"I’m A Uniter, Not A Divider"
It seemed noteworthy today Obama was having a moment of solidarity with United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger while Ford CEO Alan Mulally, far right, was clapping enthusiatically in response.
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Putting Bibi In His Place
While Obama held the line yesterday, emphasizing the need for a Palestinian state and improved relations with Iran, Israel PR frames Obama as leaving Netanyahu in the lurch.
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The Effect Of Withholding Terror Photos: The Front Man
One problem for Obama -- in refusing to release pictorial documentation of torture from the Bush "terror war" era (after having committed to doing so) -- is that, visually, it is not a zero-sum game.
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Your Turn: Barack As Spock
BAGnewsNotes readers respond to NYT photo-illustration of Obama as Mr. Spock
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White House Correspondents Dinner: Self-Deprecation In The Normal Range
White House Correspondents Dinner: New Muscle
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Chillin’ (Post-Pirates, Pre-"Prom") At The White House
Here's pirate-defying hero Capt. Phillips and his wife at the White House this morning (large size; mind-blowing size), with my distillation of the comments from the WH photo stream.
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The Executive Picnic Table
This image -- stopping short of describing life as a picnic -- is classic for the way it trumpets the Obama message: we're loose and working in an atmosphere of calm.
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Rising And Falling With Detroit
This image, marking the Chrysler bankruptcy, does a smart job of symbolizing how much an American president can be bound to an American auto company,
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Kander’s Obama: The Listener
This photo captures a defining quality of Obama's presidential character -- and does so with a clarity I didn't expect to emerge for sometime.
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Obama’s First (Fore!) Hundred Days
With all the hoopla and all-too-serious contemplation surrounding this early milestone, we thought we'd have some fun instead. ... Remember how Bush gave up golf (and switched to biking) in solidarity with wartime troops? No such posturing now
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Our Friend Maliki
If Obama and Maliki offer the picture of balance, it's not hard to imagine Rahm and U.S. Commander General in Iraq Ordieno representing a more unguarded impression of the Iraqi leadership.
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Obama’s First 100 Daze
Now, eight months later, the focus is on Obama as the man behind glass, not the object of attention but in fact, the focus of isolation.
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Obama Schools The Credit Card Industry
An exclusive BAGnewsNotes slideshow: Obama schools the credit card industry.
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Barack ‘N’ Tiger
A very curious photo issued by the White House today, Pete Souza teeing up the idea of Barack Obama and Tiger Woods as mirror-images of each other.
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42 + 44 – 1/2 4850_
I think Beltway-types were anticipating the Obama - Clinton photo op. Seriously, the first thing that went through my head when I saw this was: "burying the hatchet."
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Your Turn: Just Bo
BAGnewsNotes readers weigh in on Bob Staake's expansive and solitary Bo Obama cover.
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The Sacred And The Profane
These photos emerged for me this week as defining images -- ones that actually have a larger resonance going forward. The first photo was taken at a GOP tax protest in Atlanta. The second came from Obama's "major speech" on the economy at Georgetown.
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