Showing Afghan Command Team Who’s Boss
After his resounding victory on health care reform, Obama pops up in Afghanistan. Besides taking the spotlight away from the Tea Party, he takes the opportunity to exercise some dominance over his war team.
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Obama on Offense: Taking Off the Mitts (and the Karls)
Obama, on offense after health care reform victory, lights out after Rove and Romney. Look out Campaign '10 (+ '12)!
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Keeping Faith with Bart / Aborting the Press
White House releases its own photo of Obama signing executive order barring health care legislation from funding abortions.
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Baring the President’s Fists
With Obama's big health care victory, has the first African-American U.S. president claimed the right to come out fighting?
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Health Care. (Exhale.)
The BAG looks at the White House photo, released immediately, commemorating the passage of the Health Care package by the Congress.
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The Health Care End, End, End Game: Dennis and the Bully Pulpit
The BAG fantasizes about what a more progressive country would look like -- as Obama works over Rep. Kucinich to vote for his bipartisan health care bill.
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Deliverance
Driving the health care campaign to a conclusion, Obama is looking rather, well, divine again.
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White House Optics: Ronnie’s Got My Back
White House Flickr photos: Why Ronnie? Why Now?
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Heath Care: The End End End Game
Like that leftover crust of bread, this photo was shot following yesterday's White House speech in which Obama signaled the end of deliberations over health care reform.
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Take That, Jim Bunning!
Eager to take advantage of Jim Bunning and his GOP stonewall on extension of unemployment benefits, the White House had this picture up on their Flickr site yesterday within hours of the legislation being passed.
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Washington: Paying Lip Service
Washington is broken. It's depressing as hell. The Republicans? You just can't deal with these people.
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Shining a Light On the Whole Lot of Them
As Obama continues to train his focus on the pettiness in Congress and right-wing obstructionism, it's just too bad the traditional media -- because it thrives on the conflict -- is so hesitant to train its eye on the GOP hostility and presumptuousness Obama is exposing.
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Obama-eye View
Because Obama won a weekly news cycle for the first time in ... I don't remember, and because I don't recall seeing this State of the Union angle done before, here you go.
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More SOTU: Framed for Hanging
More Obama State of the Union: Small-mindedness, timidity, pettiness and self-interest. Obama won the night (and aligned himself perfectly with Main Street) by doling out the shame to DC's "untouchables."
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Now What, Mommy? — (Updated)
If, at the end of the week, the White House was already framing Obama 2.0 as more populist, pointed and accessible, TIME begged to differ.
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Obama: On The Progressive Front
Whether or not Obama is taking a progressive turn, the White House seems fully engaged in prompting the suggestion.
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Obama at One Year
Having watched Obama closely, what I see in the picture is a man whose every action is ultimately governed by one factor, which is: whether he'll be able to get up the next day and still look himself in the eye.
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