Photos: "...it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." The Obama Presidency...

[Clio the Leo]

... Day 425

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

President Barack Obama, left, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA. , right, during his visit to Capitol Hill to meet with House Democrats in Washington, Saturday, March 20, 2010.



Protestors hold signs during a 'Kill the Bill' rally against President Barack Obama's health care legislation, on the west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 20, 2010.




























U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. , describes the events of Bloody Sunday during a visit to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. , Sunday, March 7, 2010. President Barack Obama is marking the 45th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" by praising "these heroes" who marched into history and endured beatings by Alabama state troopers at the start of their landmark voting rights trek.

[Jackeens]

1. I read the third last one as: 'Please don't kill the bill - spend my future save the babies".

Sounds good to me!

Brill as ever Clio :toast:

[Clio the Leo]

2. lol, it took me several reads to get that one right too. NT

[Cha]

3. Democracy is beautiful, no?

I see the teabaggers are dumbed down as usual.

[madmax]

4. The last pix

If she's so damn certain she's right and proud, why is she hiding her face?

When I protested shrub (Plainfield,NJ) I proudly gave my name to the reporter, held my 'Illegitimate' sign high and smiled for the camera. I was not scared or ashamed!!

[rainbow4321]

5. Given where her other hand is

looks like she is picking her nose...

[prolesunited]

6. They have it wrong

Save the bill, save the babies.

"All the other advanced, free-market democracies provide health-care coverage for everybody. And all of them have lower rates of abortion than does the United States," T.R. Reid, author of "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care," wrote in The Washington Post this week.

"To oppose expanded coverage in the name of restricting abortion gets things exactly backward. It's like saying you won't fix the broken furnace in a schoolhouse because you're against pneumonia. Nonsense! Fixing the furnace will reduce the rate of pneumonia. In the same way, expanding health-care coverage will reduce the rate of abortion."
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/18/massachusetts-study-health-care-reform-could-reduce-abortions/

[DavidDvorkin]

7. "A man with a Scottish name held the Prime Ministerhip of Britain and a man with a Hungarian

name held the Presidency of France."

I bet Dickens would have been amused by that.