For those of us who are young adults, the only president we have really grown up with has been President Barack Obama. We have been insanely lucky to grow up listening to his speeches, looking up to Michelle and seeing his beaming smile. How do we say goodbye to President Obama while simultaneously brace ourselves for the incoming president? Let us look back on some of Obama’s most inspiring, powerful, and genuine moments that made him a president that gave us hope.
- A White House Staffer’s son feels President Obama’s haircut to “see if his hair feels the same.”
- The team from the White House watches in real time the operation against Osama Bin Laden.
- President Obama sitting on the Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
- President Obama consoling a marina owner after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.
- President Obama runs down the halls of the White House with his dog, Bo.
- President Obama signs a photograph for a boy on the tarmac at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Jerry Seinfeld knocks on the window of the Oval Office before filming “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
- President Obama walks with family, First Lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush, former First Lady Barbara Bush, rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, former foot soldiers and other dignitaries on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
- President Obama dances with First Lady Michelle at their first formal function at the White House.
- President Obama looks at himself in the mirror.
We will miss you, President Obama.