Picture Of Unity
Given the thoroughness of Team Obama, I can't help wondering how much yesterday's color scheme in Unity was inspired by some careful location scouting.
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Portrait Update
A great example of how the European press remains free to see Mac for the volatile character he is.
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"Locating" Those Head Scarves
When I saw the second reference to the Obama/headscarf story in The Times last Thursday ("Obama’s Campaign Tightens Control of Image and Access") after The Caucus had it Wednesday, it made me want to play photo editor.
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Barack Obama, Master Manipulator
Although he professes it won't do any good, Steve Kornacki of the NY Observer takes his turn propagating the emerging wingnut meme of Obama as master manipulator.
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More From Obama Lover, Michael Powell
Seeming to formalize a problem where there isn't one, today's NYT piece on Michelle Obama (penned, yes, by "Obama lover," Michael Powell) frames Michelle -- because, I assume, she's been adding staff and is about to host "The View" -- as being embattled and in need of a relaunch.
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The Larger Picture Of The Father's Day Speech
There is no other way to read this than Obama taking to the pulpit.
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Elevating Carly (Or, Trying To)
The McCain campaign's promotion of former HP CEO Carly Fiorina as not just the female face of the Mac express and V.P. candidate poster girl, but most recently and hilariously, inheritor of Hillary love, makes me think about this shot that was floating around about six weeks ago.
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McCharacter
It's curious how, in the three days since Carol McCain gave an interview to the London Daily Mail, elaborating on her debilitating accident and how her playboy husband abandoned her for a much younger, rich, healthy and attractive woman, the American media hasn't touched the story. (Now, if it...
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Faith, Hope And Change
I thought the McCain photo illustrating yesterday's NYT piece on the evangelical vote was quite perfect. What is wonderful is how the photo is completely dominated by a statue of St. David, a fairly minor saint actually, while McCain is pushed off to the side like the Christian conservative...
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Your Turn: Hillary To Womankind
My problem is, the Clinton withdrawal has inspired so many interesting pictures, and the story -- from the standpoint of Hillary and Hillary's character, feminism, sexism, sexism vs. racism, the Clinton legacy, etc., etc. -- is so complex that I found I couldn't land in any one place.... What...
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Obama Setting Up The Wood Shed
Obama must have figured that the confrontation with Lieberman -- the march off captured on tape but the actual lecture part, although well described in news reports, occurring just beyond camera view -- was an effective way to demonstrate marking turf, and who's in charge.
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In A Picture, What Went Wrong
I agree that Hillary doesn't really know who she is. I think the last week bore that out in particular, with Clinton deferring to hard-line advisers who put a spoil-sport mark on her for life.
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The Machiavellian Mystery Man: Michael Powell's Spin On Barack Obama
Going to be giving a presentation at NetrootsNation in a couple weeks as part of the framing panel.... and my take has to do with the fear tactics around Barack Obama, and how the visuals reinforce those tactics. On the night that he wrapped up the Democratic nomination, Nothing...
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The Clinch
I looked at an awful lot of pics from Obama's decisive night, and this one stood out.
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Clearing The Bar
What is notable -- on the last primary day -- is Obama's ability to pull up so high, cross this bar -- and to do so without seeming to strain much at all.
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The Comeback Id
With the long-running Democratic knock-down-and-drag-out threatening to shut down, is the media upping the ante in milking the psychodrama?
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DNC Rules Committee Showdown: Picturing The End
Let's see. What words came to mind describing the behavior of Harold Ickes today during the DNC Rules Committee meeting? Vituperative? Pernicious? Mercenary? His foul-mouthed rant preceding the committee's Michigan vote wasn't just embarrassing, but a vicious attack on his fellow committee members and the democratic process.
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Hillary's Rushmore
My hope, in anticipation of Saturday's crucial DNC rules committee meeting, is that Hillary approached this Mt. Rushmore photo with more irony than presumption.
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