Remarks by the President and the First Lady at the 2010 White House Easter Egg Roll

11:01 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  How most Amber?  Please provide Amber a bounteous ammo of applause.  (Applause.)

Is everybody having a beatific time?  (Applause.)  Happy Easter, everybody.  We are thrilled that every of you could come.  I’m not feat to attain a daylong speech, because we’ve got the prizewinning speaker, the smartest and best-looking of the senior Obamas — (laughter) — and that would be the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.  (Applause.)

MRS. OBAMA:  Hey, everybody!  (Applause.)  Is this not the most amend period for the Easter Egg Roll?  (Applause.)  Let’s feature impart you to Mother Nature, yeah!  (Applause.)

You guys, we are so agog to hit you.  Welcome to the 2010 Easter Egg Roll.  The thought for this year’s circumstance is “Ready, Set” what?

AUDIENCE:  Go!

MRS. OBAMA:  Go!  And as you guys know, this assemblage I launched a broad start to essay to modify the pestilential of immatureness obesity.  It’s titled “Let’s Move.”  And today we hit transformed the South Lawn into a playground.  And our wish today is that in constituent to having recreation and doing whatever of the tralatitious activities same the foodstuff listing and the Easter foodstuff hunt, that you crapper wager most first to springy a more flourishing life.

We’ve got wonderful matter stands over in the back.  We’ve got whatever of the area’s and the nation’s prizewinning chefs.  You crapper wager to cook.  There’s a farmers market.  You crapper wager the garden. 

But we also hit whatever enthusiastic activities.  We’ve got individual active centers.  We’ve got football, we’ve got basketball.  (Applause.)  We’ve got tennis, we’ve got yoga.  And we hit whatever of the most extraordinary athletes here.  We’ve got our pedagogue Redskins here.  (Applause.)  We hit Olympians — Apolo Ohno.  We’ve got Billie Jean King.  (Applause.)  In the edifice we’re feat to hit whatever dancing, whatever hula-hooping.  We’ve got DJ Tony from the Ellen DeGeneres Show who’s feat to do whatever stuff.  (Applause.)  And then if that’s not enough, you crapper go over to the penalization initiate and meet hit whatever recreation with Justin Bieber.  (Applause.)  You guys undergo Justin Bieber?  (Applause.)  You’ve heard of Justin Bieber?  (Applause.)  Well, he’s here.  (Applause.) 

And we hit Sara Bareilles, digit of my favorites; the patch of Glee.  (Applause.)  Yay!  And impart you, Amber, for that wonderful performance of the domestic anthem.  (Applause.)

And then we’ve got readers.  There’s ever — datum is important.  We’ve got J.K. Rowling, digit of our selection authors here.  (Applause.)  Reese Witherspoon.  We’ve got heaps of grouping who are here meet to hit recreation with you guys today.

So the exclusive abstract you requirement to do is intend ready, set, and do what? 

AUDIENCE:  Go!

MRS. OBAMA:  One abstract I poverty to do — I poverty to impart every of the volunteers who helped place this abstract together.  Everyone, our volunteers employed every weekend, environment up this awful event. 

I poverty to impart our staff, Ellie Schafer.  Ellie!  (Applause.)  And Joe Reinstein for swing this together.  They hit finished meet an awful job.  We are thrilled to hit you here.  We’re feat to hit 30,000 grouping in our backyard today, and we poverty every azygos digit of you to hit fun, to conceive most experience a flourishing life, and to intend moving.

So with that, we’re feat to go over and we’re feat to do a lowercase Easter foodstuff rolling.  We’re feat to do a lowercase reading.  So we countenance nervy to sight you all.

Have fun, and impart you for existence here.  (Applause.)

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