Obama, Ghana, Shouting From The Rooftops
As a singular image, I was struck by the one showing Obama waving from his car after visiting the General Hospital in Accra. Against the overcast sky, it serves as a striking counterpoint to the scene of hapless residents stranded on rooftops in New Orleans post Katrina.
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Your Turn: Vatican Pomp and (This) Circumstance
I think this photo -- of First Lady Michelle Obama leaving the Vatican after meeting Pope Benedict XVI with the President -- actually has a lot to say about the recent steady stream of political photo ops.
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Reuters Confuses Obama With Berlusconi
Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate
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Iran Again: New Pictures … And Echoes
Tell me this doesn't resonate because the woman evokes Neda, the martyr of Iran's contested-election demonstrations?
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The Third Crusade
What marks the photos and slide shows supposedly illuminating us about the war in Afghanistan is their almost singular banality.
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L’Aquila: The Woe Summit
Wednesday's stroll by G-8 summiteers comes off no better than disaster tourism.
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Obama You're Not, Sir!
If Obama killed the bug, it seems the bug -- comically exposing Ahmadinejad for the sham he is -- has had a bit part in squashing Iran's phony president.
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Obama – Putin Not in Love!
Then, fast forward to this week with the return to normalcy marked by a healthy distance; looks of feeling each other out; and skepticism for gamesmanship and artificiality.
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BAGnewsNotes contributer Alan Chin filed these photos and this brief report this afternoon on the violence in Xinjiang:
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Rummy Having McNamara For Breakfast
Upon his passing on Monday, I took something of a forensic interest in this photo from the NYT's Robert McNamara slideshow.
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The Michael Jackson Death Show
As the Michael Jackson passing "pushes into its second week," members of the media turn Forest Lawn Mortuary into what looks like a movie set.
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Palin’s Resignation: Proud To Be Trash
This photo was circulated by Getty after Palin was tabbed for Veep by McCain and appeared, at least, in a cheeseball LAT election slideshow on Palin's fashion sense. If you haven't seen it before, however, it's because the image, like Palin herself, is radioactive.
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Palin: At the End of the Roll
At the end, Palin had/felt so little "teflon" left that, as an accountable and now thoroughly scrutinized elected official, there was just no place left to hide.
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What Time Do The Checks (I Mean, The Guests) Arrive?
Must be WAPO's Milbank and Cillizza dressed for the Salon.
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Arnold Watch: Oh Captain, My Captain
The beauty of Getty photographer John Moore's image of Schwarzenegger's press conference/photo op as he blasts the legislature while upping state worker furloughs and issuing tax refund, bank and vendor IOU's?
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Hands of Victory
A telling image as the U.S. military withdraws from Iraqi cities in favor of large and discrete operating bases.
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Robo-Iran
After a two day gap in his Iran coverage, Toronto tweeter faramarz posted this shot on his flickr site.
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Geither Watch: Tim 2.0
After a bit of a rocky start, the Tim Geithner reboot hits pay dirt.
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