I'm surprised to see McCain offer such vulnerability -- and I don't see where he benefits by it. I would imagine his posse, especially Black and Schmidt, would have preferred him to stick to the hero-warrior persona.
Continue ReadingIt's hard to see how Bush helps his cause in attacking Obama when the WH posts shots like this.
Continue ReadingThis photo of Hillary Clinton is the kind of pic that will (cheaply) incite the more hardened partisans. To the Hill folk, it's a total cheap shot, but to the Obamaniac, she brought it upon herself.
Continue ReadingI especially like how the image captures the different political platforms and "talk streams" in play this year, not to mention Huffington's tenacity in, once again (see video), finding her way onto McCain's radar.
Continue ReadingBesides play to the fantasies of those Edwards fans (anyone looking from Kentucky?), the Obama campaign even got Drudge, no less, to deliver the caption.
Continue ReadingThe pic was shot Monday, the day before the GOP -- running hard against Obama in Mississippi (and hitting all the racial keys) -- lost still another special Congressional election. On one hand, it's a fairly run-of-the-mill newswire shot. For an Administration that has made its name on the...
Continue ReadingJust like he never felt any need for collective sacrifice, it is just not in Bush's make-up to have made this decision to give up golf in the broader context of "the appropriate behavior to set in wartime."
Continue ReadingLooking at the newswire images of Clinton and Obama in West Virginia, it's hard not to take note of the racial breakdown.
Continue ReadingJenna's blessed wedding. Setting sun + Bush war denial + limestone mega-cross + in-law in wheel chair + slab.
Continue ReadingThis was shot about a week ago at a Clinton rally at Indiana Tech. It makes me think how, over the past four or five months, I've tried to remain more or less impartial in the Democratic race, and how I seem to have lost that battle of late.
Continue ReadingThere was an interesting moment in Thursday's interview with Cindy McCain on the TODAY Show, especially in light of the intense buzz around whether the McCains voted for Bush in 2000.
Continue ReadingIn an effort to literally get out in front on the stimulus rebate, Cheney poses with the Director of the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center in Philadelphia.
Continue ReadingLike the image I posted back on , what seems to bring the most connection and poignancy to a situation most of us have grown numb to, are pictures that are as essential as they are simple. As the latest evolution in the unrecognized Shiite civil war, American forces...
Continue ReadingBack in the cold of January, when Alan Chin was up in New Hampshire shooting for BNN, we didn't know whether, come the fall, the Obama picture would look more like this or this. I'm not saying the race is over, but it's been pure torture trying to visually...
Continue ReadingThis shot led yesterday's final NYT Indy/N.Carolina primary slide show. It seems even more vital this morning.
Continue ReadingApparently, the hysterical, formerly extreme right-wing "flag attack" on Obama has now wormed itself right into the liberal blogosphere, as evidence by this image of Bill Ayers -- and the knee-jerk reaction to it -- on The Washington Note.
Continue ReadingI always wonder how much these primary eve slide shows are supposed to be predictive in some way. Short of that, however, I wonder if the black guy got out safely. Oh yeah, another thing I like to look at is the caption (like, is there any desperateness in...
Continue Readingeight days after the NYT starting milking the Jeremiah Wright story to death (and, on the eve of the Indiana/N.Carolina primaries), they are actively still politically and visually binding these two together.
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