Your Turn: Bush Clinton Obama Haiti
Can Bush really help, or his public involvement mostly symbolic, and even a face-saving gesture?
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Obama the Double Agent?
And what, I wonder, was going on in the mind of this illustrator, and, especially, the editors of the Times Opinion section, not to notice, let alone, head off even the possible association of Obama to the evil doers?
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Playing the Carter Card
The cheap association to Carter is as good as writing "wimp" across Obama's forehead."
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Obama Weatherproofed
Given how Obama has altered the rules of the game when it comes to political vs. cultural celebrity and the branding of the president, I'd say the Weatherproof ad (and they did license the AP photo) is a case of back-atcha.
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Bankers to Obama: Talk to the Hand
The question, Mr. President, is how do you expect to call these bankers onto the carpet when you can't even get them on the carpet?
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Your Turn: I am at the Beginning, and Not the End, of My Labors on the World Stage
BAGreaders respond to this photo taken of Obama looking at wall of past Nobel Prize winners upon accepting his prize in Oslo.
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Shafting Tiger and Obama: That Sexually-Suggestive Golf Digest Cover
For whatever drama the new Tiger/Obama Golf Digest cover kicks up since Tiger hit the tree, it only gets in the way of seeing how sexually and racially exploitive it was in the first place.
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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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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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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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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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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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Who’s In The House
Why photos of Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the White House gatecrashers -- otherwise, a superficial story lapping up attention in a holiday news vacuum -- have the gut-level impact they do.
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Your Turn: Afghanistan — The Read from the Situation Room
In the last 13 days, the White House has posted only three photos to its Flickr stream, two of the three (the latest, yesterday) on the critical Afghan policy review. BAGnewsNotes readers deconstruct what they have to say.
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Sensei Obama: Back ‘atcha?
(Click for larger size) On the last leg of a long Asian trip in which O was essentially bottled up, the shot, in this otherwise tongue-in-cheek Korean Taekwon-Do -themed photo-op, offers the Prez as a powerful action figure as he re-injects himself back into the homeland political martial arts....
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Last Look On O China Trip: A Little Cold
A nation of umpteen billion people and Obama, a man recognized for wowing the crowds and stirring hope in the masses, especially overseas, is featured today on the newswires wrapping up his China trip alone at the Great Wall.
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Bite the Hand that Feeds You … a Little Bit
With Asia holding "most of our paper," how much is Obama pushing vs. colluding with China on human rights?
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