President Obama makes Ottawa Canada his 1st official visit!
In his first official foreign trip since taking office January 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama is welcomed on to Canadian soil at the Ottawa airport the morning of February 19, 2009 by Michaelle Jean, Canada's Governor-General and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Obama, who has family living in Burlington, Ont., said to the news media that he's looking forward to coming back to Canada, "as soon as it warms up."
Photo credit: Jim Young, Reuters
His Wiki-Bio
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first president born in Hawaii. Obama previously served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. During the campaign, several events brought him to national attention, such as his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary election for the United States Senator from Illinois as well as his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004.
Obama began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. On October 9, 2009, he was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
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US President Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Harper

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
US President Barack Obama walk through
the Hall of Honor at Parliament Hill
in Ottawa, Canada.
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Photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON
Stopping in Ottawa's ByWard Market for souvenirs

During a stop at Ottawa's ByWard Market,
U.S. President Barack Obama buys
two maple leaf cookies for his
daughters Sasha and Malia.
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Photo credit: Jim Watson/Getty
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President Obama & an authentic Ottawa Beaver-tail Photo credit: The Chronicle Herald
What is a Beaver-tail?
A BeaverTail is a flat, deep-fried, doughnut-like pastry served plain or topped with any number of toppings from raspberry syrup, to chocolate drizzle, cinnamon or there is even the "Obama-tail" which is made with whipped cream and drizzled in chocolate! Enjoy!
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- [NYT] No Firm Plans for a U.S. Exit in Afghanistan: The Obama administration sent a message that U.S. troops wo.. http://bit.ly/7kk2On
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- RT @baratunde One of the reasons I supported Obama: a better FCC http://post.ly/EIxv
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- CNN's Martin Warns Obama: Blaming Bush Won't Work Forever http://tinyurl.com/yf66kd5 #tcot
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jun 29, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
- I like those Obama posters with the red and blue colors! Look very iconic!
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- marsha32 marsha32 Mar 3, 2009 @ 8:30 am
- This is interesting. I pray he does for our country what he has promised.
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- JerryCollins3 JerryCollins3 Mar 3, 2009 @ 2:31 am
- Great lens. Really good ranking. Wow! Way to stay out front. I'm on a 30 day Mental Cleanse where I'm not supposed to look at the news, so I cheated. This was good & positive news. Little enough of that. Thanks for sharing the positive.
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- MiaBellezza MiaBellezza Mar 2, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
- Great lens and pics on Obama 5*!
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Feb 24, 2009 @ 6:15 am
- Nice lens; I had thought about doing one myself instead I added Obama's Tulip to my page about The Canadian Tulip Festival.
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