Having McChrystal (and Eikenberry) Well In Hand, Right?
With all the buzz lately about Obama caving in to the military, is this White House photo supposed to capture Obama with McChrystal's little head in a vice?
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More "Power"
The BAG is still looking at the New Yorker "Portraits of Power" series, this time trying to figure out why Italy's perv Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was justaposed with Argentina's (attractive) Cristina Fernandez.
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Rolled By the Generals?
Did Obama linger on this painting before giving his surge speech at West Point because he knows at some level, as a student of Lincoln and the Civil War, that his Generals don't have his back?
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Copenhagen and the New Activism
I have a feeling that activists -- and the green movement, in particular -- will look back at Copenhagen as the moment when Protest 2.0 began its swift rise to the surface.
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Obama’s Tipping Point: From Area 60 to The Surge
If you've witnessed the somber video Christopher Morris created of Obama at Arlington on Veterans Day, it seems Morris understood two months early that Obama would approve the surge in Afghanistan.
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Baby You Can Sign My Car
At this point, I can almost imagine "Rummy" becoming the trivia answer to "who was the Defense Secretary before Robert Gates?"
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Copenhagen: Greenpeace’s Ole’ Bama
Just days away from the Copenhagen climate change conference, Greenpeace and tcktcktck.org have created a series of posters for the Copenhagen airport visioning world leaders, now past their prime
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Best Foot Forward?
Take a look at this White House photo of Obama briefing Congressional Leaders on the Afghan surge the morning of his West Point announcement speech.
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After sacking hundreds of dedicated staff members, shutting bureaus, cutting news coverage and photo assignments, it’s mind blowing to see TIME dig deep into its pockets to spend a small fortune for a picture of a freaked out baby show shot with a tricked out camera.
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The New Yorker’s Platon Layout: Obama Pre-AfPak
If you read through the discussion thread, you know I was guilty of assuming the photo shoot Platon did at the U.N. -- involving 110 world leaders taken in the Green Room just off the General Assembly hall over 5 days in September, the photographer working around the clock...
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The Surge: If America is Really Looking At Resuscitating the Afghans….
The reason this photo touches a nerve right now is because it hits, in the most graphic and "unspun" way, at America's frenzied resuscitation effort in propping up Afghanistan, and especially, its military.
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The Surge: Now You Know
From watching the audience pans during the telecast and then looking at stills, the problem with Obama's Afghan escalation speech was evident in the room.
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Scoring the Surge: McChrystal 30,000, Obama ’12
McChrystal finally smiling as Obama gives in to the surge.
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The Most Scandalous Picture Inside the White House Tent
The much bigger "White House gatecrasher" question is why Katie Couric and America's top network (so-called) journalists would be regular fixtures at the Administration's first State Dinner.
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