Picture of the Year for Year 1 of the Obama Administration

There are some pictures worth 1,000 words. This one exceeds it by far.

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BALTIMORE - JANUARY 17: Laterra Hopkins of Washington, DC, weeps while listening to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama address a rally with 40,000 people at the War Memorial Plaza January 17, 2009 in Baltimore, Maryland. Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and their families traveled by train to Washington for a whistle-stop tour before Tuesday's inaugural ceremony.
----Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images










U.S. President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with a British police officer outside 10 Downing Street in London April 1, 2009. World leaders will have their work cut out at a G20 summit where Obama makes his first major international sortie, under perhaps more pressure than anyone to show that the country where the crisis began can lead the way out.
------REUTERS/Toby Melville


A young girl wears a shirt in fabric commemorating U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Ghana, outside the International Conference Center in Accra, Ghana, where Obama was speaking, Saturday, July 11, 2009. Obama's visit was his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president.
----AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell