I’ve been trying to get into the Christmas spirit, but this week has been a massive downer. I’ve been looking for ways to spread cheer and goodwill instead of just sitting around and feeling sick to my stomach as I write endlessly about horrific rapes and sexual abuses and assaults. Maybe getting a Christmas kitten will help (sidenote: I’m going to get my Christmas kitten this weekend, hopefully!). Maybe this will help too: Barack Obama in a Santa hat, handing out gifts to kids at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington.
Here’s some Christmas cheer: check out @BarackObama surprising kids at the Boys and Girls Club. #ObamaAndKids pic.twitter.com/RR0EOxSU8R
— Katie Hill (@KatieMHill) December 14, 2017
There is literally nothing better than watching kids go absolutely crazy when they see President Obama. I would act like this too, if Obama walked into the room in a leather jacket and a Santa hat, looking like Cool Black Jesus Santa. I would faint. I would scream and fall to the ground. My God, I miss him. When he posed with all of the kids, this magnificent man had a baby on his lap. Look at these kids!!!
There's no better time than the holiday season to reach out and give back to our communities. Great to hear from young people at the Boys & Girls Club in DC today. pic.twitter.com/FSJkj1qwg9
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 14, 2017
Does this get you into the Christmas spirit?? It’s certainly helping me.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
This. I love him. And the clip of Joe Biden consoling Meghan Mccain gave me hope for civility…
+1
I cried.
This is a true gentlemen. For 8 years we had sanity, civility and integrity. It hurts my heart that we had that and now we have this. It’s such a bitter pill to swallow. Totally devastating.
Our country was blessed to know true leaders like Joe Biden and Obama. Would Joe ever consider running for President at the next election?
I love him more today than yesterday….
Lovely and painful. Just turned off Orange Load’s speech to FBI graduates. God help us!!
I just gave my husband Pete Souza’s Obama book, for his birthday. For those who don’t know Souza was the official White House photographer, and the book has 8 years of wonderful photographs. It’s both beautiful, sad and infuriating to see these pictures…but worth it.
Minx,
Do you follow Souza on Instagram and Twitter. The shade he has been throwing can protect us from the sun for years.
Oh, yes I do! I ❤️ Souza.
I gave it to myself for my birthday. Wonderful!😍😍😍😍😍 And his IG is wicked!!😁😁😁
I love him. I tweeted him like every week asking for an Obama book for months. He actually responded to me when the news of his book dropped.
I have the special edition of the book. Its the best thing I own currently
Lucky you!
That’s cool!
He’s a great photographer, and his Obama photos are fantastic and really capture the era. (cries quietly at desk). I also LOVE the shade he is continuously throwing at Dump.
I think he was also the WH photographer for several other POTUS also, he sure has been a witness to a lot of history.
I received the book for my birthday, too. I cried.
Come back, Mr. President — we need you!
What a sweet man.
I am getting a kitten too! Merry Christmas!
My teenage cat is looking more and more like a woman cat but has a few months to go. Does she count? Technically, she’s still a kitten… a very long kitten.
Those kids going crazy seeing him is so amazing. Love him and miss his compassionate leadership every day.
Kids know about people, right? Look how they feel about him.
I might be down but I am going to do what I can to lift the spirit of someone else. I just read about the kid who lost his family in the massacre in Sutherland Springs and he will still be hospitalized thru the holiday and is asking for holiday cards so I am going to send him one.
I am also gonna look up some other things as well.
This year man, just…I am tired.
Love it!!! At least one good story today, thank you!!!
These are KIDS losing their minds over a POLITICIAN. Let’s think about that for a minute.
My thought exactly. Love that 🙂 And him….
Yep
Yeah that was the thing that struck me. This isn’t their school or local authority bringing them in to look cute and well-behaved for pics like at campaigns, this is the kids’ genuine reaction to a former president who isn’t even in politics anymore.
I miss him. We will become that country again. We just have to fight harder.
Guess Megan Kelly will have a meltdown
Santa is white
Good one, Shelley. Also, Jesus is white [he really stood out in his part of the world]
lol:) although technically santa(saint nicholas) is white and jesus was semitic, most likely not blonde, although yiu do find kurds/syrians with blonde hair and blue eyes:)
Every time I see his face, all I think is ‘if only he could come back’. sigh.
But he looks so darned happy being not the President….
OBAMA AND KIDS.
*sobs quietly*
This made me smile when I really needed it 🙂
Such a beautiful man, inside and out.
If I had a fortune half of it would go to Boys & Girls Club(s) and Barrack knows this place is the very pilliar of all kinds of communities. I so admired Ivan Boeskys ex wife Seema Silberstein who worked tireless to raise millions for the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester used to add a new wing, pool, and doubling the size from a run down 60s building to a state of the art facility the entire community uses.
The kids in the picture show the diversity and values placed on honesty and respect B&G Clubs provide.
One of my favorite things about Obama is how children react to him, and how he reacts to them. To me, it speaks to his kindness and humanity.
There was a blog devoted to pictures of him with babies, once upon a time. Those images were pricless.
I love kids and Obama together too. Kids just instinctively have an ingrained bull-sh*t meter and can tell when an adult is genuine. Obama obviously genuinely cares about them and they know it. God, I miss everything about him and I lo e seeing him continue to build his legacy through those kids.
I love him. I feel like I really didn’t appreciate him properly when he was President. Don’t know what you’ve got til its gone…
Same. I think I just figured that Obama was the next generation of what our president would be like. Never did I imagine we would have a situation as we do now. I (was) a republican and I have so much respect for the Obamas. I think they were excellent ambassadors for America and I was proud to have him as our president. Not sure when I’ll be able to say the same about whoever is in office.
Miss him too, and I don’t even live in the USA.
😔
With you all the way.
I am loving it.
Why can’t every man be like him?
I’m feeling the joy in the room! Like the kid at the end who says “hello”, please notice me … I’m like all those kids desperate for a leader who is smart, rational, charismatic, cool and kind!
I 💜 him.
Damn, we’ve missed his sort of decency.
Just. Amazing.
Like Rihanna said, worst breakup. Ever.
Come back!!!!!!!
Did anyone see the story in the NYT comparing the number of lies Obama told vs Trump? Obama’s told 18 his entire 8 years in office. Trump has told 103 in just 10 months (the article noted Trump frequently repeats lies, which is why it seems low.).
And they had to really stretch to call those Obama lies…. and hold back considerably to keep the number of Trump lies down. President Tweeter actually lies something like five times per day on the average. It’s a long-standing habit.
Seeing Obama still being a decent human and showing care and concern for others, makes me tear up a little.
Granted, this has been a tough week for me and I do get “misty” around the holidays…but seriously this country needs more good, caring and fundamentally decent men and women who continue to keep proving it is the right thing to due.
The Obamas were both classy, well educated and well spoken. Amerca looks like a joke to the rest of the universe while Trump holds office.
Obama is the perfect example of the saying, “you never truly appreciate what you have until it’s gone”…I was just so comfortable knowing with him in charge, everything would be alright.
This is so cute. I’d probably act this way as well though.
The gods smiled down on me and I got to shake his hand after working an event. When he walked into the room, let me tell you, a group of about 30 professional adults lost their shit as much as those kids did.
Ok, Kaiser–you win. You got me with this post. I have been avoiding clicking on any of the occasional Obama (POTUS or FLOTUS) posts here and there for most of this year. Just because the feeling of what we’ve lost completely swamps me so I try to avoid thinking about Obama and the kind of integrity and kindness we had in our president before this nightmare. But Obama and kids are hard to say no to, and this clip was wonderful. I am trying to hang on to some audacious hope (the defeat of Roy Moore is something!) and maybe we will get through the days of the evil empire in which we now live.