Kim Jong Un Drops By
Having a healthy respect for cross-cultural differences, my inclination here is to not to trust my typical response.
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Todd Akin's Right-Wing Science
If Congress had a committee on stupidity, we know who would be this week’s nominee to chair it.
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Ryan/Akin
What's so compelling about the photo is how it puts Ryan and Akin together in a collaborative mode.
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Akin Nothing if fil-A Controversy
Having chalked up his "legitimate rape" bomb to having misspoken, these photos suggest perhaps a different agenda.
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Some Akin Photos a Little Closer to Home
These photos of Todd Akin puts his views about women, rape and abortion into more personal terms.
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Patient Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Important Photo from Inside the Mayo Clinic
Jackson's photo-op completely upends the ubiquitous practice of the public figure being secluded away at a facility like Mayo or Betty Ford.
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Ryan and Medicare: Willard at the Drawing Board
If you step back and look at it, aren't the photos saying that the addition of Ryan has put Romney in a situation where, as opposed to focusing on Obama, he's now got a whole lot more explaining (and number crunching) to do?
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Ryan/Romney One Week Out: Anchors A Weigh
Given the absence of military experience and the fact that Romney and Ryan are far prettier than they are foreboding, the phallic nature of the image setting up a potency that the team not only can't match, but isn't even about.
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Obama the Subservient Revisited
Given Mitt Romney's disastrous foreign tour at the start of the Olympics, photos from Obama's foreign visits feel like a visual walk in the park. It's noticeable that the right has yet to trot out photos of Obama's deference to the diplomatic moment in their defense of Mitt Romney's...
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Retail Revisited: Romney, Ryan at the Sandwich Shop
Did Romney and Ryan seal the deal last Spring while working the counter before the Wisconsin Primary? In this post from April 4th, we considered both the chemistry and the retail politics of Romney-Ryan.
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Gravitas Revisited: When Obama Became Acting President
Looking back at Campaign '08, photo after photo showed Obama looking presidential, even inevitable in the contest with McCain. Today, despite the fact the country is still in that ditch, the pictures don't necessary support the attack line that Obama is failing at the job.
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Palin Re-Re-Revisited: Proud to be Trash (But Not Trashed)
If the Ryan VP pick satisfied the party's intellectual base, should the GOP ignore the queen of its emotional base by refusing to have her speak at the upcoming RNC convention? Will she comply or will she speak to her supporters in a Tampa parking lot? In a "base-rallying"...
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Campaign Narratives Revisited: GOP "Handicapped"
We’re thinking now that the early campaign narrative remains pretty much intact: Obama vs. the Seven Dwarfs.
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"Team of Rivals" Revisited: Hillary for Joe
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan for Vice President takes us down memory lane to revisit the so-called Hillary for Joe swap that became the cornerstone of Obama's "Team of Rivals" cabinet.
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Obama Budget Politics Revisited: Target Ryan
This photo serves as a major cautionary note and a reminder to the Romney campaign of the high risk involved in casting their lot with the Ryan plan. It's hard to believe the President isn't looking forward to the Fall having already thrashed the plan with the Congressman sitting...
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Georgetown Revisited: Ryan Looks to the Heavens
What's interesting about the lobbying for Ryan for the second slot has been the need and desire to graft a real political philosophy onto the otherwise shape-shifting Romney.
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Images of Curiosity
Also suggestive, of course, about the photo is its allusion to the California dream
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Your Turn: That "Terrorist Mural" in Boston
With hate crime and the topic of Islam and fear-mongering rising up in the news cycle lately, I'm not sure if you've seen this.
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