The Year in Political Pictures: 29 Favorites From 2009

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Although this rundown is biased toward images from after our launch this year, we couldn't resist starting things off with the scene at Inauguration Day on January 20th, 2009.

Enjoy scrolling down photographic memory lane with us, and let us know in the comments if we missed your favorites!

	May 14, 2009 No Sale, Nancy
	May 26, 2009 What Obama's Commencement Speeches Reveal (see also At Notre Dame, Obama Urges Civility in Public Life from May 17)
	June 17, 2009 Iranian Soccer Players Protest In World Cup Match
	June 24, 2009 Sanford, Ensign, Whatever -- At Least It's Not 2011
	July 8, 2009 Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press
	July 14, 2009 Wise Latina Woman' Wisely Impassive Through Mispronunciations and Metaphors
	July 30, 2009 Suds Summit: Obama, Biden, Gates and Crowley Have a 'Friendly Conversation' Over Beer
	August 13, 2009 Nineteen Minutes In a Car With Harry Reid
	August 22, 2009 Health Care, the GOP, and the Consequences of Compromise
	August 25, 2009 Children of War: An Afghan Boy and His Little Sister
	August 28, 2009 The Great U.S. Airlift Over Afghanistan
	September 7, 2009 Obama Speech Controversy Is About Socialism? (Guess Again)
	September 10, 2009 Obama's Health Care Call to Action Reminds Us How He Got Elected and Why
	September 20, 2009 The John Edwards Saga's New All-Time Record Low
	October 1, 2009 Poll: Abortion Support Slips Since Obama's Election
	October 12, 2009 Should the Peace Prize Have Gone to Neda? (see also Ahmadinejad, Neda, and the Politics of Misdirection from June 30)
	October 19, 2009 'You Lie': Two Words That Launched $4.4 Million (and Counting)
	October 27, 2009 Young Afghan Grasps at Former Life After Seven Years at Guantanamo
	November 9, 2009 Shocking News on Health Care: People May Get What They Voted For
	November 10, 2009 German Reunification: An Eastern -- and Less Triumphant -- Perspective
	November 11, 2009 With 16 Million Jobless, Should the Feds Pay People to Work?
	November 22, 2009 The Kennedy Brothers: Rest in Peace (see also Teddy Kennedy's Memoir: He Spent His Life Atoning for Kopechne's Death from September 3)
	December 8, 2009 'Danish Text' Sends Copenhagen Climate Summit Into Disarray
	December 8, 2009 21 Songs of 21st Century Politics
	December 10, 2009 From Chicago to Oslo: Michelle Obama's First Year
	December 13, 2009 From the Mark Sanford Scandal, A Good Woman, Jenny, Emerges
	December 13, 2009 Houston Mayor's Race Outcome Cheers Gay Advocates
	December 21, 2009 Americans Say 'Good Riddance' to the Last Decade

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