The End is Near!
The latest photo from the White House Flickr Stream (posted yesterday -- only a few hours after it was taken) reminds us that the end is near.
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Liz Cheney Spins Dover
"Bush used to do it (honor war dead) without the cameras?" Is Liz Cheney freaking kidding!?
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Obama’s Future
It would be easy to turn the photo into some kind of sci-fi novelty if it weren't for the solemnity of the moment -- Obama's early morning presence at Dover for returning caskets of U.S. personnel.
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GOP Health Care Snapshot
If thise Getty photo is supposed to show House Minority Leader John Boehner flanked by House Republicans speaking about the healthcare reform bill, it's really a cartoon.
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War and Baseball Do Mix
With all the service photo-ops lately, I'm having more and more trouble separating the Administration's "support our troops" meme from the outright endorsement of militarism and even pro-war cheerleading. Michelle Obama's World Series pre-game event blurred the lines that much more.
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Can’t Brooke the Stonewalling
A brilliant photo op and political tactic today Obama honoring former GOP Senator Edward Brooke in the Capitol rotunda.
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Hugs and Disses
For a truly repulsive picture (after Lieberman announced today he would join the GOP fillibuster of the health care bill, the newswires are running Leiberman hugging Obama after the President's address to Congress in February.
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Politico’s Wedge Shot
So, Politico places golf shots of Obama and Bush side-by-side and complains of a double-standard?
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NY23: Repubs Trying Each Other’s Souls
The symbols all told we have a classic example in NY23 how the Republicans, the radical fringe egged on by Sarah Palin, are tearing themselves apart.
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Giants of Wall Street
Visual note from the American Bankers Association protests (1, 2) in Chicago...
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The GOP Word of the Week, Boys (and Girls), is: "Dithering"
There is something more harmful at play with the Times "Obama boys club" story and accompanying photos than White House demographics.
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Foreigners on Wall Street … or: (Buzz Off, Cuz) the Street "Can't Slow Down"
Really loved how the New York Stock Exchange used pop culture this week to parody all us non-rock stars stiffed by Wall Street.
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Little of Precious
If the story of “ ‘Precious’ is so not Obama... ‘Precious’ is so not P.C." as the article and Director Daniels says, why does the NYT Mag directly tie the cover to him through the title?
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FLOTUS … Like It’s 1959
I find this brilliant the way it pairs old school and new, and promotes the Obamas as the folks next door.
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Sugar and Spice? Rockstar Annie Leibovitz Serves Up the Obamas
Though the Obamas love quality photographers and the holiday shot is fairly tasteful, you can't be naive in hiring rockstar and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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Your Turn: Googling Obama
Aside from a shared vision between Obama and and the tech giant, I'm fascinated by the comparison. As cultural icons, just how close a fit are Obama and Google?
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BAZAAR Fashion Ideas
I have my doubts the people at BAZAAR were conscious of a Palin connection in shooting this new Tina Fey cover -- although the heels, the (pure) white (vs. "rogue" red) and the "new ideas" statement could all plug in.
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