (3ChicsPolitico)


a record of achievement

By Chipsticks 53 Comments
Categories: Articles
Tags: achievements, Barack, blog, list, Obama, of, pctc, President See here


more from africa

By Chipsticks 34 Comments
Tags: africa, botswana, Michelle, Obama, videos



Thanks Anita 😉 

Did Michele’s Waterloo become her Waterloo moment?


This guy is staying loyal, though: 


new jersey (video added)

By Chipsticks 22 Comments
Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: Barack, colorado, house, Obama, President, rapids, soccer, white President Barack Obama accepts a Colorado Rapids jersey from managing director Jeff Plush as the president welcomed the Major League Soccer champions Colorado Rapids to the White House, June 27


“are you a flake?” (updated)

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you just cannot speak highly enough of bachmann

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Categories: All Videos
Tags: 2012, Bachmann, campaign, chipmunk, chipmunks, funny, launch, Michelle


pete souza, genius 

And Samantha Appleton: 

More new photos here


‘from consensus to instincts’

By Chipsticks 20 Comments
Tags: afghanistan, angeles, Barack, bin, consensus, instincts, laden, los, Obama, osama, President, success, times 

LA Times: The Obama administration’s top national security officials were gathered around … to hear Army Gen. David H. Petraeus argue for a slow drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan …. President Obama quickly made clear his disagreement. More important, he said, was the administration’s goal of shifting responsibility for the country’s security to the Afghan government, which would let him bring home troops.

As a senior administration official put it: “He asked everyone, if we’re serious about transition, then when? When are we going to do it? “Everybody came out of that meeting knowing the president wanted to go this direction,” said the official who described the scene, “even though it wasn’t the pace that Gen. Petraeus was recommending.”

To some who had attended the meeting, the encounter – and the president’s willingness to overrule key advisors – brought to mind another meeting four and a half months earlier. On that occasion, Obama and his top advisors were discussing the rapidly unfolding events in Egypt. Most top administration officials had been advising the president against calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.

But as the discussion went along, the television monitors in the Situation Room showed an angry crowd in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yelling, “Leave! Leave! Leave!” in response to Mubarak’s televised speech refusing to resign. Obama watched, and then told his aides, “Look, guys, this is not going to go back into the box.” The president said he would call Mubarak and tell him to step down, and he would deliver a public statement calling for a transition to begin immediately. The decision took aides by surprise. In retrospect, it seemed a sign of things to come.

…The success of the Bin Laden raid reinforced Obama’s security in his own judgments, aides said. “I think he reached a point where he had to trust his instincts, and there was nothing left to inform his decision except to do that,” said one advisor … “And he saw that trust borne out in what happened. … To make that risky a judgment based not just on your instincts but on your experience as commander in chief, and have it succeed, does something important psychologically that’s hard to quantify.”……

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