Obama: It’s a Dog’s Life
Did Obama's canine reference signify real push back, or are we making more out of it than just one riff.
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White House Flickr Stream: Professional Right In, Professional Left Out
You could argue that the selection and arrangement of photos in the WHFS are largely random. On the other hand, what's to explain the preoccupation with the party of "no" -- especially with mid-term elections on the immediate horizon?
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Daily News' "Sad Loner" Obama
As a classic example of "caption abuse," check out this example from yesterday's New York Daily News. Not only do they take the White House's own photo and use it against the Obama, but the caption, especially when combined with the headline and the lede absolutely misleads on at...
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DC Kumbaya, Finally!
If you thought bipartisanship in DC was long dead and buried, you might want to print out this photo and stick it on the refrigerator.
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The View … of the Old Obama
What the photo captures is something we haven't seen much of for about a year-and-a-half, which is a more youthful and free-wheeling Barack.
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Obama OutFoxed
When is Obama going to just stop obsessing on these guys -- first in hopes for the better and, now, in fear of the worst (especially when the far-right noise has to do with race)?
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Hello, I Must Be Going (…Or, Did I Just Hear Someone Say "Hitler, Obama, Lenin" 10,000 Times?)
Simple story about taking down a billboard? Seems to me the Tea Party gets to have it both ways.
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Flickr Politics: Scott Brown Edition
With mid-terms in mind, it's toning down the precedent and reducing the star power of GOP insurgent and Obama-upstaging upset stud, Scott Brown.
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The Economist v Obama
If the explanation the Economist Deputy Editor offered the NYT is disingenuous, it does serve to telegraph their motive. Emma Duncan said the magazine wasn't trying to make a political point, but that's exactly what they were doing.
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Kitchen Debate — Not What it Used to Be
So, is the world (yikes!) just a safer place these days? Or, is the cold war just safely committed to the history ? (Or, has capitalism finally gotten the best of everybody?)l
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Your Turn: Getting Above It
Destiny? It’s particularly interesting reading this shot of candidate Obama and the General almost two years later. Your thoughts? (caption: Sen. Barack Obama listens as Gen. David H. Petraeus discusses security improvements in Baghdad while giving him and Sens. Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel an aerial tour of the...
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Stanley "Loose Lips" McChrystal vs. Barack "Tough Love" Obama: Round II
So Obama's got one more spill to deal with after McChrystal felt the need to share with a reporter from Rolling Stone? Just so we can compare how the clean up goes this time, here are the White House visuals of Obama and McChrystal going through the same dance...
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The Dimension of the Problem
At the end of a very long week, I don't think anyone did a better job than the NYT's Stephen Crowley in a.) framing the scale of the oil crisis, especially in terms of man's ability to control nature.
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Yes We Did! (…But, Who Would Know?)
In capturing an obviously uncharacteristic moment, the photo raises several questions, such as: Why not more confidence from the White House?
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Your Turn: BP at the White House
I'm interested in how you read this single photo the White House released of Obama's meeting/showdown with BP honcho, Tony Hayward, and other executives.
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An Assault on our Shores
It's troubling to see the President militarize the oil spill. After telling an assembly of troops that "within weeks, some of you may find yourselves serving on a carrier deck in the Arabian Sea or working a busy flight line in Afghanistan," Obama couches the spill as...
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Obama Feeling it in the Gulf
After a mostly cerebral reaction to the oil blowout, Obama scores points on his fourth trip to the region, "rallying the troops" on the Mississippi shore.
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White House Oil Crisis: The Picture of Passivity
With Obama scheduled to spend Monday and Tuesday in the Gulf, followed by a national address on Tuesday, I wanted to take a look at how the White House, as their own media machine, has been framing the crisis. One of the key visual outlets for the White House...
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