Photos: Flag Day (The Obama Presidency, Day 511)

[Clio the Leo]

First lady Michelle Obama speaks to Marines and their families during a speech at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego, Sunday, June 13, 2010.


First lady Michelle Obama, right, shakes hands with Marine Corps Lt. General Joseph Dunford









LAFOURCHE, LA - JUNE 13: Farrel Boudreaux, an unemployed welder for the oil industry, stands in his front yard along a bayou June 13, 2010 in Lafourche, Louisiana. Since the oil spill and the moratorium on new deepwater drilling, Boudreaux has only worked two days. The spill has been called the largest environmental disaster in American history. U.S. government scientists have estimated that the flow rate of oil gushing out of a ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well may be as high 40,000 barrels per day.


LAFOURCHE, LA - JUNE 13: Phillip Boudreaux fishes for catfish along a bayou June 13, 2010 in Lafourche, Louisiana. Commercial fishing, including areas in Lafourche, has been banned in much of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill.


GOLDEN MEADOW, LA - JUNE 13: Out of work shrimper Nolan Guidry stands beside his boat while waiting to be granted permission to go shrimping again


LAFOURCHE, LA - JUNE 13: A sign announces the closing of a seafood stand due to the oil spill


LAFOURCHE, LA - JUNE 13: Artwork on a wall voices displeasure with both BP and President Obama June 13, 2010 in Lafourche, Louisiana.



http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/14/protecting-gulf-our-grand-children">Protecting the Gulf for Our Grand Children

http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/06/14/HP/R/34205/President+visits+the+Gulf+Addresses+the+Nation+tomorrow.aspx">Video: President Obama Speaks to the Press

President Barack Obama returns a salute prior to boarding Air Force One en route to Gulfport, Miss. , Monday, June 14, 2010, as he embarks on a three-state tour of Gulf Coast affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.


President Barack Obama is greeted by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
as he steps off Air Force One at Gulfport BIloxi Airport in Gulfport, Miss.











President Barack Obama makes a statement regarding the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Monday, June 14, 2010, at the Coast Guard Station in Gulfport, Miss.


President Barack Obama talks about the the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Monday, June 14, 2010, at the Coast Guard Station in Gulfport, Miss. Back row, from left are, White House climate and energy adviser Carol Browner, National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen, the president, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, his wife Marsha, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.


President Barack Obama walks with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, center, Gulfport Mayor George Schloegel, rear, and others, after he met with residents affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill




President Barack Obama stands with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, right, as they buy "snowballs"



Ribbons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead makes patterns on the water in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana




Smoke rises from a controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead



President Barack Obama walks with Alabama Gov. Bob Riley as he looks at oil containment booms being cleaned as they tours the Theodore Staging Facility in Theodore, Ala


President Barack Obama visits an oil containment boom repair facility





















A natural gas rig is seen at rear as President Barack Obama, third from left, takes a ferry from Dauphin Island, Ala. , to Fort Morgan, Ala. , as he visits the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill Monday, June 14, 2010. From left, National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen; Mayor of Dauphin Island Jeff Collier; Obama; Mayor of Gulf Shores Robert Craft; Alabama Gov. Bob Riley; and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.







President Barack Obama, center, steps off the ferry from Dauphin Island, Ala. , to Fort Morgan, Ala. , as he visits the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill Monday, June 14, 2010. From left to right: Mayor of Gulf Shores Robert Craft; Mayor of Dauphin Island Jeff Collier; Alabama Gov. Bob Riley; and National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen.















GRAND ISLE, LA - JUNE 14: A clean-up worker walks along a stretch of oil-contaminated beach June 14, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana.


The dorsal fin of a dolphin is seen as clean-up workers collect tar balls of oil along a stretch of oil-contaminated beach








U.S. Secret Service personnel provide security for President Barack Obama as he tours Theodore Staging Facility

[Staph]

1. What sort of an idjit

would unrecommend a thread of pictures?

Thank you, Clio, I enjoyed the photos very much!

[Cha]

4. A jealous

kind of idgit.

[CakeGrrl]

11. I'd guess

the "I HATE to see people liking the President!" types.

That anger has to be wearing on 'em.

[Jennicut]

2. Your pics always tell a story.

That one pic of the Bobby Jindal for President sign...I feel for the people there and in a state of vulnerability they can be easily fooled. All around, just sad to see the workers out of work.

[O is 44]

5. No kidding, the stupid it burns, Mr. Jindal is still

screaming for drilling and hole is not plugged yet. Boy the President has aged. It looks like 10 years have been added. I'm not sure if Michelle will let him do a second term.

[Jennicut]

9. Look at past Presidents at the beginning of their terms and then at the end.

It is really noticeable. Not just time but stress. Even Bush, who seemed not care about anything...

[Clio the Leo]

7. wait a minute! where was that? lol

..... sometimes I'm telling a story I'm not realizing I'm telling ha ha

[Clio the Leo]

8. nevermind, I see it...

[Cha]

3. Thanks for putting this

together for us, Clio. It's a bit of our history right now.

[patrice]

6. He looks worried. It's pretty bad isn't it.

I know, I knew. It's just . . .

He looks worried; it must be worse than we know.

[jillan]

10. O.M.G.!!!!1111!!!!!!

Michelle is showing her arms!!!!1111!!!

[a kennedy]

12. I always look forward to your pictures.....

love them, and I feel so sad. Thank you.