L’Aquila: The Woe Summit
Wednesday's stroll by G-8 summiteers comes off no better than disaster tourism.
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Obama – Putin Not in Love!
Then, fast forward to this week with the return to normalcy marked by a healthy distance; looks of feeling each other out; and skepticism for gamesmanship and artificiality.
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Father-In-Chief
Obama not just emphasizing the role of fathers on Father's Day but actuallymodeling Dad-in-Chief at home in the backyard.
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Your Turn: The Artful President
Doesn't this photo, taken of the Obama family at the Pompidou Museum (have a good deal to say about the Administration's perception/projection of itself?
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Inside Out and Upside Down
As a visual narrative, you could say this NYT Magazine cover on Obama and the health care issue is playing "the Chicago card."
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Mission Cairo: Barack Hussein Obama
Although Barack Obama's Muslim connections have been controversial at home, so much so the domestic press played it down on his Cairo trip, it's quite an asset in reaching out. It starts with just looking at him.
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Obama and Wiesel at Buchenwald
President Obama, Chancellor Merkel, and author, activist and Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel visit the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. The BAG was drawn to the connection, expressed in news photos, between Obama and Wiesel.
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Mission Cairo: "The Speech"
First visual pass on Obama's major speech to the Arab world.
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Obama/The Pyramids
I'm wondering if this becomes the lasting image of Obama's trip. Like he went to Disneyland or the land of Jafar.
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First Leg Of The Cairo Trip: King + Bling
Starting off his massively promoted Egypt trip, Obama is not exactly in the comfort zone with King Abdullah.
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Israel, Just How It Reads
This image -- in its attitude as much as its specifics -- represents one of Obama's biggest obstacles as he reaches out to the Arab world today.
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The Enemy Of My Enemy
>Striking a blow for bipartisanship, and against Cheney, at the same time.
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Playing The Palace
I think the public and the Administration understand (the way Bush never did) there's a world of difference between performance -- as in, results -- and putting on a show.
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The Exemplary Celina Sotomayor
Team Obama signaled that the campaign to move Sonia Sotomayor through the nomination process will be heavily built on the strength of a very powerful life story -- with special emphasis on her exemplary single mother.
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POTUS SCOTUS Sotomayor
U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor (L) steps up to speak after U.S. President Barack Obama announced her as his choice of nomination for the Supreme Court justice
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Your Turn: Obama’s New Afghan Commander, Lady Liberty, Bucking Broncos (And Those Precious Bodily Fluids)
I'm really fascinated by this single photo of Obama with new Afghan commander McChrystal (of black ops fame) in the Oval Office offered up by Pete Souza on the WH Flickr stream.
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Ship Shape
Tacking right at Annapolis just before Memorial Day weekend, Obama couldn't get better pictures.
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