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Does the president ever reblog Darren Criss gifs? We think not.

POTUS: Needs more Darren GIFs!

Hey, Darren: Should everybody register to…

So the Tumblr Girls ran into Darren Criss at one of the White House Correspondents Dinner festivities and couldn’t resist keeping this thread going. (Thanks to topherchris for making our photo Tumblr-ready.)

Now, the question is whether the White House will be up to the GIF reblog challenge!

Attempting to revive this GIF war from last year’s election season. Will it work? Well the White House hasn’t posted a GIF in a few days….

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The Official White House Tumblr: The White House, Tumbling Things

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We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our jobs. That’s why we’re launching a Tumblr. We’ll post things like the best quotes from President Obama, or video of young scientists visiting the White House for the science…

The White House is Tumbling!

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inauguration2013: Dear Mr. President, I didn’t vote for you. I know I didn’t vote for you, but you are my president now, and I believe in our country’s process of election. You are the president of all of us. Please remember that. We are all Americans, regardless of party lines, and we all just want what is best for our families.Please remember that no issue is cut and dry - no issue is black and white. Listen fairly to both sides of the argument, and then decide what is best for everyone, not just one side or the other. There are a lot of us who have gotten lost in the middle as both parties move further and further away from each other. Nobody talks of compromise. Nobody takes the good ideas of both sides and makes a better solution. You can be that person, Mister President. You can be someone we can ALL get behind. Just be the bigger person in this whole awful mess. Signed,Jennifer from Salt Lake City, Utah What do you want President Obama to remember in his second term? Share your message at NPR’s Dear Mr. President. NPR’s Dear Mr. President is still going strong. If you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend doing so now. Will the topic of the submissions shift now that Obama has clearly outlined his second term priorities?
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Dear Mr. President,

I didn’t vote for you.

I know I didn’t vote for you, but you are my president now, and I believe in our country’s process of election. You are the president of all of us. Please remember that. We are all Americans, regardless of party lines, and we all just want what is best for our families.
Please remember that no issue is cut and dry - no issue is black and white. Listen fairly to both sides of the argument, and then decide what is best for everyone, not just one side or the other.
There are a lot of us who have gotten lost in the middle as both parties move further and further away from each other. Nobody talks of compromise. Nobody takes the good ideas of both sides and makes a better solution. You can be that person, Mister President. You can be someone we can ALL get behind. Just be the bigger person in this whole awful mess.

Signed,
Jennifer from Salt Lake City, Utah

What do you want President Obama to remember in his second term? Share your message at NPR’s Dear Mr. President.

NPR’s Dear Mr. President is still going strong. If you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend doing so now. Will the topic of the submissions shift now that Obama has clearly outlined his second term priorities?

current: Word cloud: President Obama’s second inaugural address Lots of MUSTs.
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Word cloud: President Obama’s second inaugural address

Lots of MUSTs.

Fun fact: tonight's Commander-in-Chief's ball will be the first where soldiers are welcome to bring their same-sex partners.

Our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity!
President Obama outlines a human rights agenda during his second inaugural address today.
TUMBLING THE INAUGURATION To top off this election season, Tumblr has dispatched journalist Ari Melber to file a series of interviews, pictures, and stories from people celebrating the 57th Presidential Inauguration. Click below to read the first of the series, in which the leading expert on Presidential Inauguration history explains the significance of having both Beyonce and James Taylor perform, why Obama’s first inaugural address was disappointing, and other traditions to look out for on Monday. In addition to following our coverage here, you can get in on the action from afar by submitting to NPR’s “Dear Mr. President” (your message to Obama could be featured on the air!) and taking your very own photo with POTUS on GoldRun’s special Inauguration Tumblr.  And, if you happen to be participating in the festivities on the ground in DC, please submit your photos/commentary here and be part of Tumblr’s community coverage! Jim Bendat, 64, is a historian and author of “Democracy’s Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789 - 2013.” Here are his thoughts on the inauguration. There will be a stack of bibles this time — we’ve had that before — both the Martin Luther King Bible and Abraham Lincoln’s bible. Michelle will hold the bibles, a tradition that began in 1965. Lady Bird Johnson was the first First Lady to hold the bible. Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, and James Taylor are performing at the ceremony — that’s quite an array of talent, something we’ve never seen at an inauguration before. Historically, its just military bands playing military music, or someone well known singing national anthem. We are scaling down this year — just two official inaugural balls. It’s the first time since 1953 that there have been such a small number. President Clinton had fourteen in 1996, an all-time record, even though it was a second inaugural. Inaugural addresses are normally only about 15 or 20 minutes. William Henry Harrison gave the longest ever inaugural address, more than 2 hours, and unfortunately caught pneumonia and died one month later. The inauguration of Thomas Jefferson in 1801 stood out because that represented the first change of power in Washington. The first two presidents, Washington and Adams, were Federalists, so it was a president of a different party for the first time. Jefferson attempted to bring the country together when he said, ‘We are all Republicans; We are all Federalists.” John F. Kennedy, the youngest man ever elected President … rose to the occasion, giving one of the greatest inaugural addresses — certainly nothing to match it since then. I was among the commentators who was looking forward to Obama’s first inauguration. We had all seen the speeches he had given during the 2008 campaign, and he had proven himself to be quite an orator, so we were hoping for an inaugural address for the ages.  Didn’t really happen. There was nothing wrong with it, but it didn’t have any memorable phrases. No one walked out of there with quotes that resonated. Despite the fact that it was not memorable, it was still a very historic occasion, and the huge turnout proves that.
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TUMBLING THE INAUGURATION

To top off this election season, Tumblr has dispatched journalist Ari Melber to file a series of interviews, pictures, and stories from people celebrating the 57th Presidential Inauguration. Click below to read the first of the series, in which the leading expert on Presidential Inauguration history explains the significance of having both Beyonce and James Taylor perform, why Obama’s first inaugural address was disappointing, and other traditions to look out for on Monday.

In addition to following our coverage here, you can get in on the action from afar by submitting to NPR’s “Dear Mr. President” (your message to Obama could be featured on the air!) and taking your very own photo with POTUS on GoldRun’s special Inauguration Tumblr. 

And, if you happen to be participating in the festivities on the ground in DC, please submit your photos/commentary here and be part of Tumblr’s community coverage!

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The lesson: Obama won the internet because his head of Digital was “brave enough to just let people who know their shit do what they do.”  storyboard: Meet the Mind Behind Barack Obama’s Online Persona You’ve most definitely seen it by now. Michelle Obama, wearing a red-and-white checkered dress, stands with her back to the camera. Her arms are wrapped around her husband, the hints of a smile lingering on the edges of his lips. “Four more years,” reads the text, which was posted on the Obama campaign’s social media accounts around 11:15pm on election night‚ just as it became clear the president had won a second term.  The photo, taken by campaign photographer Scout Tufankjian just a few days into the job, pretty much won the internet: 816,000 retweets, the most likes ever on Facebook; thousands of reblogs on Tumblr. And yet it wasn’t chosen by the president’s press secretary, or even a senior-level operative, but by 31-year-old Laura Olin, a social media strategist who’d been up since 4am. For the first time since the campaign ended, she talked to Tumblr, in partnership with The Daily Beast, about what it’s like being the voice of the President — where millions of people, and a ravenous press, await your every grammatical error. Read More
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The lesson: Obama won the internet because his head of Digital was “brave enough to just let people who know their shit do what they do.” 

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Meet the Mind Behind Barack Obama’s Online Persona

You’ve most definitely seen it by now. Michelle Obama, wearing a red-and-white checkered dress, stands with her back to the camera. Her arms are wrapped around her husband, the hints of a smile lingering on the edges of his lips. “Four more years,” reads the text, which was posted on the Obama campaign’s social media accounts around 11:15pm on election night‚ just as it became clear the president had won a second term. 

The photo, taken by campaign photographer Scout Tufankjian just a few days into the job, pretty much won the internet: 816,000 retweets, the most likes ever on Facebook; thousands of reblogs on Tumblr. And yet it wasn’t chosen by the president’s press secretary, or even a senior-level operative, but by 31-year-old Laura Olin, a social media strategist who’d been up since 4am. For the first time since the campaign ended, she talked to Tumblr, in partnership with The Daily Beast, about what it’s like being the voice of the President — where millions of people, and a ravenous press, await your every grammatical error.

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Thank you, all of you, for accompanying us on this adventure Tumbling the 2012 US election. Thank you for following, reading, sharing, engaging, criticizing, submitting, and, most of all, thank you for voting. Thank you to all of our Convention bloggers (Amina, Bobby, Jason, Jayel, Meg, and Tag) and our guest editors (inothernews, hipsterlibertarian, Blackbook, MissADelgado, Mike, Peter, Caitlyn, Phillip, Matt, Megan, Cord, LA Liberty, Ari, ShortFormBlog, and The Guardian’s Adam Gabatt). It’s been real. But we are now officially in withdrawal. When we come-to, we’ll figure out where this blog goes next.  In the meantime, enjoy this thank-you GIF - in honor of what is easily our favorite reblog chain of the entire election season.
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Thank you, all of you, for accompanying us on this adventure Tumbling the 2012 US election. Thank you for following, reading, sharing, engaging, criticizing, submitting, and, most of all, thank you for voting.

Thank you to all of our Convention bloggers (Amina, Bobby, Jason, Jayel, Meg, and Tag) and our guest editors (inothernews, hipsterlibertarian, Blackbook, MissADelgado, Mike, Peter, Caitlyn, Phillip, Matt, Megan, Cord, LA Liberty, Ari, ShortFormBlog, and The Guardian’s Adam Gabatt).

It’s been real. But we are now officially in withdrawal. When we come-to, we’ll figure out where this blog goes next. 

In the meantime, enjoy this thank-you GIF - in honor of what is easily our favorite reblog chain of the entire election season.