Your Turn: In the Blue Room
BAGnewsNotes readers respond to White House photo of Barack Obama and Stephen Hawking at the White House.
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NASCARe Plan
Given how NASCAR was a Bush/Rove favorite and how much the organization is synonymous with the Southern white conservative male, I can't see how an image like this -- highlighting Obama's pervasive tendency to curry favor with his philosophical and ideological antagonists -- could serve as anything else right...
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Kennedy Funeral: The Presidents
A few random thoughts on and associations to this photo of the Presidents from the Kennedy funeral.
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Links and Traps
if this photo op spawns swings at Obama, the President has no one to tee off on but himself.
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Obama, Old Faithful and the Real Animals
Two weeks ago, when I saw this photo-op of the Obamas in front of Old Faithful, I took it as mostly nostalgic.Today, however, with the radicals not just appropriating the health care issue but GOP politics, I see something more pressing.
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Fairey’s "Obama So Far"
I'm wondering if Shepard Fairey's new Obama illustration on the Rolling Stone cover represents a more insightful picture of how Obama ticks.
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Vicious Right Turn: Obama A Joker? Dead Heath Ledger? Vampire? …Or Just Wingnut’s Enigma?
The LA Weekly probably didn't know what hit them after its writer took a back-of-the-hand to this chilling poster of Obama as the Joker (and the dead Health Ledger).
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Dr. Obama, I Presume
News mags dress up Obama as a doctor as riff on healthcare negotiations.
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Your Turn: Reading The Beer Summit
BAGnewsNotes readers "read" The Obama Beer Summit.
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Health Care: New Lower Prices!
I'm interested in your thoughts on this image, and whether Obama -- in rallying the public over health care legislation -- set himself up being photographed in a supermarket lined up with lemons and framed by sales signs.
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Obama Feeling The Heat? …Or, Would Cable Have It So?
Like it or not, what Obama has cooking is an incredibly complex (and necessarily protracted) process of give-and-take going on across the broadest spectrum of political and industry stake holders. Unfortunately, you would barely appreciate it given the media framing.
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The Pathology Report on Obama’s "Comatose" Health Care Presser
It's really un-friggin-believable that the press is blaming Obama tonight for their own bad press conference.
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A Handy Look at Professor Obama’s Presser #4
All of Obama's gestures in his health care press conference last night reduce down to one basic idea everyone can understand but, especially as Americans, we stubbornly resist: How do you set limits?
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The Obama Psyche: Big Tent (Vs. Harry’s Tent)
Do you think Obama is all that interested in reaching out to the LDS or, is this just politics as usual, given that Harry Reid is a devout follower, and the highest politically-elected Mormon in the U.S. government?
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Health Care: Starting with Debby from Appalachia
The two sides of the Administration's health care push 00 Obama hugging cancer patient Debby Smith of Appalachia, Virginia, and then "Rahm's forced march.
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Obama’s Pitch
Sure Obama throwing out the first ball at the All Star Game meant something.
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Obama, Ghana, Shouting From The Rooftops
As a singular image, I was struck by the one showing Obama waving from his car after visiting the General Hospital in Accra. Against the overcast sky, it serves as a striking counterpoint to the scene of hapless residents stranded on rooftops in New Orleans post Katrina.
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Reuters Confuses Obama With Berlusconi
Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate
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