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Hillforceone
04-11-2009, 01:11 PM
http://www.theroot.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large-image/obamacloseup_0.jpg

source 1: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/obama-and-clint.html

Members of the press corps returning from an event on the South grounds of the White House unexpectedly surprised President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a "private" walk. They emerged from the Oval Office and strolled down the path to the Obama's swing set and picnic table on the lawn just outside.

Obama and Clinton were chatting alone, trailed only by the White House photographer, when the president spotted approximately 20 journalists who had stopped in their tracks about 30 yards away. The president smiled and waved. But the smile went away when the journalists took out cameras and started shooting. As the president waved off them off, nervous press staff tried to round up the media as quickly as possible. However, the press stayed long enough to witness what looked like a "picnic table" strategy session of sorts between Obama and Clinton.

source 2: http://www.theroot.com/blogs/browntable/exclusive-pic-clinton-and-obama-sandbox-again

... after President Obama received his economic briefing and met with Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the Oval Office, the POTUS and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to hold their 4:15 meeting out behind the White House—next to the swing set installed for the Obama girls in March.

Striding out from the West Wing, the two seemed thick as thieves—smiling, Secretary Clinton casually swung her leg over the bench on the east side of the playground, and the president grinned and waved to gawking reporters and staff as he sat down across from her.

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Jester
04-11-2009, 01:30 PM
The better video would be recording Bill watching this video.

"Bill responds to 2 pols, 1 bench"

Tim4Hillary
04-11-2009, 03:27 PM
This is so funny/interesting to me. On the one hand I'm like "what's the big deal?" on the other it intrigues the hell out of me.

Brooke
04-12-2009, 11:02 AM
They're going over which Cubs-White Sox games they're going to attend.

foxyladi
04-12-2009, 11:27 AM
cute..@};-

matiah
04-12-2009, 11:48 AM
The question is are they going to swing? :laughing:

CGP
04-12-2009, 04:23 PM
I like the picture.

TheTaoOfBill
04-12-2009, 04:29 PM
Would have been funnier if they were actually on the swing set discussing military stradegy while seeing how far they can jump.

CGP
04-13-2009, 03:27 AM
YouTube - Hillary and Obama Outside On Picnic Table

CGP
04-13-2009, 04:16 AM
Life’s a picnic for Obama and Hillary Clinton (http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/lifes-a-picnic-for-obama-and-hillary-clinton_100178248.html)


It was reportedly Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s idea to hold her afternoon meeting with President Barack Obama outside.

Fierce campaign rivals just a year ago, Obama and Clinton were the picture of political bliss earlier this week when they ditched the Oval Office for a little quality time in the White House garden, reports the New York Daily News.

On a glorious spring day in the nation’s capital, the pair decamped for a picnic table next to a new swing set the Obamas recently purchased for daughters Sasha and Malia.

Witnesses - who were mostly there to watch First Lady Michelle Obama plant a new vegetable garden in another corner of the White House’s sizable grounds - reported lots of smiling and easy banter between the two.

Brooke
04-13-2009, 10:28 AM
Would have been funnier if they were actually on the swing set discussing military stradegy while seeing how far they can jump.

LMAO!!! That image just made me crack up.