A Photo to Cleanse the Palate [View All]

[Clio the Leo]

I don't know about you all, but all of the videos and images of last weekends festivities by the teabaggers has left me with a bad taste in my mouth (which is not meant to disparage any of the posters who shared the photos.)

So I thought I'd share what I think is one of the more interesting photos from the latest WH flickr upload. It shows the President, surrounded by the Congressional Black Caucus, some of the most powerful people in this great country, of ANY ethnicity, seated in the White House State dining room.

Looking down on them is the famous portrait of the Great Emancipator, looking more satisfied and content than I had ever noticed before. Proud even.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549t.html">"...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..."



Free no mater what vile words or actions are hurled at them. Free to live and work as they please. Free to stand up. Free to change the course of history.

It's a very powerful scene, IMO.