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Barack Obama’s official second-term portrait, snapped in early December 2012 by White House photographer, Pete Souza and posted to the White House Flickr page yesterday, compared with the photo taken four years ago after the presidential election

Dude’s getting younger. And happier.

His predecessors didn’t weather their terms in office quite as well.

nbc

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has apologized in person to a policewoman who said she was the victim of a tomato attack involving the president’s teenage son, a police official said on Sunday.

The suspects, who hurled a tomato and a marble at the officer from the presidential palace last Thursday, were narrowed down to 15-year-old Louis Sarkozy and a friend he was with at the time, the official told Reuters.

“She said she saw a child’s face at the window, without being able to say for sure whether it was Louis,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Ah, rich privileged kids today. Sure they’re gas altogether.

Reuters/boingboing

They still call him ‘squee’ behind his back.

The primary concern among Cabinet Ministers relates to the President’s comments about the possibility of summoning the Council of State if the Government proceeds to ratify the fiscal compact treaty by legislation rather than referendum.
There were also some raised eyebrows in the Labour Party at the President expressing opposition to privatisation in the week that the Government decided to sell off stakes in State companies worth €3 billion.

So it has begun.

Let the best knee win.

Higgins’s Remarks On Treaty Alarm Ministers (Stephen Collins, Irish Times)

That speech including podcast here

Previously: Old Labour. New Labour

Plus: Squee And The Irish XV

(pic: Nigel stead/LSE)