Starting to feel those eight years, Mr President?

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[h=1]Starting to feel those eight years, Mr President? Obama enlists group of fourth graders to help him get up after taking a photo at Yosemite National Park[/h]

• The First Family touched down at Yosemite on Friday night
• Obama was up early to talk to fourth graders from San Francisco
• He handed out free park passes and asked them how to scare away bears
• Obama then gave a speech on climate change in front of Yosemite Falls
• President is using the trip to celebrate the raw beauty of America's national parks as the system nears its 100th birthday

By ANNETA KONSTANTINIDES and REGINA F. GRAHAM and CLEMENCE MICHALLON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 23:26, 18 June 2016 | UPDATED: 04:24, 19 June 2016

 

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He may be one of the youngest presidents to ever take office, but even Obama needed help getting up after he sat down to take a picture with a group of schoolchildren at Yosemite National Park.
The fourth graders from San Francisco happily obliged, all grabbing at the president's arms to lift him up during the Saturday event at Yosemite Falls in California.
Obama and his family touched down at the park on Friday night after visiting the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.
It's a working vacation for the First Family's last Father's Day in the White House, with Obama taking time off from hiking with Michelle, Malia and Sasha to celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service.

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Obama can't help but laugh as a group of fourth graders from San Francisco join forces to try and help him get up after snapping a photo together

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Obama told the schoolchildren to 'say cheese' and 'say national parks' during the cute photo op

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Obama and the First Lady were up early Saturday morning to meet with the fourth graders as part of the Every Kid in a Park initiative at the California landmark

 

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Obama and the First Lady were up early Saturday morning to meet with the fourth graders as part of the Every Kid in a Park initiative at the California landmark.
The White House youth initiative gives every fourth grade student across the country free access to America's public parks, forests and wildlife refuges for the 2015-2016 school year.
Michelle greeted the children by asking them if they knew how to scare bears away.
As the kids all began to scream, the president remarked: 'Oh, I would get out of here!'
The president then talked to the group of youngsters about the initiative before personally handing out free national park passes, according to the Fresno Bee.
Obama told the children about the very first time he saw moose and deer in a national park when he was 11 years old.
'That changes you. You're not the same after that,' he told the group.
'We've got kids all across this country who never see a park. We've got to change that.'
'We want to make sure that you and kids all around the country get a chance to use the national parks more often.'
The First Couple then got on the children's level, literally, and sat down on the ground for a photo op as Obama instructed them: 'Everybody say cheese. Everybody say national parks.'
He then asked the children to say happy birthday in honor of one of the girl's in the group.

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Michelle greeted the children by asking them if they knew how to scare bears away. As the kids all began to scream, the president remarked: 'Oh, I would get out of here!'

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Obama told the children about the very first time he saw moose and deer in a national park when he was 11 years old and how it 'changed' him

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Obama personally handed out free national park passes to the youngsters after his talk

'Who is going to help me up now?' he asked after the photo was taken.
Yosemite Falls, one of the world's tallest waterfalls as 2,425 feet, served as a stunning backdrop as Obama gave a speech about climate change on Saturday afternoon.
'Make no mistake. Climate change is no longer just a threat. It's already a reality,' the president warned the crowd.
'Rising temperatures could mean no more glaciers at Glacier National Park. No more Joshua trees at Joshua Tree National Park,' he said, adding that a changing climate could destroy vital ecosystems in the Everglades and threaten landmarks like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
Obama said global warming was already affecting the very land they were standing on, noting how rising temperatures were causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out.
'We have more work to do to preserve our lands and culture and our history,' he said. We're not done yet.'
The weekend getaway has also given Obama the opportunity to recap his record on preserving open spaces and promote administration initiatives aimed at boosting tourism at the more than 400 national and other parks, monuments, battlefields and other sites in the National Park System.

Officials say there's an economic case for supporting the sites: They sustain hundreds of thousands of jobs while visitors pump billions of dollars into surrounding economies.

 

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Yosemite Falls, one of the world's tallest waterfalls as 2,425 feet, served as a stunning backdrop as Obama gave a speech about climate change on Saturday afternoon

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Obama said global warming was already affecting the very land they were standing on, noting how rising temperatures were causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out

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The First Family touched down at Yosemite on Friday night during the Father's Day weekend getaway

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Rhe first stop of their family vacation was in Roswell, New Mexico (pictured)

The Interior Department said in a report Friday that more than 305 million people visited national parks last year. They spent $16.9billion in nearby communities.
'I want to make sure that the American people are able to enjoy the incredible national parks, the incredible beauty, the mountains, the oceans that have been one of the greatest gifts that we've ever received,' Obama said in a Facebook video about the trip.
'And I want to make sure that the whole world is able to pass on to future generations the God-given beauty of this planet.'
Obama has protected more than 265 million acres of public lands and waters from development, more than any other president, the White House said.
Environmental and advocacy groups applaud what Obama has done so far, but have been urging him to exercise his authority under a 1906 law to put even more public spaces off limits before his term ends in January.
Some members of Congress accuse Obama of overreach every time he uses that authority to create a national monument without their input.
Congressional objections aside, Obama will use the postcard-perfect scenery at both of the parks he's visiting with his family after a difficult week
Obama was most recently in Orlando to mourn the deaths of the 49 people shot at gay nightclub Pulse last Sunday, the worst mass shooting in the history of the country.

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The family stared in amazement while a member of a National Park Service gave them a tour of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico on Friday

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Carlsbad Carverns (pictured) has more than 119 caves, which were formed when sulfuric acid ate through the surrounding limestone

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President Obama stopped by the Carlsbad Caverns gift shop and gave 10-year-old May London a fist-bump before leaving the site

 

[superbeets]

All of those vacations must be taking their toll on him.

 

[festeringZit]

What a vile piece of shit he is.

Obama said global warming was already affecting the very land they were standing on, noting how rising temperatures were causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out

 

[MantisToboggan]

He looks like he's aged about 20 years in the past 8. Same thing happened to W. Job takes its toll.

 

[busterhyman]

to bad he even got elected.he and america would look better today

 

[SheriffJoe]

What a vile piece of shit he is.

Obama said global warming was already affecting the very land they were standing on, noting how rising temperatures were causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out

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